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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Relating Neural Mechanisms for Learning to Instructional Techniques in Online Learning Environments
The virtual learning experience is fundamentally different from the traditional classroom because of the challenges of maintaining learners’ attention amid distractions in their environment. This study aims to study how ... -
The Effect of GABAergic Neuron Ablation on Seizure Frequency and Sleep Cycle Disruption in Mice
Epilepsy is a common neurological condition, prevalent in about 3.8% of people in the U.S. and increasing exponentially, making it a key area of research (England et al, 2012). The primary goal of this research study is ... -
Clinical Indicators that Predict Motor Recovery Post-Stroke
One of the leading causes of long-term disability in adults is stroke. Stroke occurs due to disruptions in the blood supply in the brain resulting from a blockage or bleed. These disruptions can lead to impaired upper ... -
Effects of Natural Interaction on Burnout and Well-being in Working Students
Burnout research supports a negative impact on working people’s psychological and physiological health, and it typically manifests from prolonged work strain. There is growing research supporting interacting with natural ... -
Examining Social Influence's Effect on Decision-Making and Bayesian Truth Serum
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-28)Decision-making—whether individual or in groups—can be subject to revision based on social influence, often pulling one’s opinions towards the apparent consensus (Mason, Conrey, & Smith, 2007). Social influence has been ... -
CHARACTERISTIC LAG & THE INTERMANUAL SPEED ADVANTAGE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-24)Previous research has found evidence for the intermanual speed advantage, wherein novice actors perform a visually-guided, two-handed task faster with one hand from each member of a dyad (i.e., intermanually) compared to ... -
Individual Differences in Deepfake Detection: Mindblindness and Political Orientation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-14)The proliferation of the capability for producing and distributing deepfake videos threatens the integrity of systems of justice, democratic processes, and the general ability to critically assess evidence. This study ... -
Vertical Equating with Longitudinal Data: Unidimensional and Multidimensional Item Response Theory Models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-20)Vertical equating is one context in which item response theory (IRT) model fit is important to evaluate and the measurement of change in students’ performance between test occasions is a central topic in educational research ... -
40 Hz Gamma Sensory Stimulation Effects on Memory Performance in Cognitively Healthy Older Adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04)Recent studies have demonstrated that a gamma sensory stimulation, light and sound flickering at 40 Hz, decreased Alzheimer’s symptoms and pathology in mice. Subsequent human trials showed similar results. Here we focus ... -
The Role of Sleep Spindles and Theta Rhythms in Associative Memory Consolidation of Healthy Young Adults
The purpose of this study was to examine sleep EEG in healthy young adults ages 18-25 years old. The Dreem2 wearable device was used to collect data. -
A Study Exploring the Relationship Between Racial Discrimination, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress on Sleep Quality
Prior studies have shown that discrimination experiences have a positive association on adults' symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress as well as on their sleep patterns. Symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress ... -
Mask Mamba: Influence of Environmental Factors on the Perception of Masking
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-15)This study aims to see whether different scenarios surrounding a character’s choice to wear a mask or not affect another person’s perception of that character. To do this, we conducted two simultaneous studies where we ... -
Impacts on performance effectiveness, processing efficiency, and subjective experience by music listening in extraverts and introverts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)The present study evaluates the utility of a new model based on attentional control theory (ACT) in a music psychology study. This new model seeks to provide a mechanism to explain impacts of concurrent-task music listening ... -
Subgoal Level Feedback Benefits Novel Problem Solving
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)The present study combined subgoal learning and feedback frameworks to further improve problem solving performance and demonstrated that subgoal level feedback resulted in better learning outcomes over step level feedback, ... -
The Effects of Output Interference on Metamemory and Cued Recall Accuracy in Young and Older Adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-13)Output interference (OI) is a gradual decline in memory accuracy as a function of an item’s position in a testing sequence (Anderson & Neely, 1996). Despite having been researched for over 50 years (e.g., Tulving & Arbuckle, ... -
The Influence of Testing on Memory for Context
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-11-03)Employing different types of testing is a useful tool for studying changes in item memory, but this tool has sparsely been leveraged to study changes in memory for contextual information. Memory for contextual information ... -
Change Detection as a Framework for Understanding Individual Differences in Attention Control and Allocation of Attention Across the Visual Field
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-10-22)Attention control is a domain-general ability that guides the control of thoughts and intentional behavior in a goal-driven manner and is a central concept to many models of human cognition. Our lab recently showed that ... -
FRAME ANALYSIS: A MODERN APPROACH TO FACTOR ANALYSIS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-11-11)We introduce and develop a new statistical method for exploring latent structures: Frame Analysis. Frame Analysis drops the one-to-one correspondence between factor dimensionality and vector space representation found in ... -
The Role of Basal Cortisol Elevations in Alzheimer’s Disease: Presence and Prediction of Associated Pathology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-04)Elevations in the glucocorticoid steroid hormone cortisol have long been suspected to be characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease, and there is a renewed interest in the contribution of cortisol to the progression of the ... -
Modeling Developmental Processes Using Accelerated Cohort-Sequential Data
(2021-11-10)Studying the time-related course of psychological processes is a challenging endeavor, particularly over long developmental periods. Accelerated longitudinal designs (ALD) allow capturing such periods with a limited number ...
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