Neuroscience

Abney,Drew

Abney, Drew

Associate Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Rising Star Award Recipient
2020-22 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | drew.abney@uga.edu

Research Interests include sensorimotor development, human interaction, emotion regulation, time series analysis, and language development

Anna Abraham

Abraham, Anna

E. Paul Torrance Professor, Educational Psychology
website | anna.abraham@uga.edu

Research Interests include creativity, imagination, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and cognition

Anjum, Javad

Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | anjum@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Eye tracking; Stroke; Cognition; Language

Deborah Barany

Barany, Deborah

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | dbarany@uga.edu

Research Interests include motor control, decision-making, neuroimaging, and non-invasive brain stimulation

Bauer,BrianSq2022

Bauer, Brian

Assistant Professor, Psychology 
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | brian.bauer@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decisions

Brett Clementz

Clementz, Brett

Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | clementz@uga.edu

Research Interests include visual & auditory processing; saccadic eye movements; higher level cognitive operations between normal & psychiatric groups (schiz); brain plasticity; brain changes that occur during aging; and prospective memory

Correia, Stephen

Associate Professor, Health Promotion & Behavior
website | scorreia@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Mental Health, Neuroscience

Dalton, Sarah Grace

Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | sgdalton@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Cognition, Communication, Experimental Methods, Neuroscience

Geier, Charles

Professor, Human Development and Family Science
website | Charles.Geier@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Cognition, Computational Methods, Diversity, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Food & Nutrition, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Networks, Neuroscience, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Psychophysiology, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Jennifer McDowell

McDowell, Jennifer

Associate Director, OIBR
Interim Department Head, Psychology
Professor, Psychology
website | jemcd@uga.edu

Research Interests include cognition, psychotic disorders, neuroimaging, and eye movement

Noble, Emily
Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences

website | emily.noble@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Cognition, Exercise, Food & Nutrition, Neuroscience, Obesity, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

oshri

Oshri, Assaf

Professor, Human Development & Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | oshri@uga.edu

Research Interests include early adversity and youth resilience

Sanders, Ashley

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | ashley.sanders@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Diversity, Environment and Ecosystems, Gender, Genetics and Epigenetics, Infant and Child Development, Infant and Maternal Health, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Suhang Song

Song, Suhang

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
website | suhang.song@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Health disparities; Health policy; Health economics; Non-communicable diseases; Cognitive aging

Lawrence Sweet

Sweet, Lawrence

Guy R. Sperduto Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2022 OIBR Lillian Eby Mentoring Award Recipient
website | sweet@uga.edu

Research Interests include brain-behavior relationships among clinical populations using multi-sequence structural, and functional neuroimaging methods