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Breath Of Forgetfulness: Respiratory Effects Of Memory Suppression, Luka Jijieshvili
Breath Of Forgetfulness: Respiratory Effects Of Memory Suppression, Luka Jijieshvili
Senior Projects Spring 2024
When confronted with unwanted memories, individuals engage in a cascade of interconnected cognitive, neurological, and physiological responses. While the cognitive and neurologic effects of memory suppression have been well-studied, the physiological responses, most notably respiration, and associated neural correlates remain relatively unexplored. A total of 18 participants underwent the Think No-Think (TNT) paradigm and had their physiological data, specifically respiration rate and depth, collected using a respiration belt. We aimed to observe how this measure changed when they tried to suppress unwanted memories. We successfully replicated key behavioral findings from the standard TNT paradigm. While we did not observe differences …
Moments That Matter: The Role Of Emotional Stimuli At Event Boundaries In Memory, Haonan Chen
Moments That Matter: The Role Of Emotional Stimuli At Event Boundaries In Memory, Haonan Chen
Senior Projects Spring 2023
The present study examined the impact of event segmentation and emotional arousal on long-term memory performance. Event segmentation is the cognitive process of automatically dividing experiences into smaller pieces for better consolidation and retrieval, resulting in the formation of event boundaries. Prior research has identified the crucial role of event segmentation in long-term memory and working memory. However, few studies have explored ways to enhance its effects. Emotional arousal refers to the physiological and psychological activation of the body and mind in response to an emotional stimulus. Previous research has indicated that heightened levels of arousal may enhance memory performance. …
The Relationship Between Semantic Search And Semantic Priming, Lily Rachel Mencarini
The Relationship Between Semantic Search And Semantic Priming, Lily Rachel Mencarini
Senior Projects Fall 2023
Memory is an essential skill for survival but also very complicated. Semantic memory is an aspect of long-term memory that consists of words and facts about the world. This study aims to see if there is a relationship between semantic priming and semantic search. There were 57 participants with full data who took both the Remote Associates Test (RAT) and a primed lexical decision task (LDT). The RAT tests for semantic search abilities and the primed LDT tests semantic priming ability. It is hypothesized that participants who get faster reaction times (RTs) on correct trials of the RAT will have …
This Is The Sky That I See, Gavin T. Mckenzie
This Is The Sky That I See, Gavin T. Mckenzie
Senior Projects Spring 2022
This is the sky that I see, a Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College, reflects the power we hold in defining and redefining spaces, and how ordinary places can be reimagined for the Othered body. I produced this show to allow the characters to shape and decide their worlds, centering on their relationships and feelings. This is the sky that I see establishes a completely queer world that centers Queer joy and friendship.
The Role Of A Polyrhythm’S Pitch Interval In Music-Dependent Memory, Hadley R. Parum
The Role Of A Polyrhythm’S Pitch Interval In Music-Dependent Memory, Hadley R. Parum
Senior Projects Spring 2021
When listening to music, humans can easily and often automatically assess the perceptual similarity of different moments in music. However, it is difficult to rigorously define the way in which we determine exactly how similar we find to moments to be. This problem has driven inquiry in music cognition, musicology, and music theory alike, but previous results have depended on behaviorally mediated responses and/or recursive analytic strategies by music scholars. The present work employs the context-dependent memory paradigm as a novel way to investigate the extent to which listeners consider two musical examples to be similar. After incidentally learning words …
A Wizard Hat For The Brain: Predicting Long-Term Memory Retention Using Electroencephalography, Noah Libby
A Wizard Hat For The Brain: Predicting Long-Term Memory Retention Using Electroencephalography, Noah Libby
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Learning is a ubiquitous process that transforms novel information and events into stored memory representations that can later be accessed. As a learner acquires new information, any feature of a memory that is shared with other memories may produce some level of retrieval- competition, making accurate recall more difficult. One of the most effective ways to reduce this competition and create distinct representations for potentially confusable memories is to practice retrieving all of the information through self-testing with feedback. As a person tests themself, competition between easily-confusable memories (e.g. memories that share similar visual or semantic features) decreases and memory …
Another Massacre In Mexico, Sidney B. Smith
Another Massacre In Mexico, Sidney B. Smith
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Fences: Physical And Socio-Cultural Boundaries, Vanessa Baehr
Fences: Physical And Socio-Cultural Boundaries, Vanessa Baehr
Senior Projects Fall 2018
Fences, walls, and lines exist around the world, across many cultures, and are generally universally understood symbols of defense, inclusion, and exclusion. Barriers are created intentionally and their purposes vary. Fences can act as a tension or relief between public and private spaces. Physical barriers can been seen as metaphors for social dynamics and relations; boundaries can be reflections of both our internal and external landscapes. Incorporates fences / walls from a number of perspectives; historical, anthropological, archaeological, and cultural. Inspired by a reflexive moment in moving to a new town, buying a house, having a garden, and wanting a …
Everyday Ghosts: An Examination Of Memory In Social Interactions, Sean P. Murphy
Everyday Ghosts: An Examination Of Memory In Social Interactions, Sean P. Murphy
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Naturally occurring instances of memory suppression seem to be ones in which conflict arises between a memory and present motivations. For example, being reminded of an embarrassing past event may introduce feelings that are not desired or appropriate if you are hosting company. The emotions connected to the negative memory and the desired emotions expected of a host are in conflict, and so the memory in question may be suppressed to preserve your desire to be a congenial host. While research has served to characterize various aspects of suppression, the methodologies used by such studies rely on explicit instruction from …
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 …
The Effects Of Affective Arousal On Color Perception And Memory, Nicole Elizabeth Lang
The Effects Of Affective Arousal On Color Perception And Memory, Nicole Elizabeth Lang
Senior Projects Spring 2016
The link between affective arousal, color perception, and color memory was explored by inducing fear, sadness, or embarrassment in 158 participants who them completed a color perception and memory task. It was predicted that participants experiencing fear or embarrassment would more often correctly identify and remember red and green than a neutral condition whereas experiencing sadness would lead to less correct identification and memory for blue and yellow than neutral. There was only a marginally significant effect of fear on color memory for red. In the low arousal condition, there was an effect of fear on color memory for green …
An Ancient City For The Future: Reconstructing Physical And Intellectual Narratives In Beirut In The 1990s, Theo Noonan Lowrey
An Ancient City For The Future: Reconstructing Physical And Intellectual Narratives In Beirut In The 1990s, Theo Noonan Lowrey
Senior Projects Fall 2015
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.