Undergraduate students had the opportunity to showcase their research accomplishments at our 11th annual undergraduate research symposium in Tobin Hall. Check out some of their outstanding research!
Homelessness in the ED: The Role of Stigma and Emotions on Patient Care
Keerti Daesety, Aline Castro BS, Vincent Kan MD, Guanyu Liu PhD, Jasna Hardin PharmD, Laura Dunderdale BS, and Linda M. Isbell PhD
How do physician emotions and stigma affect the care of homeless patients in the emergency room? We found that emergency physicians report higher negative emotions and order fewer tests for homeless patients, who also stay longer in the ED – highlighting key disparities in care. —Keerti Daesety
Unlocking probability: A within-set intervention for reducing cognitive load
Lillian Lawlor, John Vargas & Andrew Cohen
Study tested if targeted vs. untargeted interventions improved understanding of nested probability sets. Higher performance seen with more info (esp. in untargeted). Summation errors reduced in untargeted but not targeted condition. Cognitive load + numeracy may explain differences — further analysis needed. —Lillian Lawlor
Exploring the Relations Between Diet, Physical Activity, Sleep, and Language Development in Toddlers
Priscilla Kot, Jennifer Holmes, Rebecca M.C. Spencer
In toddlers, better diet predicts more sleep spindles, which link to stronger vocabulary. Physical activity boosts vocabulary too, but may reduce slow wave sleep. Healthy diet & activity support sleep and language development in toddlers! 🧠🌙🍎🏃 —Priscilla Kot
Unraveling AI Attitudes through the College Lens: The Role of Digital Habits, Personality, and AI Literacy
Katie Clifford
In this day and age, where are AI attitudes coming from? I asked students about their digital habits, personality, college year, and AI literacy, with some even being primed with AI-related content. Turns out, AI literacy and some personality traits are associated with AI attitudes. —Katie Clifford
| Student | Advisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Owen Woodward | Spencer | The Impact of Extra Practice on Sleep Dependent Memory Consolidation in Older Adults |
| Jillian Pestana | Davies | The Impact of Values Rationale on Perceptions of Exposure Therapy |
| Grace Bono | Perry-Jenkins | Sibling Relationship Quality as a Buffer Between Mothers’ Overreactive Parenting and Childrens’ Anxiety |
| Katie Clifford | Scharrer | Unraveling AI Attitudes through the College Lens: The Role of Digital Habits, Personality, and AI Literacy |
| Lillian Lawlor | Cohen | Unlocking probability: A within-group numberless intervention to reduce cognitive load |
| Priscilla Kot | Holmes and Spencer | Exploring the Relations Between Diet, Physical Activity, Sleep, and Language Development in Toddlers |
| Katie McSpirit-Brush | Spencer | Investigating Relationships Between Circadian Preference, Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation, and Additional Learning on Declarative Memory Learning in Older Adults |
| Samay Trivedi | Dr. Jennifer Rauch | Investigating the Mechanism of LRP1 Endocytosis in Alzheimer's Disease |
| Caroline Coyle | Kwak | Investigating Explore-Exploit Decision-Making in Athletes |
| Laurel Ralph | Atari | The Road to Abortion Policy: A Historical and Psychological Overview |
| Lakshmi Kamkar | Spencer | Humans Experience Local Changes During Sleep |
| Angie Minichiello | Spencer | Investigating the Effects of Targeted Memory Reactivation on Emotional Memory Consolidation |
| Priscilla Kot | Spencer | Exploring the Relations Between Diet, Physical Activity, Sleep, and Language Development in Toddlers |
| Anoushka Prabhughate | Spencer | How does actigraphy measured sleep quality relate to mood and sleepiness in the luteal phase in younger adult females? |
| Kira French and Mukil Nair | Byers | How sleepiness guides emotional memory consolidation across the menstrual cycle? |
| Roger Hauck | Mercado | RSA in Adolescents across discussion and challenge tasks |
| Anoushka Prabhughate | Rodheim | Actigraphy-Measured Sleep Quality and Its Relationship to Mood and Sleepiness During the Luteal Phase |
| Clement Carson | Isbell | Impact of Stigma on Emergency Department Care for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder |
| Katie Clifford | Scharrer | Unraveling AI Attitudes through the College Lens: The Role of Digital Habits, Personality, and AI Literacy |
| Ruth Berganross | Healey | Partnering and Patterns: Auditory and Social Behavior Processing in the Lateral Ventromedial Nucleus of the Hypothalamus |
| Tarunima Agarwal | Isbell | Decisions Under Pressure: How Language and Race Shape Physician Emotions and Patient Care in Emergency Medicine |
| Omid Sajjadi | Spencer | Sleep Health: The Impact of Creatine Monohydrate on Sleep |
| Keerti Daesety | Isbell | Homelessness in the ED: The Role of Stigma and Emotions on Patient Care |
| Lilian San | Spencer | The Role of Targeted Memory Reactivation in Modulating Emotional Reactivity Across Sleep |