Associate Professor, Director of Psychological Science Training*
Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania, 2000
Area: Attention, Emotion, Neuroscience
Office: Columbine Hall 4013
Phone: (719) 255-4177
Email: mkisley@uccs.edu
Director, Human Neurophysiology Laboratory

*The DPST is responsible for all aspects of psychological science MA program including recruitment and admissions, curriculum, professional development, and assessment.

Professor Mike Kisley teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience for the UCCS Psychology Department. He was selected in 2011 for the campus-wide UCCS Outstanding Teaching Award. Dr. Kisley directs the UCCS Human Neurophysiology Laboratory, and his research program is supported by funding from the National Institute on Aging. In addition to serving the Psychology Department and its graduate students as the Director of Graduate Training and as the Faculty Coordinator for the M.A. Program in Psychological Science, Dr. Kisley serves the scientific community as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Integrative Neuroscience.

Professor Kisley joined the UCCS Psychology Department after a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado at Denver, and a simultaneous appointment to the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center. He earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in May of 2000, and Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1992 and 1994 respectively.

Dr. Kisley's research interests are broad but most recently have centered around the study of emotion and attention functions across the lifespan, and particularly the interaction of these important psychological functions. Dr. Kisley and his students employ both behavioral and neuroscience methodologies to study these issues.

To learn more about Dr. Kisley’s research program please visit the UCCS Human Neurophysiology Lab webpage.

Research Areas:

Attention, emotion, neuroscience, adult development, and event-related brain potentials.

Representative Publications:

Foster, S.M., Davis, H.P., & Kisley, M.A. (2013) Brain responses to emotional images related to cognitive function in older adults. Psychology & Aging, in press.

Foster, S.M., Kisley, M.A., Davis, H.P., Diede, N.T., Campbell, A.M., & Davalos, D.B. (2013) Cognitive function predicts neural activity associated with pre-attentive temporal processing. Neuropsychologia, in press.

Chavis, J.M., & Kisley, M.A. (2012) Adult attachment and motivated attention to social images: Attachment-based differences in event-related brain potentials to emotional images. Journal of Research in Personality 46: 55-62.

Kisley, M.A., Campbell, A.M., *Larson, J.M., *Naftz, A.E., *Regnier, J.T., & Davalos, D.B. (2011) The impact of verbal framing on brain activity evoked by emotional images. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 10: 513-524.