Past Honors Theses
Nishtha Bhakta: "Executive Function and Children’s Risk-Taking Behaviors" (PDF)
Richard Cheng: "Translation between top-down view and first-person view for spatial navigation in rat models" (PDF)
Alexander Farrow: "Kid Talk - Kid to Kid Perception and Production" (PDF)
Yuhan Fu: "Is There Evidence for Embodied Simulation During Language Translation?" (PDF)
Jacquelyn Garabedian: "Neediness, Co-Distress, and Helping Behavior in Rats " (PDF)
Brandon Kao: "Exploring the Impact of User-Mirroring Chatbot Personas Driven by Large Language Models on Reducing Loneliness in Speech and Text Interactions "
Kaitlin Lee: "Children's Perception of Gender Ambiguity in Voices " (PDF)
Angela Liu: "Investigating the impact of different types of cues on joint attention between infants and caregivers " (PDF)
Cassidy Lu: "Correlating Neural Activity with Natural Environmental Features from Video Footage of Freely Moving Patients"
Sophie Mazor: "Children's Representation of Multiple Possibilities" (PDF) Brinda Narayanan: "PIT --> Expectation Setting on Persistence" (PDF) Van Nguyen: "Textual Analysis of College Statements on Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate, 2020-2023" Sarita Raghunath: "Developmental Trajectory of Subcortical Anatomy in Tourette's Syndrome" (PDF) Evalie Rehor: "Neurons and Navigation: How Single Cells in the Brain Map Our Environments" (PDF) Natalie Sanchez-Lazo: "The Effects of Dim Light on Jetlag" Tianyu Wang: "Dopamine modulation in orbitofrontal cortex to dorsal medial striatum circuits during reward-related epochs" Milka Waniak: "Predicting Pain-Related Empathy through Resting State Networks Analysis" (PDF) David Wu: "The relationship between production and perception in a speaker's second language" (PDF) Emily Xu: "Expansion of Research on Spatially Periodic Activation Patterns of Retrosplenial Cortex" (PDF)
Megha Chouthai: "How Does Distorting Movement Through an Environment Affect the Perception of its Shape?"
Yufei Ge: "Investigating the Influence of Social Bonds Upon Coorperative Risk Assessment in Rats"
Jaden Huynh: "Potential Electroencephalogram Treatment Responsive Biomarkers in Obessesive Complusive Disorder"
Shane Johnson: "An Analysis on Pesticide Exposure and Iron Overload in Parkinson-like Disorders"
John Ratliff: "Temporal Dynamics of Serotonergic Modulation in the Olfactory Bulb During Olfactory Perceptual Learning"
Luke Sztajnkrycer: "Manipulating Memory & Decision via Temporarily Related Cues"
Lulu Tong: "The Ventral Hippocampus & Medial Prefrontal Cortex Projection in the Retention of Spatial Working Memory"
Jingyue Xu: "CA1 & Subiculum Object-centered Encoding of Self-Location in Landmark-based Navigation"
Luowen Yu: "Rhythmic Coordination of Spatial Associative Memory Processing in Rat Dentate Gyrus"
Jonathan Ahern: "An Analysis of the Effect of Common Inflammatory Diseases on Fluid Intelligence and Numeric Memory using UK Biobank" (PDF )
Alara Brashears: "Transplantation of Healthy Human Glia as a Therapeutic Treatment for Rett Syndrome" (PDF )
Lehan Li: "Analysis of Extended Multitask Learning Model on Facial Pain Evaluation" (PDF )
Olivia Michael: "Provider Factors Associated with Motivation for Training in Autism Evidence-Based Practices" (PDF )
June Stancil: "Bubble Production in Bottlenose Dolphins" (PDF )
Baojun Tang: "Association between Resting-State Oscillatory Activity and EEG Marker of Temporal Processing" (PDF )
Luiza Tanoue Troncoso Peres: "Assessing Risk-taking Behavior in Children’s Investments" (PDF )
Tara Tripathi-Sakar: "The Limits of the Circadian Clock Driving Food Anticipatory Activity in Mice" (PDF )
Ruoxi Wang: "Encoding the Past, Present, and Future of Self-motion in the Rat Posterior Parietal Cortex" (PDF )
Jane Yang: "Communication Understanding of Physical Dynamics in Natural Language" (PDF )
Justin Yang: "Rearranging the Environment to Facilitate Visual Search" (PDF )
Julia Yu: "What, When, and Where: Phase Precession in Different Sized Fields" (PDF )
Sagarika Alavili: “The Biasing of Auditory Working Memory by Similar Distractors” (PDF)
Luis Alvarez: “How Trust Impressions Influence Economic Choices” (PDF)
Jane Collier: “Effectiveness of Mindfulness for Marginalized Groups” (PDF)
Christopher Heyman: “Associative Memory and Rhythmic Processing” (PDF)
Olivia Jeffris: “Factors Associated with Individual Differences in Reading Performance of 10 Year Olds” (PDF) (video)
