Jeff Edwards, MEG Final Report- 2014 Award I) Evaluation of academic objectives of the proposal The objectives of this award were met, especially in regard to the mentoring focus of the award. The students have been mentored and trained in an effective manner as outlined in my Mentoring Plan (abbreviated below). This includes mentoring students […]
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Your Memory is Working Against You: Using fMRI to Explain How Memory Affects Susceptibility to Phishing
Bonnie Anderson, Anthony Vance, Brock Kirwan Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The objective of this MEG grant was to: “show that cognitive neuroscience provides a useful lens through which to study the problem of phishing. A commonly reported finding from the field of memory is the repetition suppression […]
Optimization of the Memory Protocol and Investigation of cAMP Levels in Axenic and Conventional Flies
Toree Lammel and John Chaston, Plant and Wildlife Sciences Going into this project, it was my intention of complete two separate goals: first, to optimize a learning assay for testing memory and learning in Drosophila melanogaster for future use in the Plant and Wildlife Department laboratory at Brigham Young University, and second, to investigate cyclic […]
The Effects of Sexual Assault on Memory and Consciousness
Kelsie Pead and Julie Valentine, College of Nursing Introduction Unfortunately, sexual assault (SA) is a highly prevalent problem. In Utah, rape is the only Violent Crime Index offense higher than the national average (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2013). One in six women report being raped, and one in three women report being sexually assaulted throughout […]
Impact of Major Depressive Disorder on Memory Specificity and Resting-State fMRI
Kayla Alder and Dr. Brock Kirwan, Psychology Introduction Previous research suggests that those with depression have altered brain structures compared to control participants. For example, depressed individuals have smaller hippocampal volumes than those not diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) (Brown, Rush & McEwen, 1999). The hippocampus plays a major role in memory, especially by […]
The Impact of Physical Activity on Memory: Recognition Differentiation Between Stimuli
Seth Spencer and C. Brock Kirwan, Psychology Introduction Many studies have shown a correlation between physical exercise and healthy cognitive processing. It has been shown extensively that regular exercise has a positive impact on brain health. One example is a study that linked increased exercise with greater performance on as shown via a Stroop Color-Word […]
Prospective Memory and Pregnancy
Storm Atwood and C. Brock Kirwan, Psychology Memory is separated into two parts; one is procedural memory in which processes such as riding a bike are stored, the second is declarative memory or factual memory (Mickes, Wixted Shapiro, & Scarff, 2009, p.754). Many soon-to-be mothers report difficulty with their declarative memory and find that they […]
Exploring the Effects of Contextual Elements on Memory Specificity
Cassie Widdison and Brock Kirwan, Psychology Regions of the brain, such as the medial temporal lobe (MTL), including the hippocampus and the adjacent MTL cortex, facilitate recognition memory performance (Squire, Stark, & Clark, 2004). The hippocampus is known for its ability to encode and retrieve memories through two processes called pattern separation and pattern completion […]
The Effects of Sleep-dependent Memory Consolidation on the Discriminability and Generalizability of Learning
Bengt Grua and Dr. C. Brock Kirwan, Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience Introduction The goal of this study was to determine how sleep affects memory recall in an academic setting with relation to memory discrimination and memory generalization. Memory generalization depends on the computational process of pattern completion, which is the brain’s ability to retrieve […]
Change over time of White Matter Hyperintensities and cognitive scores in the Cache County Memory and Aging Study
Zachary McDonnell and Dr. Erin Bigler, Psychology Department Introduction The Cache County Study on Memory in Aging (CCMA) includes a sample of over 400 individuals with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Bigler et al., 2000). Studies have shown that White Matter Hyperintensities (WMH) on MRIs are associated with not only cognitive decline, but degenerative disorders like […]
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