At the Affective Social Cognition Neurodevelopment (ASCENT) Lab, we take a developmental psychopathology perspective to study how early risk factors impact the way that children perceive and interact with their social world.
We do this by implementing neural, cognitive, and behavioral measurements in our laboratory. We focus on examining and characterizing the neurocognitive and behavioral processes that lead to either adaptive or maladaptive developmental pathways. Ultimately, we hope that our discoveries can inform preventative intervention strategies that facilitate children’s development of adaptive socioemotional outcomes.
