Delta Center

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The Delta Center is anchored by the departments of Psychology and Communication Sciences & Disorders—two of the most highly ranked departments within the University of Iowa’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The faculty in these areas have earned international reputations for excellence through their innovative teaching and research.
	Mark Blumberg Department of Psychology Lab website Developmental psychobiology and behavioral neuroscience, neural bases and function of sleep during development, behavioral and physiological mechanisms of homeostasis.
	Susan Cook Department of Psychology Hand gesture, thinking, learning, embodiment.
	Rodica Curtu Department of Mathematics Dynamical system models of alternating visual patterns due to ambiguous stimuli. Computational models of learning and memory formation.
	John Freeman Department of Psychology Ontogeny and neurobiology of associative learning, discrimination, categorization.
	Jean Gordon Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders Language deficits in aphasia, particularly in the processes of lexical access.
	Julie Gros-Louis Department of Psychology Lab website Communicative development in prelinguistic infants focusing on social feedback; comparative studies of vocal communication.
	Prahlad Gupta Department of Psychology Word learning, with particular emphasis on its relationship with working memory, implicit memory, explicit memory. Neural and computational bases of these processes. Cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.
	Eliot Hazeltine Department of Psychology Lab website Motor learning with an emphasis on how practice changes the operations that underlie the performance of simple tasks. Response selection as revealed by the demands imposed by dual-task and response competition procedures. The neural mechanisms supporting motor learning and bimanual control.
	Juan Pablo Hourcade Department of Computer Science Lab website
	Karla McGregor Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders Lab website Development of the lexicon and rich word meaning. Individual differences including language impairment, autism, and economic and linguistic environment.
	Bob McMurray Department of Psychology Lab website Speech perception, spoken word recognition, and their development. Statistical and dynamical approaches. Temporal integration of acoustic detail during online recognition. Eye movement methods.
	Amanda Owen Van Horne Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders Lab website Use of syntax and morphology by children with language impairment, complex sentence development.
	Jodie Plumert Department of Psychology Lab website Spatial memory and language, perceptual-motor development, risk factors for childhood accidents.
	Larissa Samuelson Department of Psychology Lab website Language acquisition; category formation; the acquisition of word meaning and the lexicon; connectionist and dynamical systems models of language acquisition.
	John Spencer (Director) Department of Psychology Lab website Development of working memory, attention and inhibitory control; spatial cognition; spatial language; dynamical systems and neural network models of cognition and action.
	Bruce Tomblin Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders CLRC website \| OCHL website Developmental language impairments, genetic factors in language development, implicit and statistical learning.
	Ed Wasserman Department of Psychology Lab website Comparative analysis of learning, memory, and cognition; special interests in conceptualization, causation, and visual perception.
	Patricia Zebrowski Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders Lab website Identification and treatment of stuttering in children, involving the study of child behaviors and environmental factors related to the nature and development of stuttering.