Welcome to the Cognition, Action, and Psychophysiology Lab (CAP Lab) at UConn Waterbury!
Our research focuses on the building blocks of early cognitive development. We are looking for families with 6- to 12-month-olds to help us answer questions about early learning, thinking, and the brain in our NIH-funded research study! Please explore our website to learn more about our exciting research program!




Recent News
5/15/25 Congratulations to CAP Lab undergraduates Megan, Ali, & Pearlina on their recent graduation from UConn! A few pics here.
5/1/25 New iLearn paper alert: Dr. Cuevas recently co-authored a paper “A quarter century of research on infant contingency learning: Current and future directions” that will appear in the journal Infant Behavior and Development.
4/16/25 Way to go, Pearlina Tran and Ali Mohiuddin, on your UConn Frontiers in Undergraduate Research presentations.
3/7/25 The CAP Lab travelled to NYC to present five research posters at the Eastern Psychological Association conference--while also enjoying great good and fun nights of karaoke. Dr. Cuevas gave a talk titled "It's all about associations: Inference, potentiation, and transfer in 6-month-old infants."
11/1/24 We are excited to share the news that Nour al-Zaghloul has joined the CAP Lab team as a full-time RA for iLearn!
10/25/24 CAP Lab research assistant Ali Mohiuddin was awarded PCLB Psychological Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant to support his research project "Understanding Infant Vocabulary Growth through EEG Mu Rhythm during Action Processing" during this academic year.
8/23/24 The CAP Lab welcomes Livia Goulart da Trindade to our team as a full-time RA after graduating from UMass Boston!
5/15/24 Congratulations to CAP Lab undergraduate Raynia Martinez on her recent graduation from UConn! We are excited that she will be attending UConn's Masters of Social Work program and will continue to be a member of the team.
12/5/23 Congratulations, Dr. Cuevas, for a full page article about Project Bubbles featured in UConn Research, 2023 on page 33.
9/19/23 Check out this Washington Post article "Patience is learned. Here's how to teach your kids to wait." featuring CAP Lab Director, Dr. Cuevas, offering tips for modeling patience in everyday parenting.
9/8/23 We are excited to launch a new NIH-funded research study "Psychometrics and Predictive Validity of Infant Learning" with collaborators at University of Kansas. We will be inviting 6-month-olds to come play fun learning games soon; don't we all like playing with trains?!?