This list includes graduate students currently studying in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. See which of the following students are currently serving on the Graduate Student Council at the link below.
See the Graduate Student Council members
Cognitive Computing Lab
Area: Cognitive Science
Advisors: Michael Jones
Interests: Using computational methods to study cognitive biases and psycholinguistics; using insights from cognitive modeling to address bias in artificial intelligence, especially as it appears in language.
Cognition and Action Neuroimaging Laboratory (CANLab)
Area: Developmental Psychology
Advisor: Karin James
Interests: Cognitive Development, Drawing, Social-Emotional Development, Applied Educational Psychology
The Biobehavioral Alcohol Research Laboratory (BARL)
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Peter Finn
Interests: Self-regulation and decision-making processes in substance use, Risk and protective factors for substance use disorders in racial/ethnic minorities.
Developmental Psychopathology Lab
Area: Clinical Science
Advisors: Brian D’Onofrio
Interests: Etiology, risk, and resilience factors that contribute to anxiety, depression, and suicidal behavior
SADCAT Lab
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces
Interests: I am interested in emotion regulation, internet-based interventions, and factors (e.g. minoritized identity, discrimination) that help explain why some patients respond differently to treatment.
Judgement and Decision Research Lab + Computational Decision Making Lab
Area: Cognitive Psychology
Advisors: Jerome Busemeyer + Jennifer Trueblood
Interests: Quantum models of cognition, topic modeling in natural language processing, dynamic models of decision-making, hybrid cognitive-machine learning models
Neuroscience of Mind and Behavior (NiMBLe) Lab
Area: Computational + Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS)
Advisor: Anne Krendl
Interests: Understanding the trajectory of neural networks in clinical and healthy aging, and the influence of social context on those networks
Social Brain Lab
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Dan Kennedy
Interests: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Social Cognition, Clinical Neuroscience
Computational Decision Making Lab
Area: Psychology + Cognitive Science
Advisor: Jennifer Trueblood
Interests: Modeling decision making about complex-real world objects, how attention can act as an informational processing bottleneck during decision making, the Wisdom of the Crowds
HirtLab · Personal Website
Area: Social Psychology
Advisor: Ed Hirt
Interests: Social Identity, Social Norms, Self and Identity
Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Center
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Krista Wisner
Interests: Computational and neuroimaging methods, Interoception and affective processes
Motoneuron Plasticity, Therapeutics, and Development (Sengelabs)
Area: Mechanisms of Behavior
Advisor: Dale Sengelaub
Interests: Plasticity in spinal circuitry and motoneuron dendritic morphology after peripheral nerve injury or spinal cord injury
Biobehavioral Alcohol Research Lab (BARL)
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Peter Finn
Interests: Alcohol and substance use disorders; co-occurring psychopathology; decision-making; momentary factors contributing to substance use; ecological momentary assessment; analytical approaches of intensive longitudinal data
Family Relationships Lab
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Amy Holtzworth-Munroe
Interests: Family law, implementation science, intimate partner violence
Family Relationships Lab
Area: Clinical Science
Advisors: Amy Holtzworth-Munroe
Interests: Intervention and prevention of lifespan interpersonal violence in individuals, couples, and families and evidence-based therapies for trauma
Brain Networks and Behavior Lab (BNBL)
Area: Network Neuroscience
Advisors: Richard Betzel
Interests: Network Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Neuroimaging
Bradshaw Lab of Lipid Neuroscience
Area: Molecular + Systems Neuroscience
Advisor: Heather Bradshaw
Interests: Cannabinoids, lipidomics
Mind and Identity in Context Lab
Area: Social Psychology
Advisor: Mary Murphy
Interests: I am interested in fixed and growth mindset in organizations, as well as stereotyping and intergroup processes
Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Facial Expression Lab
Area: Social Psychology
Advisor: Kurt Hugenberg
Interests: Face Perception, Racial Prejudice, Emotion Perception, Intersectionality
Cognition and Action Neuroimaging Laboratory
Area: Cognitive Psychology
Advisor: Karin James
Interests: Object Recognition, Active versus Passive Learning, Viewpoint Effects in Object Recognition, Multisensory Learning
Area: Cognitive Psychology + Cognitive Science
Advisor: Mike Jones
Interests: Decision making and evaluating models of human memory
Learning, Education, and Development (LEAD) Lab
Area: Developmental Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Emily Fyfe
Interests: Early STEM learning, Motivation, Educational technologies; I am interested in how social features of a learning environment (e.g. feedback; interaction with teachers, parents, and peers) affect educational outcomes (e.g. performance, motivation, emotional states) during early STEM learning.
