Director

Bennett I. Bertenthal 

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James H. Rudy Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Indiana University
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
(812) 856-0958
bbertent@indiana.edu

Major Areas of Research: Perception and action, social attention, action understanding, automatic imitation/mimicry, emotion regulation, eye tracking, real-world attention and decision making, science policy.


Researchers

Liz daSilva

Assistant Professor, IUPUC

Office: PY 181D
(812) 856-0814
elabendy@indiana.edu

Major Areas of Research : Emotion processing, self-regulation, mother-child interaction, psychophysiology.

Shawn Fagan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: PY 181D
(812) 856-0814
faganse@iu.edu

Major Areas of Research: Eye tracking and psychophysiological measures, development of emotion regulation, individual differences, social decision-making.

Jacek Kolacz

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: PY A124A
(812) 856-0814
jkolacz@live.unc.edu

Major Areas of Research: Social development and disorders, effects of trauma, neural regulation of vocal acoustic features, sensory and interoceptive awareness, quantitative methods for longitudinal data, psychometrics.

Sam Harding

Graduate Student - PhD Expected 2020

Office: PY A320A
Phone:
hardinsm@indiana.edu

Major Areas of Research: Social attention, computational modeling, eye-tracking methodology and analysis.

Eugene Kim

Graduate Student - PhD Expected 2020

Office: PY A100B
(951) 818-9859
emkim@indiana.edu

Major Areas of Research: Behavioral mimicry; infant social cognition; development of action understanding; action-prediction; eye-tracking.


Research Staff

Lauren Wade

Lab Coordinator

(812) 856-0814
lcwade@iu.edu

Donald S. Szarkowicz

Software Developer

(812) 360-2205
dszarkow@indiana.edu

Technologies of interest include the Kinect and Hololens sensors, image processing and client/server applications. Proficient in multiple programming languages including C#, C++, C, PHP, Perl and Matlab. Application development skills include HTML, CSS, jQuery, Javascript, the Bootstrap framework and ASP.NET.


Research Assistants

Khushboo Chougule

B.S. Expected 2020
kchougul@umail.iu.edu

Rebecca Hailperin-Lausch

B.S. 2019
rhailper@umail.iu.edu

Naiquian Luan

B.S. Expected 2020
naiqluan@iu.edu

Carly Rasmussen

B.S. Expected 2020
carasmus@iu.edu