Want the insider scoop on what’s happening in the Control and Adaptive Behavior Laboratory? You’ve come to the right place! Below, you can explore our team’s accomplishments each year, including poster presentations, papers, talks, awards, and more. Click the “+” or the year below to see what our team has been up to.
2025
- Graduate Student Steven Martinez presented at the Psychonomic Society’s 66th Annual Meeting to report on his research findings in a poster titled “Individuals who doomscroll report more addictive-like motivations when scrolling.”
Principal Investigator Jason Chein was recognized for his outstanding scientific contributions in experimental and cognitive psychology during the mid stage of his academic career, receiving the Mid-Career Award at the Psychonomic Society’s 66th Annual Meeting.
Former Project Coordinator and current graduate student Daniel Zweben presented his research at the Psychonomic Society’s 66th Annual Meeting, delivering a talk titled “Task and Strategic Determinants of the Irrelevant Sound Effect” on how irrelevant sounds influence working memory.
- Project Coordinator Megan Vince presented at the Psychonomic Society’s 66th Annual Meeting to report on her research findings in a poster titled as “The Role of Sleep and Physical Health in the Relationship Between Cognitive Functioning and Digital Engagement in Children.”
- Project Coordinator Kirsten Lee presented at the Psychonomic Society’s 66th Annual Meeting to report on her research findings in a poster titled as “Substance-Specific Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Drug and Alcohol Use Across Development in a Low-Use Sample.”
- Undergraduate and MiNDs student Andrew Cardona presented at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Conference to report on his research findings in a poster titled as “Association Between Gray Matter Volume and Technology use in Teens and Young Adults.”
- Graduate student Lina Hu presented at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Conference to report on her research findings in a poster titled as “Cumulative Impacts of Smartphone Use on Cognitive Control and Human Brain White Matter Connectivity.”
- Graduate student Shenghan Wang presented at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Conference to report on their research findings in a poster titled as “Social Responsivity of the Ventral Striatum Interacts with Closeness and Depression in Predicting Activation and Connectivity During Social Reciprocity.” a collaborative project with Smith and Fareri Labs.
- Undergraduate student Ife Adeoye presented at the Delaware Psychological Association’s Annual Conference to report on her research findings in a poster titled as “Not All Screen Time Is Equal: How Different Measures of Social Media Use Relate to Sleep and Risk-Taking.” She was awarded first award for her poster presentation and findings.
- Undergraduate student Binh Hoang presented at the Delaware Psychological Association Annual Conference to report on her research findings in a poster titled as “Smartphone Behavior and Health Habits: A Comprehensive View Across Ages.”
- Undergraduate students Maia Singh and Ife Adeoye received a Creative Arts, Research, and Scholarship ($4000) to study “How sleep quality and night time phone use affects risk taking behaviors”.
- Undergraduate student Aashna Mony received a Creative Arts, Research, and Scholarship ($4000) to study “How moral, cognitive, and behavioral factors correlate with different forms of theft among young adults”.
- Undergraduate student Binh Hoang received a Diamond Research Scholarship ($4000) to study “How smartphone usage impacts physical well-being across different age groups”.
- Project Coordinator Megan Vince presented at the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting to report on her research findings in a poster titled “Digital Media and the Brain: An Analysis of Structural and Functional MRI Studies.”
- Undergraduate student Titiksha Pawar presented at the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting to report on her research findings in a poster titled “Associations Between Cumulative Smartphone Use and White Matter Microstructure Underlying Cognitive Control.”
2024
- Graduate student Büşra Tanriverdi will present at the Society for Neuroscience’s Annual Meeting to report on her new research findings in a poster titled as “Early Neural Predictors of Threat Related Long-Term Memory Reinstatement in Hippocampus”, a collaborative project with the Olson and Murty Labs.
- Undergraduate student Harry Green and graduate student Büşra Tanriverdi will present at the Society for Neuroscience’s Annual Meeting to report on their new research findings in a poster titled as “Lower Sensitivity to Social Pressure is Associated with Lower Engagement with Digital Media and Better Mental Health”.
- Undergraduate student Harry Green and graduate student Büşra Tanriverdi will present at FLUX 2024 to report on their new research findings in a poster titled as “Lower Sensitivity to Social Pressure is Associated with Lower Engagement with Digital Media and Better Mental Health in Adults, but not in Adolescents”.
