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There are three primary Ph.D. training tracks or specializations in the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition Cluster: Behavior Analysis and Learning, Cognition and Perception, and Neuroscience.
For the Cognition and Perception specialization, faculty research interests include: motion, object, and event perception; the psychology of food; investigations of the cognitive mechanisms underlying production and comprehension of language; the nature and development of spatial representation and reasoning; early memory for childhood events; varieties of memory and consciousness; the nature of thought processes involved in problem solving and creative thinking.
For further information or questions concerning the Brain, Behavior, & Cognition Cluster contact:
Dr. Robert Weisberg
Director, Brain, Behavior, and Cognition
Email: weisberg@temple.edu
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Christopher J. Anderson, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY.-Cognition and Perception.
E-mail: chris.anderson@temple.edu
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Anderson/anderson.html
Interests: Judgment and Decision Making: Indecision, Reliability of Judgments, Decision Making Capacities of Clinical Populations; Emotion: Regret, Anxiety (esp. as pertain to Indecision), Effects of Shared Emotion
Jason Chein, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Assistant Professor of Psychology.
E-mail: jason.chein@temple.edu
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Chein/chein.html.
Interests: Understanding the neural basis of cognitive function through the use of neuroimaging (fMRI), behavioral experimentation, and computational
modeling. Research focuses on the psychological and neurobiological underpinnings of immediate
(working) memory, and its role in learning
(skill aquisition), cognitive control (executive function),
and language.
Kim Curby, Ph.D.
Interests: Broadly speaking, I am interested in understanding the changes that occur in both the strategies and neural substrates supporting cognitive performance after learning. More specifically, my research focuses on visual learning; towards this end, my studies examine competencies such as face recognition, object recognition, and pattern recognition, as well as the influence of semantic learning on perceptual processing and perceptual abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders.
Email: curby@temple.edu
Phone: (215) 204-4295
Kim Curby Page
Tania Giovannetti, Ph.D., Drexel University. Assistant Professor of Psychology. Clinical, Cognition.
Email: tgio@temple.edu
WebPage: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Giovannetti/giovannetti.html
Interests: The cognitive neuropsychological analysis of various neurological syndromes, including dementia and schizophrenia. I am most interested in how these illnesses influence sequential, object-directed, everyday tasks such as coffee making (i.e., naturalistic action), error detection and correction, and semantic knowledge. The aims of my research are to develop and refine theories of normal cognitive processes, understand how these processes are represented in the brain, and inform rehabilitation therapies for patients with neuropsychological deficits.
Interests: Memory for early childhood, development of spatial cognition, individual differences in spatial ability. Cognitive neuroscience related to these interests, and educational applications (especially K-12 education and college teaching implications) of these interests and of cognitive research more generally.
Ingrid Olson, Ph.D.
Interests: There are two topics of research in the Olson lab. One topic is understanding the neural basis of human memory. Current projects are investigating the hippocampal memory system and the parietal lobe in visual short-term memory, spatial memory, and episodic memory. We are also interested in the acquisition of superior memory skills. A second topic of research is high-level vision, especially in regards to perceptual functions of the anterior temporal lobes and dorsal visual stream. Current projects are investigating fine-grained discrimination of objects, as well as distance and space perception. To address these topics, we use a variety of techniques: psychophysics, fMRI, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and patient testing.
Email: iolson@temple.edu
Phone:
Ingrid Olson Page
Thomas F. Shipley, Ph.D., -Cognition and Perception.
E-mail: tshipley@temple.edu
Web Page: http://astro.temple.edu/~tshipley
Interests: Object and event perception: Visual segmentation and grouping in illusory contours and partially occluded objects; how humans perceive point-light walkers and recognize actions; the psychology of food.
Robert Weisberg, Ph.D., Princeton University--Cognition and Perception.
Email: weisberg@temple.edu
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Weisberg/weisberg.html
Interests: Laboratory studies of insight and fixation in problem solving; case studies of creative thinking in music, art, invention, and science.
Adjunct Faculty
Saul Axelrod, Ph.D, School of Education, Temple University
Toby Jarbe, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Temple University
Myrna Schwartz, Ph.D, Moss Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Last Modified: August 6, 2006
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