Honors Poster Symposium for Psychological and Brain Sciences

Please join the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department as they showcase the work of their 2021 Senior Honors students. Students will each give a 5-10 minute presentation followed by a Q&A discussing their Honors projects via individual breakout rooms.

A list of presenters alongside their project topics and indiviaul Zoom links can be found below:

 

Amanda Arbuckle

The Association between Reported Exercise, Hippocampal Volume, and Spatial Memory

Advisor: Dr. Denise Head

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/94407548026?pwd=OUdSK0NxMTd0TTdENE1XTXFYZHgydz09

 

Morgan Batley

Race, Preterm Birth, Disadvantage, and the Social-Emotional Functioning of School-Aged Children in the United States

Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Rogers

https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/j/91769756360 

 

Emily Bernstein

Children's Resource Allocations: The Effect of Recipient Racial Group and Resource Type

Advisor: Dr. Lori Markson

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/94367110492

 

Allyson Bisgay

How Communication During Conflict Mediates the Relationship Between Personality Traits and Marital Satisfaction 20 Years Later

Advisor: Dr. Joshua Jackson

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/96975702315

 

Mingjia Chen

The Effect of Overprotective Parenting on Overcontrolled Tendencies in Children and Anxiety Related Symptoms

Advisor: Dr. Kirsten Gilbert

https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/j/94904575953

 

Lucy Cohen

Exploring the Relationship Between Depression and Loneliness Through Factor Analysis

Advisors: Dr. Tom Oltmanns and Dr. Ryan Bogdan

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/92640667367?pwd=RGtubm1lOXE4VVQ3dFU5R25CeFZNQT09

 

Heather Elliott

Beliefs about how sleep affects memory impact judgments of learning (JOLs): Evidence that people can make belief-based+ JOLS

Advisor: Dr. Kathleen McDermott

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/99598454238

 

Abby Graegin

Long-Term Adaptation to Noise-vocoded Speech

Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Peelle

https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/j/95350194961

 

Kyra Hamerling-Potts

Attachment and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation

Advisor: Dr. Tammy English

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/95762502594?pwd=eVdDVEpsQ041bFpEZEkxKzY4OE8wUT09

 

Alli Hollender

The COVID-19 Era: Effects of Online Learning on Overcontrolled Youth

Advisor: Dr. Kristin Gilbert

https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/j/91381995023

 

Sarah Horwitz

Collective Remembering in Argentina: An Analysis of the Narratives of the Recovered Grandchildren of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo

Advisors: Dr. Pascal Boyer and Dr. Jim Wertsch

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/98440739892

 

Katie Jackson

Empathy, Outgroup Bias, and Politics: Is Dispositional Empathy an ‘Antidote’ for Political Polarization

Advisor: Dr. Alan Lambert

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/98619666739

 

Jenny Kim

Distinct Activation Profiles of the Locus Coeruleus Differentially Alter Anxiety-like Behavior

Advisor: Dr. Jordan McCall

https://wustl.zoom.us/u/abESKuWhNZ

 

Kirby Knapp

Dimensional Changes in Psychopathology and Health in Older Adults

Advisor: Dr. Joshua Jackson

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/96397798075?pwd=d0N1UWQrZUU2NEF1UXhweVVWVm5Mdz09

 

Adam Litwin

Compensatory Couple Effects: How a Spouse’s Life Goals Impact One’s Own Career Success and Health

Advisor: Dr. Joshua Jackson

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/93172119180

 

Megan Maxwell

Relationship between Neighborhood Poverty and Children's Externalizing Symptoms as Mediated/Moderated by Environmental and Neurological Factors

Advisor: Dr. Deanna Barch

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/92234687026

 

Ara Nazmiyal

Picky Eating in Children: Associations with IQ & Executive Function

Advisor: Dr. Kirsten Gilbert

https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/j/91893863387

 

Maddie Noyes

Bilingual Comprehension of Speech in Noise

Advisor: Dr. Kristin van Engen

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/93601674997

 

Adina Ornstein

Spelling Novel Homophones: Implications for the Principle of Lexical Distinctiveness

Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Treiman

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/99351550244

 

Cameron Perrin

The Effects of Background Noise on Auditory Event Segmentation

Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Peelle

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/99584883937?pwd=RmZDSCtSTjJWb0hYb1RBU3NWTklVdz09

 

Lydia Qu

Relationship between Transdiagnostic Cognitive Dysfunctions, Intrinsic Connectivity Networks and Clinical Symptoms

Advisor: Dr. Deanna Barch

https://wustl.zoom.us/my/lydiaq

 

Gautam Ramanathan

The Impact of the Type of Retrieval Practice on the Testing Effect

Advisor: Dr. Henry Roediger

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/93409892463

 

Chavez Rodriquez

Exploring the Combined Effect of Social Anxiety Disorder and Trauma on Interpersonal Functioning and Friendship Quality

Advisor: Dr. Thomas Rodebaugh

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/3594959772

 

Arvin Sarkissian

Single-Subject Parcellation in Cognitive Control fMRI Task Analyses

Advisors: Dr. Joset Etzel and Dr. Todd Braver

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/98868147151

 

Rachel Silberstein

Children's Understanding of Structural Racial Inequality

Advisor: Dr. Lori Markson

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/91207573083

 

Emily Spector

Individual Differences in Concept-Building Approach: A Predictor of Performance and Attitudes in College Statistics

Advisor: Dr. Shaina Rowell

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/97110063058

 

David Steinberger

The Depression-Cognition Link in Late Childhood

Advisor: Dr. Deanna Barch

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/99598454238

 

Michael Wang

Generative Modeling of Brain Dynamics and Connectivity from Resting-State MEG

Advisors: Dr. Matthew Singh and Dr. Todd Braver

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/3720444510?pwd=NFlkWXF0NFh0cWJtSjJ2aXdTMWpSQT09

 

Amanda Yu

Implicit Racial Bias in Children and Adults: Positive Outgroup Exemplars as an Intervention to Bias Development

Advisors:  Dr. Lori Markson and Dr. Calvin Lai

https://wustl.zoom.us/j/4969807797