Rebecca J. Compton is Professor of Psychology and director of the Neuroscience program at Haverford College, a selective liberal arts college where she has taught since 1999. Her research uses EEG and eye-tracking methods to explore the neural basis of self-regulation, including executive functions, attention, mind-wandering, and emotion regulation. Professor Compton has received grants from the NSF and NIH for mentored research with undergraduates and is the recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is a participating member in the PURSUE group, a collaborative group of faculty developing open-source teaching and lab materials for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychophysiology.
