Julie C. Nay and Dr. Daryl Lee, French and Italian In March 1871, in response to the brutal Prussian siege of the city, a humiliating peace treaty with the Germans, and an attempt by the national government to deprive Paris of her cannons, the Central Committee of the National Guard declared Paris independent of the […]
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Orality, Social Memory, and the Apocryphal Acts
David M. Nielsen and Dr. Kristian Heal, Director, Center for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts The corpus of texts that constitute the New Testament apocrypha is large, to make a gross understatement. It is a vast collection that spans the continents, languages, and centuries of the early Church and rightly so would […]
Cellular Mechanisms Underlying the Operations of the Brain’s Memory Center
Spencer Bella and Dr. Jeffrey Edwards, Physiology and Developmental Biology Participating in mentored research funded by ORCA has again provided me with valuable research experience and taught me valuable lessons about the research process. Although due to certain setbacks my project was not able to progress to the point of conclusive results, the results we […]
Memory Training for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Charlotte A. Allsop and Dr. Barbara Heise, Gerontological Nursing Dementia is manifested by a severely limited memory and performance of cognitive abilities. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is an early stage of memory loss which can later lead to Dementia. It has been proven that you can delay cognitive dysfunction, e.g. memory, by “training the brain” […]
Memory-texts and the Interdiscursive Construction of Identity among the Khmer Diaspora
Brandon Bales and Dr. Janis Nuckolls, Linguistics Department and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Anthropology Department Abstract Displaced people present a problem for ethnographic research in that they generally lack stable socio-cultural contexts on which researchers rely for making empirical observations. This study shows how people produce memory-texts as a way of recontextualizing themselves in new or […]
Revolution and Memory: An Oral History of the Revolution in Zanzibar and its Relationship with the Study of Memory in Small Villages
Mark Troger and Dr. Gary Daynes, History Originally I intended to travel to Cameroon, West Africa to conduct an oral history of a village and decipher the results and study how westernization and modernization had taken its affect over the years. My initial intent came from a simple desire to first, study the history of […]
Understanding William Primrose: The Transcription of Technique is Memory
Noelle Rader and Dr. Claudine Bigelow I received my ORCA grant to transpose and transcribe for viola the out-of-print violin method book Technique is Memory, written by the famous violist William Primrose. BYU is home to the largest viola music archive in the world, the William Primrose International Viola Archive (PIVA). William Primrose was the […]
Spatial Dependence of Magnetic Domain Memory In Exchange-Bias Films
Joseph Nelson and Dr. Karine Chesnel, Physics One of the greatest challenges facing the magnetic data storage industry is the sensitivity of magnetic media to degradation by external fields. Because of this sensitivity, long-term archival data storage, which is required by law for many industries, has become very expensive to upkeep. To protect against possible […]
The Influence of Positive Affect on Working Memory
Brenna S. Adams and Dr. Michael J. Larson, Psychology Department Main Text Positive affect, or positive emotion, is associated with improvements in most cognitive abilities, such as creative problem solving (Isen, Daubman, & Nowicki, 1987), the integration of information for strategic decision-making (Estrada, Isen, & Young, 1997), and verbal fluency (Phillips, Bull, Adams, & Fraser, […]
Dentate Gyrus Volume and Memory Strength in Older Adults
J. Andrew Hartshorn and Dr. Brock Kirwan, Department of Psychology I began work in the BYU Memory and Cognition Lab in the fall of 2009. Under the direction of Dr. Kirwan I was fortunate enough to be involved in a variety of projects using different testing methodologies. My first project examined the ability of people […]
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