NEED Lab

Neurocognition, Early Experience, and Development Lab @TeachersCollege @Columbia; PI: @KimberlyGNoble; interests include brain development & early experiences

[Dr. Kimberly Noble @KimberlyGNoble]

Celebrating the beginning of summer with the world’s best lab! @NEEDLabColumbia @TeachersCollege

[ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social @devpsybio]

Nice work from @AislinnSandre on associations between family income, education, and resting brain activity

[Emma Hart @EmmaRoseHart]

New paper out testing the tried-and-true theory that stress drives SES differences in parent behaviors. We found null associations btwn maternal perceived stress & the home lang environment.

w/ fab co-authors @STRscience @Jess_Sperber @KimberlyGNoble

https://t.co/UU0xDPo2oN

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

Check out what NEED Lab members have been working on at #isdp2022!

[Dr. Kimberly Noble @KimberlyGNoble]

Wish I could have made it to #isdp2022 in person this year, but glad to have so many trainees from @NEEDLabColumbia representing at @devpsybio!

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

Check out this exciting new work by 3rd year PhD student @Jess_Sperber looking at pandemic exposure and child outcomes/maternal mental health!

[Dr. Kimberly Noble @KimberlyGNoble]

Excited about a new paper from our lab led by @Jess_Sperber showing that exogenous variation in pandemic exposure in the 1st year of life is unrelated to infant/toddler development or maternal mental health. Coauthors @EmmaRoseHart @STRscience & @tw_watts https://t.co/IsWmZqf6wf

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

Congratulations to our postdoc Dr. Molly Scott on her new job. While we are sad to see you leave us here at the NEED Lab we cannot wait to see what you do in your new role!!

[Molly Scott @mscott6399]

So excited to share that after two amazing years as a postdoc at the @NEEDLabColumbia working on the incredible Baby's First Years project, I will be taking on a new role as a Research Scientist back at the @TUinfchildlab working on @playfullearng starting next month!

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

Congratulations to Ph.D. students @EmmaRoseHart and @Jess_Sperber on their poster presentations at @IMBESoc!

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

Grateful for such an amazing NEED Lab team!

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

A big congratulations to @STRscience! We're so excited for you!

[Dr. Sonya Troller-Renfree @STRscience]

I have two big announcements! First, I am thrilled to announce that I have officially accepted a faculty offer at @TeachersCollege! And, second, I am also thrilled to announce that I am expecting my own little scientist in June! (1/n)

[Molly Scott @mscott6399]

A beautiful wrap-up to our PCI coding team with @GAbdurokhmonova, and @MelissaAGiebler (missing the awesome @Ben_Bravo1). So excited for @GAbdurokhmonova who is headed to work with @RachelRRomeo for her PhD! So proud of you!

[Molly Scott @mscott6399]

Loved seeing my fellow Baby’s First Years site coordinator @BrianRivera21 at @cogdevsoc! Awesome dissertation work! #CDS2022

[Dr. Kimberly Noble @KimberlyGNoble]

Congrats to @katrinarsimon, whose first dissertation paper was published in Brain & Language today! In 5-9 yos, excessive home noise as measured by @LENAEarlyTalk were assoc w/ reduced cortical thickness in L IFG. https://t.co/Kp8eyBdjp2 @TeachersCollege @NEEDLabColumbia

[ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social @devpsybio]

MANUSCRIPT MONDAY! ✍️
Today we're highlighting a "hot off the press" article from the @BritoBabyLab 👶
“Paid Maternal Leave is Associated with Infant Brain Function at 3-months of Age”, published in Child Development 🙌 (1/4)

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

Congratulations to our amazing graduate student @EmmaRoseHart on being awarded the @NSF #GRFP!

[Dr. Kimberly Noble @KimberlyGNoble]

Huge congratulations to @EmmaRoseHart, who was awarded an @NSF #GRFP today! You are a true star, and we in Developmental Psychology @TeachersCollege are so proud of you!!! @tw_watts and I are two very lucky mentors.

[CattellFund @CattellFund]

Meet the 2021 Cattell Sabbatical Award recipients: @KimberlyGNoble from @TeachersCollege @Columbia is one of the principal investigators of #BabysFirstYears, the first RCT to study how poverty reduction supports child cognitive, emotional & brain development. @NEEDLabColumbia

[Dr. Kimberly Noble @KimberlyGNoble]

Come join our clinical trial of poverty reduction! The Baby’s First Years study is seeking research assistants to join the incredible Dr. Eryn Adams, who is coordinating our New Orleans site. We would be especially delighted for local Black scholars to join the NOLA team.

[ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social @devpsybio]

Interesting work by @katrinarsimon @STRscience @KimberlyGNoble on the associations between noise exposure and SES on language development @devpsybio #ISDP2021 🧠👶 🔊

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

Last, Katrina Simon @katrinarsimon will be presenting her work titled: "Associations among socioeconomic status, noise exposure, and language development in infancy. Her virtual presentation is at 6:00PM and in-person at 7:00 pm CST.

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

Heading to #ISDP2021 today? Don't forget to check out work by NEED Lab graduate students Emma Hart, Melissa Giebler, and Katrina Simon

[NEED Lab @NEEDLabColumbia]

Melissa @MelissaAGiebler will be presenting her work on parenting and stress, titled: Maternal stress and variations in parenting behavior in a sample of mother-infant dyads experiencing poverty. Her virtual presentation is at 6:00PM and in-person at 7:00 pm CST