CAT Lab Researcher Receives Competitive NIH Neuroscience Grant

Congratulations to Berenice Anaya who has received an NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience Grant! Berenice is a fifth-year student in developmental psychology and cognitive & affective neuroscience. She is interested in investigating the neural foundations of regulation during the infancy period. This competitive grant will allow her to examine neurodevelopmental trajectories as a function of temperament, maternal anxiety, and parenting dynamics during her pre-doctoral research. Her dissertation will use repeated measures of infant EEG to examine the impact of individual differences and environmental factors on the trajectories of delta-beta coupling and network-level changes in the infant brain. Additionally, this grant will fund her postdoctoral research to study parent-child dynamics across behavioral, neural, and cognitive systems.

Berenice’s research is primarily sponsored by Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar. Additionally, she is mentored by Dr. Jenae Neiderhiser and will consult with Dr. Erika Lunkenheimer and Dr. Nilam Ram (Stanford University).