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Undergraduate Poster Session

Cognitive & Brain Sciences Undergraduate Poster Session

The Undergraduate Poster Session is a signature feature of the Center's annual CogFest programming series. The poster session provides interaction between faculty and students from across the university who are exploring questions related to human cognition, including learning, memory, perception, language, and decision-making, from behavioral, applied, computational modeling, and cognitive neuroscience perspectives. This event recognizes the significant contributions to research made by OSU undergraduates and promotes ongoing research in the cognitive science field. 

2025 Poster Session: April 4, 2025, 2:30-4:30 PM, Thompson Library 11th Floor (room 1120)

Interested presenters should check back next year for the 2026 poster session.

Submissions involving undergraduate research in any area of cognitive or brain sciences are welcome. The poster session is an opportunity to share ongoing research with the cognitive science community at Ohio State and gather expert feedback on projects. If a research project is ongoing, a research-in-progress summary may be submitted in place of an abstract.

Undergrad Presenter 2022
Group photo of undergrad presenters 2018
Poster presenter 2017

Congratulations to our 2025 Winning Presenters

1st: Lauren Rydel

Project Title: The Development of Visual Word Form Area Specialization in Children: A Multivariate Analysis

Major: Neuroscience and Psychology

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Zeynep Saygin

 

2nd: Saachi Kuthe

Project Title: How does effort avoidance affect the strategic use of attentional control? A novel measure of effort avoidance sheds light on the issue at the individual level.

Major: Psychology 

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Andrew Leber

 

3rd: Cindy An

Project Title: Cerebellar networks distinguishing negative symptom subcategories in schizophrenia

Major: Neuroscience and Psychology

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Jessica Turner

  • Caiden Moody, Neuroscience & Psychology, Time-of-day effect in response bias in working memory and cognitive control tasks, PI: Andrew Leber
  • Carisa Tanner, Psychology, premed track, Sedentary behavior is negatively associated with executive function across the adult lifespan, PI: Scott Hayes
  • Charlie Rowe, Linguistics, Reconciling diverging familiarity effects in the study of defectiveness, PI: Andrea Sims
  • Cindy An, Psychology and Neuroscience, Cerebellar networks distinguishing negative symptom subcategories in schizophrenia, PI: Jessica Turner
  • Eric Bridge, Psychology, Examining Confidence in Perceptions of ASL, Russian, and Portuguese, PI: Laura Wagner
  • Isha Sawhney, Neuroscience, Investigating Neuroinflammatory Changes within the Meninges after Repeated Social Defeat in Male Mice, PI: Jonathan Godbout
  • Kassandra Yano, Psychology and Neuroscience, Exploring cardiorespiratory fitness, self-efficacy, and executive function, PI: Scott Hayes
  • Lauren Rydel, Neuroscience & Psychology, The Development of Visual Word Form Area Specialization in Children: A Multivariate Analysis, PI: Zeynep Saygin
  • Madeline Liston, Neuroscience, Parental Responses to Repetitive Behaviors in Autistic Children: Impact on Affect, Social Engagement and Subsequent Play Behaviors, PI: Katherine Walton
  • Saachi Kuthe, Psychology, How does effort avoidance affect the strategic use of attentional control? A novel measure of effort avoidance sheds light on the issue at the individual level, PI: Andrew Leber