Undergraduate Honors Research: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)Mental imagery has been characterized as the isolation of the feedback process that occurs during normal perception, since stimuli are “perceived” without actual feedforward sensory input. Predictive coding theory has been ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2024-04-16)Were primordial black holes (PBHs) to exist, they could constitute a significant portion of dark matter in our universe which could be explored through gravitational wave emission, gravitational lensing, and electromagnetic ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-04)While post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can manifest as a variety of different symptom profiles, many cases of the disorder involve interoceptive difficulties. The goal of this study was to further investigate the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)PSY-PC 4999 - Honors Seminar - Dr. Jessika Boles Millions of children are living with intellectual and developmental disabilities worldwide, yet little is known about this experience from the vantage point of neurotypical ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-04)Patients of Huntington’s Disease experience decreased capacity for executive functioning. Moreover, HD patients also experience increased levels of impulsivity and risk-taking behaviors. Consequences of these behaviors ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2022-12)Strong coupling of cavity electromagnetic modes and molecules has emerged as an area of intense theoretical and experimental interest. Such systems are of particular interest due to their ability to modify the physical ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-27)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-28)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-03)The role of unions in the US labor market has been a highly contested political issue, leading states to pass Right-to-Work (RTW) laws. As of 2023, 27 states in the US have active RTW laws, legislation that makes it illegal ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-25)This project aims to investigate the power of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, its impact on readers, and their responses to the text and the ideologies Mitchell conveys in it, a particularly timely ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023)
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(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 ...