Latest Lab News

Research Assistant Sunny Liu will be studying the relationship between social exclusion and the development of psychopathology mediated by neural changes under advisor and SCP Lab grad student Abhi Saxena! The project will use data from the national longitudinal ABCD (adolescent brain cognitive development) dataset. Sunny will receive funding through the competitive Meliora Undergraduate Research… Continue reading Research Assistant Sunny Liu Awarded Meliora Research Fellowship With Advisor Abhi Saxena!

Research Assistant Jonathan Lai’s first conference paper focusing on sentiments about the term “face masks” and their relation to key policy shift events and political ideology has been accepted for the competitive 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data! Jonathan and his colleagues analyzed Twitter data from January to August and their study is being… Continue reading Research Assistant Jonathan Lai’s Paper Accepted for the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data!

Former Reading Study Coordinator, Paige Amormino began working towards her PhD in Psychology at Georgetown University this Fall! Paige is working under advisor Dr. Abigail Marsh of the Laboratory on Social & Affective Neuroscience. The lab studies the social, cognitive, and neural bases of social processes and Paige is particularly interested in moral psychology. Congratulations… Continue reading Paige Starts PhD Program at Georgetown University!

Former lab manager Emily Dudek has started a new position as the Clinical Research Coordinator for the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai in New York, NY! There she is working on a randomized trial for an online intervention aiming to improve emotion regulation. She will also be helping out with MRI analysis for… Continue reading Emily Starts New Research Position at Mount Sinai!

We are excited to welcome our new Reading Study Coordinator, Gloria Liu and our new Lab Manager, Stephanie Reda! Gloria grew up in Los Angeles, CA and Dallas, TX and completed her undergraduate degree at Wellesley College in the greater Boston area! Stephanie grew up in Westchester, NY and joins us from D.C. where she… Continue reading New Full-Time Lab Staff Join the Team!

The Love Consortium, which aims to advance research surrounding high-quality social connections, has awarded Lisa Lin a research grant for her upcoming project! Lisa’s project will use motion energy analysis to quantify nonverbal synchrony in stranger dyads during a social coordination task. Congrats, Lisa! To learn more about the Love Consortium and see the full… Continue reading Lisa Lin Awarded Graduate Student Research Award by the Love Consortium

SCP lab jumps into the spring semester with a new lab photo.

Dr. David Dodell-Feder is featured by the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience for his recent neuroimaging work at the UR Center for Advanced Brain Imaging & Neurophysiology (CABIN). Read the full article here!  

Congratulations to Abhishek Saxena, Bridget Shovestul, Emily Dudek, Emily Przysinda, and Lisa Lin for their poster acceptances at the March 2020 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society!