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. He researches Event Related Potentials and is one of the discoverers of the Error Related Negativity. 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 1992 with a Doctoral degree in cognitive/experimental psychology. 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 and written a number of papers and articles about the brain and human motivation. He has been called upon by the press as a neuroscience expert to comment on controversial research in the field.