Research

Research Labs

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Students who are working in research labs can earn up to 4 units per quarter. Registering for unit credit means that the lab work will appear on your transcript and thus gives you a better way of tracking and reporting this volunteer effort (e.g., on applications to graduate or other professional programs). Three hours of lab time per week are required per unit. Freshmen and sophomores will be enrolled in PSYC 096 and juniors and seniors in PSYC 197. Please work with the lab manager/faculty member for enrollment in a lab each quarter. Please note that exceptions to the quarter (and total) unit caps are possible and should be discussed with your academic advisor.

ADVERSITY AND ADAPTATION LAB

PI: Professor Tuppett Yates

Developmental processes underlying positive developmental pathways among at-risk youth.

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BRAIN GAME CENTER

PI: Professor Aaron Seitz

Specializing in human-based research in perception, cognition, learning, brain training, and more!

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CHILDHOOD COGNITION LAB

PI: Professor Rebekah A. Richert

Cognitive development, social cognition, transfer of learning from fantasy and media, and religious concept development.

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COGNITIVE AGILITY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN LAB

PI: Professor Rachel Wu

Developmental cognitive neuroscience research studies of how attention and learning interact from infancy to aging when finding and learning relevant information.

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COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF PERCEPTION, ATTENTION, & MEMORY LAB

PI: Professor Weiwei Zhang

Capacity and precision of visual perception, attention, and memory; Hierarchical Representations in visual memory; Feature-based attention; Cognitive modeling; ERPs.

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COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SCIENCES LAB

PI: Professor Ian Ballard

We study the mechanisms that enable people to make adaptive decisions and pursue their goals using fMRI, behavior, computational modeling, and causal brain manipulations.

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CULTURE AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT LAB

PI: Professor Cecilia Cheung

How children’s environment shapes their motivation and achievement in school.

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DEVELOPMENTAL TRANSITIONS LAB

PI: Professor Misaki Natsuaki

Emotional and behavioral development in adolescence, developmental psychopathology, and biological and contextual interaction, puberty.

DIMSDALE-ZUCKER MEMORY AND CONTEXT LAB

PI: Professor Halle Dimsdale-Zucker

Studying human memory and the ways in which context influences what we remember and how our memories are represented by the brain.

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EMOTIONAL LIVES LAB

PI: Professor Tabea Springstein

We study individual differences in how people experience and manage their emotions in everyday life.

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EMOTIONAL REGULATION LAB

PI: Professor Elizabeth Davis

Physiological and social correlates of emotion development and emotion regulation in childhood, how emotion regulation relates to positive (e.g., learning) and negative (e.g., psychopathology) outcomes.

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GOEL LAB

PI: Professor Anubhuti Goel

Circuit mechanisms of cross-modal sensory perception and temporal interval learning.

KIDS INTERACTION AND NEURODEVELOPMENT LAB

PI: Professor Kalina Michalska

Brain bases underlying the development of emotion understanding.

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KORZUS LAB

PI: Professor Edward Korzus

How neural circuits hold knowledge and guide behavior.

LABORATORY OF AGING AND NEUROCOGNITIVE IMAGING

PI: Professor Ilana Bennett

Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory; neurocognitive aging; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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LIFE EVENTS LAB

PI: Professor Kate Sweeny

How people give news of, prepare for, and respond to negative life events.

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LIFESPAN PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE LABORATORY

P.I.: Professor Stephen Antonopolis

How personality and social structure constitute each other across people’s lives, with focuses on racism and socioeconomic conditions; studies theoretical and applied measurement, too.

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OBSERVE LAB

PI: Professor Megan Robbins

Social psychology; coping; health & well-being.

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PERCEPTION, ACTION, AND DEVELOPMENT LAB

PI: Professor John Franchak

Perception and development; how children use perceptual information to guide actions and social interactions; head-mounted eye-tracking methods to study visual constraints and learning, across development.

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PERCEPTION AND LEARNING LAB

PI: Professor Aaron Seitz

Specializing in human-based research in perception, cognition, learning, brain training, and more!

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POSITIVE ACTIVITIES AND WELL-BEING LAB (PAWLAB)

PI: Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky

Happiness and well-being. Positive interventions. Boosting gratitude, kindness, awe, and connection. Digital media use and well-being.

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RAZAK LAB

PI: Professor Khaleel A. Razak

The development of sensory processing. The development of both sound localization and echolocation behaviors in the pallid bat.

SELF-REGULATION, CONTEXTS, and HEALTH LAB

PI: Professor Olivia Atherton

How self-regulation develops across the lifespan, the sociocultural factors that predict self-regulation development, and how sociocultural factors and self-regulation impact health behaviors and outcomes.

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SENSORY LEARNING LAB

PI: Professor Aaron Seitz

Cellular and circuit mechanisms of sensory detection and impulse control.

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SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE LAB

PI: Professor Brent Hughes

Neural and cognitive bases of social behavior, in particular how people see themselves and others, and how they are influenced by motivations and expectations.

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SOCIAL & SPATIAL COGNITION LAB

PI: Professor Jimmy Calanchini

Social Cognition; attitude formation & change; stereotyping & prejudice; process modeling.

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YOUTH HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT LAB

PI: Professor Aerika Loyd

Identity, positive youth development, and prevention research in minority adolescents and young adults.

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ZAGHA LAB

PI: Professor Edward Zagha

Cellular and circuit mechanisms of sensory detection and impulse control.

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