• Rapid Decision-making Processes in Anesthesiologists 

  Liu, Jingyi (Janet) (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)

  The purpose of this study is to understand differences in rapid decision-making processes between anesthesiologists with excellent, medium, and poor critical event management skills. A panel of expert clinicians and educators ...
• What’s That on My Plate? Individual Differences in Visual Recognition of Prepared Food 

  Fiestan, Giselle (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)

  We explored evidence for a domain-general contribution, domain-specific ability, and the influence of experience and personality on the visual recognition of prepared food – a previously unexplored domain. Four questions ...
• The Effects of Control Processes and Continual Distraction on Recall Organization in Categorized Free Recall 

  Cai, Junhao (Vanderbilt University, 2021-04)
• The Influence of Speaker Gender on Memory Recall of the Speaker’s Monologue 

  Aggarwal, Jasmine (Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-30)
• Memory Encoding: The Costs and Benefits of Cueing 

  Ellenburg, Christine (Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)

  This project investigated the benefits and costs of cueing on memory. Participants were shown images, some of which were cued as especially important to remember, in encoding blocks. The percentage of images cued changed ...
• Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) on temporal lobe selectively affects the encoding of visual long-term memory 

  Zhao, Chong (Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-06)

  Classical views of human visual long-term memory propose that people first encode the visual stimuli into a long-term store, and then retrieve the visual information during task period. In examining the temporal dynamics ...
• The Effect of Retrieval Practice on Memory for Spatial Information 

  Zhang, Mimi (Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)
• Distance Estimation: Exploring Gestalt Principles When Engaging in Tree Thinking 

  Hurlston, Shannon (Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)

  Gestalt principles of grouping have been widely studied in diagrammatic reasoning because diagrams that follow these principles are easier to understand than those that are not (Lemon et al 2007, Stieff 2007, Novick and ...
• The Effects of Social Context on the Therapeutic Benefits of Emotion Sharing 

  Wheeler, Carolyn (Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-18)

  The purpose of the study was to analyze the different contexts in which the social sharing of emotion occurs and the comparative benefits associated with two different contexts of emotion sharing. Previous research has ...
• A Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis on the Likelihood of Overeating and Unplanned Eating 

  Kataoka, Marisa (Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)

  This paper analyzed three models of emotional eating: the restraint disinhibition model, the affect-regulation model, and the externality model (Herman and Polivy, 1975; Haedt-Matt & Keel, 2011; Schachter, 1968). Emotional ...
• The Effects of Priming on Reaction Times, Confidence Rating Measures, and Accuracy 

  Farina, Tiffany (Vanderbilt University, 2016)

  This project investigated the differences in reaction times between recognition of objects by feelings of familiarity and recognition of objects through direct recollection. Participants were shown images in a study phase, ...
• A Study of Information Transfer between Long Term and Working Memory using Trans-Cranial Direct Current Stimulation at FCz 

  Telles, Rachel (Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-10)

  Trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a method of electrical stimulation directed through a specific lobe or section of the brain in order to excite neurons and bring about a behavioral change. tDCS has ...
• Diagrams Benefit Symbolic Problem Solving 

  Chu, Junyi (Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)

  How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
• Changes in Motor Performance When Throwing a Ball With and Without Visual Feedback 

  Khuu, Ngoc-Thoa (Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-01)

  This study explored the roles that vision and proprioception play in learning while throw a ball repeatedly to a fixed location. In two experiments, participants threw a baseball to a target 12 meters away while wearing ...
• Effects of Dopamine on Reward Learning in Parkinson’s Patients with Impulse Control Disorders 

  Qualls, Lydia (Vanderbilt University, 2013)

  This study investigated how dopamine agonist medication differentially affects reward learning in Parkinson’s patients with and without Impulse Control Disorders (ICDs). We tested 16 patients (8 female, 5 with ICDs, mean ...
• Effects of Frequency and Regularity on New Learning in Preference Readers 

  Wise, Jessica R. (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)

  Learning to read English requires both knowledge of grapheme-phoneme (GP) rules and rapid recognition for familiar words, which can be mediated by whole-word (WW) mappings. Previous research has suggested that readers ...
• Family Literacy across Three Generations of Undergraduate Students in Africa and the United States: Relation of Family Literacy Experiences on the Grade Point Averages of Undergraduate Students at the University of Botswana, University of Pretoria in South Africa, and Vanderbilt University in the United States 

  Nanjee, Naveed (Vanderbilt University, 2011-07-19)

  The aim of this study was to describe literacy across three generations of undergraduate students (the students, their parents, and their grandparents) in Southern African (at the University of Pretoria and at the University ...
• Category Specific Spatial Frequency Adaptation with Faces and Cars 

  Beki, Yoseph Ali (Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
• Behavioral Economics and Microfinance: A Study of Risk Preferences in Rural South Africa 

  Leiberman, Eric M. (Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)

  When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
• Cladogram Curriculum: A First Look Into A Teaching Prototype For The Fundamentals Of Phylogenetics 

  Schreiber, Emily (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)

  Past research has examined students’ comprehension of and reasoning with evolutionary relationships depicted by cladograms (i.e., tree thinking). Cladograms serve as a fundamental resource when studying macroevolution and ...

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