Professor, Psychology, University of South Florida 2018-present
Chair, Psychology, The University of Kansas 2009-2016
Professor, Psychology, The University of Kansas 2013-2018
From Dr. Atchley's LinkedIn Profile:
My training and research expertise are in the areas of cognitive and clinical psychology and neuroscience. My research uniquely combines event-related potential electrophysiological data with a range of cognitive psychology tools to examine individual differences in linguistic and emotional processes. With funding from the National Science Foundation grant, I have investigated whether the left and right cerebral hemispheres contribute to the problems of language comprehension observed in readers with a history of developmental and acquired language disorders. Related projects seek to develop new measures of the perceptual and neurological processing abilities of older adults and adults with early Alzheimer’s by assessing language abilities in tasks that require perceptual processing, neurological processing, and off-line grammatical knowledge (funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada). I have also spent the last 20 years investigating how neurolinguistic processes contribute to the negative cognitive bias seen in depressed individuals and those with chronic pain disorders. This work, funded by the NIMH, examines behavioral and electrophysiological markers that might help to predict depression vulnerability and relapse. Most recently, I have extended this investigation of emotion and language to study more pro-social behaviors such work on generosity that is funded by the Templeton Foundation and looking at how creativity and empathy can be enhanced by spending time in natural environments (funded by the National Academies of Science).