Dr. Brock Kirwan, Psychology Department Application Abstract At a general level, we know that the information that is successfully encoded in and retrieved from long-term memory is influenced by the context during encoding and retrieval. However, we do not yet know how context affects mnemonic discrimination of similar or overlapping items or events. Further, we […]
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Perspectives on Family Values: A Photographic Exploration of Memory and Home
Stephanie Froelich and Faculty Mentor: Robert Machoian, Department of Design This ORCA grant funded phase one of a long term project documenting the lives and stories of my two sets of grandparents who live in different geographic areas of Canada. Through the guidance of my mentor, and through the opportunities he provided to meet with […]
Examining the Potential Role of GPR18 and GPR119 in Learning and Memory
Brandon Anderson, James Kranewitter-Call, and Dr. Jeffrey Edwards, Physiology and Developmental Biology Introduction Many mental disorders plague our society. Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease have greatly impacted many victims and their families. Despite the seriousness and pervasiveness of Alzheimer’s, there is still no effective treatment for it nor the accompanying dementia. GPR18 and GPR119 are G-protein […]
Study, Test, Test: A Formula to Distinguish Memory Specificity in Declarative Memory
Jordan Clark and Dr. Brock Kirwan, Psychology Department The goal of this project was to increase our understanding of how human memory works. Specifically, we wanted to investigate what happens in the brain when we make memory mistakes, and to see if there are regions of the brain whose relative activation levels could be predictive […]
Context Dependent Memory Specificity
Todd Winn, Leila LeSueur, and Dr. Brock Kirwan, Psychology Department Introduction In current literature, researchers have proposed that the relationshipbetween objects and the context they are found in is integral to long-term declarative memory, and converges at hippocampal processes. In order to explore the effect of visual context on memory, our experiment was designed to […]
Combating infectious disease with enhanced T cell memory
Scott Weber Combating infectious disease with enhanced T cell memory The following two aims are from my 2014-2015 MEG. We made great progress and completed most of both Aim 1 and Aim 2. Details on the progress for each aim are described below. Mentoring Environment This MEG allowed me to expand the size of my […]
What Happens When Remember the Wrong Thing: The Effects of False Recognition on Memory Performance
Ellgen, Amanda What Happens When We Remember the Wrong Thing: The Effects of False Recognition on Memory Performance Faculty Mentor: C. Brock Kirwan, Psychology Introduction Our long-term memory system has the impressive ability to form unique representations of events and later retrieve those distinct events with minimal interference from similar events. For example, you may […]
The Need for an Aural Memory Test Baseline
Eric Brighton and Brock Kirwin, Department of Psychology Introduction Visual pattern separation is the ability of an individual to correctly distinguish between images that they have already seen, images that are very similar but not identical, and novel images. Over the last eight years visual pattern separation has come to be well accepted as a […]
Role of Exercise and Stress in Memory and Learning of the Hippocampus
Baker, Paul Role of Exercise and Stress in Memory and Learning of the Hippocampus Dr. Jeff Edwards, Neuroscience Introduction Some of the most devastating diseases today are diseases of the mind. Common side effects of Alzheimer’s disease are dementia and memory loss and more than 44 million people suffer from the disease worldwide [1]. Other […]
Final Report for 2013 MEG: Improving the memory response of pathogen specific helper T cells
Scott Weber – Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology The following two aims are from my 2013 MEG. We made great progress and completed most of both Aim 1 and Aim 2. Details on the progress for each aim are described below. Mentoring Environment: This MEG allowed me to expand the size of my lab […]
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