Second-Year Project Talks

Date: 

Friday, April 26, 2024, 10:30am to 3:00pm

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Friday, April 26, 2024 | 10:30am-3:00pm | William James Hall B1

There will be a reception following the talks in the Division of Social Sciences Commons (former WJH Library on 1st floor)

 

10:30am: Welcome and Introduction, Leah Somerville, Director of Graduate Studies

 

10:35am: Josh Steinberg, Advisor: John Weisz, Reader: Mark Hatzenbuehler

Evaluating Cognitive Restructuring Delivered as a Brief, Self-Guided Digital Intervention for Adolescents in a Randomized Controlled Trial

10:50am: Xavier Roberts-Gaal, Advisor: Fiery Cushman, Reader: Sam Gershman 

Environmental variability tunes the cognitive engine of culture

11:05am: Rachel Martino, Advisor: Mark Hatzenbuehler, Reader: Leah Somerville

Stigma and Emotion in Sexual Minority Young Adults: Exploring the Dynamics of Emotional Awareness in the Context of Self and Others

11:20am: YingQiao Wang, Advisor: Tomer Ullman, Reader: Sam Gershman

Resource Bounds on Mental Simulations: Evidence from a Fluid Reasoning Task

11:35am: Nathan Hollinsaid, Advisor: Mark Hatzenbuehler, Reader: John Pachankis

Hypervigilance: An Understudied Mediator of the Longitudinal Relationship Between Stigma and Internalizing Psychopathology Among Sexual-Minority Young Adults 

11:50am: Gabriella Hamlett, Advisor: Rich McNally, Reader: Matt Nock

Psychopathology Across the Peripartum Among Survivors of Sexual Trauma: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis

12:05pm: Lunch Break

 

1:00pm: Koen Schoenmakers, Advisor: Josh Greene, Reader: Fiery Cushman 

Strategies for Communicating Exceptional Charitable Giving

 

1:15pm: Alaric Wei, Advisor: Randy Buckner, Reader: Dan Schacter 

Functional Dissociation of Individual Regions Involved in the Hippocampal-Cortical Network 

1:30pm: Genia Lukin, Advisor: Elika Bergelson, Reader: Jesse Snedeker 

Language Input and Language Production in Blind and Sighted Infants: the search for compensatory mechanisms 

1:45pm: Jamie Greer, Advisor: Liz Phelps, Reader: Talia Konkle

Can Exposure to Mid-Level Visual Features Extinguish Learned Threat Responses? 

2:00pm: Adam Omary, Advisor: Leah Somerville, Reader: Patrick Mair

Longitudinal Changes in Pubertal Development, Hormones, and Neural Reward Response 

2:15pm: Kristen Gilyard, Advisor: Elika Bergelson, Reader: Jesse Snedeker

An exploration into caregiver-toddler interactions and novel noun learning during naturalistic picture book reading 

2:30pm: Srijani Saha, Advisor: George Alvarez, Reader: Talia Konkle

Edge-based Image Reconstruction Provides a Unified Account of (many) Lightness Illusions 

2:45pm: Jordan Zimmerman, Advisor: Jill Hooley, Reader: Patrick Mair

Interpretation and Memory for Ambiguity in Digital Contexts: Perceived Criticism, Social Anxiety, and Other Vulnerability Factors 

3:00pm: Reception, Division of Social Sciences Commons (former WJH Library on 1st floor)