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2022 Poster Session Info

The Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences is pleased to announce its fifth annual CogFest Undergraduate Poster Session. 

Undergraduate students participating in CogFest 2020 Poster Session

Faculty, staff, and students from across the University are encouraged to join us on April 19 to hear research presentations from some of the brightest undergraduate minds at OSU. 

Date: April 19, 2022

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM

Location: Thompson Library Campus Reading Room (11th Floor)

Meet the 2022 Undergraduate Presenters

Maura Kelleher

Advised by Dr. Jennifer Lundine

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Major: Neuroscience

Project Title: Environmental Barriers Experienced by Children with Traumatic Brain Injury

Project Authors: Maura Kelleher; Dr. Jennifer Lundine, PhD

Payton Messersmith

Advised by Dr. Andrew Leber

Major: Public Management, Leadership, & Policy; Psychology

Project Title: The Adaptive Choice Visual Search: Social Comparison and Optimal Strategy Use

Project Authors: Payton Messersmith; Max Zhang; Andrew Leber, PhD

Devan Mallory

Advised by Dr. Micha Elsner

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Major: Computer Science Engineering

Project Title: Cyquential AI: A generative approach to Symbolic Knowledge Acquisition

Project Authors: Devan Mallory

Zihan Bai

Advised by Dr. Julie Golomb

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Major: Psychology

Project Title: Spatial Congruency Bias: The Influence of Background Scenes on Object-location binding

Project Authors: Zihan Bai; Yong Min Choi; Julie D Golomb PhD

Hannah Ackley

Advised by Dr. Andrew Leber

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Major: Computer Science Engineering

Project Title: Why are predictive spatial cues sometimes ignored?

Project Authors: Hannah J. Ackley; Tianyu Zhang; Walden Y. Li; Andrew B. Leber, PhD

Rebekah Stanhope

Advised by Dr. Laura Wagner

Major: Linguistics

Project Title: Examining Perception of Prosodic Contrasts in 7-12 Year Old Children

Project Authors: Rebekah Stanhope; Rachael Frush Holt, PhD; Shari Speer, PhD; Laura Wagner, PhD

Arian Sorani

Advised by Dr. Ruchika Prakash and Dr. Theodore Beauchaine

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Major: Psychology 

Project Title: Does resting-state frontostriatal connectivity account for comorbidity between substance abuse vulnerability and trait impulsivity?

Project Authors: Arian Sorani; Shaadee Samimy; Theodore Beauchaine, PhD