Lab News
2023
- 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.
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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”.
- 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.
- 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.
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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?“.
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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.
Our Work in the Media
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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