• Infant Behavior During Sticky Mittens Training: What It Can Tell Us About Infant Learning 

  Malley, Lauren (Vanderbilt University, 2023-04)

  Infant exploratory behavior is critical for stimulating proper development and has implications on numerous developmental domains. The sticky mittens paradigm has been shown to enhance object exploration skills in infants, ...
• Prediction and Hypothesis Testing in Children's Novel Word Learning 

  Kumar, Srish (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-21)

  Children learn new words through a variety of methods, consciously and unconsciously making connections between novel words and new objects to expand their vocabulary. One such method may be making predictions about the ...
• Structural Brain Differences in Individuals with Bipolar Disorder: A Developmental Perspective 

  Milewski, Amy (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)

  While the existence of bipolar disorder in early adolescence is becoming more widely accepted, the degree of manifestation in childhood is still unclear. This thesis summarizes findings on neurostructural correlates of ...
• Parent-Child Conversation Quality During Digital Application Use 

  Unknown author (Vanderbilt University, 2023)
• The Valence of Parental Descriptions of the Child: Relations to Child Socioemotional and Behavioral Functioning and Caregiving Quality 

  Takemoto, Sydney (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)

  The valence of parental descriptions of their child’s personality may be an indicator of child difficulties as well as the nature of caregiving behavior within that parent–child relationship. The present project examined ...
• Are You Making the Right Choice? How Deciding Impacts Food Evaluation and Judgment 

  Lai, Ke (Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-10)

  Traditional approaches in studying decision making typically use artificial or well-defined lab stimuli to investigate changes in the perception of choices. However, the processes of how people generate, evaluate, and ...
• Exploring Connections between Maternal Speech and Infants' Use of Fine Motor Skills 

  McGowan, Maggie; Needham, Amy (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)

  During infancy, consistent exposure to frequent, responsive speech is fundamental for optimal language development to occur, but there is a great amount of variability in the language that infants hear across the first ...
• The Relationship Between Core Values, Religiosity and Spirituality, and Health 

  Wang, Stella (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)

  Individuals’ values and religious beliefs can impact their behavior and mental state, and in turn, their health. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the effects of personal ideology on physical and mental health. This ...
• Evaluating Parent-Child Emotion Talk During Digital Application Use 

  McQueen, Catherine (Vanderbilt University, 2023)

  The increasing use of new digital media, such as digital applications (apps), presents new opportunities for parent-child co-play. Active parent engagement during co-play can promote parent-child emotion talk, which benefits ...
• Neurophysiological Responses To Pleasant Emotional Images: An Examination Of The Effects of Personal Preference And A Brief Positive Emotion-Focused Intervention 

  Unknown author (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-22)

  The positive valence system (PVS) is a domain associated with attention to, and engagement with, rewarding activities. Individual differences in neurological responses associated with the PVS, such as the amplitude of ...
• Antecedents of Blame: Causal Attributions and Appraisals 

  Jeong, Chanyoung; Smith, Craig (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)

  There are studies (Smith, Haynes, Lazarus, & Pope, 1993) suggesting that appraisals of blame mediate between causal attributions and anger. Thus, causal attributions appear to be systematic antecedents to appraisals of ...
• Unique and Shared Mechanisms of Reading Skill and Anxiety Symptoms in Children 

  Dai, Jiulin (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)

  The current study examines the distinct and common mechanisms underlying individual differences in reading skill and anxiety symptoms in children ages 7- to 12-years-old. A standardized oral word reading assessment is used ...
• The Effects of a Brief Promoting Positive Emotions Intervention and Depression Symptoms on Reward Responsiveness in Young Adults 

  Boldwyn, Emma (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)
• The Causal Role of Alpha Oscillations in Selection 

  Unknown author (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-21)

  Alpha oscillations, or brain waves with a frequency between 8-12 Hz, are a neural correlate of attentional selection. Correlational studies show increases and decreases in alpha-band activity are associated with the ...
• Affective Considerations in Anxiety and Depression Comorbidity 

  Keith, Rebecca (Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)

  Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) co-occur at rates much higher than chance. Because of overlapping risk factors and higher rates of comorbidity than other anxiety disorders, researchers ...
• Recall-Induced Forgetting of Pictures 

  Unknown author (Vanderbilt University, 2023)

  Recognition-induced forgetting refers to a visual memory phenomenon in which the initial recognition of certain objects within a category causes the subsequent forgetting of other objects within the same category. Memory ...
• Examining Correlates of Intrusive Parenting 

  Azuka, Ekene; Humphreys, Kathryn L. (Vanderbilt University, 2021-05)

  Intrusive parenting behavior is associated with a variety of poor child outcomes. Given this, it is important to understand predictors of negative parenting behavior so that we might identify parents who are at risk of ...
• Online environments not a barrier to preschoolers questions about unknown words 

  Guicherit, Isabelle; Saylor, Megan; Janakiefski, Laura (Vanderbilt University, 2022)

  When preschoolers encounter a new word and word meaning, they can quickly link the two items to learn a new word. When not provided with the necessary items to learn a word, preschoolers will drive their own word learning. ...
• Investigating Factors Associated With Offspring’s Coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress. 

  Pillai, Arnav (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-25)

  Abstract: Objective: In this study, I investigated (1) how age is related to reported levels of coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress in offspring; (2) how measures of disease progression in parents are directly ...
• Investigating Brain Networks in Anxious-Misery and Fear Symptom Dimensions 

  Pines, Julia (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03)

  Anxiety and depressive symptoms can be dissociated into anxious-misery and fear components; however, little is known about how these two symptom dimensions differ in terms of brain network properties. Thus, the purpose ...

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