Annaliese Beery
Associate Professor, Departments of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Biology, Smith College
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neuroendocrinology
Research Interests: Neuroendocrinology of social behavior
Joseph Bergan
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Neural and Behavioral Development; Neuroendocrinology; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: We seek to understand the principles of how social and defensive stimuli are encoded in the activity of neurons, and how this process can be modulated by behavior state, experience, and neuromodulation.
Eric L. Bittman
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neuroendocrinology
Research Interests: Circadian Rhythms, Reproduction, and Seasonal Changes in Brain Function
Kyle R. Cave
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: The various aspects of visual cognition, including visual attention, visual imagery, and object recognition.
Chase Cornelison
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Research Areas: Neural and Behavioral Development; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Developing new therapeutic strategies for restoring function after neural injury
Rosie Cowell
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Memory and Visual Perception (using computational modeling and brain imaging)
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Neural and Behavioral Development; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Individual differences, behavioral and molecular genetics, psychophysiology
Gerald B. Downes
Professor, Department of Biology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Development and function of spinal cord networks
Karine Fénelon
Assistant Professor of Biology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development; Neuroendocrinology; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Prof. Fenelon is a neuroscientist with extensive experience in electrophysiological recordings and Optogenetics of living tissues. She has recorded synaptic transmission in specific neuronal pathways, related to sensorimotor gating deficits in psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, such as schizophrenia.
David E. Huber
Professor of Psychology and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Research focuses on human perception and memory from a broad-based, computational perspective. To shed light on these basic cognitive processes, we find converging evidence from behavioral studies and neurophysiological measures in combination with neural network and Bayesian modeling.
Meghan Huber
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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Elizabeth M. Jakob
Professor, Biology Department
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning
Research Interests: Animal behavior, especially perception, learning, and social behavior
Abigail Jensen
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of vertebrate retinal development and retinal disease.
Alexandra Jesse
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Speech perception, with a special emphasis on audiovisual speech perception. Investigate how we process speech from hearing and seeing a speaker talk (lip-reading).
Ilia Karatsoreos
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development; Neuroendocrinology
Research Interests: The general research objective in our lab is to understand the neural and physiological systems that the brain and body use to protect us from harm and adapt to changes in the environment. We focus on biological rhythms, stress, immunology, and metabolism
Rolf O. Karlstrom
Professor, Department of Biology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development
Research Interests: Developmental neurobiology; axon guidance and forebrain patterning
Paul S. Katz
Director of Neuroscience and Professor of Biology
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Neuroethology, central pattern generators, single neuron RNA-seq, developmental neuroscience, evolution of neural circuits, molluscan systems
Sally Kim
Assistant Professor, Biology, Amherst College
Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development
Research Interests: I have a long-standing passion to understand the molecular basis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Jacquie Kurland
Associate Professor of Communication Disorders, School of Public Health
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Understanding mechanisms supporting brain reorganization in poststroke aphasia.
Youngbin Kwak
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Neural bases of motor learning, reward based learning and decision making; Social influence and lifespan changes in learning and decision making behavior.
Agnes Lacreuse
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Neuroendocrinology; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Sex Hormones and Cognition; Sleep; Menopause; Cognitive Aging
Jennifer E. Mack
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Disorders
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Research Areas: Neural and Behavioral Development
Research Interests: Adult language disorders, neural basis of language, sentence comprehension and production, eye-tracking, MRI
Douglas N. Martini
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, School of Public Health
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Identifying the neural mechanisms that mediate the relationships between mobility and cognitive deficits in aging and neurological populations
Jennifer McDermott
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Neural and Behavioral Development; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Bridging developmental, cognitive, and affective neuroscience in order to explore the role of early experience in relation to cognitive and social-emotional development.
David E. Moorman
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Cellular and network mechanisms of motivation, learning, and executive functions (e.g., decision-making). Neural function in animal models of addiction, ADHD, obesity, and depression. Neurotechnology and neural computation.
