DeLong's research interests are in human and animal cognition and sensory perception. Past research has focused on cognitive representation, learning, and memory in two animal groups: cetaceans (dolphins and whales) and bats. Bats are active at night, where vision is only marginally useful, and cetaceans spend time underwater at depths where light does not penetrate. Instead of relying on vision, these animals use an active mode of sound perception called echolocation (biological sonar), during which they emit high-frequency sounds which bounce off objects and produce echoes. They use these echoes to navigate, find prey, and avoid obstacles. Her research involves investigating the content of the echo images and she has conducted research with dolphins, whales, bats and human subjects. Current and ongoing research program will encompass perception research with different animal species as well as human cognitive research. DeLong teaches Introduction to Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Perception, Learning and Memory, Language and Problem Solving and Advanced Cognition.

Nicholas DiFonzo is an expert on rumor, social psychology and positive psychology.

DiFonzo has published numerous books, articles and technical reports pertaining to the topic of rumor. His textbook, Rumor Psychology, won the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the psychology category and his mass market book, The Watercooler Effect, was published by Penguin Press in 2008.

DiFonzo is currently conducting a National Science Foundation project to investigate how rumors propagate through social networks over time. He has also received funding from the Institute for Public Relations to study corporate rumors, their effects, and how top corporate public relations officers handle them.

Andrew Herbert is an expert in visual and object perception, visual attention and how illusions work. His varied research interests including eyetracking and pattern perception, emotional expression recognition and symmetry perception.

He has examined different visual illusions with the aim of understanding the perception of structure in the world and is currently researching the perception of faces and facial expressions. Herbert also has a longstanding interest in how we perceive color and objects, and plans to pursue research in these areas at some point.

Herbert graduated with a B.Sc. in Biology from McGill University in Montreal and completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario. Before joining RIT’s faculty in 2002, he spent three years at the University of North Texas, as director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab in the Department of Psychology.

Jennifer Lukomski serves as an associate professor and internship coordinator for the Department of School Psychology.

An expert on the needs of deaf children, Lukomski's research focuses on the socialization of deaf kids in main stream settings and the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing psychotherapy techniques in school settings. She has also studied socialization issues among deaf college students.

On top of her work at RIT, Lukomski is also a licensed child psychologist and through her private practice consults with schools and works with both children and adolescents. She holds a Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of Arizona.

Rantanen hails from Finland, where he started his aviation career by training as a commercial pilot with Finnair, the national carrier of Finland. He also worked for seven years (1984-1991) as an air traffic controller and was active in a number of technical and operational task forces with the Finnish Civil Aviation Administration and the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Associations. His research interests lie in the areas of human factors in complex and dynamic systems, human performance measurement and modeling, mental workload, decision making, and human error and reliability. His primary research focus is on the role of time and temporal mental models in human performance. He primarily teaches courses in the MS program in Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology and supervises graduate students’ thesis research. He earned his Bachelor of Science (1992) and Master of Aeronautical Science (1993) degrees from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida.I also have a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering degree from the Pennsylvania State University (1996), with specialization in human factors/ergonomics engineering. His Ph.D degree is from Penn State in Engineering Psychology (2000). At Penn State, I did research on human visual performance and workload measurement and temporal characteristics of human motor control.