Congratulations to our students for a successful P&N/CNAP first year festival, which was held Friday, April 13 in soc-psych 130 (Zener)
The following students presented a diverse array of research topics:
Ryan Hughes (SINS) Dynamics of Ventral TegmentalArea (VTA) neuronalsubpopulations in pursuit of reward
Brenda Straka (Social) Expectations of Exclusion:How do our lived experiences color our perceptions
Adam Stanaland (Social) Interpersonal consequences of the pressure to conform to social norms
Sam Marsan (Clinical) Pathological Fear Conditioning in Anorexia Nervosa (AN)
Savannah Erwin (Clinical) Experiences of Mimicry in Anorexia Nervosa
Sam Brotkin (Clinical) Healthcare transition for adolescents and young adults living with chronic illness
Shannon Dailey (Developmental) Semantic relatedness effects in early word learning
Leon Li (Developmental) Children's knowledge that norms generalize to others but preferences do not
Stephanie Schuette (Clinical) Interoceptive Awareness: Connecting the Heart and the Mind
Abigail Hsiung (CNAP) Investigating the interaction between information sampling and memory
Josh Stivers (CNAP) Visual Dominance in Fear Learning
Eric Juarez (Cognitive) Aging, dopamine, and cognition
Charles Shoemaker (SINS) Evaluating a Huntington’s knock-in model with a postural reach task
Xiao Li (SINS) The role of striatal cholinergic interneurons in movement
Jaime Castrellon (Cognitive) Dopaminergic influences over reward discounting and subjective value
Tracy d'Arbleoff (Cognitive) Neural Biomarkers of Disorder
Lifu Deng (CNAP) Briain network underlying memory operations
Eva Gjorgieva (CNAP) Elucidating the Effects ofI nternal & External Attention on Memory
Leonard Faul (CNAP) The influence of egocentric distance on Fear Acquisition and Exctinction
Jess Coleman (Clinical) Recent sexual abuse, PTSD, and frequency of unprotected sex among women living with HIV in South Africa