Research Labs
| Lab | Director | Location |
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| Adolescent & Young Adult Health Risk Study | Lynne Cooper | 124 Psychology Building |
| Alcohol Cognitions Lab | Denis M. McCarthy | 201 Noyes Hall |
| Alcohol, Health, and Behavior Laboratory | Kenneth J. Sher | |
| Attitude and Decision Making Lab | Laura Scherer | Psychology Building 202/204 |
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Behavioral Neuroscience We investigate brain circuits that regulate reward and motivation related to both drugs of abuse and food. |
Matthew J. Will | 347 Bond Life Sciences Center |
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Center for Translational Neuroscience Our laboratory studies Neuropsychopharmacology using an animal model. |
Dennis K. Miller | Center for Translational Neuroscience, 7th Floor, Medical Sciences Building |
| Child & Adolescent Therapy Research Group | Kristin M. Hawley | 125 Psychology Building |
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Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Research at my lab deals with the neural basis of attention, awareness, and action. Event-related potentials (ERPs), startle-blink, and neuroimaging techniques are used to identify the locus and time course of relevant brain processes in normal and neurologically impaired adults. |
Steven A. Hackley | 108 Psychology Building |
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Clinical Neuropsychology Lab Research in the CNL lab focuses on neurocognitive development in children with and without neurodevelopmental disorders(e.g, autism, phenylketonuria). Methods utilized include behavioral measures and neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, sMRI, DTI). |
Shawn E. Christ | 329 Noyes Hall |
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Cognitive and Emotional Control Lab Research on the nature of cognitive and emotional control and their role in schizophrenia |
John G. Kerns | 208 Psychology Building |
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Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Our lab is currently involved in research on autism, drug abuse, dementia, cognitive effects of stress, the cognitive neuroscience of problem solving ability, functional neuroimaging, and pharmacological modulation of cognition. |
David Beversdorf | Thompson Center, Suite 110 |
| Conditioning and Neuroscience | Todd R. Schachtman | |
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Developmental Cognition Lab Our lab investigates infants' and young children's early understanding of number, time, and space. We are interested in learning what infants know about the world around them and how their knowledge changes over time. |
Kristy vanMarle | 324 Noyes Hall |
| Drug Motivation Laboratory | Thomas M. Piasecki | |
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Evolution and Cognitive Development We are conducting a longitudinal study of children's mathematical learning and learning disability. The children began the study in kindergarten and are now in high school. Our studies in evolution include mate choices and men's hormonal responses to competition. |
David C. Geary | 132 Psychology |
| Existential Motivation Lab | Jamie Arndt | |
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Family Assessment Lab Our lab has several lines of research focusing on youths and their social systems: development & dissemination of family-based treatments for serious juvenile offenders; identification of risk factors for youth criminality; & sequelae of different forms of maltreatment in children and adolescents. |
Charles M. Borduin | 222 Psychology Building |
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Family Relationships & Adolescent Development Lab We conduct research on parent-adolescent and adolescent sibling relationships and their interplay within the broader family system as well as their impacts on adolescent adjustment. |
Nicole Campione-Barr | 209 Noyes Hall |
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Gene-Brain-Behavior Relations Lab Research in the lab focuses on genetic contributions to the development of externalizing spectrum disorders such as substance dependence, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and antisocial behavior. |
Ian Gizer | |
| Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory | Wendy Slutske | |
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Infant Cognition Lab Infants’ understanding about self-propelled objects and agents; infants’ knowledge of physical objects and substances |
Yuyan Luo | 14 McAlester Hall |
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Medical Decision Research Lab (MDRL) We broadly seek to apply decision psychology and behavioral economics to inform practical problems in medical decision making. Recent work has focused on applications to Clinical Decision Support Systems and Patient Decision Aids. |
Victoria Shaffer | 220 Noyes |
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Memory and Cognitive Aging Laboratory Research at our laboratory concerns fundamental issues regarding human memory processes and structures. One line of this research explores the interplay between attention and memory, and another line of research investigates the mechanisms responsible for the adult-age changes in episodic memory. |
Moshe Naveh-Benjamin | 9B McAlester |
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Memory and Neuroimaging Lab Research in the lab focuses on episodic memory and uses two non-invasive brain imaging techniques: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG). |
Jeffrey Johnson | 113C Noyes Hall |
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Peer Relations Lab The research conducted by the peer relations lab is aimed at learning about the friendships and other peer relationships of children and adolescence. There is a particular focus on gender differences in these relationships and on how these relationships impact psychological adjustment. |
Amanda Rose | 403 Noyes Hall |
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Perception and Cognition Lab We study human memory and information processing using statistical and mathematical modeling approaches (undergradeate research opportunities available). |
Jeff Rouder | 203 Psychology Building |
| Personality and Emotion Laboratory | Timothy Trull | 219 Psychology Building |
| Personality Dynamics Lab | Laura A. King | 319 Noyes Hall |
| Rehabilitation Neuroscience Laboratory | Scott Frey | |
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Sheldon Motivation lab We study goals, motivation, well-being, priming, personality, materialism, and values (and that's just the short list!) |
Ken Sheldon | 102 Noyes |
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Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Research in the MU Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is focused generally on understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms that underlie important social behaviors like racial bias and aggression, and on how these behaviors are influenced by alcohol consumption. |
Bruce D. Bartholow | 121 Psychology Building |
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Working Memory Laboratory We conduct research on auditory and visual working memory and attention, in children and adults. |
Nelson Cowan | McAlester Hall Annex |
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Youth Anxiety and Depression Lab Our lab examines cognitive, behavioral and interpersonal experiences that may serve as risk or protective factors anxiety and/or depression in youth. |
Debora Bell |