DSEC Lab @DSECLab
Development of Social & Emotional Communication Lab @QueensU. michelemorningstar.com/dseclab Kingston, Ontario Joined June 2020-
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The @DSECLab sends out triannual newsletters sharing information about our ongoing studies, recent findings, and fun activities for youth. Download them at our website or subscribe if you want to learn more about youth's social and emotional communication! michelemorningstar.com/our-lab-newsle…
The DSEC Lab will be transitioning from X to Bluesky. We’re excited to continue sharing our work on a new platform! Stay connected with us there @ DSECLab.bsky.social 🎉
Victoria Cassel (She/Her) –Victoria is a third-year psychology student conducting a directed lab study in the DSEC Lab. She is interested in exploring differences in teen and adult raters’ judgement of emotion.
Sach Grewal (She/Her) – Sach is a fifth-year student completing a full-year directed lab in the DSEC Lab! She is interested in social information processing and understanding how social experiences impact developmental trajectories.
The DSEC Lab has launched our winter newsletter ✉️! Click the link in our bio to read about our ongoing study (DETECT-AF), explore recent study findings, and find fun activities to do with your family over the winter break❄️! We’re so excited for you all to read it!
Thank you so much to all the participants, families, and community organizations who helped make 2024 such an amazing year in the DSEC Lab 😊! We will be off until January 6th, 2025. We look forward to welcoming participants back again in the new year! ✨
Léa Francoeur (she/her) – Léa is a third-year student in Biology & Psychology. She is super excited to be joining the DSEC Lab as a research assistant this year. Léa is particularly interested in learning about the various neurobiological aspects of a child’s development!
Have you ever wondered about the brain regions that are associated with producing and understanding facial expressions? 🧠 If so, you’ve come to the right place! Check out this video to become experts on these regions of the brain! (✒️Olivia Merulla & Sarah Wong)
Kyla Campbell (she/her) – Lab Coordinator. Kyla is the joint coordinator for the DSEC Lab and EELab. She graduated from Queen’s in 2023. Kyla is excited to enhance the accessibility of scientific research and support the DSEC team in all of their ongoing projects. 😊
One of our directed lab students, Sophie Ye, wrote a blog post describing a recent paper by Dr. Morningstar and colleagues (published in Neuropsychologia). Check it out on our blog here! ✍️ michelemorningstar.com/dseclab-latest…
Have you ever wondered what our brain is doing when we are reading? 📖 This video describes the Dual-Route Model of reading, which proposes one possible explanation. Watch this video as it explores how our brains use the lexical reading route. (✒️ @MitacsCanada intern Ada Cheung)
Selena Gabrielli (she/her) – QU’25 BAH Psychology. Selena joined the DSEC Lab as a research assistant this past summer and is excited to continue to learn more about the recognition and production of emotional cues throughout adolescence.
#FunFactFriday: Establishing common ground during a conversation improved participants’ memory in an experimental task. 🗣️ This finding from @DanielNault_'s MSc work supports the idea that common ground and memory are linked conversational processes! (📷Jake Hartwig-MacDonald)
We’re back with part 2 of our video on emotion regulation! 🧠 Ever wondered which strategy is best? Watch this video to find out! Here, we look at the remaining 3 emotion regulation strategies, and their pros 👍 and cons 👎. (✒️Tasha Manuel) #emotions

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