Past Honors Theses

2017 - 2018

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)