Olivia Bell
Olivia is a first-year student in the CAT Lab with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar, and the DRR Lab with Dr. Rina Eiden. She received her B.A. (2023) in Psychology and a certification in Child Advocacy Studies from Buffalo State University. Here, she worked with Dr. Pamela Schuetze examining prenatal substance exposure and harsh parenting’s role in autonomic regulation in early childhood. Following graduation, she completed a year of post-baccalaureate work within Dr. Jamie Ostrov’s Social Development Lab at the University at Buffalo, where she led biospecimen collection and conducted interviews with preschoolers. Olivia is interested in studying the mechanisms by which prenatal and early life stressors impact physiological regulation in infancy and early childhood, and how socioenvironmental factors, such as parenting, play a role in these associations.
Dan Jiang (Chloe)
Dan Jiang (Chloe) is a visiting scholar in the Department of Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University, working with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar in the Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in Developmental Psychology at Zhejiang University under the supervison of Dr. Jie He. Her research interests include temperament and socioemotional neuroscience, and the role of early adversity in development.
Jiayi Fan
Jiayi Fan is a first-year Ph.D. student in the CAT Lab, with plans to pursue a dual-title degree in Social Data Analytics. Jiayi’s research focuses on how children internally process social feedback (e.g., evaluating different types of feedback, updating expectations) and how these processes relate to psychopathology. She is particularly interested in individual differences and within-person or dyadic dynamics. Methodologically, she enjoys using computational modeling to study behavior, but she is also open to incorporating other approaches, such as EEG, fMRI, and biological data, when appropriate. Outside of research, Jiayi survives on three nutrients: board games, drums, and travel.
Prathyusha (Pratt) Srinivasan
Prathyusha (Pratt) Srinivasan is a first-year graduate student in the Cognition, Affect, & Temperament Lab, working under the mentorship of Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar. She earned her B.S. in Neuroscience from Belmont University in 2023, where she used fNIRS to examine the neural correlates of emotion perception in adults. She then completed a post-graduate fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center with Dr. Kasia Chawarska, contributing to research on socioemotional development in children with autism. As a graduate student, Pratt is broadly interested in how maternal adversity during pregnancy shapes behavioral and neural processes underlying parent-child emotion regulation and attachment.