A major focus of Professor Hooley’s research interests concerns psychosocial (especially family) predictors of psychiatric relapse in patients with severe psychopathology such as schizophrenia, depression, and borderline personality disorder. She is also...
Talia Konkle's research focuses on the cognitive and neural organization of high-level visual experience: how do we see and understand the visual world around us? She employs a combination of behavioral techniques, human functional neuroimaging and...
Professor McNally’s main research emphasis has concerned the psychopathology of anxiety and related disorders (e.g., panic disorder, specific phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder [OCD], social anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder)...
I use a combination of neuroimaging and behavioral measures to investigate the cognitive processes that support inferences about the psychological states of other people and introspective awareness of the self.
Jason Mitchell received his BA/MS from Yale...
Professor Nock’s research is aimed at advancing the understanding why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves, with an emphasis on suicide and other forms of self-harm. His research is multi-disciplinary in nature and uses a range of...
Schacter’s research is broadly concerned with understanding the nature and function of human memory, using cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging approaches. He is especially interested in understanding the constructive nature of memory: why it...
My laboratory explores many facets of language development, comprehension, production and representation. We study typically developing children (from infancy into middle childhood), adults and a variety of special populations (e.g., children with...
Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, especially young children’s prodigious capacities for fast and flexible learning. She studies these capacities by investigating their origins and growth in human infants...
One in five children and adolescents will experience a mental health disorder in any given year, and many more struggle with serious mental health challenges. John Weisz’s research involves development and testing of interventions for these disorders and...
Research in the Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab (PI: Leah Somerville) integrates psychological and neuroscientific approaches to inform how brain development through adolescence shapes psychological changes in cognitive, motivational, social...
