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Other Centers & Labs involved in Social and/or Cognitive Neuroscience Research
Carnegie Mellon -- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
The CNBC is a joint project of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon, integrating the strengths of the University of Pittsburgh in basic and clinical neuroscience with the strengths of Carnegie Mellon in psychology, computer science, biological sciences, and statistics. The CNBC is dedicated to the investigation of the neural mechanisms that give rise to human cognitive abilities, broadly construed. The outstanding faculty of the CNBC includes researchers investigating normal processes and disorders of cognition, and there is a great deal of interest in learning and development. We stress the convergent use of a wide range of methods to investigate topics ranging from sensory processing and motor control to language, semantic cognition, and reasoning.
Columbia University -- Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience Unit
The goal of the SCAN Unit is to provide an interdisciplinary research and training environment for researchers at all levels interested in studying the psychological and neural bases of social, cognitive, and affective behaviors. The integration of three distinct laboratories into a cohesive integrated unit provides unique opportunities for collaborative research and training in multiple approaches, techniques, and traditions.
Duke University - Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) at Duke University is dedicated to research, education, and training in the psychological, computational, and biological mechanisms of higher mental function in these research areas: perception, attention, memory, language, emotion, motor control, executive functions, consciousness and the evolution of mental processes. Cognitive neuroscience is, by its nature, an interdisciplinary area of research and scholarship, and the Center's faculty, researchers, and students, drawn from several university and medical school departments, reflect this.
Georgia State University - Social Neuroscience Laboratory
The Social Neuroscience Laboratory focuses on the reciprocal influences of the body and mind in the context of human social behavior. With this aim, lab members study emotional, cognitive, social, and physiological processes using a variety of methods. At present, the laboratory is capable of recording several autonomic measures (e.g., electrocardiography, skin conductance, respiration) as well as facial muscle movements (i.e., facial electromyography) while participants perform tasks on a computer, watch a video, or interact with another person. In addition, we will soon be conducting projects that will involve functional neuroimaging, electroencephalography (EEG), eye tracking, robotics, and non-human primates.
Harvard University -- Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
The main goal of the research in the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory is to investigate the brain mechanisms underlying affective processing in normal individuals and participants with mood disorders, particularly major depression. Under the direction of Prof. Diego Pizzagalli, the lab utilizes various functional neuroimaging techniques (electroencephalography, EEG; functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI; and positron emission tomography, PET) to investigate (a) the functional neuroanatomy of depression, (b) the brain substrates of individual differences in affective style and vulnerability to affective disorders, and (c) the brain mechanisms of affective processing and cognition-emotion interactions.
MIT -- Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
We seek to understand the organization of memory, thought, and emotion in the human brain. We want to discover how the healthy brain supports human capacities, such as hippocampal support for declarative memory, amygdala support for emotional memory, and prefrontal cortical support for working memory. We also study how experience alters functional brain organization (brain plasticity). We aim to understand principles of brain organization that are consistent across individuals, and those that vary across people due to age, personality, and other dimensions of individuality. Therefore, we examine brain-behavior relations across the life span, from children through the elderly. We are also interested in learning how disadvantageous variations in brain structure and function underlie diseases and disorders, and have studied developmental disorders (dyslexia, ADHD, autism), age-related disorders (Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease), and psychiatric disorders (depression, social phobia, schizophrenia). Further, we want to understand how potential behavioral or pharmacologic treatments alter brain function when they are therapeutically effective.
New York University -- The Phelps Lab
The Phelps lab investigates human learning and memory and its relation to emotion. We use a cognitive neuroscience approach in which we attempt to discover the neural systems involved in these behaviors. Most of our studies use a combination of techniques including behavioral assessments, psychophysiological responses, brain activation assessed with functional magnetic resonance imaging, and the investigation of patients with brain lesions. By combining these techniques we hope to achieve a more complete understanding of the complex interactions between learning, emotion and the human brain. Our research has investigated a wide range of behaviors related to emotional learning including implicit and explicit memory, attention, and social responses.
University of California, Berkeley -- Neuroscience Institute
The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, was established to integrate neuroscience faculty across the University. The broad goal is to use the power of diverse research approaches to address central questions in neuroscience.
University of California, Irvine -- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary research center aimed at understanding the relation between cognitive abilities and the neural systems that support them. The Center's research focus in cognitive neuroscience spans a wide range of methods involving both human and animal work, and covers an equally wide range of content areas ranging from sensory-motor processes to high level cognition. Areas that are currently represented within the center include auditory and visual perception, motor control, learning and memory, speech and language, and attention.
University of California, San Diego -- Developmental Cognitive and Social Neuroscience Lab
Leslie Carver studies the brain basis of cognitive and social developmental change in the transition from infancy to the early toddler years. Near the end of the first year of life, infants begin to develop the ability to remember information over very long intervals. Toddler memory research examines changes in the brain that allow this long-term memory to develop. In addition to developments in cognition, infants at the end of the first year of life form long-lasting relationships with caregivers, and begin to use caregivers as a source of information about how to behave. In this area of inquiry, we conduct research on changes in the brain that are associated with such changes in social behavior.
University of California, Los Angeles- Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Most of the research ... involves a social cognitive neuroscience (SCN) approach... Social cognitive neuroscience focuses on how the human brain carries out social information processing. Practically speaking, this means that we use functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and neuropsychology to test new hypotheses regarding social cognition or old questions whose answers continue to elude us.
University of Colorado - Social Neuroscience Lab
The CU Social Neuroscience Lab is a research lab addressing social psychological issues using a multi-level perspective that integrates psychological and physiological measures. We focus in particular on issues related to prejudice, affect, attitudes, and emotion.
University of North Carolina - Social Neuroscience Lab
The UNC Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is devoted to examining research questions of theoretical importance to social and cognitive psychology using a combination of psychological, behavioral, and physiological measures. An overview of the measures and research methods typically used in our research can be found here. Currently, the lab is primarily devoted to the study of electrophysiological activity related to person perception (i.e., stereotypes, prejudice, impression-formation, expectancies), aggression, media violence, and alcohol effects on cognition.
University of Pennsylvania - Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Penn's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary community dedicated to understanding the neural bases of human thought. Current CCN research addresses many of the central questions about the mind and brain, from the perception of the visual world, through attention, learning and semantic memory, to emotion and the planning of complex action.
