Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Chicago
1007 West Harrison Street (M/C 285)
Chicago, IL 60607-7137
Phone 312.996.3036
Fax 312.413.4122
(University of Florida, 1990). Psychology Department Chairperson. Language processing and reading, organization of memory, bilingualism, metacognition, attention, eye movements and event-related brain potentials.
(University of York, 1985). Behavioral Neuroscience Division Chairperson. Neural mechanisms of learning, memory and motivation, with an emphasis on conditioned taste aversion, reward comparison, and incentive learning.
(DePaul University, 1989). Director of Graduate Studies. Community and Prevention Research Minority education; community psychology; adolescence; resilience and protective factors in high-risk urban minority children and adolescents; the role of peer and other social support in academic adjustment; prevention of high-risk behaviors.
(PhD University of Washington, 2001). Neurobiological basis of reward and aversion. Subsecond sampling of dopamine and single neuron activity during behavior. Systems serving adaptive (feeding) and maladaptive (drug-taking) motivation.