Cognitive Faculty

• Joseph Brown, Ph.D. Research Interests: Skilled Performance, particularly practice effects in readingand writing, early visual processing

 

• Michael Cortese, Ph.D., Research Interests: Word processing, memory, attention and language throughout the life span and in those with distinct neuropsychological profiles

 

• Kenneth Deffenbacher, Ph.D. Research Interests: Visual perception and memory, particularly for human faces, performance of eye-and-earwitnesses, history of psychology

• Walt Jesteadt (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) Primary appointment at Boys Town National Research Institute. Research Interests: Auditory perception

 

• Thomas Lorsbach (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia) Primary appointment in Special Education/UNO. Research Interests: Cognition in learning disabilities

 

• Donna Neff (Ph.D., Michigan State University) Primary appointment at Boys Town National Research Institute. Research Interests: Auditory perception

 

• Roni Reiter-Palmon, Ph.D., Indiana University) Primary appointment in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, UNO. Research Interests: Creativity and problem solving, applied cognition

 

• Brigette O. Ryalls, (Ph.D., Indiana University) Primary appointment in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, UNO. Research Interests: Creativity and problem solving, applied cognition

 

• Lisa L. Scherer, (Ph.D., Ohio State University) Primary appointment in Industrial/Organizational Psychology UNO. Research Interests: Problem solving, decision making, leadership, motivation, women and minority issues in the work place.