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Faculty members in Psychological Sciences lead a wide range of research laboratories.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Children's Speech Processing Lab - Dr. Susan Jerger
A research program that studies children's listening abilities, hearing and vocabulary development.
Culture and Mind Laboratory - Dr. Jinkyung Na
Examines the dynamic interplay between culture and mind (i.e., how individual minds are shaped through participation in socio-cultural practices and, in turn, the socio-cultural practices are sustained/changed by individuals) in various psychological processes such as self and social cognition.
Development of Social Cognition Lab -
Dr. Noah Sasson
Development of Social Cognition Lab - Studies the development of typical and atypical social cognition across a wide range of skills including social attention, emotion recognition, and theory of mind, with a particular focus on neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.
Developmental Neurolinguistics Laboratory -
Dr. Mandy Maguire
Focuses on the neurological correlates of language and cognitive development using electrophysiological responses, such as Event Related Potentials (ERPs).
Early Communication, Language and Social Skills (CLASS) Laboratory -
Dr. Pam Rollins
Focuses on the association among emotional regulation, early social-communication and the development of joint attention and language in typically developing children with autism.
Family Research Lab -
Dr. Jackie Nelson
Research focuses on understanding family relationships and children's well-being. In particular, emotions–emotional expression and regulation, emotion socialization, stress, conflict and closeness.
Healthy Development Project Laboratory -
Dr. Shayla Holub
Studies different aspects of early childhood development to better understand factors that promote healthy social, emotional and physical growth in children and families.
Infant Learning Project Laboratory -
Dr. Melanie Spence
Examines preverbal infants’ perception of social communicative signals and other stimuli relevant for early communicative and language development.
Language and Literacy Laboratory -
Dr. Anne van Kleeck
Focuses primarily on preschool-aged children, with an emphasis on research in preliteracy development, socialization, assessment and intervention.
Owen Laboratory -
Dr. Margaret Owen
Parenting and family processes, early childcare, self regulation and school readiness.
Think Lab -
Dr. Candice Mills
Studies how children and adults think about and learn from the world around them. Ongoing research examines a wide array of issues related to social cognition and critical thinking.
Underwood Laboratory -
Dr. Marion Underwood
Anger, aggression, gender and children’s peer relationships.
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Bartlett Laboratory -
Dr. James Bartlett
Cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology.
De Frias Lab -
Dr. Cindy de Frias
Examines individual differences in healthy and pathological aging, applying advanced multivariate and longitudinal analyses (structural equation modeling, latent growth curve modeling) to understand developmental processes.
Dowling Laboratory -
Dr. Jay Dowling
Memory and cognition, audition, music cognition.
Face Perception Research Laboratory -
Dr. Alice O’Toole
Study of human perception and memory for faces and people, using methods from experimental psychological, cognitive neuroscience and computational vision.
Filbey Laboratory -
Dr. Francesca Filbey
The Filbey lab focuses on combining neuroimaging and genetic techniques to characterize neural mechanisms associated with addictive disorders.
Krawczyk Laboratory -
Dr. Daniel Krawczyk
Cognitive neuroscience lab studying the mental processes involved in reasoning, decision making, working memory, and motivation.
Lifespan Neuroscience and Cognition Laboratory -
Dr. Chandramallika Basak
Examines how and where do we remember information over a short period of time, as well as how attention and memory interact, how they carry on with multiple tasks, and how these cognitive functions change with age and training.
NeuroPsychometric Research (NPR) Laboratory -
Dr. Bart Rypma
A cognitive neuroscience lab studying the mental processes involved in using working memory and how those processes change during aging. Uses functional brain-imaging (fMRI) and neuropsychometric experiments.
Speech Perception Research Laboratory -
Dr. Peter Assmann
Studies how human listeners extract information from speech produced under extreme conditions.
Text Comprehension and Memory Research Laboratory -
Dr. Richard Golden
Learn about the process of text comprehension as a by-product of the interactions of the situation model and other knowledge structures in the reader's mind.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
The Couples' Daily Lives Project -
Dr. Karen Prager
Studies day-to-day experiences of conflict and intimacy in couple relationships, along with the thinking processes and emotions that shape those experiences.
Culture and Mind Laboratory - Dr. Jinkyung Na
Examines the dynamic interplay between culture and mind (i.e., how individual minds are shaped through participation in socio-cultural practices and, in turn, the socio-cultural practices are sustained/changed by individuals) in various psychological processes such as self and social cognition.
The Personality and Interpersonal Relationships (PAIR) Laboratory -
Dr. Robert Ackerman
Investigates how developmental experiences and personality traits help to shape the course and quality of interpersonal relationships.
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