William Gehring

William "Bill" Gehring (born December 20, 1962) is a psychologist, and in 2014 is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[1][2] He researches Event Related Potentials and is the discoverer of the Error Related Negativity.[3] He has made contributions to the field of cognitive neuroscience through his studies on the electrophysiological markers of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Education

Bill graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1982 with a Doctoral degree in cognition and cognitive neuroscience. He then completed a post-doctoral training at the University of California, Davis, before accepting a position at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

Career

On February 19, 2004, Bill was named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

Gehring has conducted studies[4] and written a number of papers and articles about the brain and human motivation.[5][6] He has been called upon by the press as a neuroscience expert to comment on controversial research in the field.[7]

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