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....
November 17, 2023
The lab is excited to share two presentations at NCA23 this year. Hope to see you at NCA! Saturday, November 18:11:00 AM - 12:15 PM; Annapolis 2 - Hotel, Ballroom Level. Gong, X. & Huskey, R. Mechanisms of People’s Book Reading: Exploration and Reinforcement Learning.11:00 AM - 12:15 PM; Annapolis...
October 16, 2023
The Lab (from left to right): Ali Mehdizadeh, Xuanjun (Jason) Gong, Sophia Sarieva, Valerie Klein, Raymond Kang, Rachael Kee, Wenjun Liu, and Richard Huskey. On October 14, the lab got together for brunch and a fun time at Bobby Dazzler's Pumpkin Patch. We were briefly lost in the corn maze...
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.