Assistant Professor
Email: sverney@unm.edu
Office: Logan 164
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 277-0633

Degree Received
Ph.D., San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego, 2000

Research Interests
I believe culture counts. Culture is infused in all of our beings influencing how we think, feel, and behave. My research has evolved into a mental health disparities focus. I am interested in issues of assessment validity, with a focus on cognitive assessment, for different cultural groups. Differences in assessment validity add to the health and mental health disparities seen in the U.S.

My research is centered on information processing efficiency and its application to clinical psychology. I use information processing and psychophysiological methods such as pupillary dilation response and eye-tracking measures to investigate clinical applications including culture-fair cognitive assessment, schizophrenia, alcohol use disorders, FASD, and vascular cognitive impairment.

My longer-term research goals are to continue to research areas of cognitive psychophysiology, to investigate normal and pathological cognitive functioning and cultural issues in mental health disparities.

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