Title: Stress, Emotion Regulation, and Immunity: A Systems Perspective on Healthy Aging Abstract: Stressful experiences can ‘get under our skin’ to influence immune processes implicated in age-related health and disease outcomes. However, our abilities to effectively regulate and manage emotions in response to stress may mitigate negative health outcomes. I will present my research into a biopsychosocial model I’ve […]
Title: Learning language, fast and slow: How to overcome sparse data, signal degradation, and confusing speakers in the first 5 years Abstract: Traditional approaches to language development focus on relationships between aggregate inputs (e.g., total words heard) and outcomes (e.g., vocabulary size) under the assumption that what parents say is what children learn. However, this […]
Title: On the Promise and Pitfalls of Biomedical Explanations for Mental Disorders Abstract: In recent decades, explanatory frameworks that consider mental disorders to be biomedical diseases, rooted in genetics and neurobiology, have become ascendant. This biomedical revolution holds exceptional promise for bringing about improvements in our approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, […]