Faculty & Staff
Professor of Psychology
MacEldin Trawick Professor of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Cognitive Science
Specialties:
- Face and object recognition in cognitively intact and impaired individuals
- Development and loss of perceptual expertise across the lifespan
- Factors underlying the way we categorize our world
- Racial bias and other-race effects
- PURSUE: Preparing Undergraduates for Research in STEM Using Electrophysiology (www.pursueerp.com)
(804) 287-6830
Professor of Data Science and Statistics
Specialties:
- Data Science
- Digital Humanities
- Linguistics
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Specialties:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Design and implementation of programming languages to support parallel computing
(804) 289-8636
Professor of Philosophy
Richmond Professorship
Specialties:
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mind
- Logic
- Philosophy in Science Fiction
(804) 289-8733
Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience
MacEldin Trawick Professor in Psychology
Co-coordinator, Neuroscience Program
Specialties:
- Experience-based Neuroplasticity
- Neurobiology of Parental Behavior
- Neurobiological Impact of Natural-Enriched Environments
- Effective Coping Strategies and Emotional Resilience
- Comparative Animal Behavior
(804) 289-8132
Dr. Matthew Lowder
He/Him
Associate Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Coordinator
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Psycholinguistics
- Lexical, syntactic, and semantic processing
- Eye movements during reading
- Individual differences in sentence processing
- Mechanisms of memory and attention that support language comprehension
(804) 662-3078
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Specialties:
- Visual Attention and Memory
- Eye Movements During Search
- Applied Cognition
- Safety Behavior
- Computational Methods
(804) 289-8127