Laboratories

The Department of Psychology houses a number of laboratories, each with its own specific research purpose. Becoming a research assistant as an undergraduate or graduate student is an excellent way of building skills essential in the field while working hands-on with the faculty who run these labs.

If you are a student (undergraduate or graduate) interested in any of these areas and want to find out about research assistant opportunities, please contact the director of the lab.

• Child & Infant Research Laboratory
  • Director, Dr. Laura Lakusta
  • research includes infant cognitive development, child language development, and adults' representations of events
• Cerebral Lateralization Laboratory
  • Director, Dr. Ruth Propper
  • research includes memory, effects of hand preference on behavior/cognition, sleep, emotion and spatial cognition
• Chemical Senses & Hedonics Lab
  • Director, Dr. Debra A. Zellner
  • research includes food craving & liking, context effects on hedonic ratings
• Clincial and Community Studies Lab
  • Director, Dr. Milton Fuentes
  • research includes racism & multiculturalism, mentoring, peace, para-social contact, school-gang based awareness, and Latino Psychology.
• Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab
  • Director, Dr. Julian Paul Keenan
  • research includes self-awareness, functional neuroimaging, deception and detection, & evolutionary theory
• Information Processing Lab
  • Director, Dr. Yoav Arieh
  • research includes selective attention, sensory integration/multisensory processes, and auditory perception
• Parent-Infant Interaction Lab
  • Director, Dr. Peter Vietze
  • research includes parent-child interaction, parenting style, infant assessment issues, and infants with developmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, cognitive delay and behavior problems.
• Pediatric Neuroscience Lab
  • Director, Dr. Kate Nooner
  • Research includes childhood trauma and maltreatment, child and adolescent psychopathology and functional neuroimaging
• Psychology Law Lab
  • Director, Dr. Jason Dickinson
  • research includes eye-witness testimony, forensic psychology
• Sentence Comprehension Lab
  • Director, Dr. David Townsend
• Speech Communication Lab
  • Director, Dr. Jennifer Pardo