Associated Faculty
Laura Batterink PhD (University of Oregon) - Dr. Batterink's research involves the neural basis of language acquisition, learning and memory, sleep-dependent memory consolidation, conscious awareness, and many other aspects of cognition.
E-mail: lbatter@uwo.ca
Dr. Blake Butler PhD (McMaster University) - Dr. Butler's reseach involves sensory systems development, sensory loss & neuroplasticity and multisensory integration.
E-mail: bbutler9@uwo.ca
Rachel Calogero PhD (University of Kent) - Dr. Calogero’s primary clinical research interests involve the etiology and maintenance of positive and negative body image, and their relation to intuitive and disordered eating. Blending her social and clinical psychology backgrounds, her particular emphasis is on the sociocultural and identity factors related to the development of disordered eating and its prevention, including processes related to stigma, beauty ideals and pressures, gender roles, objectification, and diet culture. She also has a special interest in the development of dysfunctional exercise in relation to eating disorders, how to foster attuned exercise, and how to harness it for better treatment and recovery outcomes.
E-mail: rcaloger@uwo.ca
Ingrid Johnsrude PhD (McGill University) - My primary research interest is the neural basis of speech understanding. I focus on the processes recruited as utterances (syllables, words and sentences) are transformed from an acoustic signal to meaning, and how these processes are organized in the brain. I also study how people understand speech in challenging listening situations (for example, when there are multiple talkers present, or when speech is masked with noise), and how the processes involved in speech comprehension under such challenging conditions change with age.
Accepting Graduate Student Applications for 2019-2020.
E-mail: ijohnsru@uwo.ca
Nicholas A. Kuiper PhD (University of Calgary) (Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Research Professor, Clinical Psychology). Individual differences relating to humor, psychopathology and well-being. Self-concept and implicit theories of depression.
E-mail: kuiper@uwo.ca
John Paul Minda PhD (University of Buffalo) - Dr. Minda's research seeks to understand how people learn about categories and concepts and how conceptual structure influences thinking and decision making. One major lines of research deals with verbal and nonverbal category learning and how these two modes of learning can be dissociated. Other recent work focuses on the effects of aging and cognition, mood and cognition, expert-novice differences in physicians, the role of causal structure in acquiring concepts in medical school.
E-mail: jpminda@uwo.ca
Derek Mitchell PhD (University College) - Research is principally aimed at determining how dissociable neural systems integrate emotion with cognition and behaviour. The work is designed to provide fundamental knowledge about the functional neuroanatomy behind the experience and control of emotions such as fear, anxiety, and anger. The approach is also used to elucidate the pathophysiology of a range of psychiatric disorders from psychopathy, which features impoverished affective responding and poor behavioural controls, to mood and anxiety disorders, which feature a failure to manage or modulate emotional responding. Our techniques include fMRI, MEG, psychophysiological, and neuropsychological methods in healthy individuals, patients with developmental or acute psychiatric disorders, and patients with acquired brain lesions.
E-mail: dmitch8@uwo.ca
Bruce Morton PhD (University of Toronto) - The development of self-regulation and control, and its link with changes in brain function in children and teens.
E-mail: bmorton3@uwo.ca
John Sakaluk PhD (University of Kansas) - Research interests include secondary data analysis of psychotherapy intervention literatures.
E-mail: jsakaluk@uwo.ca
Donald H. Saklofske PhD C.Psych. (University of Calgary) - Primary research areas include intelligence, emotional intelligence, and personality. Also psychological assessment and measurement (e.g., developing intelligence tests).
E-mail: dsaklofs@uwo.ca
Ryan Stevenson PhD (Indiana University) - Research interests include visual and auditory sensory perception, developmental cognitive neuroscience, autism, how perception influences the development of cognition and social communication.
E-mail: resteve28@uwo.ca
Paul F. Tremblay PhD (Western University) - In addition to my primary interests in research design, psychometrics, and statistical modeling, the research focus of students and collaborators in my lab fall in four areas: individual differences in personality and mental health, academic and performance motivation, human aggression (including hostile attribution bias, violence against women), and meaning in life (in relation to grief, core schemas, and the measurement of meaningful experiences).
E-mail: ptrembla@uwo.ca
