Neuroscience Grad Student Colin Gardner Featured in GamesRadar Article! Great feature on UGA Neuroscience graduate student, Colin Gardner, discussing his research on how video games stimulate your brain! Read more about Neuroscience Grad Student Colin Gardner Featured in GamesRadar Article!
Join Psi Chi at UGA! Are you a psychology major or interested in a career in psychology? Join UGA’s chapter of Psi Chi: the International Honor Society in Psychology! Anyone is welcome to attend our monthly meetings regardless of your official membership status, year in school, or major. If you would like to get to know professors in the psychology department, learn about attending grad school, gain valuable career advice, or be notified of research opportunities, then Psi Chi is the place for you! Read more about Join Psi Chi at UGA!
Dr. Dorothy Carter Featured in Franklin College News Piece! Dr. Dorothy Carter's research on factors that enable groups to tackle complex challenges was recently featured by the Franklin College of Arts and Science news! Read more about her work with NASA, U.S. Army Research Institute, and other organizations here. Read more about Dr. Dorothy Carter Featured in Franklin College News Piece!
Dr. Keith Campbell releases new book on Narcissism! Dr. Keith Campbell’s new book, in collaboration with Grady College alumna Carolyn Crist, was recently released: “The New Science of Narcissism: Understanding one of the greatest Psychological challenges of our time – and what you can do about it”. Check it out! https://www.amazon.com/New-Science-Narcissism-Understanding-Psychological/dp/1683644026 Read more about Dr. Keith Campbell releases new book on Narcissism!
$10M NIH grant to Center for Family Research, including Drs. Gene Brody, Steven Beach, Brett Clementz, Katie Ehrlich, and Larry Sweet Center for Family Research receives $10M NIH grant to continue their studies of health risks of poverty and racial discrimination. Investigators include Drs. Gene Brody, Steven Beach, Brett Clementz, Katie Ehrlich, and Larry Sweet. Congratulations! Read more here. Read more about $10M NIH grant to Center for Family Research, including Drs. Gene Brody, Steven Beach, Brett Clementz, Katie Ehrlich, and Larry Sweet
Graduate Student Dominique La Barrie has been awarded an APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship! Huge congratulations to 2nd year BBS graduate student, Dominique La Barrie, who has been awarded an APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship for 2020-21! Keep up the outstanding work! Read more about Graduate Student Dominique La Barrie has been awarded an APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship!
Dr. Greg Strauss' lab part of 27 site, $52 million dollar NIH funded study! Dr. Greg Strauss and his lab are among 27 international institutions collaborating to further understand phenotypes associated with the clinical high risk or prodrome state of schizophrenia in adolescents and young adults. This is the largest multisite collaborative psychosis risk study conducted in the world to date! Read more about Dr. Greg Strauss' lab part of 27 site, $52 million dollar NIH funded study!
Drew Abney Graduate Coordinator Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program My research focuses on how behaviors and social interactions impact developmental trajectories throughout infancy and into toddlerhood. Studies conducted in my lab use various techniques: from conducting controlled laboratory experiments to free-flowing toy play sessions to collecting daylong multimodal (e.g., vocalizations, body movements, etc.) behavioral data. I’m motivated to apply existing techniques from applied computational social science and dynamical systems theory and also develop new computational and analytic methods to understand the dynamics of development during infancy and early childhood. *I am not recruiting graduate students during the 2023-24 application cycle* Education Education: Postdoctoral Scholar in Developmental Psychology at Indiana University (2016-2019) Ph.D. in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced (2016) Research Research Interests: sensorimotor development; human interaction; emotion regulation; perception/action; language development Selected Publications Selected Publications: Full list on my Google Scholar Profile Abney, D.H., Paxton, A., Dale, R., & Kello, C.T. (2021). Cooperation in sound and motion: Complexity matching in collaborative interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Abney, D.H., Suanda, S.H., Smith, L.B., Yu, C. (2020). What are the building blocks of parent-infant coordinated attention in free-flowing interaction? Infancy. Abney, D.H., Dale, R., Louwerse, M.M., & Kello, C.T. (2018). The Bursts and Lulls of Multimodal Interaction: Temporal Distributions of Behavior Reveal Differences Between Verbal and Non‐Verbal Communication. Cognitive Science, 42(4), 1297-1316. Borjon, J.I., Abney, D.H., Smith, L.B., & Yu, C. (2018). Developmentally changing attractor dynamics of manual actions with objects in late infancy. Complexity. Abney, D.H., Warlaumont, A. S., Oller, D.K., Wallot, S., & Kello, C.T. (2017). Multiple coordination patterns in infant and adult vocalizations. Infancy, 22(4), 514-539. Abney, D.H., Paxton, A., Dale, R., & Kello, C.T. (2014). Complexity matching in dyadic conversation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(6), 2304. Abney, D.H., Warlaumont, A.S., Haussman, A., Ross, J.M., & Wallot, S. (2014). Using nonlinear methods to quantify changes in infant limb movements and vocalizations. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 771.