Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience The Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience training area provides students with the conceptual and research skills necessary to pursue careers in both the academic and scientific communities. Students begin participating in laboratory investigations in their first semester and are encouraged to develop independent research projects as soon as possible. Classes are held in small-group settings designed to produce critical thinkers and creative experimenters. Faculty research strengths include the subdisciplines of developmental psychobiology, cognitive neuroscience, animal learning, comparative psychology, and physiological psychology. Full financial support is provided to all graduate students in the program. Prospective Graduate Students If you are thinking about applying to our Ph.D. program in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience (BCN) and want to learn more about the program and the affiliated faculty, please feel free to contact our training area coordinator, John Freeman at: E-Mail: john-freeman@uiowa.edu Office Phone: 319.335.3243 Lab Phone: 319.335.0565 Postal Mail: Department of Psychology E11 Seashore Hall The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242

Faculty Mark S Blumberg Developmental psychobiology, especially concerning sleep, thermoregulation, and cardiovascular regulation; ultrasonic "distress" vocalizations of infant rodents John H Freeman, Jr Behavioral Neuroscience; neural systems and physiological mechanisms of learning; developmental psychobiology of learning; developmental neurotoxicology Prahlad Gupta Relationships between language, memory, and learning; computational models and neural bases thereof Alan Kim Johnson Neurobiology of thirst, salt appetite, and body fluid homeostasis Inah Lee Neurobiology of learning and memory Amy Poremba Biopsychology; neurobiology of learning and memory; behavioral neuroscience; functional mapping of learning and memory utilizing multiple metabolic imaging and electrophysiological recording techniques; emphasis on auditory system and multisensory interactions Scott R Robinson Developmental psychobiology; behavior, sensation, and learning in the fetus and neonate; quantitative measurement of behavioral organization; neural and contextual basis for motor control John P Spencer Spatial cognition; action planning and memory; dynamical systems models of cognition and action Shaun P Vecera Cognitive neuroscience; visual object recognition; visual attention; perceptual organization; connectionist models of visual processing Edward A Wasserman Comparative analysis of learning, memory, and cognition, including conceptualization, causal judgment, and visual object recognition Adjunct Faculty Robert F Kirby Developmental aspects of neuroendocrine control of cardiovascular function, body fluid regulation, and thermoregulation