Academic Family Tree

Julie Zeiberg

• Graduated From Syracuse University 2020.
• BS in Psychology
• Minor in Nutrition
• Research: The effects of aerobic vs anaerobic exercise on sleep and memory.

Amy Criss

Education:

B.A., Miami University (1994-1997)

Ph.D., Indiana University (1998-2004)

Post Doc., Carnigue Mellon (2004-2007)

Professor at Syracuse University (2007-Present)

Research Interest:

Amy Criss

Dr. Criss research heavily involves describing how human memory operates within the framework of computational models. She focuses on episodic memory, or memory tied to a specific situation, and associative memory, or memory for the relationship between two items. Other interests include semantic knowledge and implicit memory.

Her main approach is done by identifying specific predictions or assumptions underlying computational models and designing empirical tests to evaluate her predictions. In addition to behavioral studies Dr. Criss utilizes FMRI and EEG methods.

Evaluating mechanisms of proactive facilitation in cued recall. (2017)

Models that allow us to perceive the world more accurately also allow us to remember past events more accurately via differentiation 2007

The list strength effect in cued recall. (2017)

James L. McClelland

Education and Work:

B.A Columbia University (1966-1970)

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1970-1974)

Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (1984-2006)

Professor at Standford University (2006- Present )

McClelland is known for his work on statistical learning and Parallel Distributed Processing. As well as Neural networks to explain cognitive phenomena such as spoken word recognition and visual word recognition.

He was a co-founder of the Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) research group and co author of Parallel Distributed Processing. (Some say it’s the bible for a cognitive scientist

His present work focuses on learning, memory processes, and psycholinguistics within the framework of the connectionist model.

Awards:

Received the 1993 Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists,

1996 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association

2001 Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology

2002 IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award for this work.

McClelland currently teaches on the PDP approach to cognition and its neural basis in the Psychology Department and in the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford and conducts research on learning, memory, conceptual development, language processing, and mathematical cognition at Stanford and as a consulting research scientist at DeepMind

Dr. McClelland's lab's research addresses topics in perception and decision making, learning and memory, language and reading, semantic cognition, and cognitive development.

Paul Rozen

Paul Rozin

Education and Work Experience:

BA, University of Chicago (1956)

Ph.D., Biology and Psychology, Harvard University (1961)

Specific Research Areas:

Cultural psychology, with a focus on understanding the role of food in human life, positive psychology, the meaning of "natural" and positive and negative memories

Research Interests:

Psychopathology and Psychotherapy

Developmental Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology

Individual Differences and Behavior Genetics

Positive Psychology

Social and Cultural Psychology

Past scholarly interests included food selection in animals, the acquisition of fundamental reading skills, and the neuropsychology of amnesia. Over the last 25 years, the major focus of his research has been human food choice, considered from biological, psychological and anthropological perspectives. During this period, he has studied the psychological significance of flavorings placed on foods in different cuisines, the cultural evolution of cuisine, the development of food aversions, the development of food preferences, family influences in preference development, body image, the acquisition of liking for chili pepper, chocolate craving, and attitudes to meat, Most recently, major foci of attention have been the emotion of disgust, the entry of food issues (e.g., meat, fat) into the moral domain in modern American culture,

Jean Mayer

Jean Mayer (19 April 1920 – 1 January 1993)

French-American scientist best known for his research on the physiological bases of hunger and the metabolism of essential nutrients, and for his role in shaping policy on world hunger at both the national and international levels.

At the outbreak of World War II, he had earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy (summa cum laude), a bachelor's degree in Mathematics (magna cum laude), and a master's degree in Physics and Chemistry.

At war's end, Mayer joined his wife in the United States and received a small grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for graduate work in physiological chemistry. He elected to attend Yale,

Mayer earned a Ph.D. in Physiological Chemistry at Yale in 1948 and a Doctor of Science degree in Physiology at the Sorbonne in 1950, Mayer accepted the offer of a Professorship from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1950

Mayer discovered that the body's hunger mechanisms were controlled by the sensitivity of the hypothalamus to glucose under varying conditions. Mayer's greatest contribution: the so-called glucostatic theory of the regulation of food intake.

Willard A. Krehl

Education/ Work:

AB Degree from Cornell Coellege

Masters From Cornell (1943)

Ph.D in Biochemistry University of Wisconsin

Professor at Yale (Nutrition) 1951-1958 and recieved MD in 1957.

Known For:

Helped to found the American Society of Clinical Nutrition. Linked Sugar and high cholesterol together.

Mayor :

MAYER J, KREHL WA. (1948) The relation of diet composition and vitamin C to vitamin A deficiency.

MAYER J, KREHL WA. (1948) Influence of vitamin A deficiency on the gross efficiency of growth of rats.

MAYER J, KREHL WA. (1948) Scorbutic symptoms in vitamin A-deficient rats.

MAYER J, KREHL WA. (1948) Vitamin A deficiency and diet composition

Conrad Elvehjem

Conrad (Arnold) Elvehjem

Education: University of Wisconsin

Best known for: The golden era of nutritional research—touched most aspects of animal nutrition, advancing, in particular, our understanding of the B vitamins, the phenomenon of amino acid imbalance, and the identification of trace minerals needed in the diet. Elvehjem made the major discovery that nicotinic acid functions as the antipellagra vitamin

1939 Johnson Award, American Institute of Nutrition

1940 1942 Grocery Manufacturers of America Award

1941 1943 Willard Gibbs Award, American Chemical Society

1942 1948 Nicholas Appert Medal, Institute of Food Technologists 1950 Osborne-Mendel Award, American Institute of Nutrition 1952 Lasker A ward in Medical Research, American Public Health Association

1943 1956 Charles Spencer Award, American Chemical Society

1944 1957 American Institute of Baking Award

Edwin B. Hart

Edwin Bret Hart (December 25, 1874 – March 12, 1953)

American biochemist long associated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Education/ Work:

University of Marburg

University of Heidelberg

Professor at Cornell University, University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin

At U.W he conducted what later came to be known as the "single-grain experiment", which ran from May 1907 to 1911. This experiment entailed a long-term feeding plan using a chemically balanced diet of carbohydrates, fat, and protein instead of single-plant rations as done in Babcock's earlier experiments of 1881 and 1901.

Best Known For:

In 1908, it was shown that the corn-fed animals were the most healthy of the group while the wheat-fed groups were the least healthy.

1917, Cause of goitre was iodine deficiency

Edwin B. Hart