updates

Congratulations to CAT Lab researchers Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Dr. Brendan Ostlund, Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Berenice Anaya, and Marisa Lytle for presenting their research at International Society for Developmental Psychobiology in San Diego, CA.

CAT Lab Researcher Dr. Kelley Gunther graduated in August 2022 with a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology. Congratulations, Kelley!

Congratulations to CAT Lab researchers Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Berenice Anaya, Kelley Gunther, Morgan Gilmer, Katie Gray, and Morgan Jones for presenting their research at the International Congress of Infant Studies in Ottawa, Canada.

We are collaborating with Dr. Susan Perlman's lab at Washington University of St. Louis on the longitudinal version of our NIMH-funded PCAT study examining how parent-child interactions shape children's emotional responses and how those responses change over the span of several years.

The K99 study examines the attentional and behavioral correlates of periodic and aperiodic activity in the infant brain, while investigating how trajectories of brain activity vary as a function of maternal distress from 8- to 24- months of age.

This month, Kelley successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Multi-modal measurements of top-down influences on anxiety risk."

Brendan is interested in the developmental origins of infant temperament and how neural mechanisms may underlie intergenerational transmission or childhood psychopathology risk.

Leigha’s dissertation takes a multimethod approach to studying how the family contributes to children's developing attention and whether these processes are dependent on child temperament.