Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference

Adult Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumors: Empirical Investigation of a Cognitive Model of Academic Achievement

Luke Shin

Poster #39

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Amplitude of low-frequency oscillations in schizophrenia and relationship to insight

Nadia Quyyum

Poster #62

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Beyond the Binary: Decoding W.B. Yeats’s Esoteric Metaphors

Deborah M. Green, GSU student

Poster #34

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) cope with a new social group

Valentina Garzon

Poster #77

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Cognitive Training Effects on Capuchin Monkeys’ Transfer Index Scores

Kristin French, Georgia State University
David Alan Washburn Dr., Georgia State University
Rachel Callery, Georgia State University

Poster #74

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Color Me Surprised: Stimulus-Specific Differences in Stroop Interference

Gabriel Leventhal-Douglas, Georgia State University
Marvin Jamal-Dobbs, Georgia State University

Poster #63

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Community Service or Service Learning?

Acacia Williams

Poster #28

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Do children differ in their comprehension of different types of gestures and gesture-speech combinations?

Lauren Schmuck, Georgia State University
Aleisha Rucker, Georgia State University
Nevena Dimitrova, Georgia State University
Seyda Ozcaliskan, Georgia State University
Lauren B. Adamson, Georgia State University

Poster #64

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Does the rate of adult neurogenesis in the brain change with age?

Jordon Cook

Poster #50

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Effects of Personal Hygiene and Arrest Rates

Taylor L. Gann, Georgia State University

Poster #26

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Effects of Physical Appearance on Police Decision Making

Victoria Cruz, Georgia State University
Blanca Garcia, Georgia State University
Ethan Hammock, Georgia State University

Poster #25

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Establishing a Synaptoneurosome Preparation to Investigate Memory Formation of a Meal

Alexa Faulkner, Neuroscience Institute
Amy P. Ross, Neuroscience Institute

Poster #49

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Examining the Nudge Effect in an Academic Setting

Victoria Sparks

Poster #32

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Exploring the Influence of the English language in Korean Popular Music

Jimin Park
Haerim Oh

Poster #12

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Identification and Characterization of Exosomes in the Pathogenisis of Endometriosis

Samantha Jefferson
Winston D. Thompson Ph.D., Morehouse School of Medicine
Djana Harp MD., MSCR, Morehouse School of Medicine
Adel Driss Ph.D., Morehouse School of Medicine
Indrajit Chowdhury Ph.D., Morehouse School of Medicine
Sharifeh Mehrabi Ph.D., Morehouse School of Medicine

Poster #36

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Learning complex sequences of tones is related to syntactic processing of natural language.

Alexander Ghali, Research Assistant-Psychology

Poster #56

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Microaggression Mediating the Effect of Ethnic Identity on Two Types of Civic Engagement

Van Phan

Poster #73

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Predictors of children’s sentence perception performance

Jessica Walker
Anna Creighton, Georgia State University
Joanne Deocampo, Georgia State University
Christopher M. Conway, Georgia State University

Poster #58

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Preschoolers’ Use of Semantic Memory to Solve a Future-Oriented Problem

Nathaniel B. Foster, Georgia State University

Poster #54

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Quantitative and Qualitative Stability Analysis of Polyrhythmic Circuits

Drake Knapper

Poster #37

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Risk, Governance, and Readability: An Examination of Corporate Risk Discussions

Rwanda Smith, Georgia State University

Poster #89

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Role of Increased Attention on Struggling College Readers’ Fluency Skill Development

DesMonet S. Cooper, Georgia State University

Poster #24

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

SEC Risk Factors: a Structural Topic Model (STM) Approach

Kelli A. Duncan, Georgia State University
Brandon Vi Trieu, Georgia State University

Poster #91

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Aftermath of The Temple Bombing: A Catalyst for Social Change during the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South

Alaina D'anzi
Sara Maxi Howel, Georgia State University

Poster #87

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuations in Slow-4 vs. Slow-5 Passbands in Auditory and Visual Hallucinators with Schizophrenia

Alicia Law

Poster #72

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Differential Impact of Communication Tool Use on Team Outcomes

Jessica Sarabia
Chen Zuo, Agnes Scott College

Poster #76

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Relation between Children’s Focus of Attention and their Delay of Gratification Performance

Kachiri Harris
Adriane Davis, Georgia State University

Poster #65

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Role of Calcium Signaling Genes in Schizophrenia Development

Nisha Bhatia

Poster #57

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The role of masculine norms in heterosexual men’s attitudes towards lesbians.

