Chéla Willey

Chéla Willey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at Loyola Marymount University. She received her B.A. in Psychology, and Criminology & Justice Studies in 2006 and her M.A. in Experimental Psychology from California State University San Marcos in 2010. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from UCLA in 2018. Her main line of research focuses on perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that underlie bodily awareness, self-motion, and self-orientation with regards to physical and gravitational space. Her research utilizes a variety of methods to study these phenomena including psychophysics, perceptual learning paradigms, virtual reality, eye-tracking, and neuromodulation. She teaches a variety of courses at LMU including Brain and Behavior, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Psychology, and Research Methods.