Daniel Weissman, PhD., Professor of Psychology
Dr. Weissman earned twin Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Physics in 1991. He then became a Research Intern at the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory. There, he learned to train dolphins and conduct research on dolphin cognition. In 1999, Dr. Weissman earned a PhD in Biological Psychology (specializing in Cognitive Neuroscience) from the University of Illinois. From 1999-2006, he conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of attention and cognitive control at Duke University as a Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2004) and Research Assistant Professor (2004-2006). In 2006, he became an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Later, he was promoted to Associate (2012) and Full (2018) Professor.
For more information, see Dr. Weissman’s CV
Graduate Students
Selena Tran
Selena Tran is a graduate student at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the processes underlying cognitive control, which allows one to – among other things – resist temptation, minimize distraction, and adapt to recent events. She is also interested in multisensory integration. Selena employs a mixture of behavioral and functional imaging techniques.
Matt Dunaway
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Jiaqi Wu
Sophia Hopkins
Chloe Hooker
Graduate and Postdoctoral Alumni
Lauren Grant, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University at Saint Louis
Katherine Sledge Moore, Associate Professor, Arcadia University
Joseph Orr, Assistant Professor, Texas A & M
Jerome Prado, Tenured Research Scientist, CNRS, Lyon, France
Kamin Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dynamic Memory Lab
Joshua Carp, Software engineer, Democratic National Committee
