In existence for over 20 years, the co-laboratory serves as a center for graduate training and integrative research that spans cognitive, aging, personality, social, and applied psychology domains.

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We are looking for undergraduate research assistants for a project under Dr. Ackerman.

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The EMPOWER (Engaging Minorities in Prevention, Outreach, Wellness, Education, & Research) Lab is housed in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University and is focused on conducting research that aims to reduce mental health disparities through increasing engagement in mental health treatment, community outreach, education and training, and research focusing on reducing the impact of interpersonal and racial stress and trauma in the Black community. We are engaged in basic, community-based, translational, and public health research including the conceptualization, implementation, dissemination, and evaluation of evidence-based programming aimed at reducing mental and behavioral health disparities that impact African American youth.

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We are looking for both volunteer and paid research assistants.

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We investigate the brain processes that allow us to perceive the world. In particular, our focus is on the top-down mechanisms that modulate the normal visual process. We use a variety of methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), psychophysics, computational modeling, and deep learning techniques especially focused on artificial vision. We also strongly support open science and share the data and code for all our papers.

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We are always looking for motivated research assistants to get involved with research in the lab. If interested, send an email to Dr. Rahnev and attach your CV/resume.

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In the Behavioral Genetics of Addiction (BGA) Laboratory, we investigate how genomic variation influences the progression to maladaptive substance use behaviors. We are identifying the differences in our DNA that influence our relationship with alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and other illicit substances through sophisticated genomic techniques. To understand the progression from use to dependence, we additionally examine related traits and behaviors that may predate the onset of substance use/addiction or co-occur with substance use/addiction, such as major depression, conduct problems, and novelty seeking. Our research spans across species and development (i.e., prenatal through adulthood), as well as strives to include both clinical and community-based samples. Furthermore, we aim to address disparities in mental health among populations typically underrepresented in research.

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We are always open to collaborations with other labs or students interested in gaining more experience! Please visit the lab website for more information on ways to get involved.

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While failure and challenge are a natural part of scientific inquiry and education, today's college level STEM students are rarely provided with brave spaces to fail and try again, and they rarely encounter the support they need to confront and cope productively with failure. The Factors affecting Learning, Attitudes, and Mindsets in Education network (FLAMEnet) is a nationwide network designed to bring together higher education STEM faculty, education researchers, and psychologists in order to design, deploy, and assess educational interventions that benefit students by promoting academic tenacity and resilience in STEM. FLAMEnet aims to change academic culture in STEM to promote scientific resilience in tomorrow's scientists and citizens by:

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- Developing, assessing, and disseminating interventions that target decreases in fear of failure and increases in students’ scientific resilience,

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- Increasing STEM instructor knowledge and agency to promote a culture of student scientific resilience, and

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- Bringing together diverse stakeholders (STEM instructors, education researchers, psychology researchers, academic leaders, students) to capitalize on change models and shape academic culture around failure in STEM, both within our network and in the broader academic community.

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We are always happy to welcome new members to FLAMEnet -- including faculty and staff, postdocs, and graduate & undergraduate students from a broad variety of institutions. We can provide support and resources for those ready to begin their own education research projects and/or facilitate networking for those looking for a research project to join.

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Our lab studies individual differences in reading comprehension skills for struggling adult readers. More specifically, we focus on the reading processes underlying successful comprehension, developing reading skill assessments, eye movement behaviors during text processing, and evaluating the instructional needs of struggling adult readers (adults enrolled in literacy programs, incarcerated adults, remedial/developmental college students).

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We are always looking for undergraduate and graduate research assistants to help with data collection efforts! We also have an opening for a new doctoral student. If interested, please send a resume/CV to Dr. Tighe.

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The Cognitive Neuroscience and Animal Behavior lab (CNAB) at Agnes Scott College investigates the cognitive processes. The PI, Dr. Bonnie Perdue, focuses on gaining a better understanding of cognition from both a comparative and developmental perspective. Along with collaborators and students, I collect data at Zoo Atlanta, the Language Research Center of Georgia State University, a local daycare, as well as on campus at Agnes Scott. My main areas of focus include metacognition, prospective memory, self-control and how findings from cognitive neuroscience can be applied in the classroom setting and used to educate the public more broadly about science. We currently use eye-tracking and behavioral techniques such as computerized testing to gain insight into these processes in both human and nonhuman animals.

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We are always open to collaborations with other labs or students interested in gaining more experience!

We study spatial navigation in aging and also investigate endocrine/metabolic mediators of cognitive and brain aging.

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We have a post-doc position available.

