School of Psychology
The School of Psychology has a strong emphasis on scientific research and discovery. It houses five program areas: Cognition and Brain Science, Cognitive Aging, Engineering Psychology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Quantitative Psychology. Basic research is dedicated to studying fundamental psychological processes, such as memory, attention, language comprehension, motivation, decision making, and many other topics. Applied research topics include aspects of human interaction with technology, instructional design, psychological factors in occupational settings, and other topics.
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The Role Gender Plays in Spatial Navigation and Recall Ability
Memory recall in order to complete certain tasks such as spatial navigation, and, in turn prospective planning, is largely necessary for day-to-day activities which require travel. Due to various factors, females and males, ... -
Minority Stress, Sleep Quality, and Episodic Memory Performance in LGBTQ+ Adults
The main goal of this study was to investigate the impact of minority stress on the sleep quality and episodic memory performance of LGBTQ+ adults. This was done by collecting data from 70 participants (n = 39 LGBTQ+; n = ... -
The neurological effects of subgoal-based learning
The inclusion of subgoals in instructional materials has been shown to help learners be more successful solving novel problems. However, there are no studies on the neurological effects of this learning methodology. Cognition ... -
Gamma-frequency entrainment using audiovisual 40 Hz flicker
Neural oscillations, or brain waves, are endogenous rhythms of synchronized electrical activity that are the result of communication between large groups of cortical and/or subcortical neurons. Using entrainment methodologies, ... -
The role of attention control in mediating the relationship between Hick reaction time slopes and intelligence
In 1993, psychologists found that the Hick Task, a commonly used task to explore the relationship between speed of information processing (SOIP) and reaction times, may have results due to attentional breadth confounds ... -
Sex-related Differences in Aging and Metamemory
Metamemory, knowledge of one’s memory capabilities, is an important measure for learning and cognitive functioning in addition to having clinical relevance, such as being used as a diagnostic tool in cognitive diseases. ... -
Sex-related differences in resolving proactive interference during associative memory tasks
Prior studies have shown that males and females perform differently on a variety of memory tasks. It is suggested that certain biological factors can lead to sex-related differences in cognitive decline, memory, and learning. ... -
Investigating the experimental contexts in which people with high confidence have high accuracy
Metacognitive ability describes one’s ability to discern the accuracy of one’s previous decisions by attributing high confidence values to correct decisions and low values for incorrect decisions. This study aimed to ... -
AN ERP STUDY OF THE NEURAL CORRELATES UNDERLYING HYPOTHESIS GENERATION AND WORKING MEMORY
Hypothesis generation is the process by which individuals formulate explanations for data found in their environment and evaluating the accuracy of each hypothesis generated is known as a probability judgement. Previous ... -
Characteristic Neural Firing Profiles in Different Hippocampal Subfields for Successful and Unsuccessful Memory
Memory is our ability to encode, store, retrain, and subsequently recall information and past experiences. Different areas of the brain are responsible for different aspects of memory, including the hippocampus which enables ... -
Modernizing Transportable Teamwork Competency Training
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)Generic teamwork competencies have been researched and discussed for the last 30 years and these competencies are often the focus of determining an employee’s ability to work in a team While most of these competencies hold ... -
Integrating Neuroimaging and Behavioral Data Using The Multidimensional Generalized Graded Unfolding Model.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-26)A study investigating the relationship between two distinct data structures resulting from the same stimulus was examined. Participants made attractiveness judgments to computer generated models in two phases. Phase 1 of ... -
Investigating Various Approaches in Classification of EEG Signals Representing Distinct Cognitive States to Reach an Optimal Solution
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-03-02)There are various cases in which cognitive neuroscientists might be interested in exploring the neural differences associated with distinct cognitive states such as whether an individual has remembered some information or ... -
Exposure and physiological reactivity to daily stressors: the role of perceived stress, perceived stress reactivity, age, and cognitive ability
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-03-04)Identifying individual differences that buffer or exacerbate physiological reactivity to stressors can have important implications for health and well-being. This study focused on the roles perceived life stress, perceived ... -
Perceived Relational Risk and Perceived Situational Risk Scales
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-10)This technical report provides an overview of how to use scales that were developed for perceived relational risk and perceived situational risk. -
General Intelligence Explained (Away)
(2021-03-18)For more than a century, the standard view in the field of human intelligence has been that there is a “general intelligence” that permeates all human cognitive activity. This general cognitive ability is supposed to explain ... -
Broad Effects of Arousal on Quasi-Periodic Patterns of Brain Activity
Quasi Periodic Patterns (QPPs) are recurring patterns of brain activity found in brain imaging data that last approximately 20 seconds and occur at no regular interval. In this experiment, researchers aim to establish a ... -
Representing the Effect of Multiple Alternatives and Information Strength on Confidence in Perceptual Decision Tasks
Confidence in perceptual decisions is a baseline for quantitatively measuring metacognitive processes in psychology. Most researchers limit the stimulus to two choices, assuming that the mental process summarizes the likely ... -
Influence of Social Intention on Switch Cost in Task-Switching Paradigms
Humans have built a society based upon elaborate social interactions. We have processes that enable us to interact with each other and switch between tasks. Humans often multitask especially in a social context, such as ... -
Brain mechanisms for the cognitive effects of dual task interference
Our ability to multitask has been found to have critical limitations primarily due to the restricted available attentional resources. Although many studies have explored the phenomena of processing bottleneck using serial ...
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