UTK Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

11/24/2025

UT Knoxville needs you! Ever wonder how infants learn about emotions? Us too! We are looking for parents with infants 10 months old and under to participate in an exciting new study!

Families will come into our lab and answer questions about their child's envrionment and learning. Your child will then watch a series of short videos of people speaking and objects.

We have parking right on the Hill for you to use and provide child care for other siblings while in our lab. For participating you will receive $20 and a tshirt for your child.

To sign up, please fill out this contact form: https://forms.gle/e24LXqWVQxoXWbLa6

Share this post with anyone you think might be interested in joining us! For more information, you can contact us by phone at (865) 974-3227 or by email at [email protected].

Welcome to the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN) Lab! Our research focuses on the development of attention and memory in infancy. Specifically, we investigate how attention develops and...

03/10/2025

UT Knoxville needs you! The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is looking for families with children between 0 and 4 years to participate in studies on the development of attention, memory and face processing in babies and young children!

Sign up online: https://cdrg.utk.edu/sign-up/

Studies are short and fun! Sessions can be scheduled at your convenience. We provide free parking, childcare for siblings, and a thank you gift for participating!
Please share this invitation with anyone you know who may be interested! For more information, you can contact us by phone at (865) 974-3227 or by email at [email protected].

Sign-Up Thank you for your interest in the Child Development Research Group at the University of Tennessee. The Department of Psychology has five labs actively recruiting participants 0-5 years of age. By filling out the sign-up form, you enter your information into our pool of possible participants...

02/13/2025

Parents are invited to participate in a FULLY ONLINE infant development study! We are looking for parents with infants 12mo and under to participate in our study of infant attention by joining a zoom call with our team and watching some fun videos with your child! Spend about an hour with our team and receive a $10 Amazon gift card for your time! Sign up here:

09/06/2024

Our graduate student Lauren Slivka presenting her eye-tracking project at the International Congress of Infant Studies in Glasgow this summer.

Be featured in our next project by signing up to participating in our lab!

04/30/2024

Come say Hi👋 May 18th at the Children's Festival of Reading! We will have a table at the festival where you can come chat with our graduate students about the lab and the current studies we are running! You may even get to see some of your favorite children's book characters 🐻📖

https://www.knoxcountylibrary.org/childrens-festival-of-reading

04/02/2024

UT Knoxville needs you! The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is looking for families with children between 0 and 4 years to participate in studies on the development of attention, memory and face processing in babies and young children!

Sign up online: https://cdrg.utk.edu/sign-up/

Studies are short and fun! Sessions can be scheduled at your convenience. We provide free parking, childcare for siblings, and a thank you gift for participating!

Please share this invitation with anyone you know who may be interested! For more information, you can contact us by phone at (865) 974-3227 or by email at [email protected].

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the University of Tennessee Knoxville

04/20/2021

We would like to congratulate one of the lab's alumna, Dr. Kelly Roth, on being recognized as a Volunteer of Distinction and for receiving a Professional Promise Award!

New for 2021, the Volunteer of Distinction Awards celebrate the academic achievements of UT's graduating seniors and graduate students.

We are so proud of you, Kelly!! 🧡

12/04/2020

Con"grad"ulations to one of our fabulous research assistants, Alyssa Allen!! Allie, we are so proud of you! Thank you so much for all of your hard work in the lab over the past 2 years. We look forward to seeing all of your future successes!

10/28/2020

We are so very excited to announce that our very own Kelly Roth successfully defended her dissertation today in support of her PhD!! 🎉🥳 You can now officially call her Dr. Kelly Roth!

Dr. Roth has been a Vol since 2012, and was the heart and soul of DCN Lab since August 2015! We are so proud of her, and are so thankful for all of the hard work she put into the lab for the past five and a half years! We're sad to see her go, but are very much looking forward to her future successes!!

Congratulations, Kelly!! We are so proud of you!

07/27/2020

Congratulations to one of our wonderful research assistants, Yoo Young Cho 🧡 Thank you for being a part of our team. Your bright smile will be missed! We're looking forward to seeing where the future will take you!

05/24/2020

Congratulations to one of our undergraduate research assistants, Hunter Dance!!👨🏼‍🎓We were so fortunate to have him as part of our team. Looking forward to seeing your future successes!!

Congratulations, James Dance, 2020 graduating senior with a major in Neuroscience and Biological Sciences!

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