Research Labs

Bishop Lab - Recent directions in the Bishop lab include investigation of the neural substrate of anxiety-related biases in perception and attention, the brain basis of individual differences in face processing, and use of computational neuroscience approaches to investigate individual differences in contingency learning with specific regard to fear-conditioning and decision making.

Bunge Lab - The Bunge lab uses behavioral and brain imaging techniques to examine how we control our thoughts and actions to make them consistent with our internal goals. The goal is to elucidate the mechanisms underlying control processes, as well as to characterize the nature of the contributions of the prefrontal cortex and associated brain regions to cognitive control, in children and adults.

D'Esposito Lab - The D'Esposito lab is a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory within the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Gallant Lab - The Gallant lab develops computational models that describe and predict how the brain represents information under naturalistic conditions (i.e., natural movies, natural speech and natural tasks).

Hsu Lab - The neuroeconomics lab studies the neural basis of economic behavior, including both individual and social aspects.

Ivry Lab - The Cognition and Action (CognAc) lab is interested in how people perform and learn skilled actions. We use a range of cognitive neuroscience tools including functional imaging, transcranial brain stimulation, and behavioral studies of patients with neurological disorders.

Jagust Lab - The Jagust lab is engaged in the study of brain aging and dementia, using a wide range of brain imaging techniques in order to understand the anatomic, biochemical and neurochemical bases of changes in behavior with age and dementia.

Johnson Lab - Sheri Johnson's lab conducts research on how emotion and impulsivity relate to mental health problems. The main focus is on people who become impulsive during states of high emotion (a transdiagnostic worry), with interventions to help them become more calm.

Kayser Lab - The Kayser lab's focus is the cognitive neuroscience of self regulation. We use functional MRI, pharmacology, EEG, and other tools in order to define (and influence) the cognitive and neural correlates of decision making.

Knight Lab - The Knight lab studies the contribution of human prefrontal cortex to the control of cognitive and social behavior. The lab uses EEG, MRI and behavioral techniques in patients with frontal lobe damage in an effort to understand the neural mechanisms of cognitive processing.

Kring Lab - The Emotion and Social Interaction lab uses behavioral, psychophysiological, and brain imaging methods to study the linkages between emotion and cognitive control, goal directed behavior, and social interaction. A major focus of our research is on how these linkages go awry in different mental disorders, including schizophrenia and depression.

Lustig Lab - Miki Lustig's research is focussed on developing rapid MRI pulse sequences and reconstructions.

Silver Lab - The Silver lab uses a combination of behavioral, neuroimaging, electrophysiological, modeling, and pharmacological techniques to characterize the neurophysiological and neurochemical substrates of visual perception, attention, and learning in healthy humans and patient populations.

Vandsburger Lab - We combine the development of novel MRI methods with integrative biology of heart failure and regeneration to create new tools to reduce mortality from heart failure.

Walker Lab - Research in the Walker laboratory focuses on cognitive aspects of the sleeping brain using a multimodal imaging approach, including functional MRI (fMRI), neurophysiological and psychophysical techniques.

Weiner Lab - Kevin Weiner's Cognitive Neuroanatomy Lab (CNL) works toward building mechanistic models explaining how brain structure and function contribute to measurable behaviors. We implement a multi-modal approach of anatomical measurements in living and post-mortem individuals across spatial scales to compare to functional measurements in humans.

Wheeler LABS - Wheeler LABS is a group of scientists dedicated to developing innovative methods to study brain function, with the goal of translating these methods into clinically useful tools.

Whitney Lab - The Whitney Lab studies perception and action, visual cognition, cognitive neuroscience and development.