Timothy Nelson
Mildred Francis Thompson Professor, Psychology
Dr. Nelson's work explores the interplay between brain, behavior, and environment in influencing child and adolescent health and development. Much of his current work focuses on understanding the development and deployment of regulation abilities in the context of health, with a particular emphasis on the role of regulation in "high-impact" health behaviors (e.g., sleep, diet, substance use) and related outcomes (e.g., obesity, mental health problems).
Website: https://psychology.unl.edu/person/timothy-nelson/
Email: tnelson3@unl.edu
Tierney Lorenz
Associate Professor, Psychology
Our lab explores the intersection between sexual, mental, and physical health and well-being, with a focus on women, gender and sexual minorities, and survivors of sexual trauma. Our work investigates the ways that sexual behavior impacts immune and endocrine function, as well as ways to help people with mental and/or physical health conditions have happy, healthy sexual lives.
Website: https://wishlab.unl.edu/
Email: tierney.lorenz@unl.edu
Jeff Stevens
Professor, Psychology
Jeff Stevens directs the Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab where he studies dog cognition and how interacting with dogs influences human behavior and psychology. The lab uses biological and psychological approaches to understand dog behavior with the aim of improving how owners and handlers train, work with, and live with dogs. This involves studying dog cognition and decision making but also measuring hormones, physiology, and even neural activity.
Website: https://dogcog.unl.edu/
Email: jstevens5@unl.edu
Angela Dietsch
Associate Professor, Special Education & Communication Disorders
Our research focuses on sensory and motor aspects of neural control for speech, voice, and swallowing function across the age and health spectrums. Using neuroimaging in combination with a variety of clinical measures and cutting-edge analysis approaches, we are able to address key issues that directly impact clinical care.
Website: http://sisc.unl.edu
Email: angela.dietsch@unl.edu
Doug Schultz
Research Assistant Professor, CB3 & Psychology
The goal of my research program is to understand how the brain supports complex behavior. I am particularly interested in how connectivity and communication between different areas of the brain underlies these processes. I use network neuroscience to examine structural and functional features of the brain in conjunction with several other techniques including multivariate pattern analysis, graph theory, and machine learning.
Website: https://dschultz14.quarto.pub/douglashschultz/
Email: dschultz14@unl.edu
Nicholas Hubbard
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Dr. Hubbard's NeuroCognitive Translation Lab aims to advance fundamental theory and engineer cutting-edge methods within cognitive neuroscience. At the heart of these pursuits is his lab's goal to better understand and predict mental abilities, as well as improve patient health outcomes.
Website: https://nctlab.unl.edu/
Email: nhubbard5@nebraska.edu
Ingrid Haas
Associate Professor, Political Science
Dr. Haas is interested in understanding political decision making and the expression of political attitudes and beliefs, and how decision making and attitude expression are influenced by contextual factors such as emotion and identity. She conducts interdisciplinary research on political behavior using theory and methods from political psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience in the context of American politics and international security.
Website: http://paclab.unl.edu
Email: ihaas2@unl.edu
Michael Dodd
Professor, Psychology
The VAMP (Vision, Attention, Memory, and Perception) lab examines human cognition with a specific focus on attention, perception, memory, and oculomotor behavior. Our work is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative as we have also collaborated with researchers across a variety of fields to examine attention and eye movements in applied settings (with Computer Scientists, Political Scientists, Construction Management and Engineering, etc.)
Website: https://vamp.unl.edu/
Email: mdodd2@unl.edu