The Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, together with participating faculty and departments, held its annual Competition for the Summer GRA in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. GRAs will be awarded to each of the following recipients for Summer 2013 (June through August)!

Congratulations to the following recipients:

Claire Arthur

Proposal: Investigating Talent as a Factor of Music Appreciation

Home Department: School of Music

Advisor: Dr. David Hurron

Visiting Department: Psychology

Visiting Advisor: Dr. Andrew Leber

Nathan Condit-Schultz

Proposal: Rhyme and Rhythmic Organization in Poetry and Rap

Home Department: School of Music

Advisor: Dr. David Hurron

Visiting Department: Linguistics

Visiting Advisor: Dr. Mary E. Beckerman

Alisha Janssen

Proposal: Cognitive Training for Relapsing- Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: Broad transfer to executive functioning attention and manual dexterity

Home Department: Psychology

Advisor: Dr. Ruckika Shaurya Prakash

Visiting Department: Neurology

Visiting Advisor: Dr. Aaron Boster

Qingyang  Yan

Proposal: The development of perceptual dialect categories from childhood through adulthood

Home Department: Linguistics

Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Clopper

Visiting Department: Psychology

Visiting Advisor: Dr. Laura Wagner

Hyungwook  Yim

Proposal: Developmental Mechanisms for Episodic Memory

Home Department: Psychology

Advisor: Dr. Vladimir M. Sloutsky

Visiting Department: Department of Pediatrics (Nationwide Children’s Hospital)

Visiting Advisor: Dr. Christopher W. Bartlett