Psychological & Brain Sciences

Research Topics

• Attention
• Motor control
• Perception

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• Visual word recognition
• Semantic memory
• Priming on implicit memory tests
• Attention systems that modulate performance
• Senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type

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• Effects of early adversity on early brain development and subsequent risk for mental health challenges
• Cognitive, emotional and neural bases of risk for development of schizophrenia and depression

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• Sociolinguistics
• Language, Equity and Environmental Change
• Linguistic Profiling
• Econolinguistics

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• How genetic and environmental factors shape brain function, behavior, and psychopathology

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• Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying memory, attention, and controlled processing

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• Top-down vs. stimulus-driven control mechanisms
• Environmental contingencies moderates use of top-down control
• Differential effects of normal aging on multiple levels of cognitive control

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• How the process of retrieving memories: affects the content and phenomenological characteristics of those memories

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• Clinical psychology of aging
• Late-life family communication
• Alzheimer's disease knowledge in older adults
• End of life mental health issues

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• Sleep
• Circadian Rhythms
• Psychopathology

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• Interaction of Episodic Memory and Decision-Making

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• Socio-cultural and situational influences on emotion regulation
• Adult development in emotion and emotion regulation
• Consequences of emotion regulation for social functioning, psychological well-being, and physical health

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• Choice and decision-making
• Self-control
• Behavioral economics
• Discounting of delaed and probabilistic outcomes

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• Developmental changes in speed of information processing across the life span
• Role of age-related and other individual differences on other aspects of cognition

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• Neural underpinnings of cognitive aging the contributing factors and effective intervention

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• How individuals explore options for and ultimately commit to a purpose for life
• How having a sense of purpose predicts important life outcome

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• Aging and Attention to Emotional Content
• Aging and Emotion Regulation Processes
• Aging and Emotion Perception

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• Development and assessment of personality

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• Explores the interaction between cognitive control, decision-making and reinforcement learning

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• Learning how implicit biases change
• Understanding the consequences of implicit bias for behavior
• Developing interventions to reduce the impact of implicit biases on behavior

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• Cognitive and affective processes that underlie social and political judgment

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• Identity development
• Gendered racism
• Community engagement
• Healing justice

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• Social cognitive development in infancy and early childhood
• Development of bias and intergroup relations
• Cognitive development and education

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• Memory
• Aging
• Cognitive training

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• Human memory encoding and retrieval and how they interact

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• Behavioral economics
• Cognitive aging

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• Assessment of personality disorders, especially discrepancies between people’s descriptions of themselves and the ways in which they are described by others

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• How we represent and remember experiences, and how this changes as we age

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• Human learning and memory

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• Speech perception and auditory processing in young, elderly, and individuals with Alzheimer's disease

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• Self-knowledge
• Self-esteem
• Decision making

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• Moral improvement
• Morality and Well-Being
• Social Interactions and Well-Being

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• Understanding the everyday emotional experience in individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder

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• Language and language disorders
• Reading
• Spelling

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• How linguistic experience shapes speech perception and processing
• How signal-intrinsic and signal-extrinsic factors interact to modulate the success of communication

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• Pediatric neuropsychology
• Developmental disabilities

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• Short-term Dynamics of Well-being
• Long-term Change in Well-being
• Well-being and Physical Health
• Well-being as a Protective Factor Against Cognitive Decline and Dementia

Research Topics

• Event cognition
• Spatial reasoning
• Film perception