Stanford Psychology Department

		Center for Infant Studies Our research focuses on the origins of communication and language in infancy and early childhood. Principal Investigator: Anne Fernald			The Learning Laboratory The Learning Lab investigates the development of infants' and children's understanding of their perceptual and cognitive environment. Specifically, we are interested in early domain-general learning mechanisms that support later sophisticated knowledge. We study the development of statistical learning, spatial indexing, inhibition, and working memory. Principal Investigator: Natasha Kirkham


		Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory The Cognitive Neuroscience Lab has moved to MIT Principal Investigator: John Gabrieli			Psychophysiology Laboratory The Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory is a research laboratory designed for the study of emotion and emotion regulation. This laboratory is also a teaching laboratory, training advanced undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars in the measurement and analysis of emotion and emotion regulation. Principal Investigator: James Gross

		Culture and Emotion Laboratory Our lab is interested in understanding the mechanisms by which cultural ideas and practices shape how people feel. Our research projects examine how culture shapes various affective phenomena (e.g., facial and verbal emotional expression, the affective states that people value [affect valuation], and the effects of psychopathology on emotional functioning) and the implications of cultural differences in affective phenomena for mental health. We use a variety of survey, interview, observational, experimental, and psychophysiological methods to examine these phenomena in groups in the United States and abroad. We aim to produce research and theory that broaden our current understandings of emotion and culture in ways that are both scientifically and clinically useful. Principal Investigator: Jeanne Tsai			Bing Nursery School Bing Nursery School was established in 1966 to provide a sound educational environment for young children, to provide a laboratory setting for research in child development, and to teach undergraduate and graduate students about children through observation and first-hand experience in the classroom. It was constructed with a grant from the National Science Foundation to the Department of Psychology and a matching grant from Mrs. Anna Bing Arnold and her son Dr. Peter S. Bing. It replaced the department's original nursery school which had been housed in Stanford Village since 1949. #1 ranked Bing Nursery School celebrated its 40th year as a university laboratory school on June 3rd, 2006. Director: Jeanne Lepper

		Life-span Development Laboratory Our research focuses on the social, emotional, and cognitive processes that people use to adapt to life circumstances as they age. Our group focuses specifically on motivation and emotional functioning. We study the ways in which motivation changes developmentally and how this relates to emotional processing and emotional regulation. Principal Investigator: Laura Carstensen			Symbiotic Project on Affective Neuroscience We seek to understand the neural underpinnings of affective experience and expression. This endeavor necessarily involves characterization of both neuroanatomical circuits and neurochemical modulators. Our progress ultimately relies upon an informed symbiosis of psychological theory and neuroscience methods. Principal Investigator: Brian Knutson

		Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory The focus of this lab is on gaining a more comprehensive understanding of depression and the anxiety disorders. In our research we examine attentional and memory biases in the processing of emotional information, neural substrates of emotional functioning in depression and anxiety, and cognitive and biological mechanisms underlying the transmission of risk for psychopathology from parents to children. Principal Investigator: Ian Gotlib			Vision and Imaging Science and Technology We use neuroimaging methods (fMRI, DTI) and behavior to study the human visual system. We are presently studying the visual pathways that contribute to reading development as well as making measurements of reorganization following injury or disease. Our work includes extensive software development of tools and simulations, and we collaborate extensively with groups in Neuroscience, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. Principal Investigator: Brian Wandell

		Cognation Research Laboratory Empirical studies of mental representation, meaning and use, and the relationships between language, cognition, and perception. Principal Investigator: Lera Boroditsky			Stanford Memory Laboratory Memory of the past is often critical for current cognition and behavior. Our group focuses on the psychological and neural processes that support learning and remembering. Using multiple methods (fMRI, MEG/EEG, TMS), current research focuses on frontal and medial temporal lobe contributions to the formation and retrieval of memories, interactions between cognitive control and memory, and neurobiological changes that result in memory difficulties in older adults and individuals with schizophrenia. Principal Investigator: Anthony Wagner

					STAR: Space, Time, Action Research Laboratory How do people perceive, conceive and communicate, information on the spaces they inhabit and the actions they and others perform? Principal Investigator: Barbara Tversky

		Mind, Culture and Society Laboratory The lab explores the ways in which culture and its products shape individuals, and the ways in which individuals in turn shape their culture. Our lab has several ongoing projects united by the common theme of exploring the ways in which psychological functioning (i.e., how we think, feel, and act) is malleable and conditioned by our sociocultural contexts (social class, race, ethnicity, nationality, etc.) and by social representations of various groups. We have several lines of research focusing on how race, stigma, and stereotyping affect attitudes, perception, and behavior. Through research, we hope to help facilitate intergroup communication, contact, and understanding and to develop, research, and disseminate the idea that there are multiple ways to be. Principal Investigators: Hazel Markus and Jennifer Eberhardt			Vision & Perception Neuroscience Lab Our research utilizes functional imaging (fMRI), computational techniques and behavioral methods to investigate visual object recognition and other high-level visual processes. Principal Investigator: Kalanit Grill-Spector
					Social Control of the Brain. This lab group has moved to the Stanford Biology Department. Principal Investigator: Russ Fernald