CAN labbies won people choice poster awards at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society which took place in San Francisco, CA from March 28 - 31. Senior undergraduate and Mulcahy and Provost Scholar Eva Gjorgieva’s work (along with graduate student Val Flores (Research Mentoring Program), lab alum Dr. Vanessa Rainey, senior Riley Sticca (Mulcahy and Provost Scholar), and lab co-directors Robert Morrison and Rebecca Silton investigating task switching in bilinguals was also featured on the CNS website.
Other winners included a poster on how changes in anterior prefrontal cortex during adolescence support the development of fluid intelligence by Professor Morrison, Val Flores, recent lab alum Elise Gagnon (former Johnson Scholar), and current Johnson Scholars senior Sarah Zaza (Johnson Scholar), and junior Amanda Sweis (Johnson Scholar), and work exploring the neural correlates of emotional face processing in habitual violent gamers by senior Rob Palumbo (Mulcahy Scholar and Research Mentoring Program), research associate Laura Stockdale (Research Mentoring Program), senior Kavita Patel (Provost Fellow) and professors Morrison and Silton.
Senior Makiah Nuutinen's (Provost Scholar) work along with political science graduate student Dane Wendell, professor Rick Matland, and lab director Dr. Morrison on using dual-process theory to understand differences in reasoning with respect to political ideology was also well received.
Other winners included a poster on how changes in anterior prefrontal cortex during adolescence support the development of fluid intelligence by Professor Morrison, Val Flores, recent lab alum Elise Gagnon (former Johnson Scholar), and current Johnson Scholars senior Sarah Zaza (Johnson Scholar), and junior Amanda Sweis (Johnson Scholar), and work exploring the neural correlates of emotional face processing in habitual violent gamers by senior Rob Palumbo (Mulcahy Scholar and Research Mentoring Program), research associate Laura Stockdale (Research Mentoring Program), senior Kavita Patel (Provost Fellow) and professors Morrison and Silton.
Senior Makiah Nuutinen's (Provost Scholar) work along with political science graduate student Dane Wendell, professor Rick Matland, and lab director Dr. Morrison on using dual-process theory to understand differences in reasoning with respect to political ideology was also well received.