Steven L. Schandler, Ph.D Professor of Psychology E-mail: schandle@chapman.edu Phone: (714)997-6698 Office: Smith Hall 210 Lab: Smith Hall 214

Education

Department Faculty Activities:

Teaching Emphases:

Research and Professional Emphases:

Current Grants:

"Age-Dependent Changes in Motor Learning Capabilities", National Institute on Aging.  Four years.

"Alcohol Normlization of Stimulus Augmentation in Adult Children of Alcoholics, Alcool Beverage Medical Researdh Foundation.  Two years.

Awards:

Faculty of the Year, Gamma Beta Phi National Honors Society.

Faculty Scholar Award, Delta Gamma National Sorority.

Hua-Cheng Wang Distinguished Fellow, Chapman University.  Endowed award for exceptional contribution to the University and to the professional discipline.

Valerie Scudder Distinguished Faculty Awared, 1999, 2005, Chapman University.  Awarded by the Provost and President on recommendation of the Faculty for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service to the students and the University.

Faculty Excellence Award - Research and Scholarly Achievement.  Chapman University. Awarded by the Provost and the President on recommendation of the Faculty.

Certificate of Appreciation, Department of Veterans Affairs.  In recognition of outstanding service and contribution to creating a positive and compassionate environment for patients and staff.

Special Contribution Awards, Veterans Affairs Long Beach Healthcare System  Commendation for successfully chairing a task force for improving the delivery of alcohol and substance abuse treatment to spinal cord injured patients.

Representative Recent Publications with *Student Authors:

Haier, R.J., Schandler, S.L., *MacLachlan, A., *Soderling, E., Buchsbaum, M.S., & Cohen,
          M.J.  (1999).  Alcohol induced changes in regional cerebral glucose metabolic rate
          During divided attention.  Personality and Individual Differences,26, 425-439.

*Romero, D.H., Lacourse, M.G., *Lawrence, K.E., Schandler, S.L., & Cohen, M.J.  (2000).
          Event-related potentials as a function of movement parameter variability during
          motor imagery.  Experimental Brain Research.

Turner, J.A., *Lee, J.S., *Martinez, O., *Medlin, A., Schandler, S.L., & Cohen, M.J.
          (2001).  Somatotopy of the motor cortex after long-term spinal cord injury or
          amputation.  IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering,
          9, 154-160

*Reeve, W.L., & Schandler, S.L. (2002).  Attention deficit disorders and frontal lobe 
          dysfunction.  Adolescence, 51, 301-312.

Schandler, S.L., Cohen, M.J., *Velez, L., & Turnbaugh, K.  (2002).  Increased
          response time enhances orienting and information processing in adult children of
          alcoholics.  Psychophysiology, Suppl.

Schandler, S.L., *Feres, N., *Wells, N.M., & *Nichola-Menke, G.  (2002). Attention
          hypoarousal in nonsmokers with a family smoking history.  Psychophysiology,
          Suppl.

Schandler, S.L., *Smith, A.L., *Nicola-Menke, G., & *Griffiths, A.  (October, 2003). 
          Stimulus augmentation and resistance to startle habituation in adult children of
          alcoholics. Psychophysiology, Suppl.

Yetzer, E., Schandler, S.L., *Root, T., & *Velez, L. (2003).  Self-concept and body image
          in spinal cord injured patients with and without a lower limb amputation. 
          SCI Nursing, 20, 18-23.

Turner, J.A., *Lee, J.S., Schandler, S.L., & Cohen, M.J.  (2003). An fMRI investigation 
           of hand representation in primary motor and sensory cortex of paraplegic
           humans. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 17, 37-47.

Lacourse, M.G., Turner, J.A., *Randolph-Orr, E., Schandler, S.L., & Cohen, M.J. (2004)
          Cerebral and cerebellar sensorimotor plasticity following motor imagery-based
          mental Practice of a sequential movement.  Journal of Rehabilitation Research and
          Development, 41, 505-524.

Schandler, S.L., *Ritchey, K.M., *Griffiths, A., *Perez, K.A., *Laubacher, J., & *McManus,
          M. (2005).  Increased response feedback time enhances information processing in
          adult children of alcoholics.  Proceedings of the American Psychological Society.

Schandler, S.L., *Ritchey, K.M., *Griffiths, A., *Perez, K.A., *McManus, M.,
          & *Laubacher, J.  (2005).  Increased response time enhances information 
          storage in  Adult children of  alcoholics.  Proceedings of the American Psychological
          Society.

Schandler, S.L., *Smith, A.L., & Cohen, M.J. (In press).  Spatial processing of semantic
          information by adult children of alcoholics.  Alcoholism:  Clinical and Experimental  
          Research, 71. 

Professional Memberships:

American Psychological Association:

Division 1; General
Division 3; Experimental (invited)
Division 26; History of Psychology
Division 28; Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse

Courses Regularly Offered:

• Introduction to Psychology
• Critical Thinking
• History and Systems of Psychology
• Statistics and Research Methods
• Learning; Perception; Cognition
• Physiological Psychology
• Psychopharmacology
• Psychological Measurement and Testing
• Senior Thesis

Philosophy: