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These projects within cognitive and neuroscience research focus on how individuals control their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors across development. These studies examine cognitive control processes such as attention regulation, inhibitory control, working memory, and decision-making, as well as emotional regulation mechanisms. Researchers use tools like functional MRI, EEG, and behavioral tasks to investigate how brain regions—including the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and anterior cingulate cortex—support self-regulatory abilities. Projects may also explore how regulation develops in childhood and adolescence, how it is influenced by environmental stressors, and how it differs in populations with neurodevelopmental or psychological disorders. This research informs strategies for supporting adaptive regulation skills in educational, clinical, and everyday contexts.
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- Collaborative Research: Examining Behavioral and Neurophysiological Precursors of Effortful ControlProject Abstract/Summary This project is about self-regulation, critical to wide ranging developmental outcomes across the lifespan. We know little about the origins and initial development of these skills during the first two years of life. It is during infancy, however, that behavioral and neurophysiological underpinnings of emotion reactivity, the precursor of regulation, are manifested. Moreover, sex differences in these foundational mechanisms have not been examined, despite considerable evidence of more advanced early regulation for girls. This research provides an intensive… Read more: Collaborative Research: Examining Behavioral and Neurophysiological Precursors of Effortful Control
- Collaborative Research: Examining Behavioral and Neurophysiological Precursors of Effortful ControlProject Abstract/Summary This project is about self-regulation, critical to wide ranging developmental outcomes across the lifespan. We know little about the origins and initial development of these skills during the first two years of life. It is during infancy, however, that behavioral and neurophysiological underpinnings of emotion reactivity, the precursor of regulation, are manifested. Moreover, sex differences in these foundational mechanisms have not been examined, despite considerable evidence of more advanced early regulation for girls. This research provides an intensive… Read more: Collaborative Research: Examining Behavioral and Neurophysiological Precursors of Effortful Control
- Using single-neuron recordings in the human brain to inform cognitive models of error monitoringProject Abstract/Summary How do we monitor our actions? We notice quickly when we dial a wrong number, get off the elevator at the wrong floor, blurt out something inappropriate, or send an email that we really didn’t mean to send, even when no one tells us that we made a mistake. These behaviors are everyday examples of monitoring our own performance, which is critical for us to learn from our mistakes. Although external feedback can also play an important role… Read more: Using single-neuron recordings in the human brain to inform cognitive models of error monitoring