We are an active cognitive neuroscience lab studying motivational influences on attitudes and behavior. We use a variety of behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI) techniques. Our research covers a number of core topics including cognitive control, persuasion, and moral reasoning....
The Cognitive Communication Science Lab was founded in August 2016 and is situated in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Davis. We are currently recruiting new Graduate Students and Undergraduate Research Assistants. Members are ordered according to...
Interested in what the lab is working on? Or what we have already accomplished? This page includes a complete list of our publications or articles that are in press. You can download all of our papers directly from this page....
July 6, 2023
The UC Davis ASPIRE program, based in the Center for Mind and Brain, jump-starts undergraduate research by pairing first and second year students with faculty mentors. Valerie Klein's ASPIRE research was recently featured in the UC Davis Letters and Sciences news.
June 12, 2023
The Lab (bottom left to right: Sophia Sarieva, Valerie Klein, Richard Huskey; top left to right: Ali Mehdizadeh, Raymond Kang) cheered on the Sacramento River Cats as they beat the Las Vegas Aviators 18 to 2. Thanks for a great year everyone! Have a great summer!
June 9, 2023
Valerie Klein will present research investigating inter-brain synchrony and its relationship with collaborative task performance at this year’s ASPIRE Symposium! In this study, novel participant pairs complete a naturalistic Augmented Reality Tangram task while wearing EEG headsets. Results show that increased pairwise inter-brain synchrony is associated with increased task performance....