Anna Theodore, Georgia State University
Debbie Maguire, Georgia State University
Rebekah Sandy, Georgia State University
Alexandra L. Bellis, Georgia State University

Poster #66

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Role of Structural Priming in Interaction- Driven Language Learning

Juna Park

Poster #8

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The social role of GABA in the neural network

Nicole Rigney
Amber Grant

Poster #40

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Temporal Accuracy of the Language in Mad Men

Enid Kim

Poster #11

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Tort Reform and Accidental Deaths: Is there a link?

Haley Tipsord

Poster #90

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Validation of optogenetic inhibition of rat hippocampal glutamatergic neurons

Yaar Gholamhosseini
Reilly C. Hannapel

Poster #38

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Writing in the Community: A Georgia State Outreach Program

Katherine Teems, Georgia State University

Poster #33

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Accessing Faith-Based Organizations using Public Transportation: A Qualitative and GIS Study

Olivia Maley

Poster #2

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Altering working memory performance through cortical entrainment: An ERP study of binaural beat stimulation during a two-back memory task

Nicholas P. Bello

Poster #48

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

An Exploration of the "Boarder Crisis" and the Adoption of Children from Latin American Countries

Jana Woodiwiss-Geter

Poster #94

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Analysis of activation of the NF-κB pathway by SHFV infection

Ashley Aisabor

Poster #14

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Ancient Brews: Ethiopia and the Consumption of Tej.

Jenail Marshall

Poster #3

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Associations between Positive and Negative Affect and Emotion Regulation Strategies

Sarah E. Vogt, Georgia State University
Alyssa M. Ames B.A., Psychology
Bianca L. Arnold B.S., Psychology

Poster #75

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Attention! Individual and Racial Differences in Self-Reported and Measured Attention

Cerita Willie
J. Antonio Salamanca, Georgia State University
David Washburn, Georgia State University

Poster #84

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Behavioral Assays Demonstrate How Krill Meal Enhances Attractability and Palatability of Feed Pellets in the Aquaculture of Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei

Samantha Williams
Cristian Gonzalez

Poster #41

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Black Lives Matter: A Comparative Study in Just How Far We Have Really Come

Dream NC McClinton

Poster #1

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Casting Criminals: Does Fear Generalize From the “Criminal Type Face” to All Other Faces Within a Race?

Susan Conklin, Georgia State University
Alesha Bond, Georgia State University
Stefanie Ray, Georgia State University
Heather Offutt, Georgia State University

Poster #61

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Cerebellar Hypoconnectivity in Schizophrenia

Haleemah Harris

Poster #85

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Characterization of the Stress Response in the Perimenopausal Woman: Interrelationships Among Physiological and Emotional Measures

Andrea P. Ramirez

Poster #53

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Characterizing Orphan GPCRs in Molluscan Neurons through Bioinformatics

Preetham Ganupuru, Georgia State University

Poster #42

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Children’s responses to irrelevant and inaccurate sources of information

Kamarea Brown

Poster #59

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Coding of social signals by glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in the social neural network

Megan Moore

Poster #43

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Comparison of molar metric variation and dental microwear among three species of Parapapio from the Pliocene cave site of Sterkfontein Member 4, South Africa

William Anderson, Georgia State University
Laura Aday, Georgia State University

Poster #5

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Complex Eukaryotic Protein Expression using a Prokaryotic chassis (Escherichia coli)

Derrica Burke
Julia Dave
Jasmine Padalla, Georgia State University
Tre Landry, Georgia State University

Poster #15

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Differences in neural responses to positively and negatively primed words: A cross-modal study of affective priming using environmental sounds

Naila Amer, Georgia State University
Junad Amin, Georgia State University
Gwen A. Frishkoff, gfrishkoff

Poster #83

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Do young children show early sensitivity to viewpoint in iconic gestures?

Tikenya Joseph, Georgia State University

Poster #82

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Does comprehension of gesture have the same positive relation to child vocabulary as production of gesture?

