Neuroscience

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Abney, Drew

Associate Professor & Assistant Department Head, 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
2014-2015 Grant Development Program Participant
website | anna.abraham@uga.edu

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

Adise, Shana

Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
website | shana.adise@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Cognition; Education and Learning; Experimental Methods; Food & Nutrition; Genetics and Epigenetics; Geographic Information Systems; Infant and Child Development; Infant and Maternal Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Neuroscience; Obesity; Physical Health and Well-being; Psychophysiology; STEM; Substance Use and Addiction

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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
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | dbarany@uga.edu

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

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Bauer, Brian

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

Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decision

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Carter, Sierra

Associate Professor, Psychology
Director, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | csierra@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Chronic Disease; Culture; Diversity; Geographic Information Systems; Identity; Infant and Child Development; Infant and Maternal Health; Maltreatment and Trauma; Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships; Neuroscience; Physical Health and Well-being; Psychophysiology; Violence and Injury

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Chacon, Dustin

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
website | dustin.chacon@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Cognition, Experimental Methods, Infant and Child Development, Neuroscience

Clementz, Brett

Distinguished Research 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

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Correia, Stephen

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

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

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Dalton, Sarah Grace

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

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

Flannery, Jessica

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | jessica.flannery@uga.edu

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

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Geier, Charles

Associate Dean for Research & William P. Flatt 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

Herzberg, Max

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | mherzberg@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Infant and Child Development, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Networks, Neuroscience, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Huang, Chao

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
website | chaohuang@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Computational Methods, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience

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Kiselica, Andrew

Associate Professor, Institute of Gerontology
website | akiselica@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Cognition, Neuroscience

Liu, Rongjie

Associate Professor, Statistics
website | rjliu@uga.edu

Research Interests: Cognition, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience

Lynall, Rob

Professor, Kinesiology
website | rlynall@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Cognition, Exercise, Neuroscience

McDowell, Jennifer

Associate Director, OIBR
Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute of Behavioral Research
website | jemcd@uga.edu

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

Modlesky, Christopher

Athletic Association Professor, Kinesiology
website | christopher.modlesky@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Exercise, Food & Nutrition, Infant and Child Development, Neuroscience

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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

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Oshri, Assaf

Samuel A. and Sharon Y. Nickols Endowed Professor, Human Development & Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | oshri@uga.edu

Research Interests include early adversity and youth resilience

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Sanders, Ashley

Associate Professor, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2025-2027
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

Schmidt, Julianne

Georgia Athletic Association Endowed Professor, Kinesiology
website | schmidtj@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Neuroscience, Prevention and Implementation Science, Violence and Injury

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

Yan, Shijun

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | Shijun.Yan@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Neuroscience, Physical Health and Well-being