Area: Cognitive
Advisor: Richard Shiffrin
Interests: computational modeling - memory - visual search - learning - cognition
Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Center
Area: Clinical Science + Neuroscience
Advisor: William P. Hetrick
Interests: Psychosis Spectrum Disorders, Social Cognition, Cerebellum, EEG, fMRI, Schizotypy
Newman Memory Lab
Area: Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience
Interests: Computational neuroscience, network analysis, psychiatric diagnostics, precision medicine, neuro-informatics
Lu Lab + Kim Lab
Area: Molecular + Systems Neuroscience
Advisor: Hui-Chen Lu + Jungsu Kim
Interests: Alzheimer's disease and aging brain; lipid metabolism; bioinformatics
SADCAT Lab
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces
Interests: Common mental disorders; psychotherapy accessibility and outcomes; implementation and dissemination of evidence-based practices
HirtLab
Area: Social Psychology
Advisors: Ed Hirt
Interests: Ideologies, belief systems, and mindsets
Bradshaw Lab + Straiker Lab
Area: Program in Neuroscience + PBS
Advisors: Heather Bradshaw + Alex Straiker
Interests: Cannabinoid lipidomics, Cannabinoid psychopharmacology
Personal Website
Area: Cognitive (double major in Cognitive Science)
Advisors: Rob Goldstone and David Landy (now at Netflix)
Interests: perception, attention, belief formation, cog sci of religion
Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Facial Expression Lab
Area: Social Psychology
Advisor: Kurt Hugenberg
Interests: Race and gender bias, face and body perception, intersectional biases, criminal justice contexts
Cognition and Action Neuroimaging Lab (CANLab)
Area: Clinical Science + Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Advisor: Karin H. James
Interests: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), fine motor skills, attentional mechanisms, handwriting acquisition and fluency, learning, educational psychology
Advisors: Richard Shiffrin + Fritz Breithaupt
Interests: Memory, narrative, cognition, computational modeling
Social Roles Lab
Area: Social Psychology
Advisors: Amanda Diekman
Interests: Bias, prejudice, stereotypes, intersectionality, Asian identity, social roles, and coalitions
Area: Social Psychology
Advisor: BJ Rydell
Interests: Emotion, persuasion, social categorization
Social Roles Lab
Area: Social Psychology
Advisor: Amanda Diekman
Interests: Goals and motivation, stereotyping and prejudice, diversity science, gender, intersectionality
Area: Program in Neuroscience + PBS
Advisor: Andrea Hohmann
Interests: Pain, Addiction, Negative Affective States (Anxiety & Depression), Endogenous Cannabinoid System
Pain and Addiction Lab
Area: Neuroscience + Psychology
Advisors: Andrea Hohmann
Interests: the endocannabinoid system and opioid addiction
Perception and Action Lab
Area: Vision Perception
Advisors: Geoffrey Bingham
Interests: Vision perception and how it guides humans’ action, especially in distance/depth perception and haptic perception (perception side) and visually guided reaches-to-grasp & locomotion (action side)
Learning, Education, and Development Lab
Area: Development Psychology
Advisor: Emily R. Fyfe
Interests: Broadly, how people, especially children, learn math and science; Specifically, the role of pattern practice in numeracy or other broader contexts; Structure knowledge learning across domains/modalities
Judgment and Decision Research Lab
Advisor: Jerome Busemeyer
Interests: Dynamical modelings of decision-making process (dynamical systems/sequential sampling models); quantum cognition and quantum modeling; confidence, complex decision-making and metacognition
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