Congratulations to UURAF Psychology and Neuroscience First Place Winners!
April 27, 2023 - Shelly DeJong
Congratulations to the first-place winners in the Psychology and Neuroscience categories at the 25th annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) held on April 14, 2023. Nearly 900 students from 14 colleges participated in the event. Psychology was well represented with 45 posters presentations within that category.
This year, all of the poster award winners in the category of Neuroscience went to undergraduate researchers representing the MSU Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience labs of Dr. Alex Johnson, Dr. Lilian Yan, and Dr. Alexa Veenema.
Psychology first place winners include:
Student Presenter: Leo Pereira Sanabria
Mentor: Kristen Culbert
Title: Androgen Effects on Risk for Binge Eating in Males during Puberty: Project Overview and Current Status
Student Presenter: Zeeba Ali
Mentor: Katharine Thakkar
Title: Saccade Vigor in Schizophrenia
Student Presenters: Jillian Lange, Jason Kazmierczak
Mentors: Ania Pathak, Jason Moser
Title: Exploring the Effects of a Scalable Psychological Distancing Technique for Medical Professionals Experiencing COVID-19-Related Stress and Anxiety
Student Presenters: Ryan Clare, Srihita Veeramachaneni
Mentor: Joseph Cesario
Title: The Effects of Training on Police Recruits' Decisions to Shoot
Student Presenters: Tim Odaniel, Adhi Sureshkumar
Mentor: Kimberly Fenn
Title: Individual Differences in Sonar Monitoring and the Vigilance Decrement
(Photo courtesy of Tyler Lee of the Dept of Physiology)
Student Presenters: Caleb Bonno, Derrek Montalvo, Al Rajala, Megan Swan
Mentors: Mark Becker
Title: Hey, Look at Me! Investigating if the Quitting Threshold Effect from a Salient Distractor is Actually a Response Bias Effect
Neuroscience first place winners include:
Student Presenters: Bella Orsucci, Kira Becker
Mentors: Samantha Bowden, Jessica Lee
Title: To Play or Not to Play: Understanding Optimal Conditions for Studying Social Play Behavior in Different Laboratory Rat Strains
Student Presenter: Nolan Lucera
Mentors: Katrina Linning-Duffy, Lili Yan
Title: Effects of Rai-1 Gene Deletion on Sleep and Circadian Rhythm in Diurnal Rodents
Student Presenter: Toria Fex (recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship)
Mentor: Alexander Johnson
Title: Disrupting cocaine-seeking by devaluing memories of cocaine reward through mesolimbic circuitry
Linguistics, Language, and Speech first place winners include:
Student Presenters: Bailey Rann, Frank Dolecki
Mentor: J McAuley, Toni Smith
Title: Sensorimotor Synchronization in Adults Who Do and Do Not Stutter