Research Labs
Lab | Director | Lab Location |
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Alcohol Cognitions Lab | Denis M. McCarthy | 124F Psychology |
Behavioral Neuroscience Lab Investigating motivational circuits mediating drug and natural rewards, including feeding and exercise |
Matthew J. Will | Animal Sciences Research Center |
Brainstorm | Jason Craggs | |
Child & Adolescent Therapy Research Group![]() |
Kristin M. Hawley | 125 Psychology Building |
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 |
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 |
Cognition, Aging, Sleep, and Health Lab | Ashley Curtis | |
Cognitive and Emotional Control Lab Research on the nature of cognitive and emotional control and their role in schizophrenia and emotion dysregulation ![]() |
John G. Kerns | 208 Psychology Building |
Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Our lab is currently involved in research on autism, 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 |
Davis-Stober Lab | Clintin P. Davis-Stober | |
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 | 100 McAlester Hall |
Dr. Helle's Research Team Current research projects are focused on prevention and treatment for substance use from multiple perspectives, including dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments for substance use prevention on college campuses, students perceptions of substance use treatments, and barriers to substance use treatment. ![]() |
Ashley Helle | 105 Psychology |
Evolution and Cognitive Development Primarily, our lab does longitudinal research on development of mathematical cognition in children, and associated learning disabilities. Our studies in evolution currently focus on sex differences in vulnerability to stressors. ![]() |
David C. Geary | 132 Psychology |
Existential Motivation Lab![]() |
Jamie Arndt | |
Family and Child Development Lab Research conducted in our lab focuses on the legacy of children's early experiences with parents for social and emotional development across the life course. |
Ashley Groh | 408 Noyes Hall |
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 |
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 | |
Health Intervention and Treatment (HIT) Research Lab Our lab aims to enhance understanding of how and why people change their health behaviors (e.g., addiction, sleep, nutrition). |
Mary Beth Miller | Missouri Psychiatric Center in the University Hospital |
Health Neuroscience Center Welcome! The Health Neuroscience Center (HNC) is organized around using cognitive and affective neuroscience methods to investigate the pathophysiology of drug addiction and neuropsychiatric disorders. Our goal is to provide a bridge between preclinical and clinical trials research in order to better understand the etiology of dyregulated behavior and the effectiveness of new treatment that may ultimately be used in the clinic. We are currently conducting research in nicotine addiction and opioid use disorder; and examining the effects of novel pharmacological, non-invasive neural stimulation and behavioral-based treatments for substance use disorders. Each research project is conducted using human subjects and leverages a broad array of techniques including fMRI brain imaging, lab-based behavioral measures and remote behavioral monitoring and assessments. The HNC invites students, fellows and faculty to discuss ways to collaborate on mind-blowing research that may hold potential to reduce human suffering and improve well-being. |
Brett Froeliger | 15 Melvin H. Marx Building, 1416 Carrie Francke Dr, |
Infant Cognition Lab Our research examines what infants and young children know about the world around them. For example, what do they know about agents' intentions and perceptions? What do infants and young children know about social interactions? What do infants know about physical objects and substances? By finding out answers to questions like these, We hope to better understand how infants and preschoolers acquire knowledge and how this development influences cognition more generally. ![]() |
Yuyan Luo | 14 McAlester Hall |
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 |
Memory and Cognitive Aging Laboratory ***NOTE - I will be considering doctoral applicants for the Fall 2023 academic year*** 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 |
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 | 126 Psychology Building |
Mindfulness of Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations | Ann Bettencourt | |
Neuroscience and Learning Laboratory The lab studies Alzheimer's disease and diet, spatial learning and conditioning, and competition between predictors during human judgments ![]() |
Todd R. Schachtman | |
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 |
Personality and Emotion Laboratory | Timothy Trull | 219 Psychology Building |
Personality Dynamics Lab![]() |
Laura A. King | 319 Noyes Hall |
Positive Youth Development Lab The Positive Youth Development Lab focuses on the contributors to resilience and flourishing from late childhood to emerging adulthood. The lab's current research addresses parent-adolescent interactions and outcomes, as well as aspects of college adult reasoning and adjustment. ![]() |
Jordan Booker | 205 McAlester |
Psychometrics & Computing | Ed Merkle | |
Rehabilitation Neuroscience Laboratory | Scott Frey | |
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 |
Social Cognitive and Addiction Neuroscience Lab The Social Cognitive and Addiction Neuroscience Lab is focused on understanding the neurocognitive and affective mechanisms underlying cognitive control; its importance for social behaviors; its impairment by alcohol consumption; and its status as an endophenotype for alcohol use disorder. ![]() |
Bruce D. Bartholow | 121 Psychology Building |
Website | Ines Segert | |
Working Memory Laboratory We conduct research on auditory and visual working memory and attention, in children and adults. ![]() |
Nelson Cowan | McAlester Hall Annex |
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 |