Neuroscience

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

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
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

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
Meixner, John
Assistant Professor, School of Law
website | john.meixner@uga.edu
Research Interests: Crime and Corrections, Experimental Methods, Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, Social Psychology, Survey Methods

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, 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
Serviansky, Daniel
Faculty Director of the Program in Alternative Dispute Resolution, School of Law
website | dserv@uga.edu
Research Interests: Communication, Conflict, Education and Learning, Emotion, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Immigration, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Organizations, Personality, Social Psychology, Work and Occupations

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
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