You are invited to participate in a research study about emotional response and older age. The purpose of this study is to determine how the emotional responses of older adults, aged 65 and older, relate to thinking abilities. Participants watch videos, complete questionnaires, and engage in brief cognitive testing. Participants must be accompanied by a companion, who will complete two brief questionnaires. Appointments are at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and last up to 2 hours.

The Infant Cognition Lab is seeking infant participants age 11–12 and 18–24 months-old for a study investigating how infants think about faces.

Participants can be seen at one of two locations, the UMass Amherst Infant Cognition Lab or at the UMass Center, Tower Square, Springfield, MA.

Infants will watch a fun puppet show and complete a reaching task using characters with different faces.

The Cognition and Action Lab at UMass Amherst is recruiting children (6 - 9 years of age) for a study assessing the effects of sleep on behavior in children with ADHD.

• Children will wear a watch to monitor sleep for 10-days
• For 5 days of the study, your child will follow their normal sleep routine
• For the other 5 days of the study, your child will go to bed 1.5 hours earlier than they normally do
• There will be approximately 1 week between these 5-day periods
• At the end of these 5 day testing periods, you and your child will participate in 2 overnight visits at our sleep lab located on campus
• During these overnight visits, children will complete a computer task and wear sleep-recording sensors to measure sleep physiology during overnight sleep

If you and your child choose to participate, you are free to withdraw anytime. Eligible children should have diagnosed ADHD, no other developmental disorders or sleep disorders, sleep ≤ 10 hours/night, have a bedtime after 8pm (on average) and have normal, or corrected to normal vision.

The Cognitive & Developmental Neuroscience Lab at UMass Amherst is recruiting volunteers for an EEG (electroencephalogram) study investigating the neural basis of visual cognition.

* Eligibility: Right-handed, 18-35 year-olds with no history of attention disabilities or neurological disorder

We are looking for:

• Right-handed adults, 20-29 years old
• Right-handed children and adolescents, 10-17 years old
• No neurological or psychiatric disorders
• Not taking daily medication for these disorders

Location:

• University of Massachusetts Amherst. Human Magnetic Resonance Center at IALS.

What will you do?

• Perform different tasks while your brain is monitored with a MRI scanner
• You will also perform a set of behavioral tasks that measure your cognitive capacity
• The study is completely non-invasive
• Everything will be performed in a single 2 hour session

You will get a chance to see firsthand how science gets done.

For more information about child and adolescent participation please call Youngbin Kwak at 413/461-0129 or email kwaknlpgroup@gmail.com.

For more information about adult participation please call Youngbin Kwak at 413/345-6870 or email fmrikwak@gmail.com.

Volunteers Wanted for Research Study

• Are you between 18 and 55 years of age? 
• Do your emotions shift suddenly? 
• Or do you engage in impulsive behaviors when you are feeling upset or in emotional pain?

If so, you may qualify for a study focused on how emotions and personality affect learning and impulsivity. Participants will complete some interviews, questionnaires, and computer games at several different times.