Melinda Novak
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning
Research Interests: Behavior of microtines and primates
Sharon Owino
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Smith College
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Research Interests: Sharon Owino’s research interests are focused on understanding how the brain repairs itself following injury, focusing on G-protein coupled signaling pathways.
Stephanie L. Padilla
Assistant Professor of Biology
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neuroendocrinology
Research Interests: Sex hormones, feeding behavior and body weight homeostasis, circadian rhythms, women’s health
ChangHui Pak
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neuroendocrinology; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Prof. Pak studies synaptic adhesion molecules and she has developed new, highly used cell-based tools targeting synaptic cell adhesion molecules that govern mental disorders (such as autism and schizophrenia).
Sarah Pallas
Associate Professor, Biology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Developmental neuroscience, Sensory neurophysiology
Joonkoo Park
Assistant Professor and Honors Faculty, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Cognitive, neural, and developmental mechanisms underlying the acquisition and emergence of culturally-transmitted and uniquely human abilities such as reading and mathematics.
Mariana Pereira
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Neuroendocrinology; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Exploring the basis of cognitive, motivational and affective mechanisms of parenting at the behavioral, neural and neurochemical levels, both under healthy conditions and in the context of maternal neuropsychiatric disorders; emphasis on limbic-cortical-striatal interactions, mesocorticolimbic dopamine system and animal models of depression and drug addiction.
Sandra Petersen
Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development; Neuroendocrinology
Research Interests: Understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the brain signal for ovulation.
Jeffrey E. Podos
Professor, Department of Biology
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning
Research Interests: Mechanisms and evolution of vertebrate behavior, bioacoustics
Siyuan Rao
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Research Interests: Neuroelectronics, Non-invasive neural modulation, Multi-functional neural probes, Nanomedicine
Jennifer N. Rauch
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular BIology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Research Interests: Mechanisms of protein misfolding, aggregation, and spread in neurodegenerative disease
Luke Remage–Healey
Program Leader / GPD of Neuroscience and Behavior Program; Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neuroendocrinology
Research Interests: Neural basis of behavior
Heather N. Richardson
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development; Neuroendocrinology
Research Interests: The focus of the Stress and Addiction Lab is to determine the neurobiological mechanisms underlying stress-related disorders using rodent models.
Marta Sabariego
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior, Mt. Holyoke College
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Research Areas: Neural and Behavioral Development
Research Interests: The neural circuits of emotion and memory
Lisa Sanders
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Basic auditory perception, selective attention, and the role of selective attention in processing complex sounds including speech.
Larry M. Schwartz
Professor, Department of Biology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neural and Behavioral Development
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms that mediate programmed cell death
Hava T. Siegelmann
Professor, Computer Science
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Research Areas: Animal Behavior and Learning; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Characterizing computation and information processing in brain. Theories for brain-like computation: adaptive, analog, and its correlation with memory reconsolidation, cognition, and adaptive perception, Brain inspired computation for use in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, algorithms and technologies. Dynamical systems in time-based brain computation, in brain disease and health.
Rebecca Spencer
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Areas: Neural and Behavioral Development; Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: Cognition and action, most often addressing the fine line between these two dimensions.
Meg Stratton
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department
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Research Interests: Molecular level understanding of proteins that are involved in long-term memory formation
Yubing Sun
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Research Interests: Harnessing the mechanobiology of stem cells
Richard van Emmerik
Professor, Deparment of Kinesiology
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Research Areas: Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: The effects of fatigue on balance and postural control in Multiple Sclerosis. Assessment of changes in balance control in Parkinson's disease and older individuals with and without a tendency of falling.
Elena Vazey
Assistant Professor, Departement of Biology
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Research Interests: Neuromodulation and Neurodegeneration
Amanda Woerman
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
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Research Areas: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Research Interests: Protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disease, prion strains, and the effect of protein aggregation on neuronal function
