Paraskevi Massara
Shuchang Zhao
Elsie Moore
Eve De Rosa
My work can be best described as comparative cognitive neuroscience, which is characterized by two related approaches. One is a cross-species approach, comparing rat models of the neurochemistry of attention and learning to humans, focusing on the neurochemical acetylcholine. The other is an across the lifespan approach, examining the cholinergic hypothesis of age-related changes in cognition.
We use activity mapping from fMRI data to provide theoretical models that can then be more fully tested
- Aug 10, 2026
- by Emily Groff
Alex Ophir named chair of the Department of Psychology
Alex Ophir, a behavioral neuroscientist and professor in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), has been named chair of the Department of Psychology.
Psychology is a cross-college department, formed in 2021 when the university brought together faculty from the existing A&S department and human development faculty from the College of Human Ecology.
Ophir joined Cornell in 2013. He studies behavioral neuroendocrinology — the relationships among hormones, the nervous system and behavior —