Kelsey Elise Roberts Graduate Student, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program Kelsey Roberts is a graduate student in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences program at the University of Georgia. She is a member of the Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience lab under the advisement of Dr. Jennifer McDowell. Additionally, she operates the 1T and 7T small animal MRI systems at the University's Bio-Imaging Center (the BIRC). Her research interests include neural mechanisms of cognitive control in clinical and healthy populations. Her work primarily utilizes MRI and infrared eye-tracking. Education Education: University of Georgia - M.S in Psychology 2024 State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego - B.A. in Psychology, minor in Biology 2021 Other Information Other Affiliations: UGA Bioimaging Center
Xiaobin Lou Graduate Student, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program Education Education: M.S., Sun Yat-sen University, 2019 Research Research Interests: I am interested in studying cultural psychology; I try to link my research with important social issues (e.g., climate change). Selected Publications Selected Publications: Lou, X., Wang, H., & Minkov, M. (2022). The Correlation Between Self-compassion and Depression Revisited: a Three-Level Meta-analysis. Mindfulness, 1-12. Lou, X., Lin, Y., & Li, L. M. W. (2022). Predicting priority of environmental protection over economic growth using macroeconomic and individual-level predictors: Evidence from machine learning. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 82, 101843. Wang, H., & Lou, X. (2022). The Correlation Between Self-Compassion and Life Satisfaction Varies Across Societal Individualism-Collectivism: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 00220221221109547. Lou, X., & Li, L. M. W. (2021). The relationship between identity and environmental concern: A meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 76, 101653.
Han Maria Jia Graduate Student, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program Research Research Interests: I'm interested in exploring how brains discriminate emotional stimuli during naturalistic perception tasks. Specifically, using electroencephalography (EEG), I want to understand how the cortical and subcortical structures work together in real time.
Christian Jerry Graduate Student, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program My current research interest involves exploring the relationships between language, physiological responses, and cognitive-emotional development in children during dyadic interactions. So, I investigate how parental language supports autonomy and how that can influence children's self-regulation by analyzing physiological markers like respiratory sinus arrhythmia and neural activity via functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Education Education: 2025 M.A. in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, University of Georgia – AthensAdvisor: Dr. Drew Abney (PI)Thesis: Examining how parental language that supports children’s autonomy influences their self-regulatory abilities. (In-progress) 2022 ICIS Founding Generation Summer Fellowship, University of Maimi FloridaAdvisor: Dr. Daniel Messinger (PI) & Dr. Sam MitsvenProject: Preschool Interactions during COVID-19: Effects of Safety Regulations on Vocalizations and Proximity in the Classroom 2021 Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Indiana University – BloomingtonAdvisors: Dr. Chen Yu (PI), Dr. Sara Schroer, & Dr. Drew Abney Research Research Interests: Development and Learning, Language and Cognitive Development, Perception and Action, Visual Attention,Social Interactions, Computer Vision, & Machine Learning. Selected Publications Selected Publications: Steffen, G. M., Jerry, C. M., Bell, C., Kolberg, A. R., Patel, B., & Abney, D. H. (2024). The operationalization of coordinated attention and the relations to language development: A meta-analysis. Advances in child development and behavior, 66, 81-107. Abney, D. H., Jerry, C. M., Smith, L. B., & Yu, C. (2024). Look before you reach: Fixation‐reach latencies predict reaching kinematics in toddlers. Infancy, 29(1), 6-21. Mitsven, S. G., Perry, L. K., Jerry, C. M., & Messinger, D. S. (2022). Classroom language during COVID-19: Associations between mask-wearing and objectively measured teacher and preschooler vocalizations. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 874293. Messinger, D. S., Perry, L. K., Mitsven, S. G., Tao, Y., Moffitt, J., Fasano, R. M., ... & Jerry, C. M. (2022). Computational approaches to understanding interaction and development. In Advances in child development and behavior (Vol. 62, pp. 191-230). JAI.
