NOTE: ONLY THESE PEOPLE ON THIS LIST ARE APPROVED AND CAN BE SUPERVISORS
 
LIST OF POSSIBLE SUPERVISORS FOR PSYCHOLOGY 4D06/4DD6/4D09 AND INDEPENDENT STUDY

(For Psychology 2QQ3 Research Practicum only Faculty WITHIN the department may be chosen)

For Term 1 and 2  - 2010/2011

FACULTY MEMBERS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Andrews, P.
20820 - PC313 - pandrews@mcmaster.ca

primarily studies the functional effects of depression on cognition and behavior, the underlying neurological mechanisms, and the implications for understanding the evolutionary history of depression. More generally, his group is interested in how to distinguish between a normal psychological response and true instances of mental disorder, and why mental disorders persist in populations.

Balshine,S.        
23024 - PC304 - sigal@mcmaster.ca 

• behavioural ecological studies on cichlid fishes
• evolution of parental care
• cooperation & sperm competition 

Becker, S.          
23020 - PC312 -  becker@mcmaster.ca

• cortical & hippocampal plasticity
• human empirical studies & neural network models of spatial & episodic memory
• functions of hippocampal neurogenesis
• effects of stress & depression on memory
• cortical reorganization after hearing loss
• mechanisms, models & rehabilitation of tinnitus

Bennett, P.        
23012 - PC103  -  bennett@mcmaster.ca

• spatial vision
• psychophysics
• perceptual learning & development
• aging & vision
• ideal observer theory 
  
  

Beston, B. -  (3Q03 & 4Q03 only)        
21272 - PC107  -  bestonbr@mcmaster.ca

• visual development and neuroplasticity  

Bosnyak, D.        
24052 - PC333 -   bosnyak@mcmaster.ca

• exploration of cortical map plasticity & associative learning in humans
• human EEG studies  

Brown, S.
23892 - PC308 - stebro@mcmaster.ca

• the neural basis of human communication processes, with a focus on the  arts

Clark, M.            
23008 - PC317  -  mclark@mcmaster.ca

• behavioral endocrinology
• gender determination  

Day, R. -  (3Q03 & 4Q03 only)
23006 - PC404  -  dayrich@mcmaster.ca

• educational psychology

deCatanzaro, D. 
23014 - PC314  -  decatanz@mcmaster.ca

• evolutionary & physiological limitations to the biological drives for survival & reproduction  

Dukas, R.
23894 - PC104  -  dukas@mcmaster.ca

• ecology and evolution of cognitive abilities and constraints; insect/bee behaviour  

Feinberg, D.       
28664 - PC407  -  feinberg@mcmaster.ca

• evolutionary approaches to human voice & face attractiveness
• focus on morphing & manipulation techniques

Faure, P.        
26393 - PC111  -  paul4@mcmaster.ca

• animal behavior & communication
• audition & hearing
• bioacoustics
• echolocation (biosonar)
• evolutionary neurobiology
• neuroethology
• sensory ecology
• sensory neurobiology
• systems neuroscience

Galef, B.            
23017 - PC B127 - galef@mcmaster.ca

• animal behaviour
• social learning in the development of adaptive behaviours

Gillespie, D.       
28671 - PC310  -  dgillespie@mcmaster.ca

• sensory neuroscience
• systems neuroscience
• activity-dependent plasticity
• synaptic inhibition
• auditory development
• sound localization 
  
  

Goldreich, D.     
28666 - PC413  -  goldrd@mcmaster.ca

• neural basis of tactile perception
• cortical plasticity following sensory deprivation in humans
• perception as Bayesian inference

Hall, G.
23033 - PC109 - hallg@mcmaster.ca

• neural basis of child and adolescent psychopathology
• neuroplasticity
• neuroimaging

Humphreys, K.   
23011 - PC410  -  krh@mcmaster.ca

• psycholinguistics
• normal and pathological language production
• speech errors
• stuttering  

Kim, J.               
21322 - PC106  -  kimjoe@mcmaster.ca

• In the Pedagogy Research Lab, we try to understand the ideal conditions that lead to effective teaching and learning. In particular, we are interested in the thoughtful integration of technology into blended learning environments

Lewis, T.            
23009 - PC110  -  lewistl@mcmaster.ca

• development of vision in humans, from infancy to adulthood

Maurer, D.          
23030 - PC306    maurer@mcmaster.ca

• development of vision in human infants
• normal development
• development of vision in children treated for cataracts
  
  

Milliken, B. 
24361 - PC414    millike@mcmaster.ca

• attention and visual perception

Murphy, K.         
23025 - PC315  -  kmurphy@mcmaster.ca

• neural development and plasticity
• visual neuroscience
• optical imaging of brain function 

Roberts, L.         
24052 - PC333  -  roberts@mcmaster.ca

• exploration of cortical map plasticity & associative learning in humans
• human EEG studies

Ostovich, J. - (3Q03 & 4Q03 only) 
28665 - PC-415A - jmostovich@mcmaster.ca  

• My research has focused on sex drive and its correlates: What is sex drive? How does sex drive affect our attitudes (e.g., opinions about the morality of various sex acts) and behaviours? (e.g., likelihood of engaging in casual sex).
•  I am also interested in intergroup relations and ethnopolitical conflict, especially social psychology explanations of genocide and other forms of catastrophic mass violence.
•  I am have some degree of expertise on any social psychology topic, and am happy to let the student choose a topic other than human sexuality and intergroup relations.

Rutherford, M. 
27120 - PC105  -  rutherm@mcmaster.ca 

• evolutionary psychological perspectives on social perceptual development
• social cognitive development
• theory of mind & autism 

Schmidt, L.      
23028 - PC405  -  schmidtl@mcmaster.ca

• socio-emotional development
• extreme shyness & aggression in childhood
• developmental psychophysiology
• neural basis of human emotion in infants & children   

Sekuler, A.         
27944 - PC305  -  sekuler@mcmaster.ca

• cognition neuroscience
• visual perception
• perceptual organization
• face & object recognition
• motion perception
• aging and vision
• neuroimaging 

Shedden, J.       
24345 - PC406 -   shedden@mcmaster.ca

• studies of human spatial attention using ERP and MRI  

Shore, D.           
23013 - PC409   - dshore@mcmaster.ca

• crossmodal temporal processing
• memory & visual search
• varieties & effects of attention  

Sun, H.              
24367 - PC415  -  sunhong@mcmaster.ca

• visual neuroscience
• visual motion processing and visuomotor control
• virtual reality  

Trainor, L.          
23007 - PC313  -  ljt@mcmaster.ca

• auditory perceptual development
• music & language processing in infancy
• adult music perception  

Ullal, G.  -  (3Q03 & 4Q03 only)            
21331 - PC108  -  ullalg@mcmaster.ca

• kindling
• epilepsy
• neurotrophic factors
• psychopharmacology
• neuroanatomy
• schizophrenia
• mood disorders
• substance dependence
• sleep disorders
• psychology & neuroscience of consciousness 

Watter, S.           
23031 - PC408  -  watter@mcmaster.ca

• divided attention and executive control