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Lab Name	Researcher	Lab Category	Key Topics
	Craig, Wendy	Clinical, Developmental	bullying, victimization, healthy relationships, developmental psychopathology, interpersonal violence, teen dating violence
	Bowie, Christopher	Clinical	cognitive functioning, mechanisms of cognitive impairment, mental disorders, interventions, quality of life
	Vine, Vera	Clinical	biopsychosocial mechanisms, emotion dysregulation, emotion awareness, embodied emotion and interoception, stress, suicidal thoughts
	Harkness, Kate	Clinical	stress, early trauma, etiology, pathology, depression, adolescence, biomarker-environment interactions
Pain affect Cognition (PAC) Lab	Salomons, Tim	Clinical	mechanisms of emotional, cognitive modulation of pain, pain vulnerability, pain, mental health disorders
Pain Research Lab	Tripp, Dean	Clinical	chronic abdominal-pelvic pain diseases, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Chronic Prostatitis, Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome, Interstitial Cystitis / Bladder Pain Syndrome, pain experience, disease outcomes, related disability, relationship impact, sexuality, mood, suicidality
	Stewart, Jeremy	Clinical	self-destructive behaviours, suicide, aggression, youth
	Flores, Luis	Clinical	close relationships, interpersonal functioning, emotion, depression
	Chivers, Meredith	Clinical	Sexual arousal, desire, response functioning in women, orientation, identity, concordance
	Pukall, Caroline	Clinical	sexual health
Attention Lab	Wilson, Daryl	Cognitive Neuroscience	attention, attentional control processes, perceptions, memories, actions
	Flanagan, Randy	Cognitive Neuroscience	planning and controlling actions, perception, learning
	Wammes, Jeffrey	Cognitive Neuroscience	cognitive processes, learning, attention, memory, perception
	Gallivan, Jason	Cognitive Neuroscience	cognitive and neural, decision-making, perception, memory and learning, control of action.
Motivation and Cognition (MotiCog) Lab	Olmstead, Mary C.	Cognitive Neuroscience	motivation, cognition, rewarding stimuli, learning, goal-directed behaviours, drug addiction
Music Cognition Lab	Cuddy, Lola (Emerita)	Cognitive Neuroscience	perception, cognition, emotional processes, music appreciation, understanding, nonmusical cognitive skills, musical dyslexia, aging and music, musical memories in Alzheimer's Disease
Neurobiology of Anxiety Lab	Menard, Janet	Cognitive Neuroscience	fear, anxiety, brain function, regulation
	Poppenk, Jordan	Cognitive Neuroscience	memory organization, neural mechanisms, dysfunctional memory
	Tusche, Anita	Cognitive Neuroscience	human decision-making, dietary behaviour, altruism, consumer choices
	Castelhano, Monica	Cognitive Neuroscience	real-world scene perception, perceptual and cognitive systems, memory, attention
Sleep and Neuroplasticity Lab	Dringenberg, Hans	Cognitive Neuroscience	sleep, declarative and non-declarative memory consolidation, quiet waking, meditation, homeostasis, rest, and recovery
Speech Perception and Production Lab	Munhall, Kevin (Emeritus)	Cognitive Neuroscience	communication, neural basis of language, face-to-face communication, audiovisual integration, eye movements during audiovisual speech perception, motor control of oral movement
van Anders Lab	van Anders, Sari	Cognitive Neuroscience, Social and Personality	gender/sex, sexual diversity, sex research, social neuroendocrinology, feminist and queer science
Adolescent Dynamics Lab	Hollenstein, Tom	Developmental	socioemotional development, emotion regulation in adolescents
Autism Spectrum Disorders Lab	Kelley, Elizabeth	Developmental	Autism Spectrum Disorders, developmental, communication and language, social interactions
	Morningstar, Michele	Developmental	emotional communication, development, social cognition, expression, perception, non-verbal cues
	Sabbagh, Mark	Developmental	social, cognitive, neurobiological, children, understandings of the world, preschool years, theory of mind
	Fitneva, Stanka	Developmental	language processing and learning, theory of mind development, memory, linguistics, philosophy, sociology.
	Kuhlmeier, Valerie	Developmental	development of social cognition, origins of cognition, infants, children, dogs, through collaboration, non-human primates. Specifically, our research focuses on the development of social cognition, intention reading, theory of mind, prosocial behaviour
Culture and Cognition Lab	Ji, Li-Jun	Social and Personality	cultural differences, perception, memory, categorization, prediction, judgment and decision making
The Fab Lab	Fabrigar, Lee	Social and Personality	attitudes, persuasion, evaluations, social behaviour, judgement
	Hauser, David	Social and Personality	judgment, social cognition, communication, inferences, preferences, reasoning
The Mac Lab	MacDonald, Tara	Social and Personality	health decision-making, romantic relationships, attitudes
Motivation and Social Cognition (MASC) Lab	Jacobson, Jill	Social and Personality	motivated social cognition, dysphoria, subclinical depression, causal uncertainty, health psychology
Thought In Context Lab	Smallwood, Jonathan	Cognitive Neuroscience	human cognition, neural, thoughts and feelings, brain analysis, patterns of ongoing thought, task driven behaviour, patterns of ongoing experience
Pereira Lab	Pereira, Effie	Cognitive Neuroscience	temporal dynamics, social attention, internal attention, computational analysis, ecological contexts

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