Keywords: adolescence, romantic relationships, multidisciplinary research, developmental psychopathology, culture, health, stress physiology

Keywords:  drug addiction; psychostimulants; opiates; alcohol; glutamate; behavioral pharmacology; optogenetics; preclinical models

Keywords:  adolescence; transition to college; stress physiology; sleep; health behaviors; ecological momentary assessment

Research Areas:

• Language Assessment and Development (Generativity)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• PEAK Relational Training System
• Relational Frame Theory (RFT)
• Functional Assessment
• Functional Analysis Technologies
• Organizational Behavior Management (OBM)
• Behavioral Skills Training (BST)
• School-Based Interventions

Join the Lab: 

Keywords:  learning; time perception; response inhibition; choice; animal models; computational models

Keywords: alcohol, college, subjective response, prevention, self-control, personality, expectancies, context, comorbidity

Keywords:  learning; memory; behavior; estrogen; progesterone; hormone; menopause; maze

Keywords:  stress; spatial memory; hippocampus; neural plasticity; anxiety; corticosterone; rodent behavior; PTSD

Keywords: Body Project; body acceptance; body dissatisfaction; eating disorders; minorities; childhood obesity; prevention; eating

Keywords:  dog; wolf; human-dog interaction; behavior; welfare; cognition, Going to the Dogs

Keywords:  behavior genetic; twin; development; risk; resilience; temperament; psychopathology; sleep; pain; health

Keywords:  evolution of cooperation; human sharing; cancer evolution; genetic conflict; microbiome and behavior

Keywords:  anxiety; children; adolescents; prevention; treatment; culture; diversity; minority; ethnicity

Keywords:  self; culture; social psychology; personality; anthropomorphism; cyberpsychology; sustainability

Keywords: culture; social class; cultural change; neuroscience; ecology; evolution

Keywords:  culture; context; prevention; family; development; children & youth; mental health; achievement; Latino

Culture, Adaptation, Religion, Morality, Anthropomorphism

Keywords:  cognitive neuroscience; fMRI; reward; decision-making; learning

Keywords: dissemination & implementation research; health disparities; prevention; culture; primary care; parenting

Keywords: complexity; coordination; vision; touch; motor skills; physiological processes; handedness; learning; attention

Event related potentials; EEG; cognitive neuroscience; social neuroscience; cognitive control; selective attention; memory; SES

Games for learning and health, STEM education, cognitive change, Virtual Reality (VR) therapies during hospital stays,  Nutrition science, Efficacy related to XR experiences

In our lab, we investigate how infants and young children learn about the world around them

Keywords: stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination; stigma; fundamental social motives; social cognition; religion and conflict; evolutionary approaches to social behavior; ecology and culture; life satisfaction; overweight/obesity; person perception; social exclusion

Our Functional Social Cognition Lab explores the processes that influence the selective and automatic direction of our limited perceptual and cognitive resources. We've been developing a conceptual framework that begins to articulate the role that fundamental social goals play in governing these processes. We focus, in particular, on the ways in which self-protection, mating, status-striving, social affiliation, and disease avoidance goals selectively facilitate attention toward people who have characteristics relevant to those goals.

Keywords: gene-environment interplay, substance use, family relationships, adolescence, young adulthood, ethnic/racial minority, health disparities

Keywords:  childhood adversity; cortisol; health; culture; self-regulation

Keywords: Longitudinal data analysis, data mining, structural equation modeling, mixture modeling

Keywords: resilience to major life stressors; adult development and aging; psychosocial and health development; lifespan development; longitudinal research methodology

Keywords:  goal cognition; chronic pain; self-regulation

Keywords:  embodied cognition; language comprehension; embodied reading comprehension intervention (EMBRACE); cognitive neuroscience; joint action and mirror neuron system

Keywords: cognitive development, word learning, attention, language acquisition, statistical learning, bilingualism

Keywords: visual attention, face perception, eye-tracking, pupillary changes, language processing.

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Undergraduate Research Opportunities: https://psychology.clas.asu.edu/content/memory-attention-control-lab-brewer

Our research projects investigate human memory and attention capabilities and how they support a wide range of behaviors.

Keywords:  addiction, nicotine, relapse, glutamate, synaptic plasticity

Keywords:  prevention; parenting skills; intervention engagement

Keywords:  alcohol; cigarette smoking; longitudinal studies; intergenerational transmission

Keywords:  parental divorce; at-risk youth; preventive interventions

Keywords:  category theory, dynamic scene processing, attention, face processing, attention, memory search

Keywords:  Dual acquisition EEG; direct observations; social interaction patterns; social neuroscience; psychophysiological neurocognitive assessments; relationship dynamics; romantic relationships; peer relationships; parent-child relationships

Keywords:  knowledge acquisition; reading comprehension; writing; strategies; self-explanation; writing assessment; intelligent tutoring systems; tutoring; games; computational linguistics; learning analytics

Keywords:  Alcohol, Impaired Control Over Drinking, Parenting Styles, Self-regulation, Trait and State Impulsivity, Trauma, Secrets, Resiliency, and Social Influence.

Keywords: emotion; close relationships; psychophysiology; nonverbal expression; social cognition; positive psychology

Keywords:  cannabis/marijuana; substance use; psychosis; retinal imaging 

Keywords: theory of mind; social cognitive development; divorce; fathers; parent-child relationships

We study neural and cognitive mechanisms that allow us to maintain stable visual experience of the world despite noisy sensory representations. We investigate a broad set of research topics, including visual attention, visual working memory, and perceptual decision making using psychophysics, computational modeling along with EEG/ERPs.