Yingzi Jin: “Witnessing Discussion and Students' Engagement in Online Class” (PDF)
Geoffrey Lizar: “A Garden Full of Angry Bees: Effects of Context on Emotional Valence” (PDF) (video)
Natalia Menéndez: “Designing for Dementia: Insight from Cognitive Neuroscience" (PDF) (video)
Elizabeth Peek: “Free or Freeze: Prosocial Behavior, Stress and the Microbehaviors of Freezing" (PDF)
Cherisse Tompkins: “The Relationship between Type 1 Hereditary Hemochromatosis and ADHD symptoms within Adolescents using Mental Health Assessments and Neuroimaging” (PDF)
Monica Van: “Memes and Math Instruction” (PDF) (video)
Zhuojun Ying: “Maternal Context of Infant sensorimotor Decoupling: A Longitudinal Study Across Months 4, 6 and 9” (PDF)
Cathy Zhang: “The effect of priority state of working memory content on its vulnerability to interference” (PDF)
Liu Can: "Restructuring Of The Cognitive Map Under Environmental Search" (PDF )
Dylan Delmar: "Investigating Peripheral and Central Inflammation in Individuals with PTSD and Military Sexual Trauma" (PDF )
Yueying Dong: "The Effect of Music on Reading Comprehension" (PDF )
Xirui He: "Analysis of Event-Related Potentials in Sarcasm Comprehension" (PDF )
Alex Liebscher: "Effects of Battle and Journey Metaphors on Charitable Donations for Cancer Patients" (PDF )
Anton Preis: "Does Labelling Preinventive Forms Cause Functional Fixedness?" (PDF )
Christina Ruiz-Mendoza: "Co-Orientation in Bottlenose Dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus )" (PDF )
Shreya Sheel: "Segmenting in Multimedia Learning" (PDF )
Yuezhou Sun: "Dictionary Interface for Neural Word Segmentation" (PDF )
James Taniguci: "Environmental Search: Reconstruction of the Cognitive Map Relative to Spatial, Temporal, and Geometrical Frameworks"
Haimei Yu: "The Effects of Psychiatric Traits on Face Perception" (PDF )
Wenlong Zhao: "A Thorough Examination of the RACE Machine Reading Comprehension Task" (PDF )
Marisa Grams: "Rhythmic Coordination between the Dentate Gyrus (DG) and CA3 During a Spatial Pattern Seperation Task" (PDF )
Kevin Tan: "Mental Simulation with Self-Supervised Spatiotemporal Learning" (PDF )
Jinrui Lyu: "The Role of the Subiculum in Mapping Hidden Reward Structure" (PDF )
Austin Gallagher: "Hippocampal Remapping During a Reward-Oriented Spatial Task" (PDF )
Ya-Ning Wu: "Sound Symbolism and Size Perception" (PDF )
Hazel Leung: "Understanding Factors Affecting Undergraduate Office Hours Attendance Rates in Higher Education" (PDF )
Fiona Cisternas: "Using Ultra Wideband Technology to Improve Field and Experimental Tracking Methods" (PDF )
Theodoros Kapogianis: "Distinct relationships derived from dimenstionality in Dentate Gyrus" (PDF )
Qiwei Dong: "Developing and Implementing a Closed-Loop Sharp Wave Ripple Detecetion and Stimulation Algorithm in the CA3 Hippocampal subregion" (PDF )
Yinghao Li: "Supervised Spike Sorting Using Deep Convolutional Siamese Network and Hierarchical Clustering" (PDF )
Kevin Artigan: "Theracurmin: An Antioxidant and its Protective Effect on Hippocampal Neurogenesis" (PDF )
Priyanka Dasgupta: "Designs for Understanding Empathy in the Rodent Brain" (PDF )
Isaac Fehr: "Beyond the Desktop: A new look at the Pad metaphor for Information Organization" (PDF )
Astha Mehta: "Robots for Cognitive Wellness" (video )
Manavbir Sahani: "Creativity in Prototyping" (PDF )
Robert Walter: "Differentiating the Components of Visual Short Term Memory with Proactive Interference" (PDF ) (video )
Madeleine Yu: "Late Mandarin-English Bilingual's Perception of Self-Produced Non-Native Speech Sounds" (PDF ) (video )
Hanwen Zhang: "Embodied and Distributional Contexts of Verb and Pronoun Usage in Mother-Infant Interactions" (video )
Ni Zhen: "Temporal Interactions Between Alpha and Gamma Neurofeedback Training in Schizophrenia" (PDF )
Tamara Zubatiy: "Designing a User Interface for Real-Time Master Hearing Aid Which Uses an Open Speech Platform" (PDF ) (video )
Leanne Sturman: "Visual Processing using the Attentional Blink Paradigm in Individuals with Autism" (PDF )
Desiree Chu: "Parietal Cortex and Hippocampal Contributions to Rule-Based Spatial Fragmentation" (PDF )
Alyssa Ioannou: "The Role of Imitation in Social Cognition of Bottlenose Dolphins" (PDF )
Shuying Yu: "Role of the Hippocampus and parietal cortex in Rule-Based Environmental Fragmentation" (PDF )
