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BCAN Faculty

These faculty members all accept Ph.D. and Masters students and have active research programs. Note that even though some of the faculty are in Biology, Linguistics, Computer Science and Physics departments, the degree that will be received will be in Psychology. If you have any questions or need more information, please feel free to contact any core faculty member directly.

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Naomi Baron

Naomi Baron

Language and Foreign Studies Computer-mediated communication (linguistics of email, IM and text messaging; multitasking while online; cross-cultural mobile phone usage patterns)

nbaron@american.edu

202-885-2455

Clara Cheng

Clara Cheng

Psychology Social cognition, particularly the use of priming techniques to examine the effects of unconscious processes on mood, cognition, judgment, and behavior.

cheng@american.edu

202-885-1711

Vikki Connaughton

Vikki Connaughton

Biology Relation between visually-guided behaviors in larval teleosts and maturation of retinal neurons, circuits, and receptor mechanisms. Development of neural connections and alterations due to mutations or drugs.

vconn@american.edu

202-885-2188

Kristine Erickson

Vikki Connaughton

NIH (Psychologist in Residence at AU) Neuropsychology of mood and anxiety disorders, pediatric neuropsychology, emotional processing in depression, fMRI, stress hormones and their relationship to emotion and cognition uerickson@american.edu

Bryan Fantie

Bryan D. Fantie

Psychology

Cognitive & clinical neuropsychology; neural mechanisms & correlates of behavior, cognition, language, and emotion; neurological & psychiatric disorders; closed head injury, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, autism, & Williams syndrome.

Behavioral genetics in humans, drosophila, & other species

bfantie@american.edu

202-885-1790

Laura Juliano

Laura M. Juliano

Psychology Smoking, caffeine, drug expectancies, placebo effects, anxiety

juliano@american.edu

202-885-1715

Monika Konaklieva Laura M. Juliano Chemistry Microbial Resistance

mkonak@american.edu

202-885-1777

Deborah Norris

Vikki Connaughton

EPA (Psychologist in Residence at AU) Alternative Medicine, Mind-Body-Spirit therapies, Mindfulness Meditation and Awareness Training, Behavioral Medicine, healing arts and sciences, Psychopharmacology and Neurotoxicology dnorris@american.edu

Scott Parker

Scott Parker

Psychology Psychophysics; statistical and quantitative methods; perception

sparker@american.edu

202-885-1719

Zehra Peynircioglu

Zehra F. Peynircioglu

Psychology Human memory and cognition

peynir@american.edu

202-885-1713

Tony Riley

Anthony L. Riley

Psychology Behavioral pharmacology, neurotoxicology, conditioned food aversions, feeding, prenatal drug effects.

alriley@american.edu

202-885-1720

Cathy Schaeff

Cathy Schaeff

Biology Conservation biology, molecular ecology and behavior.

schaeff@american.edu

202-885-2175

Alan Silberberg

Alan Silberberg

Psychology Experimental analysis of behavior, autoshaping, choice behavior, microstructural choice

asilber@american.edu

202-885-1709

Stan Weiss

Stanley J. Weiss

Psychology

Stimulus Control of Behavior; Incentive Motivation; Drugs and Behavior; Animal Models of Drug Abuse;
Biological Constraints on Learning; Two-Process Learning Theory;
Appetitive-Aversive Interaction Theory of Motivation

sweiss@american.edu

202-885-1724