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Research Labs

  • Psychology Building
  • Adversity and Adaptation Lab

    PI: Professor Tuppett Yates.

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

    RA Application
  • Audiovisual Speech and Audition Lab

    PI: Professor Lawrence Rosenblum.

    Speech and auditory perception; ecological psychology.

  • Biobehavioral Research Lab

    PI: Professor Chandra A. Reynolds.

    Life-span psychology, cognitive aging, developmental psychopathology, behavioral genetics.

    RA Application
  • Brain Game Center

    PI: Professor Aaron Seitz.

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

    RA Application
  • Childhood Cognition Lab

    PI: Professor Rebekah A. Richert.

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

    RA Application
  • 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.

    RA Application
  • Cognitive Development Lab

    PI: Professor Mary Gauvain.

    Developmental psychology; cognitive development; cultural psychology.

    RA Application
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

    PI: Professor Christine Chiarello.

    Neural and cognitive bases of language comprehension; semantic memory; interhemispheric interaction.

    RA Application
  • 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.

    RA Application
  • Culture and Child Development Lab

    PI: Professor Cecilia Cheung.

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

    RA Application
  • Developmental Transitions Lab

    PI: Professor Misaki Natsuaki.

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

  • 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.

    RA Application
  • 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.

    RA Application
  • 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).

    RA Application
  • Laboratory for Cognition and Action

    PI: Professor David Rosenbaum.

    Cognition and action.

    RA Application
  • Life Events Lab

    PI: Professor Kate Sweeny.

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

    RA Application
  • OBSERVE Lab

    PI: Professor Megan Robbins.

    Social psychology; coping; health & well-being.

    RA Application
  • 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.

    RA Application
  • Perception and Learning Lab

    PI: Professor Aaron Seitz.

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

    RA Application
  • Personality Assesment Lab

    PI: Professor Daniel Ozer.

    Personality assessment and development; research methods.

    RA Application
  • 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.

    RA Application
  • Psycholinguistics & Computational Cognition Lab

    PI: Professor Curt Burgess.

    Psycholinguistics; parsing, sentence comprehension; lexical ambiguity; computational models of language and memory; neurolinguistics.

    RA Application
  • 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.

  • Riverside Accuracy Project

    PI: Professor David C. Funder.

    Personality and social psychology, social judgment, situational assessment.

    RA Application
  • Sensory Learning Lab

    PI: Professor Aaron Seitz.

    Cellular and circuit mechanisms of sensory detection and impulse control.

    RA Application
  • 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.

    RA Application
  • Social & Spatial Cognition Lab

    PI: Professor Jimmy Calanchini.

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

    RA Application
  • Visual Cognition Lab

    PI: Professor G. John Andersen.

    Cognitive psychology; human factors; perception.

  • Youth Health and Development Lab

    PI: Professor Aerika Loyd.

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

    RA Application
  • Zagha Lab

    PI: Professor Edward Zagha.

    Cellular and circuit mechanisms of sensory detection and impulse control.

    RA Application
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