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John
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Professor, Department of Psychology 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard 426 Fraser Hall Director,
Schiefelbusch
Institute for Life Span Studies 1000 Sunnyside Avenue 1052 Dole Human Development Center
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Contact
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Psychology
Department |
(785) 864-4131 |
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Schiefelbusch
Life Span Institute |
(785) 864-4295 |
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Wakarusa
Research Facility laboratory |
(785) 312-5345 |
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Edwards
Campus laboratory |
(785) 864-8590 |
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Carlson/Colombo
laboratory, Smith Center, KU Med Center |
(913) 588-5743 |
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Email |
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History I
received my PhD in Psychology (1981) from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After one year at Youngstown State University (1981-1982), and
six years (1982-1988) as a research associate with the Bureau
of Child Research at the University of Kansas, I joined the faculty of
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
at the University of Kansas in 1988, and
have been a member of the Department of
Psychology since January of 2002. Research My
research interests are in the developmental cognitive neuroscience of
attention and learning, with a special focus on early individual differences
in these areas and how they relate to the typical and atypical development of
cognitive and intellectual function. I conduct research in laboratories at
the KU Edwards Campus and the KU Medical Center, as well as at the Wakarusa
Research Facility in Lawrence. Students and Postdocs I
generally admit students interested in pursuing a graduate degree in my
laboratory through the Developmental
or Cognitive
doctoral programs in the Department of Psychology. However, I also advise students in the
Child Language Doctoral Program and in Clinical Child Psychology. Occasionally, postdoctoral positions are
available through federal research or training grants, or through fellowships
funded through the Ruth Kirschstein National
Research Service Awards (F32
mechanism) at NIH. Collaborations I
collaborate with a number of faculty members at the University of Kansas and
elsewhere. Currently, my collaborations include ongoing research
and writing projects with the following scientists at other institutions: Dr. Susan E.
Carlson, A.J. Rice Professor of Dietetics and Nutrition, the University
of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA Dr. Laura Caulfield,
Human Nutrition, The Johns Hopkins State University, Baltimore, MD, USA Nelly Zavaleta,
MD, Instituto de Investigaciones Nutricional,
Lima (Molina), Peru Dr. John Richards,
Carolina Professor of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC,
USA Dr. Derek Houston,
University of Indiana School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA Dr. David
Thomas, (Department of Psychology), and Dr. Tay Kennedy (Department of Nutrition), Oklahoma State
University Publications A list of
my publications (with some links to .pdf copies) can be obtained by clicking here. |
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Administrative Duties, Service,
and Affiliations My
administrative responsibilities at the University of Kansas also include: Director
of the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span
Studies Co-Director
and Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Intellectual
and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (KIDDRC). Co-Investigator
and Director of the Participant Recruitment Core of the KU Center for Biobehavioral Neuroscience in
Communicative Disorders Faculty
chair, Human Subjects Committee on the Lawrence Campus (HSCL). HSCL is the
campus-wide institutional review board for research conducted with human
subjects. The committee is administered by the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. My primary faculty appointment is
in Psychology, but I am also affiliated with the following interdisciplinary programs: Child
Language Doctoral Program Clinical Child Psychology Doctoral Program Neurosciences Doctoral Program |
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National Service Secretary of the International
Society for Infant Studies (ISIS) Associate Editor for Child
Development, the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Fellow, American Psychological Association (Division
7: Developmental Psychology) Charter Member and Fellow, Association for Psychological
Science Member, Psychonomic Society Editorial Board member for the following journals |
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Teaching I have taught a number of courses in various
departments at the University of Kansas, and
continue to teach courses as my other duties allow. |
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NUMBER |
TITLE |
LAST OFFERED |
ENROLLMENT |
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PSYC 318 |
Cognitive
Psychology |
Fall 2007 |
200-400 |
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PSYC 333 |
Child
Psychology |
Spring 2007 |
300-500 |
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PSYC 430 |
Cognitive
Development |
Fall 2001 |
50-100 |
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PSYC 480 |
Independent
Study |
current (Fall ’08) |
5-15 |
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BIOL 449 |
Laboratory/Fieldwork
in Human Biology |
current (Fall ’08) |
1-5 |
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PSYC 770 |
Cognitive
Development |
Spring 2005 |
15-30 |
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SPLH 764 |
Infant
Development (with N. Brady and S. Barlow) |
Spring 2007 |
10-20 |
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PSYC 800 |
Developmental
Cognitive Neuroscience |
Spring 2004 |
5-10 |
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PSYC 800 |
Cognition
in Infancy |
Spring 2003 |
5-10 |
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PSYC 815 |
Design
and Analysis for Developmental Research |
current (Fall ’08) |
10-15 |