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Presenters

Coordinating Board

Mia Radovanovic,
PhD Student
Coordinator & Founder
Inderpreet Gill,
PhD Student
Coordinator
Emily Heffernan,
PhD Student
Coordinator
Ece Yucer,
PhD Student
Coordinator
Stefan Vislavski,
Undergraduate Student
Coordinator

Fall 2022 Undergraduate Presenters

Ruoqi Huang
Navigating through Open Science as undergraduate students
Jenna Gu
A qualitative study on the impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on OCD patients and their families
Hongyu Chen
A qualitative study on the impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on OCD patients and their families
Elaine Wang
Practice what you preach: Children persist less when values and reward structures are inconsistent
Daniel Wurgaft
Individual differences in reward learning under uncertainty in the general population
Peiying Wen
Exploring PV-interneuron as a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease

Fall 2021 Undergraduate Presenters

Mishel Alexandrovsky
Emotional Awareness in Autism
Hongyu Chen
Deep Relevance and the Making of Numinosity
Katherine Jung
Bilingual vs. Monolingual: The Concreteness Effect in Novel Word Learning of Preschool Children
Neeti Sharma
Do Children Understand Social Interactions over Screens?
Stefan Vislavski
The Role of Histone Variants in Memory – Current Research and Future Perspectives

Winter 2021 Undergraduate Presenters

Mishel Alexandrovsky
What is Love? Positivity Resonance
Elizabeth Chan
Upper Year Research Panelist & The Relation Between Subjective Wellbeing and Electoral Outcomes
Ilakkiah Chandran
Are You Still Watching?
Aisling Curtin (Wach)
Upper Year Research Panelist
Andrea De Bartolo
The Role of Social Media in Modelling and Shaping Young Adults’ Romantic Relationships
Joyce Ann Miguel
Upper Year Research Panelist & What Barriers Do Undergraduate Students with Disabilities Face as They Attempt to Gain the Credentials Necessary for Admission to Post-Graduate Programs in the ‘Helping’ Professions?
Jasmine Shirvani
Personality and Its Role in Depression
Victoria Silva
Upper Year Research Panelist
Hannah Solby
Upper Year Research Panelist
Maia Jaffer-Diaz
How Group Uniqueness Affects Mind Attribution and Moral Status
Zoe Lazaris
Resource Distribution and Relationship Expectations in Children
Ben Prystawski
Recognition in Human Puzzle-Solving
Sarah Ripley
Memory Representations After Statistical Learning: Changes with a Delay
James Yuan
Converting Local Experiments to Online Using Executables: A Case Study on Visual Memory Precision
Norman Zeng
Gendered Religious Stereotypes of Muslims and Christians

Fall 2020 Undergraduate Presenters

Mishel Alexandrovsky
People’s Beliefs about Romantic Relationships and Happiness
Aisling Curtin (Wach)
Children’s Inferences of Moral Character across Different Moral Subdomains

Maia Jaffer-Diaz
Children’s Understanding of Moral Obligation
Isabella Kuo
Risk Contagion by Peers Affects Learning and Decision-Making in Adolescents
(Reiter Et Al., 2019)
Gina Rinaldo
Trauma Focused Therapy and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Mishal Saeed
Caught between Cultures: How South Korea’s Shifting Cultural Landscape Has Increased Suicide Rates
Victoria Silva
Practical Skills for New Coders in R
Hannah Solby
3D Markerless Motion Capture and Developmental Psychology
Antonia Soldovieri
Exploring the Influence of Timing and Type of Parental Praise on Infant Persistence
Serena Thapar
Mental Health Outcomes during COVID-19: A Scoping Review and Recommendations for Geriatrics Research
Yongzhen Xie
Consolidation of Concept Memory and Episodic Memory over a Week

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