Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Translational Research in Psychological Sciences: Human Factors at Texas Tech University
Overview	Mentors			Projects	Program Benefits	Application		FAQ		2017 Summer
Note that each mentor will host one REU researcher each summer.
			Dr. Patricia DeLucia Principal Investigator Professor Department of Psychological Sciences Associate Vice President for Research-Faculty Affairs Office of the Vice President for Research Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: (806) 834-0968 Fax: (806) 742-0818 Office: B8, Lab: B11, B13, B15 Email: pat.delucia@ttu.edu https://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/pdelucia/				Research Interests: · Perceptual issues in driving · Perception of depth and collision with applications to transportation (e.g., driving/aviation), health care (minimally-invasive surgery) and military (e.g., night vision goggles) · Human factors in health care (e.g., patient safety; performance in nursing, tele-mental health)
			Dr. James Yang Co-Principal Investigator Associate Professor Ed and Linda Whitacre Faculty Fellow Associate Chair, Director for Undergraduate Studies Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: (806) 834-6746 Fax: (806) 742-3540 Office: ME109 Email: james.yang@ttu.edu www.myweb.ttu.edu/jiyang				Research Interests: · Biomechanics and bio-inspired systems · Human modeling and simulation in injury prevention · Human locomotion · Slips and falls · Spine biomechanics · Human-centric design · Healthcare engineering
			Dr. Tyler Davis Senior Personnel Assistant Professor Department of Psychological Sciences Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: (806) 834-4854 Fax: (806) 742-0818 Office: 308, Lab: 213 Email: tyler.h.davis@ttu.edu https://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/tdavis/				Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of concept learning and use as it pertains to: · How context and goals interact with environment to shape concepts · Health-related inference and medical decision making · Sequential inference in sustained attention settings · Formal computational models of knowledge representation
			Dr. Zachary Hohman Senior Personnel Assistant Professor Department of Psychological Sciences Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: (806) 834-6772 Fax: (806) 742-0818 Office: 208, Lab: 211 Email: Zachary.hohman@ttu.edu https://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/zhohman/index.php				Research Interests: · Attitudes and social norms in substances use · Group processes and intergroup relations · Risk taking, attitude change, and persuasion. · Health behaviors
			Dr. Keith Jones Senior Personnel Associate Professor Department of Psychological Sciences Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: (806) 834-8745 Fax: (806) 742-0818 Office: 212, Lab: 155 Email: keith.s.jones@ttu.edu https://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/kjones/index.php				Research Interests: · Human-robot collaboration and applications for health care, surveillance, and manufacturing · Human-computer interaction · Teleoperation · Autonomous robots · Ecological approach to perception-action and robotics
			Dr. Martina Klein Senior Personnel Associate Professor Department of Psychological Sciences Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: (806) 834-4745 Fax: (806) 742-0818 Office: 304, Lab: B2 Email: martina.i.klein@ttu.edu https://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/mklein/index.php				Research Interests: · Skill acquisition and patient safety in laparoscopic and robotic surgery · Subjective and physiological measures of stress and workload · Errors in medicine
			Dr. Michael Serra Senior Personnel Associate Professor Director of the Experimental Psychology Graduate Program Department of Psychological Sciences Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: (806) 834-5134 Fax: (806) 742-0818 Office: 319, Lab: 209A-H Email: michael.serra@ttu.edu https://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/mserra/index.php				Research Interests: · Factors that enhance memory · Accuracy and inaccuracy in people’s judgments of memory, learning, and other forms of cognitive performance · Factors that affect learning in academic settings, namely enhancement of student learning · Education-related metacognition and metacognitive judgments · Multimedia learning · Design of instructional learning
			Dr. Amelia Talley Senior Personnel Assistant Professor Department of Psychological Sciences Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: (806) 834-3937 Fax: (806) 742-0818 Office: 217, Lab: B12 Email: Amelia.talley@ttu.edu https://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/atalley/index.php				Research Interests: · Sexual-identity development and implications for health-based disparities · Stigmatization and implications for health · Health psychology · Close relationships