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Faculty ProfilesSarah
Bacon
Susan
R. Barry Ion channels play a role not only in the generation of the nerve impulse, but also in the behavior or many protists. I study the role of ion channels in the behavior of protists and also the effects of antimalarial drugs on these channels. In a very separate project, I study human eye-head coordination and its effects on visual acuity. Renae
J. Brodie Joseph
D. Cohen My research interests are generally in the area of vision and visual perception. Currently, I am working on several problems in color perception. For example, I am interested in knowing whether people categorize color stimuli with reference to the traditional color dimensions of hue, saturation and brightness or with reference to the overall discriminability of color stimuli. I am also studying how colors appear to change as a result of adaptation to another color and how long it takes to recover from such adaptation. Gary B. Gillis
Karen
L. Hollis
The goal of my research is to integrate the study of animal learning (predominantly a psychological approach) and animal behavior (predominantly a zoological approach). For some time I have been researching the biological function of Pavlovian conditioning - that is, the way in which Pavlovian conditioning enables animals to optimize their interactions with food, rivals, predators, and mates. Susan
M. Smith The work I do involves social behavior in winter. My own research is on free-living black-capped chickadees, whose winter social organization is typically stable flocks. Each individual in my population gets a unique color combination of leg bands, such that they can be recognized in the field. Then the dominance hierarchy of each flock can be worked out. Since this is a long-term study, the age, former rank, nest sites and former mate(s) of each older bird are known. Then questions about how these sorts of factors affect social behavior can be investigated. Janet Crosby Senior Administrative Assistant Psychology and Education Nancy
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