Michael Belcher: "Exploring Serial Decision Bias in a Parole Context" (video )
Wednesday Bushong: "Influence of Form and Motion Information on Biological Motion Prediction" (video )
Danielle Jacques: "Iconic Reference by Combinatoric Structuring of Signature Whistles in Bottlenose Dolphins" (video )
Akila Kadambi: "Unconscious Processing of Complex Social Biological Motion" (video )
Amanda Kelley: "Mechanisms of Novel Verb-Argument Construction Acquisition" (video )
Andrea Nishimi: "Exploring the Effects of Metaphorical Gesture on Comprehension and Memory" (video )
Emon Shakoor: "Correlational EEG study between love, attachment, and the mirror neuron system" (video )
Katherine Anne Albrecht: "Effect of Tone Duration on Detection of Pitch Contour Alerations" (PDF ) (video )
Shelby Anne Cohantz: "Hippocampal Mapping of Environmental and Route Spaces" (PDF )
Ram Anand Dixit: "Cognitive Ethnography of Nurse Triage at a Health Clinic" (PDF ) (video )
Maria Noelle Valila Florendo: "Social Effects of Form and Motion on Cues of Attention" (PDF ) (video )
Akash Sarang Jagannathan: "Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Emotional Reactivity ans Self-Association with Emotional Stimuli" (PDF )
Melody Sun Kim: "Designs on Mobility: Contexts and Use of Mobile Phones Among the Homeless Adult Community" (PDF )
Yasmine Firenze Kotturi: "Basal Forebrain's Role in Procedural Learning" (PDF ) (video )
Daniel Abraham Maryanovsky "Blocking Effects in Semantic Access" (PDF )
Lucas Medeiros De Paula: "Priming Experiment Investigating Lignuistic Aspect and Construals of Infinity"
Edward Nguyen: "Electrophysiological correlates of Unconscious Biological Motion" (PDF ) (video )
Ashley Noelle Reese: "Lateralized Eye Use in Bottlenose Dolphins at the Brooksfield Zoo, Chicago" (PDF ) (video )
Rebecca Ann Roseman: "Compuational Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Emotion Detection in Linguistic Utterances (PDF )
Kendall Maureen Youngstrom: "Learning with Interruptions: Representing Past Computer Activity for Recall of Learned Procedures" (PDF ) (video )
Sandra Anne Zerkle: "How does Iconicity Affect Sign Learning?" (PDF ) (video )
Sarah D'Angelo: "The Transition to Digital: Documentation Practices In Early Childhood Development" (PDF ) (video )
Radhika Gosavi: "Embodied Cognition and Sex Differences in Single versus Combined Tasks During Visual Tracking and Emotion Recognition"
Julie Avanzino: "Individual Differences in Speed of Auditory Processing and Language Comprehension and Production in Young Children" (PDF ) (video )
David Welch: "Hierarchical Neural Networks" (PDF ) (video )
Matthew Wynn: "Verbal Self-Instuction and Differential Cognitive Styles: Evidence from Task Switching Paradgms" (PDF ) (video )
Alric Althoff: "Online Tensor Factorization for Feature Selection in EEG" (PDF ) (video )
Matthew Hong: "Multimodal Cues For Desktop Workspace Interaction: Microanalysis of Active Reading Behaviors"
Sofia Jimenez: "The effect of language ability on speaker identification" (PDF ) (video )
James McCloskey: "Multi Input Sensing Table" (PDF ) (video )
Jeremiah Palmerston: "Mapping of Self-Motion Information in the Posterior Parietal Cortex" (PDF ) (video )
Clarice Robenalt: "Event Memory in Spanish-English Bilinguals" (video )
Rana Tabrizi: "Examining auditory preferences in children with autism" (PDF )
David Tingley: "Analysis of Basal Forebrain and Parietal Cortex Neurons During a Selective Attention Task" (PDF ) (video )
Jennifer Wu: "Spatial Representation of Sequential Time in Mandarin - English Bilinguals" (PDF )
Klee Bragger: "Manipulating Space - Time Mapping" (PDF )
Angela Chan: "Biological Motion as a Cue for Attention" (PDF )
David Conant: "Features of Social and Geometric Images and their Effects on Eye Gaze Patterns in Toddlers with Autism" (PDF )
Amanda Legge: "Representing Audio Narrations of Photos" (PDF )
Kristin Muench: "Word Learning Under Accent Variability in Monolinguals and Bilinguals" (PDF )
Eric Weiss: "Emulating Brightness Illusions with Factored 3-Way Boltzmann Machines" (PDF )
Garlen Yu: "Intelligent Adaption Across Space" (PDF )
Jake Feldman: "Empathy and the Mirror Neuron System: An Electroencephalographic Study" (PDF ) (video )
Brendan Jonesrebandt: "Event Segmentation in the Wild" (PDF ) (video )
Nastasha Tan: "Less May Mean More: Understanding How Different Life-Logs Support Our Memory for the Past" (PDF ) (video )