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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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 ... -
Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise
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Resisting the Knowledge Dementors: The Truth about “Post-Truth”
(2021-02-04)We are said to live in a “post-truth” era in which “fake news” has replaced real information, denial has compromised science, and the ontology of knowledge and truth has taken on a relativist element. I argue that to defend ... -
Dynamical Analysis and Modeling of Team Resilience in Human-Autonomy Teams
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-07)A resilient team would be proficient at overcoming sudden, unexpected changes by displaying a rapid, adaptive response to maintain effectiveness. To quantify resilience, I analyzed data from two different experiments ... -
Extending Models of Self-Regulated Learning to Working Adults: Implications for Online Advanced Skill Training
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-29)Despite an increase in the prevalence of online skill training programs for working adults, little is known about the self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies by which adults manage their learning in such programs. The ... -
Perceived Relational Risk and Perceived Situational Risk: Scale Development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-05)Interactions with technology are a significant part of daily life, both at home and at work. Understanding how to support successful human-technology interaction is essential for Engineering Psychology. Perceived relational ... -
Real Work Task Performance: The Role of Abilities, Non-Ability Traits, and Proximal Variables
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-18)The objective of this study was to develop new, ecologically valid measures of adult intelligence that are representative of tasks that adults might encounter in their everyday lives. In order to accomplish this objective, ... -
Learning distributed representations in the human brain
(2020-11-19)The remarkable success of neural network models in machine learning has relied on the use of distributed representations — activity patterns that overlap across related inputs. Under what conditions does the brain also ... -
Temporal oscillations in preference strength provide evidence for a quantum-Markov open system model of preference evolution
(2020-11-05)We examined how preferences evolve across time in two new experiments, one using choices between restaurants and a second using choices between gambles. In both we observed that mean preference strength systematically ... -
Encoding Differences in Aging Adults can Explain Associative Memory Deficits
The relationship between aging and associative memory decline has been well-established in literature, however there is no clear reasoning for this decline. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have ... -
Sleep-based Memory Consolidation and Aging
It is a known phenomenon that older adults tend to get less sleep and lower sleep quality compared to their younger counterparts, getting worse with age. They also often have difficulty falling asleep, which can be described ... -
Stress effects on the ability to learn statistical regularities about our world
Stress, a common feature of everyday life, has been demonstrated in numerous studies to profoundly impact memory function, particularly functions dependent on the hippocampus. The impacts of acute stress on statistical ... -
Effects of Acute and Chronic Inflammation on Vasopressin Expression in the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Hypothalamus
Inflammation can lead to a suite of behavioral changes known as sickness behaviors, which have been implicated in the etiology of chronic inflammatory disease. Here, we examine the role of acute and chronic induction of ... -
Basal Forebrain Degeneration and Cortisol as Biomarkers Mediating Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology: A Machine Learning Approach
The impact of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) on today’s society and healthcare is unprecedented. As a larger portion of today’s population enters an age for which AD becomes a health concern, there is growing support among health ... -
How Cognitive Load Difficulty Affects Cognitive Mapping and Individual Differences in Navigation
In order to study the effects of varying the levels of cognitive load and individual differences upon cognitive mapping, forty-eight young adults participated in this virtual navigation study. To compare different levels ... -
The Effects of Boundary Manipulations on Navigational Abilities
The purpose of this study is to see how manipulating boundaries impact one’s spatial memory in unfamiliar spaces. To test this, after we measured our participants’ Sense of Direction (SOD) and memory capacities, they were ...
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