Aleisha Rucker
Lauren M. Schmuck, Georgia State University
Nevena Dimitrova, Georgia State University
Seyda Özçalışkan, Georgia State University
Lauren B. Adamson, Georgia State University

Poster #67

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Does the crayfish tail fan sense chemicals

Semira Adella, Georgia State University
Imon Allen, Georgia State University
Tyler Flot, Georgia State University

Poster #45

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Effects of CP55,940 on Conditioned Defeat in Mesocricetus auratus

Nathan Hardcastle, Georgia State University

Poster #44

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Effects of Meaningfulness in Left Angular Gyrus and Right Insula

Anna Nowaczyk

Poster #86

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Evaluation of Polyamine-Anthracene Conjugates as DNA Ligands: a Potential Anti-Cancer Agent

Khoa T. Nguyen, Georgia State University
Sunhwa Joung, Georgia State University
Jennifer J. Archer, University of Central Florida
Otto Phanstiel IV, University of Central Florida
Kathryn B. Grant, Georgia State University

Poster #19

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Examining responses to inequity in brown capuchins

Mari-lyn Arbir
Catherine F. Talbot, Georgia State University
Kelly Leverett, Georgia State University
Sarah F. Brosnan, Georgia State University

Poster #79

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Exploration of putative mitochondrial gene expression in Crithidia fasciculata as a model for pathogenic trypanosomes causing human disease

Baylye Boxall
Nadjean Sagesse

Poster #16

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Expressions of politeness at GSU: The Influence of Gender, Age, and Contexts

Hollie Montgomery
Chanelle Campbell
Laura Ballard

Poster #7

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Health Care Planning Decisions among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older Adults

Vincent Roberts

Poster #93

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Heightened Levels of Stress and Contributing Factors in Caregivers of Special Needs Children

Heather Velon

Poster #51

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

How Company Scandals Affect Other Firm’s Risk Perceptions

Sunmi Hirata
Martin Grace
Manuela Rincon

Poster #92

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Insights into the Adsorption Thermodynamics of Arsenates on Boehmite

Nicholas Allen
Christopher V. Tran, Georgia State University

Poster #20

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Islam in Education: Educating Teachers and Students

Sauda Abdullah, Georgia State University
Tasmiea Zaman, Georgia State University

Poster #30

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Little Mathematician Program: Exploring and Facilitating Children’s Early Math Skills

Jaelyn M. Jeff
Edith Castillo
Beverly Gilliard

Poster #31

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Marine Transgression and Vegetation Environments in St. Catherines Island, Georgia

Rachel Luu

Poster #35

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Meta-Analysis of Event-Related Potentials in Episodic and Semantic Memory

Stephanie Ross

Poster #46

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Modernist Vocabulary

Daniel Jennings

Poster #27

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Sequential Learning and Language: An ERP Study

Gerardo E. Valdez, Georgia State University
Sanjay Pardasani, Georgia State University

Poster #68

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

O-GlcNAcylation and Modifications to the Class II Transactivator

Ronald Shanderson

Poster #13

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Parent’s Knowledge of Domestic Violence’s Impact on Children: Cultural Considerations for Latino families

Nancy Nava

Poster #81

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Portable Indirect Calorimetry for Measuring Resting Metabolic Rate in Overweight and Obese Adolescents: A Pilot Validity and Reliability Study

Kamille Anne Mamaril
Maya Erin Kelkar, Georgia State University

Poster #52

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Pragmatic Use of English as a First and Second Language in Q+A Web-Based Forums

Hannah Waters

Poster #9

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Preliminary Report on The Production of a Shiga-like Toxoid Fusion Protein as Associated with Novel FliC Vaccine

Michael Maulin

Poster #6

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Prodromal Huntington's Disease Frontal Grey Matter

Darryl Burnet

Poster #71

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Read-Alouds & Digital Book Apps: What Role Do Features Play?

Jessica Harden

Poster #29

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

"She asked for it": Can violence against women in video games cause increased rape myth acceptance?

Amber Turner
Brittany Walters, Georgia State University
Robyn Borgman, Georgia State University

Poster #70

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Studies of HmuT protein in the heme uptake pathway of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Stephanie Thompson
Tiffany Natasha Thompson, Georgia State University

Poster #22

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

The effect of music type on emotion regulation: An emotional Stroop experiment

Marjorie Freggens

Poster #60

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

The Moeggenberg Collection: Making Sense of Unprovenienced Artifacts

Adi Komic

Poster #4

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

The relationship between parental communication and rates of sexual aggression

Alyssa Bartlett
Bekah Sandy
Alexandra L. Bellis

Poster #69

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

TODDLERS' BODY SCALE ERRORS: Influences of age and parents

Yemimah King, Georgia State University
Lauren B. Adamson, Georgia State University

Poster #80

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Understanding pragmatic uses of cuss words: The influence of age, gender, and first language background

Lidiya Valentine-Welch
Erica Gonzalez
Hannah Waters
Claire Lin
Marcus Stripling

Poster #10

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Unilateral Lung Disease: Empyema

Chanecia Jackson

Poster #88

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM