PSYCHOLOGY
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Dr. Michael Kisley joined the department after a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and a simultaneous appointment to the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center in Denver. He earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in May of 2000; Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1992 and 1994. Dr. Kisley teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience. Professor Kisley is currently the Director of the Graduate Program and should be contacted regarding questions about the Master’s program and experimental aspects of the geropsychology doctoral program. Dr. Kisley studies perception and
attention functions across the lifespan. He's particularly
interested in how the person (and their brain) prioritizes
which sensory stimuli in the environment should be attented
to. This type of function changes with healthy aging, and
this can have detrimental effects on an individual's daily
life (e.g., increased distractibility). Recently though,
Dr. Kisley's research team has begun studying potentially
beneficial impacts these changes can have, including higher
prioritization of "positive" stimuli and lower
prioritization of "negative" ones. Dr. Kisley's laboratory
employs both behavioral and neuroscience methodologies to
study these issues. |
