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!
Latest Lab News
Lisa Lin Awarded Graduate Student Research Award by the Love Consortium
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
Bridget Shovestul Receives Honorable Mention for the NSF Fellowship
Bridget Shovestul was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF GRFP recognizes outstanding graduate students across the United States in a variety of STEM fields. Bridget was recognized for her work in the field of Psychology – Social/Affective Neuroscience. Bravo, Bridget! To view… Continue reading Bridget Shovestul Receives Honorable Mention for the NSF Fellowship
2020 Lab Photo
SCP lab jumps into the spring semester with a new lab photo.
Dr. Dodell-Feder featured in New Frontiers in Neuroimaging
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!
5 Lab Members to Present at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting
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!
Article Published in PLoS ONE
SCP lab’s very own graduate student Bridget Shovestul, research assistant Jiayin Han, and principal investigator Dr. David Dodell-Feder, (alongside coauthor Dr. Laura Germine at Harvard Med) investigate risk factors for loneliness in the paper “Risk factors for loneliness: The high relative importance of age versus other factors” in PLoS ONE. Read the paper here.
New Additions to the Lab this Spring
The SCP lab welcomes five new research assistants to the team this semester: Isabel Adeniji, Siddhant Iyer, Jonath Lai, Sarah Preuss, and Elizabeth Schupbach! Now, with a cohort of fifteen undergraduate research assistants, four graduate students, two full-time staff members, and principal investigator Dr. David Dodell-Feder, the SCP lab totals its membership at twenty-two lab… Continue reading New Additions to the Lab this Spring
SCP lab members present at the 33rd Annual Meeting for Society for Research in Psychopathology
5 of our lab members presented their research at the 2019 Society for Research in Psychopathology conference in Buffalo. Congratulations to Abhishek Saxena, Arisha Ansari, Bridget Shovestul, Emily Dudek, and Lisa Lin!
Two New Staff Members Join the Lab!
Paige Amormino and Emily Dudek joined the lab as full-time staff. Paige recently graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Psychology and Emily graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.S. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences.