Marisa Lytle
Marisa is a second-year student in the CAT Lab. She received her B.A. in Neuroscience and Child Development with a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Vanderbilt University in 2017. Following graduation, she stayed at Vanderbilt to work as a lab manager in Dr. James Booth’s lab on a project aimed at publicly sharing large neuroimaging datasets. Marisa is interested in studying the development of the autonomic nervous system and how the brain-body axis serves to regulate emotions and behavior in peer interactions.
Lucia Herrero
Lucia is a first-year graduate student in the CAT Lab. In the Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, Lucia is interested in utilizing imaging methods (fMRI, fNIRS, EEG) to understand the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation and how environmental risk and protective factors influence these developmental trajectories. Lucia's overarching goal is to understand the role of longitudinal and intergenerational affective, behavioral, and sociocultural mechanisms in shaping neural structure and function. To facilitate this, Lucia is pursuing a dual-title PhD in Developmental Psychology and Social and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Olivia Bell
Olivia is a first-year student in the CAT Lab with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar, and the DRR Lab with Dr. Rina Eiden. She received her B.A. (2023) in Psychology and a certification in Child Advocacy Studies from Buffalo State University. Here, she worked with Dr. Pamela Schuetze examining prenatal substance exposure and harsh parenting’s role in autonomic regulation in early childhood. Following graduation, she completed a year of post-baccalaureate work within Dr. Jamie Ostrov’s Social Development Lab at the University at Buffalo, where she led biospecimen collection and conducted interviews with preschoolers. Olivia is interested in studying the mechanisms by which prenatal and early life stressors impact physiological regulation in infancy and early childhood, and how socioenvironmental factors, such as parenting, play a role in these associations.