Congratulations Dr. Prickett!
Another era has come to an end for us. We are proud to report that Christopher Prickett successfully passed his defense! He presented his research on eye tracking and bodily vs facial emotion recognition and left a committee impressed. He will move on to do great...
Manuscript accepted on Attentional Blink task!
Proud to report that our paper on Neural Correlates of Attentional Bias to Food Stimuli in Obese Adolescents was accepted in the journal Brain Topography! Please congratulate the authors: Drs Steven, Chen, and Jia!!
Chao passed defense!
Wow, it's literally raining doctors the past few weeks in the NLD! The latest is none other than our Chao Gu, who made us proud at his defense with an impressive presentation! The tie helped but even without it the committee believed this was his best performance...

Big congratulations to Mia!
Yes, its hard to believe but we have more labsels graduating! We are very proud of Mia who successfully defended her thesis! Mia took on a large load as she spearheaded a multidisciplinary project examining physiological correlates of sleep efficiency in elderly at...

Lucy passed defense!!!
We are proud of Lucy who did a great job defending her thesis on a new multilevel bayesian nonparametric algorithm that can help researchers model potential outcomes on, for example, quasi-experimental intervention studies. The committee was highly impressed with her...

Congratulations to Dr. Qinxin Shi
The good news keeps piling up for Qinxin as she passed her defense with flying colors on the 22nd of June. We are extremely proud of Qinxin!
Qinxin’s hat-trick!
Woah, Qinxin finally found the goal posts and scored an impressive 3 papers in the span of 6 weeks for the developmental project! The papers examined the role of ego-resiliency in predicting developmental trajectories of prosocial, internalizing, externalizing, and...
New website!
Dear visitor, we hope you like our new website! If you do, please thank our Lucy Chen and the CEHD marketing and communications team! If you don't, well... get some ice cream and get over it soon! Unfortunately, we were not able to transfer all old news posts so...