Research Overview
Dive Deep. The Department of Psychology hosts state-of-the-art research facilities and resources for studies in clinical psychology, cognition, cognitive neuroscience, and cellular and systems neuroscience. The department collaborates closely with many leading research centers on the Vanderbilt campus.
Research Stories
Jon Kaas, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair in Social and Natural Sciences
Jon Kaas leads a world-renowned neuroscience laboratory that has led to seminal scientific contributions to understand the structure and function of the cerebral cortex. Kaas’s work has received multiple prestigious awards, including the 2021 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, the highest recognition conferred by the Society for Neuroscience. Kaas…
Antonia Kaczkurkin, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Antonia Kaczkurkin leads award-winning research on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to the etiology of internalizing disorders. Her work was recently awarded the prestigious APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, which recognizes researchers who have made transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Kaczkurkin researches the…
Gordon Logan, Centennial Professor of Psychology
Gordon Logan is a highly distinguished scholar with profound theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of psychology through his seminal studies of attention, skill acquisition, and executive control. He is a foreign associate of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Logan has pioneered the widely influential “stop-signal paradigm” that…