Neuroscience
Abney, Drew
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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
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
Barany, Deborah
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | dbarany@uga.edu
Research Interests include motor control, decision-making, neuroimaging, and non-invasive brain stimulation
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
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
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
Holmes, Philip
Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | pvholmes@uga.edu
Research Interests include the neurochemical basis of motivation and emotion, neurotransmitter dysregulation in the limbic system occurring in rat models of depression, and neurobiological basis for the comorbidity of depression and drug abuse
Luther, Lauren
Research Scientist, Psychology
website | lauren.luther@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Cognitive processes; Emotions
McDowell, Jennifer
Associate Director, OIBR
Professor, Psychology
website | jemcd@uga.edu
Research Interests include cognition, psychotic disorders, neuroimaging, and eye movement
Oshri, Assaf
Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | oshri@uga.edu
Research Interests include early adversity and youth resilience
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
Sweet, Lawrence
Guy R. Sperduto Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sweet@uga.edu
Research Interests include brain-behavior relationships among clinical populations using multi-sequence structural, and functional neuroimaging methods