The subject of this tribute is an energetic, enthusiastic and involved woman. For Graham, time obviously flies when you're having fun, and she said she thoroughly enjoys her work. I'm excited about my research. I get a kick out of what I am doing. There aren't many of us involved in psychophysiology, but we are a dedicated group.
Psychophysiology involves the relationship between mental and bodily processes.
Graham's research has taken several turns, but, basically, involves a study of animal and human brains through physical reactions to stimuli, using non-invasive methods. Her early experiments as a Yale graduate student involved rats and how they responded to stimuli in a discriminative learning situation. The rats were placed in alley, and when they heard one tone, by pressing a bar at the far end of the alley, they received a pellet. When they heard another tone, they did not receive a pellet. She also began measuring startle reactions with rats-research that she later continued with human subjects.