Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience

Faculty who do research in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience at W&M.

Christopher T. Ball

• Cognitive psychology; memory processes; relationship between memory and psychopathology.[[w|ctball]]

Robert C. Barnet

• Animal learning and cognition; neural basis of learning and memory.[[w|rcbarn]]

Joshua A. Burk

• Psychopharmacology; neural basis of learning and memory. [[w|jabur2]]

Cheryl L. Dickter

• Social cognition and person perception; stereotyping and prejudice; smoking initiation and maintenance. [[w|cldickter]]

Catherine A. Forestell

• Odor and taste perception, flavor preferences, and their role in obesity; cognitive mechanisms involved in the initiation and maintenance of addictive behaviors.[[w|caforestell]]

Heather A. Hansen

• cognitive impacts and mechanisms of misophonia; individual differences in auditory perception; cognitive neuroscience (resting-state functional MRI). [[w|hahansen]]

Pamela S. Hunt

• Developmental psychobiology; neural basis of memory; alcohol and memory. [[w|pshunt]]

Paul D. Kieffaber

• Cognitive neuroscience; attention and cognitive control; temporal processing; neural correlates of cognitive decline in aging and age-related disorders; multisensory integration; event-related brain potentials. [[w|pdkieffaber]]

Jennifer A. Stevens

• Cognitive neuroscience of representation, perception, and execution of action; motor recovery in patient populations. [[w|jastev]]

Scott Tillem

• Cognitive neuroscience; neural networks; selective attention and executive functioning; neurocognitive correlates and mechanisms underlying antisocial behavior and related disorders; fMRI; EEG; graph analysis.  [[w|smtillem]]

Peter M. Vishton

• Cognitive, perceptual, and motor development; interaction of vision and action systems. [[w|vishton]]