Research
Research opportunities exist in the following areas
Perception, Cognition, Learning and Memory
1. Language competence and performance: language, speech and emotion; language use and language change on the Internet (Tartter)
2. Language and its development: figurative language, auditory attention, reading (Gomes, Tartter)
3. Language disorders, learning disabilities, neuropsychological assessment of children (Gomes)
4. Vowel recognition: mathematical classification models (Antrobus)
5. Word recognition, learning, repetition and semantic priming (Deacon, Antrobus)
6. Eye movements and spatial information processing (Edelman)Complex Cognition
7. Development of self concept, identity, gender roles, body image, and deception (Rosario, Silverstein)
8. Social perception, social competence (Silverstein, Kam)
9. Stress, depression, aggression (Yali, Kam, Silverstein)
10. Cognitive and affective alteration in schizophrenia (Foxe)
11. Pain perception (Clark)Biological State: Wake and Sleep, REM and NREM Sleep
12. Circadian rhythmicity, body temperature regulation and the process of sleep (Spielman & Glovinsky)
13. Sleep disorders: Cognitive consequences and treatment (Spielman & Glovinsky)
14. Memory consolidation in sleep (Fishbein)
15. Neurocognitive dreaming processes (Antrobus)Brain Imaging
14. ERPs, fMRI, infrared imaging (Foxe, Ritter, Deacon, Gomes, Alfano, Spielman)
Mathematical and Statistical Models
15. Computational connectionist and attractor modeling (Antrobus, Sundaram)
16. Signal detection theory and applications (Clark)
17. Longitudinal path and structural equation models (Kam)