Lab Director
Elizabeth Redcay
Elizabeth Redcay is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the director of the Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Cognitive Science from UCSD and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in MIT's Brain & Cognitive Sciences department before starting at UMD.
Graduate Students
Kate Rice
Kate is a Ph.D. student in Developmental Psychology and a member of the DSCN Lab. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics from the University of Michigan and was a Donald J. Cohen Fellow in Developmental Social Neuroscience at the Yale Child Study Center. She is interested in investigating the neural correlates of early social and communicative development in both typical development and autism, with an emphasis on methods that reflect the complexities of real-world interaction.
Lesley Sand
Lesley is a PhD student in Human Development, and a member of the Laboratory for the Neurodevelopment of Reading and Language. Her research interests include language acquisition and reading development in individuals with learning disabilities and neurological disorders. Lesley is collaborating with the DSCN lab on a study designed to investigate emotional language processing in individuals with autism. The ability to quickly and accurately infer others' emotional states through verbal context is essential to successful social communication. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we aim to identify brain regions associated with the difficulties underlying processing affective language in autism. http://www.lesleysand.com/index.html
Lab Manager
Dan O'Young
Dan graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in Biology with a specialization in neuroscience, and has since worked as a behavioral therapist at the Chicago Autism Academy and technical assistant at the Gabrieli Lab at MIT.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Ruth Ludlum
Ruth is a junior psychology major.
Nina Lichtenberg
Nina is a senior majoring in psychology with a minor in neuroscience.