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Full-time Faculty


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Adamo, Shelley BSc (Toronto), PhD (McGill) 
insect behavioural neuroscience, cephalopod behaviour, invertebrate behavioural physiology

Barrett, Sean P. BA (St.FX), PhD (McGill)
addiction, polysubstance use, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, psychiatric comorbidity, human psychopharmacology

Brown, Richard E. BSc (Victoria), MA, PhD (Dalhousie)
behavioural endocrinology, developmental psychobiology, drugs and behaviour, behaviour of transgenic and mutant mice

Chambers, Christine BSc (Dalhousie), MA, PhD (UBC)
pediatric (child health) psychology, with a focus on pediatric pain, including family influences, developmental issues related to pain measurement, sleep disturbances and pain

Christie, John PhD (Dalhousie) Undergraduate Advisor (PSYO/NESC)
attention, memory, learning, and their interactions and applications

Corkum, Penny BSc (Dalhousie), MA,PhD (OISE at Univ. of Toronto) Director of Clinical Training
sleep and childhood psychopathology, attention, behaviour and academic disorders in children, psycho-social interventions, school psychology

Crowder, Nathan BSc, PhD (Alberta)
using visual neurophysiology and psychophysics to investigate the following topics: adaptation and plasticity of visual information processing in the cortex, contrast coding, motion detection, and speed discrimination

Deacon, Hélène BSc (UPEI), PhD (Oxon)
developmental psychology, literacy development

Duffy, Kevin BA (St. Thomas),  PhD (McMaster) Undergraduate Advisor (NESC)
perception, vision, neuroscience

Earhard, Bruce BA, MA, PhD (Toronto) Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Gadbois, Simon BSc, MAPs (Univ. de Moncton), PhD (Dalhousie) Undergraduate Advisor (PSYO/NESC)
animal behaviour: olfactory processing and learning; social (agonistic and affiliative) behaviours; action sequences; behavioural endocrinology: steroid hormones (stress and reproductive hormones); species: canids (wolves, coyotes, red foxes, dogs), reptiles (NS turtles and snakes)

Jacques, Sophie  BA (McGill), MA, PhD (Toronto)
socio-emotional and socio-cognitive development, cognitive development

Johnson, Shannon BA (Kalamazoo), MSc, PhD (Victoria) Assistant Director of Training, Clinical PhD Program
clinical and cognitive neuropsychology, social cognition, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders

Juckes, Tim BA, MA (Natal), PhD (Dalhousie) Undergraduate Advisor (PSYO)
sociopsychology, history of psychology, social influence, scientific writing, cognitive development

Klein, Raymond M. BA (SUNY), MA, PhD (Oregon) Chairman
attention and its disorders, cognitive neuroscience, applied cognitive psychology

Krigolson, Olave BEd (Victoria), MSc (Indiana), PhD (Victoria)
learning, reinforcement learning, cognitive control, neuroimaging, computational neuroscience, motor control

Landry, Oriane PhD (McGill) Undergraduate Advisor (PSYO)
cognitive development in typically developing children, children with autism and developmental disabilities; orienting of attention, response selection and learning in autism; quality of life for adults with developmental disabilities

LoLordo, Vincent AB (Brown),  PhD (Pennsylvania) Professor Emeritus, Psychology Honours Advisor
learning, animal behaviour

McGlone, Jeannette BA, MA, PhD (Western Ontario)
clinical neuropsychology, sex differences, epilepsy, and multiple chemical sensitivities

McGrath, Patrick BA, MA (Sask), PhD (Queen's)
pediatric psychology, pain, child psychopathology

McMullen, Patricia BSc, MSc (Toronto), PhD (Waterloo) Psychology Honours Advisor
visual cognition, cognitive neuropsychology

Meinertzhagen, Ian A. (Aberdeen), BSc PhD, DSc (St. Andrews)
circuits of identified neurons in simple nervous systems, their origins in ontogeny and evolution, their function and plasticity in adults

Mitchell, Donald BSc, MAppSc (Melb), PhD (Berkeley) Professor Emeritus
visual system development, visual perception

Moore, Christopher L. BA, PhD (Cantab.)
early social cognitive development

Newman, Aaron BA (Winnipeg), MSc, PhD (Oregon) Undergraduate Advisor (PSYO/NESC)
Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience: using non-invasive neuroimaging (fMRI, DTI, ERP, MEG) to address basic and clinical questions in the areas of language, bilingualism, aphasia, hearing disorders, cochlear implants, attention, biological motion, and gesture. Applications of neuroimaging to diagnosis and rehabilitation including presurgical mapping and epilepsy.

Perrot, Tara BSc, PhD (Western Ontario) Neuroscience Honours Advisor
sex differences, hormones, stress

Phillips, Dennis P. BSc, PhD (Monash) Undergraduate Advisor (PSYO/NESC)
sensory processes in hearing, auditory neurophysiology

Phillmore, Leslie BA (UWO), MA, PhD (Queen's)
songbirds, animal behaviour and learning, seasonality, neural basis of song perception, neurogenesis

Ply, Elaine PhD (Texas Woman's) Practicum Coordinator
psychotherapy outcome, clinical training, child abuse and vicarious traumatization

Rosen, Natalie BA (Queen's), PhD (McGill)  Starting July 1, 2012.
female sexual disorders, women's pain, romantic relationships, health (psychosocial) psychology

Rusak, Benjamin BA (Toronto), PhD (Berkeley)
sleep and circadian rhythms; mechanisms, functions and clincial implications

Schellinck, Heather BSc, MSc, PhD (Dalhousie) Undergraduate Advisor (PSYO/NESC)
olfactory learning in animal models of neurodegenerative disease; pheromonal mechanisms in rodents

Sherry, Simon BA (York), MA (UBC), PhD (Saskatchewan)
personality and psychopathology (e.g., suicide, eating disorders, and depression), perfectionism, hypochondriasis

Stamp, Jennifer BSc (Dalhousie), PhD (Cambridge) Undergraduate Advisor (PSYO/NESC)
stress, addiction, steroid hormones and behaviour

Stewart, Sherry H. BSc (Dalhousie), PhD (McGill)
anxiety, substance abuse, cognitive psychophsiology

Taylor-Helmick, Tracy L. BA (Calgary), MSc, PhD (Dalhousie) Graduate Program Coodinator
human memory, especially our ability to intentionally forget irrelevant or outdated information, attentional mechanisms that enable remembering and forgetting, inhibitory mechanisms in attention and memory