
THE INSPIRE LAB
Takakuni Suzuki, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Tulsa

Dr. Suzuki is a clinical scientist who studies cognitive control, the ability to monitor and adjust one’s own behavior, and how its disruption contributes to the emotional and social difficulties experienced by people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and related conditions. He measures cognitive control with electroencephalography (EEG), with a focus on midfrontal theta rhythms, and follows it from the laboratory into daily life using ambulatory assessment. He is also a psychometric researcher. Trained in personality science, he uses latent variable modeling, item response theory, and measurement invariance testing to evaluate psychological measures. The through line of his research is holding all individual differences measures (including measures of brain activity) to high psychometric standards and ensuring the validity of such measures.
From the Lab

Lab portrait by Swathi Karthik

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