The LEAP Neuro lab is launched!

We are delighted to welcome our inaugural lab members: first year graduate student Mengsi Li and senior thesis undergraduate student Isabel Schuman! The Lapate Experimental Affective Psychophysiology and Neuroscience Laboratory (LEAP Neuro Lab) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) investigates the neural mechanisms underlying emotion-cognition interactions with a focus on cognitive control and adaptive emotion. We will be asking questions such as:

• How do neural representations in distinct prefrontal regions modulate goal-directed behavior? 

• What neural mechanisms promote adaptive responses to emotional events? 

• How do emotional responses impact the temporal memory and the neural coding of time? 

• What are the neural bases of conscious awareness?

To answer these questions, we embrace a multimodal approach that emphasizes causal inference, and includes recordings of electroencephalography, peripheral physiology, and functional neuroimaging.

Note that due to COVID-19 university closures, our lab operations are remote at the moment, but our lab construction is ongoing. Stay tuned for updates!