[CogSci] PhD and MA positions at Brandeis University

[Sarah Lupis]

Applications are open for the PhD and MA programs in Psychology at Brandeis
University.

Deadlines: Dec 1 for the PhD program; the MA program has rolling admissions
until May 15, but first admission offers are made to applicants who have
applied by February 1.

Located in the greater Boston area (Waltham, MA, just 10 miles from
downtown Boston), we offer graduate training in a mentorship-based research
program. The Master of Arts program provides students with an understanding
of the scientific foundations of psychology and direct experience in
research methods. Our doctoral program develops excellent researchers and
teachers who will become leaders in psychological science. The PhD program
offers a track in the integrated study of Brain, Body, and Behavior, funded
by a NIGMS training grant.

Information on our programs is available here:

http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/

Potential applicants are encouraged to contact faculty of interest, as not
all will be mentoring MA and PhD students in any given year. Faculty are
conducting research in the following areas:

Berry, Anne (PhD & MA mentor)

Assistant Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for
Complex Systems

Expertise: cognitive neuroscience, executive function, neuromodulator
systems (dopamine, acetylcholine), aging

Cunningham, Joseph (MA mentor)

Professor of Psychology, Undergraduate Advising Head

Expertise: Clinical and developmental psychology, nonverbal communication,
emotional development, and gender differences.

DiZio, Paul, (PhD & MA mentor)

Associate Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for
Complex Systems

Expertise: Human spatial orientation, posture and balance, movement control
and coordination, sensory-motor adaptation, motor development,
multi-sensory interactions, space perception, space flight physiology,
human factors in virtual environments, motion sickness, and brain-computer
interaction.

Gutchess, Angela (PhD & MA mentor)

Graduate Program Head, Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National
Center for Complex Systems

Expertise: Neural and behavioral effects of age and culture on memory and
social cognition.

Gutsell, Jennifer (PhD & MA mentor)

Associate Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for
Complex Systems

Expertise: Social and affective neuroscience, person perception,
interpersonal sensitivity/empathy, intergroup interactions.

Howard, James (PhD & MA mentor)

Expertise: reward, learning, and decision-making in humans, using
neuroimaging, associative learning tasks, computational modeling, and
non-invasive brain stimulation to understand how the human brain encodes
information about upcoming rewards to guide decisions. Understanding how
prefrontal circuits function in concert with sensory and thalamic networks
to support behavior dependent on representations of specific rewarding
outcomes

Jadhav, Shantanu (PhD & MA mentor)

Assistant Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for
Complex Systems

Expertise: systems neuroscience, neural mechanisms for learning, memory,
and decision making, rodent models.

Katz, Donald, Department Chair (PhD & MA mentor)

Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning.

Knight, Raymond (PhD & MA mentor)

Expertise: Clinical psychology and experimental psychopathology, with
specific expertise in psychopathy, sexual aggression, and bullying.

Lachman, Margie (PhD & MA mentor)

Minnie and Harold Fierman Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Life-span development, midlife, aging, sense of control, adult
personality, memory, health-promoting behaviors, and intervention research
to improve cognitive and physical functioning.

Lackner, James (PhD & MA mentor)

Meshulam and Judith Riklis Professor of Physiology and of the Volen
National Center for Complex Systems

Expertise: Spatial orientation, human movement control, and adaptation to
unusual force environments.

Liu, Xiaodong, Masters Program Coordinator (MA mentor)

Associate Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Applied statistics: linear and non-linear multi-level modeling /
Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM),
General & Generalized Linear Modeling, and longitudinal data analysis.
Child development: factors (at individual, familial, communal, & cultural
levels) related to child psychological adjustment (internalizing &
externalizing) and school performance.

Mitchell, Teresa Vann (MA mentor)

Lecturer in Psychology

Expertise: Effects of age and experience on development, deafness, autism
spectrum disorder, eye tracking and EEG techniques.

Sekuler, Robert (PhD & MA mentor)

Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology and Professor of
Neuroscience

Expertise: Visual perception, cognitive processes including visual memory,
navigation of complex environments, imitation of seen actions, and
age-related changes in cognitive function.

Snyder, Hannah R. (PhD & MA mentor)

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise:  Links between executive function, stress and psychopathology
(especially anxiety and depression) in adolescents and young adults.

Wingfield, Arthur.  (MA mentor)

Senior Scientist, Department of Psychology and Volen National Center for
Complex Systems

Expertise:  Effects of adult aging and auditory acuity on speech
understanding and linguistic memory; cognitive factors in adaptation to
cochlear implants and other novel perturbations of natural speech.

Wright, Ellen J.
<http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/people/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=180d1004b3bca05a2bdb0c3a890df9a9ddc17fb6>
 (MA mentor)

Associate Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Connections between developmental processes, aspects of gender,
and emotion regulation as those processes impact depression, anxiety, and
stress.
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