Psychology at Vanderbilt University

22 faculty and 0 courses in Psychology at Vanderbilt University.

Faculty

• Isabel Gauthier, David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology; Vice Chair; Professor h-index 116
  Notable: “Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition” (2000) · 1,427 citations
• Jon Kaas, Distinguished Centennial Professor; Professor h-index 108
  Notable: “Massive Cortical Reorganization After Sensory Deafferentation in Adult Macaques” (1991) · 1,102 citations
• Gordon Logan, Centennial Professor of Psychology h-index 102
  Notable: “Toward an instance theory of automatization.” (1988) · 3,413 citations
• Steven D. Hollon, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor; Professor of Psychology and Human Development h-index 96
  Notable: “Defining empirically supported therapies.” (1998) · 2,330 citations
• Bunmi O. Olatunji, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor; Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Clinical Training h-index 74
  Notable: “Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: A meta-analytic review and synthesis” (2012) · 1,041 citations
• Mark Wallace, Louise B. McGavock Chair of Neuroscience; Professor of Psychology h-index 74
  Notable: “Multisensory Temporal Integration in Autism Spectrum Disorders” (2014) · 495 citations
• Sohee Park, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology h-index 64
  Notable: “Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: An NIMH Workshop on Definitions, Assessment, and Research Opportunities” (2008) · 992 citations
• Geoffrey F. Woodman, Professor of Psychology; E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Neuroscience h-index 56
  Notable: “Event-related potential studies of attention” (2000) · 1,156 citations
• David G. Schlundt, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 52
  Notable: “Reduced Awareness of Hypoglycemia in Adults With IDDM: A prospective study of hypoglycemic frequency and associated symptoms” (1995) · 648 citations
• Timothy P. McNamara, Searcy Family Dean of the College of Arts and Science; Professor of Psychology h-index 50
  Notable: “Mental representations of spatial relations” (1986) · 583 citations
• Thomas Palmeri, Department Chair; Centennial Chair; Professor of Psychology h-index 50
  Notable: “Rule-plus-exception model of classification learning.” (1994) · 809 citations
• Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 49
  Notable: “Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of Marsupials: Not as “Primitive” as Expected” (2017) · 2,656 citations
• René Marois, Director of Graduate Studies; Professor; Winkelried Family Chair in Neuroscience h-index 49
  Notable: “Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex” (2004) · 1,508 citations
• Frank Tong, Centennial Professor of Psychology h-index 44
  Notable: “Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain” (2005) · 1,911 citations
• Thilo Womelsdorf, Professor of Psychology h-index 43
  Notable: “Dynamic functional connectivity: Promise, issues, and interpretations” (2013) · 3,126 citations
• Ashley Watts, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 36
  Notable: “Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency: Implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership.” (2012) · 323 citations
• Alexander Maier, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 32
  Notable: “Neural basis of global resting-state fMRI activity” (2010) · 996 citations
• Antonia Kaczkurkin, Assistant Professor of Psychology; S Family Dean Fellow h-index 31
  Notable: “Cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders: an update on the empirical evidence” (2015) · 516 citations
• Andre Bastos, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 27
  Notable: “Canonical Microcircuits for Predictive Coding” (2012) · 2,602 citations
• Kari Hoffman, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 26
  Notable: “Overview of the Face Recognition Grand Challenge” (2005) · 2,451 citations
• Sean Polyn, Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry h-index 24
  Notable: “Beyond mind-reading: multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data” (2006) · 2,412 citations
• Jonathan Schaefer, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 16
  Notable: “Quantification of biological aging in young adults” (2015) · 1,021 citations

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.