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The Biological Underpinnings of Infant Learning and Development (BUILD) research laboratory in the Psychology Department at Emory University is focused on the study of infant and child development, as well as psychopathology from a biosocial perspective. Our current projects examine:

 

- the impact of prenatal stress and environmental exposures on infant development across the first 18 months of life, with a focus on African American families who may encounter increased prenatal risks, as well as health disparities as a consequence of those risks

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- the relationship between early childhood environmental exposures, the gut-microbiome, neurological development, and risk for adverse health outcomes

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- long-term risk of maternal depression and prenatal psychotropic medication exposure on various health, behavioral, social, and emotional outcomes

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We are always open to collaborations with other labs or students interested in gaining more experience!

 

The Translational Research in Affective Disorders (TReAD) Lab studies the behavioral and neurobiological determinants of cost/benefit decision-making in healthy individuals, as well as in patients with mental illness. Our research focuses on the neural circuitry that underlies decision-making and how abnormalities in these processes relate to and manifest as core symptoms in affective disorders, like major depressive disorder.

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We accept undergraduate RA applications at the beginning of every semester!

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The ability to learn from and remember salient information is essential for an individual to survive and thrive throughout life. Research in the Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment (LUMeN) lab focuses on characterizing the brain and cognitive mechanisms through which emotion and motivation mold how we learn and what we remember across development. We use a combination behavioral, neuroimaging, psychophysiological, and computational modeling techniques and an interdisciplinary approach, to address the following overarching questions:

 

* How do emotion and motivation influence behavioral and neural learning & memory processes across development?

 

* How does the complexity of the learning environment influence motivated learning, memory, & brain function across age?

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We review undergrad RA applications at the end of each semester for potentially joining the lab the following semester. We're recruiting graduate students for enrollment in Fall 2023 and will also have a postdoc position within the next year. We are always open to collaborations with other labs! 

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The Georgia Tech Sonification Lab is an interdisciplinary research group based in the School of Psychology and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Under the direction of Prof. Bruce Walker, the Sonification Lab focuses on the development and evaluation of auditory and multimodal interfaces, and the cognitive, psychophysical and practical aspects of auditory displays, paying particular attention to sonification. Special consideration is paid to Human Factors and Human-AI Interaction in informative displays in "complex task environments," such as the human-computer interfaces in automated vehicles, VR and AR devices in dynamic real-world environments, and in technology training and mastery programs. Since we specialize in multimodal and auditory interfaces, we also work with people who cannot see traditional visual displays. This means we work with generating and optimizing assistive devices. We study ways to enhance wayfinding and mobility, math and science education, entertainment, art, music, and participation in informal learning environments like zoos and aquariums.

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Graduate Students. The Sonification Lab is growing and is looking for graduate students interested in doing research in sonification, auditory displays and human computer interaction. The lab is housed by the School of Psychology, but research opportunities are available for graduate students from other areas as well, including (but not limited to) the College of Computing, College of Design, and College of Engineering.

Undergraduate Students. The Sonification Lab also has many opportunities for undergraduates. Positions as research assistants and programmers are both available for either pay or course credit. Tasks for undergrad research assistants include participating in research experiment design, running subjects and gathering data. Programmers are needed to write the software that runs the experiments and stores the data.

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Research in the Social Neuroscience Lab is aimed at advancing three goals that are imperative for children with autism and their families. These goals are (1) to develop objective markers of risk to enable early diagnosis, (2) to chart development in children with autism to better understand the heterogeneity and pathogenesis of the condition, and (3) to use knowledge gained in research to develop practical tools for intervention.

 

In order to achieve these goals, our group has focused on research of highly-conserved and early-emerging mechanisms of social development. Much of our recent research has centered on measuring the way individuals with autism, from infancy to adulthood, pay attention to and interact with their surrounding environment: from attending to basic cues of biological motion, to looking at faces of other people, to observing complex social interactions.

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 The Social Neuroscience Research Core at Marcus Autism Center, in conjunction with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, is offering two-year predoctoral research fellowships in six scientific subspecialties. Fellows will participate in innovative research to provide novel solutions to complex problems in a robust clinical environment. These fellowships are intended for college graduates to dedicate two intensive years to research in autism prior to entering graduate studies. Fellows will participate in and guide innovative research, working with children with autism and their families, ranging in age from week-old infants to adolescents and young adults. Applications open November 2022 and close January 2023.

 

Additionally, the lab welcomes interested undergraduate students on an as needed basis. Interested undergrads should contact the lab to inquire about any open positions.

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Located in the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Problem Solving and Educational Technology (PSET) Lab brings together a diverse group of faculty and students interested in an equally diverse range of topics. Students in the PSET Lab, under the direction of Dr. Richard Catrambone, are currently examining a range of problem-solving and human-computer interaction issues

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If you have research interests related to the ongoing research projects in the PSET lab, please e-mail Dr. Catrambone to discuss possible opportunities. The PSET lab is currently accepting applications to work in the lab. Responsibilities might include running participants in experiments, data collection, and data analyses. Undergraduates may volunteer or receive course credit for their work. Visit our website to fill out an interest form!

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