- Graduate student Büşra Tanriverdi presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s 31st Annual Meeting to report on her new research findings in a poster titled as “Threat Related Long-Term Memory Reinstatement in Hippocampus”, a collaborative project with the Olson and Murty Labs.
2023
- Graduate student Steven Martinez was awarded a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Diversity Supplement, which seeks to extend the objectives of Dr. Chein’s parent grant: “Origins and Outcomes of Smartphone and Social Media Habits Across Development”.
- Jason Chein (PI) and Ph.D. student Büşra Tanriverdi (Co-I) were awarded the Texas Woman’s University Woodcock Institution Research Grant ($15,000) to study neural integration and differentiation of fearful memories during targeted memory reactivation.
- Graduate student Büşra Tanriverdi presented at the International Learning and Memory Conference to report on her new research findings in a poster titled as “Encoding Repetition Leads to Hippocampal Differentiation”, a collaborative project with the Olson and Murty Labs.
- Graduate student Steven Martinez was awarded the Fitchburg State University Young Alumni Recognition Award, which recognizes high achievement of young alumni within 10 years from graduation.
- Lab coordinator Danny Zweben and undergraduate honors student Neil Chaturvedi presented at the Eastern Psychological Association and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience to present their new research findings in a poster titled as “Cognitive and affective factors of social media: Sensation seeking, impulsivity, executivecontrol, and wellbeing.”
- Graduate student Steven Martinez presented at the 2023 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting to report on his new research findings in a poster titled as “Linguistic cues of memory accuracy differ for low-threat and high-threat memories”, a project in collaboration with the Murty lab.
- Graduate student Steven Martinez presented at the 2023 University of North Carolina Social Media Scientists’ Retreat to report on his new research findings in a poster titled as “Are we capable of detecting human/AI differences? Or can AI really fool us?“.
- Undergraduate Brooke Shulski gave a poster presentation at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience Conference titled “Juvenile Crime Rates and the Effects of Peer Influence”.
2022
- Graduate student Büşra Tanriverdi presented at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting to report on her new research findings in a poster titled as “Coordinated Hippocampal Reactivation During Awake Rest Predicts Subsequent Forgetting”, a collaborative project with the Olson and Murty Labs.
- Graduate student Büşra Tanriverdi presented at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting to report on her new research findings in a poster titled as “Coordinated Hippocampal Reactivation During Awake Rest Predicts Subsequent Forgetting”, a collaborative project with the Olson and Murty Labs.
- Graduate student Steven Martinez presented at the 2022 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting and at the 2022 Philadelphia Decision Neuroscience conference to report on his new research findings in a data blitz presentation and poster titled “Learning goals drive retroactive memory enhancements for a real-life experience”, a project in collaboration with the Murty lab.
2021
- Graduate student Michelle Chiu presented our recent findings on “Executive function and smartphone use in young adults” at the 2021 virtual APA Technology Mind and Society Conference.
- The lab received a new multi-million dollar R01 award from the National Institute on Child Health and Development for a 5-year project entitled “Origins and Outcomes of Smartphone and Social Media Habits Across Development”. Dr. Chein is the PI on the project, which also includes Drs. Steinberg, Olino and Marshall as co-investigators.
- Graduate student Busra Tanriverdi presented at the annual CEMS meeting in Philadelphia to report the surprising finding that “Awake Coordinated Reactivation Predicts Forgetting”, a collaborative project with the Olson and Murty labs.
- Graduate student Maria Brucato was recently awarded a $1500 2020-21 Summer Graduate Research Grant from the Psi Chi society, which will be applied in support of her dissertation project, in collaboration with Dr. Nora Newcombe.
- Graduate student Liz Beard gave a stellar presentation, sandwiched between two highly eminent decision science researchers, at the 11th Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics. Her talk was titled, “Investigating the Neural Correlates of the Risk Preference and Information Acquisition in the Description-Experience Gap” and comes out of our collaboration with Dr. Vinod Venkatraman.
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2024
Exciting news! The Massachusetts Supreme Court, citing multiple publications that our lab contributed to, has banned mandatory life without parole for 18 to 20-year-olds. Evidence shows emerging adults share traits with younger individuals, impacting impulse control, risk-taking, peer influence, and brain plasticity. This decision aligns the justice system with CABLAB’s work on biological and behavioral maturation. Check out the court’s full decision here and a quick news summary here. A game-changer in justice informed by CABLAB’s pioneering research.
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