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Nicholas Van Horn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Capital University, specializing in computational cognitive neuroscience and cyberpsychology. His interdisciplinary work bridges psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and data science to explore human cognition and online behavior.
His educational background includes:
- Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, The Ohio State University
- M.A. in Cognitive Psychology, The Ohio State University
- B.A. in Japanese Language, The Ohio State University
Dr. Van Horn's research spans decision making, memory and learning, time perception, vision, and cyberpsychology—with a focus on how networked environments shape social behaviors. He actively develops open source software for social media analysis, statistics, and text processing, contributing practical data science tools to academia.
His publication trajectory reveals an evolution from cognitive neuroscience foundations (2011-2012 work on perceptual learning and visual processing) toward digital humanities applications (2016-2025 studies on social media virality, Raspberry Pi data tools, and Obama hope trends), demonstrating increasing integration of computational methods with psychological inquiry.
No scientific awards were documented in the source materials.
He teaches core psychology courses including Biological Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Computational Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, Social Science Research Methods, and Social Sciences Statistics. While his advising activities and grant funding are implied through research output, specific details were not provided in the source text.
Dr. Van Horn maintains active open source software projects for data analysis and productivity, though no formal laboratory structure or named research teams were specified in the available documentation.
