12/20/2019 - Dr Sean Laurent reframes a well-known phenomenon in moral reasoning called the "side-effect effect" to show that people are answering different questions when asked about the intentionality of side-...
Research News
12/07/2019 - Professor Diane Beck, along with a team of researchers from around the world, received a grant from the NSF to fund the activities of the Females of Vision et al. (FoVea). FoVea's mission is to...
11/04/2019 - Researchers in the Cognition and Brain Lab, led by Kara Federmeier, have recently published a paper in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience that investigates how predicting during sentence...
09/20/2019 - Psychology Professors Sepideh Sadaghiani and Wendy Heller receive NIH funding to investigate how inherent brain oscillations relate to cognition.
05/19/2019 - This project will develop, implement, and evaluate a transformative virtual initiative, high-impact initiative for protecting rural drug-using populations at risk from HIV/HCV outbreaks in the midst...
05/06/2019 - Predictions were recently proposed to be the core mechanism organizing brain functioning at all levels and in all domains. However, in contrast, within language comprehension, evidence for...
04/19/2019 - Janice Juraska is Co-Investigator on a grant from the US Department of Agriculture (National Institute of Food and Agriculture) titled "Role of naturally-occurring vs. synthetic vitamin E in brain...
04/17/2019 - Wendy Heller was selected as this year’s winner of the Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award. This is a reflection of the exemplary work Wendy does for our department and for the...
03/20/2019 - Up-and-coming faculty in LAS expand how we think about science...
03/07/2019 - The title of the project is "Phthalates and Maternal Infections: Implications for Schizophrenia". Congratulations Dr Juraska!
02/27/2019 - In many societies, teenagers are repeatedly told – by adults, peers and popular media – that teens are more likely than younger children to take risks, ignore their parents, skip schoolwork and...
01/28/2019 - Student characteristics play a crucial role in the attention and enthusiasm directed toward learning. If a student sees no value in learning or does not expect to do well in an academic setting, then...
01/17/2019 - The title of his project is "A Novel, Trauma-Informed Screening Approach for Teen Dating Violence Perpetration in Racially Diverse Adolescents: A Multi-Site Study".
01/17/2019 - Heidemarie's project title is: "Neurobehavioral Effects of Prenanta Mindfulness Training on Maternal Love".
01/16/2019 - Josh's American Psychological Foundation grant is titled "Age-of-onset and sex as vulnerability factors for relapse to methamphetamine-seeking via NMDA-NR2B receptor dysfunction in rats". His NIH...
