Lab Photo Archive

Lab Picnic 2022

Dr.Cassie Eng!!

Summer 2021 S'mores Party!

Congratulations to Seniors Elizabeth Fulton, Suanna Moron, and Megan Christy who graduated this Spring!! Also to Tishya Gridhar, Kristy Zhang, and Crystal Xue (not pictured). You will all be missed!!


Graduate Student, Cassie Eng, was awarded the Departmental Service Award, the Dietrich College TA Award, and the Departmental Best Paper Award by the CMU Psychology Department! 

Graduate Student, Cassie Eng, presenting a poster at the International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network and lab members supporting her at the virtual conference!

Congratulations to our seniors Emery Noll and Cecilia Mastrogiacomo on graduating this Spring! 

Lab meetings look a little different during the pandemic, but we're grateful to be able to continue our research and connect to one another remotely!

Lab Photo Summer 2019

Graduate Student, Cassie Eng, presenting a poster at the Society for Neuroscience and The Interdisciplinary Society for Developmental Psychobiology Conference in Chicago, IL

Summer research alumnae, Aria Tsegai-Moore and Megan Maxwell, presenting posters and receiving presentation awards at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Anaheim, California

Research Associate, Oceann Stanley, presenting a poster at CMU's 2019 Teaching & Learning Summit

Graduate Student, Cassie Eng, presenting at the NSF Game-based Assessment Conference in Minneapolis, MN

PIER Research Experience for Undergraduates 2019

Graduate Students, Jaeah Kim (left), Emily Keebler (middle), and Cassie Eng (right) presenting their posters at CogSci 2019

The Cognitive Development Lab goes to summer camp at Phipp's Conservatory & Botantical Gardens!

Undergraduates practicing their summer PIER REU Presentations

Megan Maxwell (middle), with her mentors, Emily Keebler (left), and Jaeah Kim (right)
Aria Tsegai-Moore (left) and her mentor Cassie Eng (right)

Summer Exergame team meeting

Summer 2019 bowling night with the lab!

Research Associate, Melissa Pocsai, and Graduate Student, Cassie Eng, presenting their research on the effects of cognitive motor training on prefrontal cortex connectivity during resting state in preschoolers.

Graduate Student, Cassie Eng, and a team of undergraduate students from Dr. Fisher and Dr. Thiessen's lab presenting their research at CMU's 2019 Meeting of the Minds-Undergraduate Research Symposium. 

Dr. Vales presenting at the 2019 Society of Research in Child Development conference in Baltimore, Maryland

Graduate students, Patience Stevens and Cassie Eng, during a poster session at SRCD 2019

PIER-REU program alum Ashli-Ann Douglas presenting her research on the development of early numeracy skills 

PIER-REU alum Andrés Gómez-Colunga presening his research on narrowing math achievement gaps 

 Lab alumna Dr. Brandee Feola visits to tell us about her recent work at Vanderbilt University

PIER Research Experience for Undergraduates 2018

Summer 2018 Lab Meeting Photo

Summer 2018 Escape Room 

Spring 2017 Lab Meeting Photo

Cognitive Development Lab Ice Skating Party, December 2016

NIRS Testing Party