9/16/24 The CAP Lab has openings for a full-time RA beginning this Fall (application deadline 9/30/24) as well as a new PhD graduate student for Fall 2025 (application deadlines 12/1/24 and 1/1/25).

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. 

3/1/24 The CAP Lab had a blast attending and presenting 4 research posters at the Eastern Psychological Association conference. Graduate student, Kelsey Davinson, was awarded EPA's highly competitive Diversity Student Travel Award.

12/5/23 Congratulations, Dr. Cuevas, for a full page article about Project Bubbles featured in UConn Research, 2023 on page 33.

11/28/23 CAP Lab research assistant Raynia Martinez was awarded PCLBPsychological Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant to support her research project "The EEG Mu Rhythm Related to 6-month-olds’ Reach and Grasp Competency" during this academic year.

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.

9/15/23 We are actively recruiting a new PhD student for Fall 2024! Come join our CAP Lab Team and UConn's Developmental Psychology Program!

9/8/23 The CAP Lab is excited to announce the launch of 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?!?

8/28/23 Congratulations to our collaborator (and former grad student) Dr. Lauren Bryant on her tenure-track faculty position at Sacred Heart University! We are so excited to have you back in Connecticut and look forward to collaborating with Dr. Bryant and her SHU students.

8/24/23 Congratulations to graduate student Kelsey Davinson on earning her master's degree in developmental psychology!  Her thesis "The Emergence of the Sensorimotor EEG Mu Rhythm: Neural Reactivity to Facial Gestures in 6- to 9-week-olds" shares findings from our Husky See: Husky Do Study.

11/18/22 We appreciate UConn Today featuring the CAP Lab and our NIH-funded study Project BUBBLES in today's article.

9/21/22 Our chapter "EEG Frequency Development Across Infancy and Childhood" is now out in the Oxford Handbook of EEG Frequency. 

7/1/22 We are excited to launch a new NIH-funded research study "An Integrative Longitudinal Analysis of Neural Rhythms in Early Development" with collaborators at Virginia Tech and Texas A&M.

5/15/22 Congratulations to our honors student Karissa Lion on her recent graduation from UConn! We will miss you and wish you the best!

1/13/22 Congratulations to Dr. Cuevas and former graduate student Dr. Bryant on their recent publication in Child Development!

7/31/21 Thank you to the current and former C.A.P. Lab research assistants and graduate students for attending our lab catch-up! (picture below)

6/1/21 Congratulations to graduate student Kelsey Davinson on earning a Science of Learning and Art of Communication Fellowship! The traineeship is part of a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship grant awarded to an inter-disciplinary team at UConn.

5/15/21 Congratulations to our research assistant Zyria Newman on her recent graduation from UConn! We will miss you and wish you the best!

5/4/21 Check out this Connecticut Mirror article "Parenting alone during COVID”. CAP Lab Director, Dr. Cuevas, and others discuss challenges for single parents.

5/15/20 BIG Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Bryant on earning her PhD in developmental psychology! You have been a fundamental part of this lab, we are excited to continue working with you as a collaborator. We wish you the absolute best and know that you will have an amazing career!

5/7/20 Check out this Fatherly article "How to prevent a child from constantly interrupting your zoom call". CAP Lab Director, Dr. Cuevas, and others share some tips for kids and parents!

4/15/20 We would like to welcome the C.A.P Lab's new graduate student Kelsey Davinson! She is interested in episodic memory development and is moving to CT from California, we are excited to have her join the team!

12/1/19 Check out Greater Good Magazine's article about how to help kids be more patient. CAP Lab Director, Dr. Cuevas, and others talk about giving kids tools for their toolkit!

11/25/19 CAP Lab research assistant Zyria Newman received the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Research Experience (SHARE) Award to support her undergraduate research project "Social Cognition and Neural Mirroring System Development in 3- to 5-year olds."

11/8/19 CAP Lab Director, Dr. Cuevas, went beyond traditional settings (and her comfort zone!) to present our research findings along with other scientists and comedians at Stand Up Science.

9/1/19 Congratulations to CAP Lab graduate research assistant Lauren Bryant for her visiting faculty position at the College of the Holy Cross!

3/1/19 CAP Lab graduate research assistant Lauren Bryant was awarded the Psi Chi Regional Research Award from Eastern Psychological Association for her dissertation research.

11/1/18 CAP Lab research assistant Christina Flores was awarded PCLB Psychological Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant to support her research project "Association Between Temperament and EEG Mu Rhythm in 6- and 12- month-olds" during this academic year.

8/23/18 CAP Lab Director, Dr. Cuevas, was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor of psychological sciences.

5/15/18 Dr. Cuevas was awarded funding from UConn's Research Excellence Program to support the project "A Longitudinal Analysis of the Neural Basis of Social Information Processing during Infancy and Early Childhood".

10/17/17 CAP Lab research assistants Sadie Moncayo and Dilsara Liyanage were awarded PCLB Psychological Sciences Undergraduate Research Grants to support their research projects on the EEG mu rhythm and language development in infants.

11/20/16 CAP Lab research assistant Dilsara Liyanage received the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Research Experience (SHARE) Award to support her undergraduate research project "Mu rhythm patterns in early childhood."

11/9/16 CAP Lab graduate research assistant Lauren Bryant was elected the Associate Member Representative for the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.

10/14/16 Check out today's article in the Boston Globe about the how brain development is related to infantile amnesia. CAP Lab Director, Dr. Cuevas, talks about why we have a hard time remembering those early memories.

8/9/15 Dr. Cuevas received the Early Career Outstanding Paper Award from American Psychological Association (APA), Division 7 (Developmental).  To find out more watch video or read paper.

7/16/15 CAP Lab Director, Dr. Cuevas, was awarded the Kucharski Young Investigator Award from International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.

11/10/13 Read about our research in this recent Waterbury Republican American Newspaper article,“Baby’s brain waves".