Brain, Cognition, and Developmental Science

The Department of Psychology at Tulane is home to a vibrant community of scholars who use cutting-edge behavioral and neural methods to understand mental processes. Our students and faculty work together to investigate how abilities like perception, attention, emotion, learning, memory, and social cognition develop and function. We adopt an integrated approach and conduct studies with human infants, children, adolescents, adults as well as animal models.

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Area Faculty

The faculty in the Brain, Cognition, and Developmental Science area study a wide variety of topics from developmental psychology, neuroscience, and cognition. Click on a faculty member's image to view their faculty profile.

Paul Colombo

Interactions among memory systems; music-based mentoring on the brain and cognition

Michael Cunningham

Adolescent development in African American children and adolescents

Jill Daniel

Estrogens and androgens on the brain and cognition across the lifespan

Benjamin Deen

Cognitive neuroscience, social reasoning

Jonathon Fadok

Formation and expression of emotional memory at level of neuronal circuits

Jacob Feiler

Spatial thinking, embodied cognition, STEM learning, educational neuroscience

Thomas Hebert

Behavioral neuroscientist with interests in hormones and behavior.

 

Julie Markant

Infant learning, selective attention, neuroscience

Stacy Overstreet

Children at risk for maladjustment due to the presence of chronic stressors in their lives.

Beth E.F. Wee

Biological rhythms (seasonal and circadian), neuroendocrinology, reproduction, learning and memory, and animal behavior

More Information about the Brain, Cognition, and Developmental Science Area

Kate C. Baker, Ph.D. | Research Professor 
Ph.D., 1992, University of Michigan
Email: kbaker1@tulane.edu
Phone: 862-8040 Office: Tulane Primate Center

Joseph Constans, Ph.D. | Assistant Clinical Professor | Adjunct Faculty
Ph.D., 1993, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Cognition and emotion; posttrauamatic stress disorder (PTSD); PTSD-related biases in attention, judgment, memory; anxiety disorders.

Marva L. Lewis, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Adjunct Faculty
Ph.D., 1993, University of Colorado
Email: mlewis@tulane.edu 
Office: Social Work Building
Tulane School of Social Work

Jeffrey J. Lockman, Ph.D. | Research Professor
Ph.D., 1980, University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Perception-action and cognitive development.

Miguel Vasquez Velasquez, 2024

Brianna (Keenan) Hunter, 2022
Current position: Post-doctoral Scholar, Center for Mind & Brain, UC Davis

Jill King, 2021 (Neuroscience)
Current position: Managing Scientist, Moore Neuro-Fundraising Lab at TCM Creative, Tulsa OK

Jenna Winston, 2021
Current position: New Orleans College Prep

Blair Youmans, 2021
Current position: UX Researcher

Emily Lewis, 2020
Current position: Data analyst, New York University

Nina Baumgartner, 2019 (Neuroscience)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jeffrey Darling, 2019 (Neuroscience)
Current Position: Medical Science Liaison, Eisai US

Nicholas Fears, 2019
Current position: Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

Maxwell Anderson, 2018

Kevin Pollard, 2017 (Neuroscience)
Current Position:  Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University

Katelyn Black, 2017 (Neuroscience)
Current Position: Senior Professor of Practice, Neuroscience Program, Tulane University

Wendy Jung, 2015
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane Psychology

Daniel Bayless, 2014
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Britta Nelson, 2014 (Neuroscience)
Current Position: Medical Science Liaison, UCB