For empirical studies marked by uncompromising standards of scientific rigor, a style that produced the rigid data blocks that support her towering theoretical insights. The subject of this tribute is an energetic, enthusiastic and involved woman. 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 an 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.