CNL End of Semester Party

We hosted our end-of-semester party on 12/17/2024 to express our gratitude to all the lab members and graduate students for their hard work and dedication throughout the year! We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and look forward to seeing everyone in the new year!

Christophe Delay awarded Best MA thesis

We are pleased to announce that second-year graduate student Christophe Delay has been awarded the Best MA Thesis Award. This honor is given to the second-year student with the most outstanding MA thesis, based on the strength of both the written document and the oral presentation delivered to faculty and students at the spring CSF. […]

Dom Roberts awarded the Thompson Endowment & CSS Research Scholar Award

Graduate student Dom Roberts is awarded the Charles P. and Linda A. Thompson Endowment for Social Science Research & CSS Research Scholar Award from the College of Social Sciences. Congratulations to Dom for this amazing achievement! We thank the Thompson Endowment committee and College of Social Sciences for recognizing his work and providing this generous support!

New Findings of Stronger Tilt Aftereffects in Individuals Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Published in Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Comprehensive and computational accounts of schizophrenia suggest that a subset of symptoms are characterized by an abnormality in using context to shape perception and guide behavior. Here, we focused specifically on temporal context—the influence of past history and stored regularities across time on the interpretation and response to current input. The current study sought to […]

New Findings of Altered Thalamocortical Connectivity in Individuals Diagnosed with Schizophrenia and Healthy Siblings Accepted for Publication

Our manuscript entitled, ‘Altered thalamocortical structural connectivity in persons with schizophrenia and healthy siblings’ was accepted at the NeuroImage: Clinical. In this paper, we show that people diagnosed with schizophrenia have reduced thalamo-prefrontal connectivity and increased thalamo-motor connectivity. Healthy participants who have a sibling diagnosed with schizophrenia also have reduced thalamo-prefrontal connectivity, but no alteration in thalamo-motor connectivity. These findings have […]

Graduate students awarded grants from the MSU College of Social Science

Fourth year graduate student Beier Yao is awarded with The College of Social Science Research Scholars Award & Kenneth E. and The Marie J. Corey Research Endowment Award. First year graduate student Dom Roberts awarded with the College of Social Science Early Start Research Grant. Congratulations to Dom and Beier and thank you to The College […]