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Cultivating Community: Collective Identity As Built Through Urban Gardening In New York, Paxton E. Angell
Cultivating Community: Collective Identity As Built Through Urban Gardening In New York, Paxton E. Angell
Senior Projects Spring 2022
What do community gardens do to urban landscapes? Why are they important? What do they produce? This project examines how urban gardens in New York city become spaces that trouble the urban landscape by reordering relationships of care and attention. Urban community gardening has risen in popularity across New York (and the world) over the past 50 years. The reasons for this are not without social, political, and cultural influence. The gardens themselves are products of semiotic worlds in which nature is positioned within a narrative of tranquil wilderness. This project frames gardens as spaces within which social meaning is …
A Poet, A Teacher: Standing Still With Mary Oliver, Melissa Therese Benedek
A Poet, A Teacher: Standing Still With Mary Oliver, Melissa Therese Benedek
Senior Projects Spring 2021
The poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019) once wrote, “Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report.” How does Oliver teach the practice of paying attention to the natural world? This project explores observation as a form of attention in Oliver’s work and how it is implicit in her writing practice. The relationship between attention and feeling manifests in her poetry. Observations are both the foundation and definition of Oliver’s concrete images and incommunicable encounters with nonhumans in the natural world. For Oliver, the goal of attention is not to give a scientific account of details about specific animals …
The Effect Of Smartphone Separation And Dependence On Selective Attention, Immanuel Callum Zion
The Effect Of Smartphone Separation And Dependence On Selective Attention, Immanuel Callum Zion
Senior Projects Spring 2020
The current study investigated the effect of smartphone dependence and subsequent smartphone separation on selective attention. Performance on selective attention tasks was operationalized as response time and accuracy on two versions of the stroop response inhibition task. Smartphone dependency was operationalized as a score which exceeds the cutoff on the Smartphone Addiction Scale Revised edition ( SAS-R). To create smartphone separation students were asked to place their smartphone in a provided basket during the experiment. It was hypothesised that students who are deemed smartphone dependent and then separated from their smartphones would perform worse across all blocks of the stroop …
The Differences In Visuospatial Attentional Distribution Between Synesthetes And Non-Synesthetes, Identified Through Covert Visual Search, Kirsten Helena Ostbirk
The Differences In Visuospatial Attentional Distribution Between Synesthetes And Non-Synesthetes, Identified Through Covert Visual Search, Kirsten Helena Ostbirk
Senior Projects Fall 2020
Synesthesia is a condition whereby sensory stimuli evoke unusual additional sensory perceptions and experiences, and can be identified through a visual search task. Grapheme-colour synesthetes have shown increased efficiency in visual search tasks, which some have hypothesized is a result of synesthetic colours drawing attention to the target stimulus, and have likened it to a weakened “pop-out” effect. Visual search has also been used to measure visuospatial attentional distribution, and findings from this method have supported the gradient model of attention, which proposes that cognitive resources are the most concentrated centrally in our visual field, and taper off, such that …
Keeping It In The Family: How Family Functioning And Childhood Environment Impacts Social Anxiety In College Students, Shira Prusky
Keeping It In The Family: How Family Functioning And Childhood Environment Impacts Social Anxiety In College Students, Shira Prusky
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) affects approximately 7% of the United States population yearly. Certain factors such as disturbed family functioning and the occurrence of adverse life events during childhood or adolescence significantly increase the risk of developing social anxiety later in life. This study proposal examines the relationship between childhood experiences with the severity and occurrence of SAD in the college population to see if childhood experiences affect the ability to focus on a single task after exposure to socially salient information. 250 undergraduate students will be randomly placed in either a control condition, without any exposure to a social …
Towards Improving Learning With Consumer-Grade, Closed-Loop, Electroencephalographic Neurofeedback, Zall Soren Hirschstein
Towards Improving Learning With Consumer-Grade, Closed-Loop, Electroencephalographic Neurofeedback, Zall Soren Hirschstein
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Learning is an enigmatic process composed of a multitude of cognitive systems that are functionally and neuroanatomically distinct. Nevertheless, two undeniable pillars which underpin learning are attention and memory; to learn, one must attend, and maintain a representation of, an event. Psychological and neuroscientific technologies that permit researchers to “mind-read” have revealed much about the dynamics of these distinct processes that contribute to learning. This investigation first outlines the cognitive pillars which support learning and the technologies that permit such an understanding. It then employs a novel task—the amSMART paradigm—with the goal of building a real-time, closed-loop, electroencephalographic (EEG) neurofeedback …
Texting The New Habitus: (Re)Producing And Negotiating Practices And Expectations Of The Texting Medium, Daniel Kyoungshik Park
Texting The New Habitus: (Re)Producing And Negotiating Practices And Expectations Of The Texting Medium, Daniel Kyoungshik Park
Senior Projects Spring 2013
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.