FAU Science Eminent Scholar Elected as a 2012 Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists

Scott Kelso, Ph.D., Glenwood and Martha Creech Eminent Scholar Chair in Science and founder of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science’s Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University, has been elected as a 2012 Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP).

 

Dr. Kelso holds professorships in complex systems and brain sciences, psychology and biological sciences in FAU’s College of Science and is also a professor of biomedical sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. His research focuses on neural choreography, which aims to understand how the various areas of the brain are coordinated in space and time to produce cognitive and behavioral function.

 

Dr. Kelso is considered one of the world’s experts on how the brain controls and coordinates movements and learns new skills. His work connects neural circuitry to behavioral function using a combination of brain imaging and real-time behavioral measures within the theoretical/computational framework of coordination dynamics. He is the team leader of FAU’s Human Brain and Behavior Laboratory, which currently focuses on research that identifies neuromarkers of social interaction within and between human brains, a topic of great relevance for various diseases such as autism and schizophrenia.