Lab Director: Dr. Drew Abney
Current position:
Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia
Faculty Affiliate in UGA's Artificial Intelligence Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2019) in Developmental Psychology at Indiana University working primarily with Drs. Linda Smith and Chen Yu. I also developed an ongoing and exciting collaboration with Dr. Bennett Bertenthal.
Ph.D (2016) in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced, with Dr. Christopher Kello (and lots of other awesome researchers!)
M.S. (2012) in Quantitative Psychology and Cognitive/Behavioral Science at Illinois State University with Dr. Jeff Wagman.
Christopher Bell (Graduate Student: Psychology): Chris is interested in studying how motor skills develop in infants and toddlers.
Fiona Cashin (Undergraduate Research Assistant: Psychology, Criminal Justice): Fiona plans to attend graduate school and pursue a career in forensic or clinical psychology.
Sara Ashley Collins (Undergraduate Research Assistant: Psychology): Sara plans to attend graduate school to study the effects of mental health disorders in parents on childhood development.
Abby Davis (Undergraduate Research Assistant: Human Development and Family Science): Abby is interested in how infant development correlates with development later in the lifespan.
Eliana Gelman (Undergraduate Research Assistant: Cognitive Science, Interdisciplinary Art): Eliana plans to attend graduate school and pursue a career in developmental neuroscience.
Avery Hughes (Undergraduate Research Assistant: Psychology, Human Services): Avery plans to attend graduate school and persue a career in mental health services.
Christian Jerry (Graduate Student: Psychology): Christian is interested in studying how early sensorimotor experiences in infant behaviors.
Amanda Kolberg (Undergraduate Research Assistant: Psychology, Cognitive Science): Amanda plans to attend graduate school to become an adolescent psychologist.
Sophie Mazzella (Undergraduate Research Assistant: Psychology, Human Services): Sophie plans to attend graduate school to become a school psychologist.
Bhumy Patel (Undergraduate Research Assistant: Psychology): Bhumy plans to take 1-2 gap years to attend graduate school before attending medical school to become a physician.
Brinkley Abney (Independent Scholar): Brinkley recently earned a Ph.D. in sticks and is now doing an AKC-funded postdoctoral fellowship building his expertise on state-of-the-art squirrel chasing techniques.
Research Assistant: This could be you! If you are interested in working in the lab as an undergradute research assistant, please email Dr. Abney (drew 'dot' abney 'at' uga 'dot' edu) with the subject heading 'Research Assistant Interest' and a send me a paragraph about why you are interested in working in the lab. If you are interested in working in the lab as an undergraduate student, please complete this brief survey.
Alumni:
Graduate Students:
Luke Armao: 2021-2022; Now doing a Ph.D. at UT-Austin. Master's Thesis: Joint Attention and Language Development: A Meta-Analysis.
Undergraduate Students:
Nick Edwards: 2021-2022
Elizabeth Na: 2021-2022
Archi Patel: 2021-2022
Hamza Syed: 2021-2022