Dr. Kathleen Gates\, Associate Professor of Quantitativ e Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Car olina at Chapel Hill.
The use of time series data in psy chological research is on the rise. This increase largely can be attributed to greater ease in gathering numerous observations per person via the use of smart phones\, automated behavioral coding\, wearable technologies\, and psychophysiological data. Often the end goal is to arrive at a better unde rstanding of individuals’ processes. From these individual-level findings\, we can get closer to personalized interventions as well as obtain insights into meaningful similarities across individuals and aspects of human proce sses that may generalize to the population. Arriving at personalized dynami c models often requires the use and adaptation of exploratory methods such as unsupervised classification\, feature selection\, and model-building. Th is talk focuses on the application of such methods on a few data sets colle cted across various domains of psychological inquiry.
Dr. Gates is an associate professor of Quantitative Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the Human Neuroimaging Group an d affiliated faculty of the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BR IC). She obtained her Ph.D. in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies (quant focus) at Penn State\, a Masters of Forensic Psycholo gy at the City University of New York (John Jay College)\, and a BS in Psyc hology from Michigan State University. Katie’s work is motivated by problem s in analyzing individual-level data. She develops algorithms and programs that may aid researchers in better quantifying behavioral\, psychophysiolog ical\, and emotional processes across time. The end goal is to help resear chers identify patterns within individuals so we can provide person-specifi c prevention\, treatment\, and intervention protocols as well as better und erstand the varied basic physiological underpinnings for emotions\, cogniti on\, and behaviors.
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