Laura Germine

Laura Germine is a postdoctoral researcher in the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She founded and directs TestMyBrain.org, a platform for large-scale behavioral data collection. She holds a BA in Molecular & Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Research Interests: Laura's work bridges cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and behavioral genetics, focusing on individual differences in cognitive abilities, neuromyth debunking, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Her studies explore face recognition, attention mechanisms, and emotion processing via both traditional and online experimental methodologies.

Publications: 17 listed entries highlight her expertise in cognitive assessment validity, lifespan numerical cognition, and psychiatric endophenotypes. Key collaborations include researchers from Harvard University, MIT, and Brown University.

Laboratory & Networks: She works within the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and maintains academic partnerships with institutions like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Macquarie University.