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WELCOME
Dr. Dragana (Ivkovich) Claflin came to Wright State University
in fall of 2000 and is now an Associate Professor in the
Department of Psychology and an Associate Graduate Faculty
member in the Biomedical Sciences PhD program. Dr. Claflin
is one of the core faculty for the undergraduate concentration
in Behavioral Neuroscience within the Department of Psychology.
She also serves as faculty advisor to the Psychology Club
and WSU chapter of Psi Chi. Dr. Claflin is an Adjunct Associate
Professor in the Department of Psychology at Miami University
in Oxford, OH.
RESEARCH/ TRAINING BACKGROUND
Dragana (Ivkovich) Claflin received her undergraduate degree
in Biopsychology from Vassar College in 1988. After graduating,
she worked as a research assistant at the Laboratory of
Neuropsychology of the National Institutes of Health (with
Dr. Elizabeth Murray) for one year before pursuing graduate
studies. Dr. Claflin earned her Ph.D. in Psychology, with
an emphasis in Behavioral Neuroscience, from the University
of Southern California 1994. Her dissertation research,
under the guidance of Dr. Richard F. Thompson, focused on
the role of motor cortex in rabbit eyeblink conditioning
and the learning /performance distinction in assessing conditioning
following brain injury. Postdoctoral training in human development
at Duke University (with Dr. Carol Eckerman) and developmental
psychobiology at the U.S. Environmental Protection agency
in Research Triangle Park, NC (with Dr. Mark Stanton), resulted
in research that re-introduced eyeblink conditioning with
human infants as a valuable tool for today’s researchers
interested in neuropsychological development and learning
disorders. At the same time, parallel developmental studies
in infant rats yielded a research paradigm that dissociates
learning dependent on cerebellar-brainstem structures (delay
conditioning) from that which is dependent on hippocampus
and prefrontal cortex (trace conditioning). Dr. Claflin
continues to use this research paradigm in her work at WSU
(see Research
tab for more details).
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