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Behavioral Neuroscience

Lawrence Abraham Professor: Interaction of physiological and biodynamic factors affecting the coordination of human movement.

Nigel Atkinson Professor in Neurobiology: How ion channel gene expression is regulated in Drosophila to produce cells with differing electrical properties.

Dana Ballard Professor: Computational theories of the brain with and emphasis on human vision.

Jennifer Beer Assistant Professor of Psychology: How self-processes, emotion processes and social cognition contribute to appropriate social functioning.

Craig Champlin Lillie Hage Jamail Centennial Professor: Normal and impaired auditory function in humans.

Lawrence K. Cormack Associate Professor of Psychology: Psychophysics of the human visual system and its relationship to perception and behavior.

Juan Dominguez Assistant Professor of Psychology: Elucidate the underlying neural and endocrine mechanisms regulating motivated behaviors, specifically, using the study of sexual behavior as a prototy

Christine L. Duvauchelle Associate Professor, Ph.D.: Neural mechanisms of the rewarding effects of drugs.

Wilson S. Geisler III Professor and David Wechsler Regents Chair in Psychology: Behavioral and computational science of vision and visual perception.

Rueben Gonzales Jacques P. Servier Regents Professor in Pharmacy: The neurochemical basis for ethanol drinking behavior.

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima George I. Sanchez Centennial Professor: Brain systems mediating learning and memory in health and Alzheimer's disease.

Andrea Gore Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Professor in Toxicology: Neural and neuroendocrine mechanisms of reproductive development and aging.

Adron Harris M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair In Molecular Biology: The molecular actions of alcohol and related drugs on brain signaling systems and the molecular basis of genetic differences in alcohol susceptibility

Mary M. Hayhoe Professor of Psychology: Control of visually guided behavior in natural and virtual environments.

Daniel Johnston Director; Ctr for Learning and Memory, Institute for Neuroscience: Synaptic Integration and Plasticity in Hippocampus; â€¨Mechanisms of Learning and Memory and Epileptogenesis.

Theresa A. Jones Professor: Plasticity of neural structure, synaptic connectivity and glial-neuronal interactions in adult animals following brain damage and during learning.

W. Todd Maddox Professor: Motivation-learning interface within a research framework that blends behavioral studies of healthy and brain damaged participants with brain imaging

Michael Mauk Professor of Neurobiology: Neural circuits engaged during motor learning.

Dennis McFadden Ashbel Smith Professor of Psychology: Sex differences in the auditory system, and their origins.

Risto Miikkulainen Professor: Computational neural network models of vision, memory and language.

Marie Monfils Assistant Professor of Psychology: Investigate processes associated with fear memories.

Jonathan Pillow Assistant Professor of Psychology: Neural theory and modeling, visual psychophysics, Bayesian statistics, theoretical approaches to vision.

Russell Poldrack Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology: Our research is strongly focused on translation of basic cognitive neuroscience into the clinical domain, with collaborations on studies of schizophre

David Ress Associate Director: Development of new neuroimaging methods that permit precise quantitation of brain function and structure, with particular emphasis on the study of vis

Michael J. Ryan Clark Hubbs Regents Professor in Zoology: The mechanisms and evolution of animal communication.

Timothy Schallert Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D.: Recovery of function after stroke, tumor and other types of brain injury, as well as the neural plasticity and degenerative events associated with Par

David M. Schnyer Associate Professor: Understanding the functional and neural basis of Implicit memory and metamemory using EEG, MEG and fMRI.

Eyal Seidemann Associate Professor, Psychology: Neural population coding in the primate cortex

Max Snodderly Professor, Nutritional Sciences: Effects of aging on visual function and the potential for nutrition to slow or to prevent age-related diseases such as cataract and macular degenerati