Research Labs

PI: Professor Tuppett Yates.

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

PI: Professor Lawrence Rosenblum.

Speech and auditory perception; ecological psychology.

PI: Professor Chandra A. Reynolds.

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

PI: Professor Aaron Seitz.

Cellular and circuit mechanisms of sensory detection and impulse control.

PI: Professor Rebekah A. Richert.

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

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.

PI: Professor Mary Gauvain.

Developmental psychology; cognitive development; cultural psychology.

PI: Professor Christine Chiarello.

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

PI: Professor Weiwei Zhang.

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

PI: Professor Cecilia Cheung.

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

PI: Professor Misaki Natsuaki.

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

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.

PI: Professor Anubhuti Goel

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

PI: Professor Kalina Michalska.

Brain bases underlying the development of emotion understanding.

PI: Professor Edward Korzus.

How neural circuits hold knowledge and guide behavior.

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.

PI: Professor Ilana Bennett.

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

PI: Professor David Rosenbaum.

Cognition and action.

PI: Professor Kate Sweeny.

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

PI: Professor Megan Robbins.

Social psychology; coping; health & well-being.

PI: Professor Daniel Ozer.

Personality assessment and development; research methods.

PI: Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky

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

PI: Professor Curt Burgess.

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

PI: Professor Khaleel A. Razak.

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

PI: Professor David C. Funder.

Personality and social psychology, social judgment, situational assessment.

PI: Professor Aaron Seitz.

Cellular and circuit mechanisms of sensory detection and impulse control.

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.

PI: Professor Jimmy Calanchini.

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

PI: Professor G. John Andersen.

Cognitive psychology; human factors; perception.

PI: Professor Aerika Loyd.

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

PI: Professor Edward Zagha.

Cellular and circuit mechanisms of sensory detection and impulse control.