Jacob Feiler
Professor of Practice
Education & Affiliations
Biography
Dr. Feiler is a Professor of Practice in the Psychology Department at Tulane. He holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and Neuroscience from The University of Alabama, where he researched the roles of spatial thinking and embodied cognition on science ability using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Dr. Feiler received his MS in human anatomy from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and his BS from the University of Richmond.
Office
3065 Percival Stern Hall
Selected Publications
Morett, L.M., Feiler, J.B., & Getz, L. (2021). Elucidating the influences of embodiment and conceptual metaphor on lexical and non-speech tone learning. Cognition, 222, 105014.
Feiler, J. B., & Stabio, M. E. (2018). Three pillars of educational neuroscience from three decades of literature. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 13, 17-25. doi: 10.1016/j.tine.2018.11.001
Feiler, J.B. (2018). An fMRI Study Examining Inhibition and Threat Vigilance Among Adolescents with Severe Worry. In Proceedings of Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting, 32(S1), 782. American Association of Anatomists. doi: https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2018.32.1_supplement.782.6
Courses
Experimental Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Research
Dr. Feiler studies spatial reasoning and embodied cognition. Although he does not directly supervise graduate students, he does recruit undergraduate research assistants and serves on graduate dissertation committees.
