Annual Forum Registration Open
Registration is now open for CCF's 8th annual forum on October 20th...
CCF Faculty Affiliate Studies Language Development at Momentous Institute
Dr. Raul Rojas, assistant professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and CCF faculty affiliate, is studying how dual-language students learn verbal skills at Momentous Institute...
Research Study Recruiting Infants 4 - 20 Months Old
UT Dallas PhD student Hannah Pourchot is recruiting participants for her study of face scanning among babies 4 - 20 months old with normal hearing or with hearing loss. Contact Hannah at hannah.pourchot@utdallas.edu for more information.
UT Dallas Hosts Kids’ University
For the 22nd year, UT Dallas and the nonprofit Rainbow Days hosted a week-long educational camp for children ages 4 to 15 who are experiencing homelessness...
New Internship Program Bridges Age Gap Through Positive Storytelling
CCF Advisory Council member and director of student programs, Joanna Gentsch, has developed a new student internship program that encourages senior adults to share their life stories through positive storytelling...
Research of Center Affiliates
Close Relationships and Health Lab
Directed by Dr. Heidi Kane, this lab investigates the basic relationship processes that are associated with relationship functioning and the links between romantic relationships and physical health.
Dallas Preschool Readiness Project
Directed by Dr. Margaret T. Owen, this lab researches self-regulation skills as an important foundation of school readiness.
Directed by Dr. Candice Mills, this lab studies how children and adults think about the world around them, including how children and adults decide how much to believe the information they encounter, how they evaluate their own knowledge, and how children determine what someone is likely to know.
Development of Social Cognition Lab
Directed by Dr. Noah Sasson, this lab studies different aspects of social cognition, a term that refers to the perceptual and processing abilities that facilitate social interaction.
Lifespan Neuroscience and Cognition (LiNC) Laboratory
Directed by Dr. Chandramallika Basak, this lab investigates how and where we remember information over a short period of time, how attention and memory interact and carry on with multiple tasks, and how these cognitive functions change with age and training.
The Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab
Directed by Dr. Mandy Maguire, this lab is focused on understanding how children learn language and how the brain processes language in general.