Previous Senior Theses in Neuroimaging
2023-2024
Sonya Ganeshram (Neuroscience- Advisor: Erin Hecht) Canine Careers: Neuroanatomical Variation Between Working and Nonworking Dogs
Colby Weiss (Neuroscience – Advisor: Nadine Gaab) Improving our Understanding of Math Learning Disabilities: An fMRI Analysis of the Neurobiological Correlates to Numerical Processing in order to Better Understand the Mechanisms of Dyscalculia
2022-2023
Samuel Murdock (Neuroscience/Philosophy- Advisor: Randy Buckner) Theories of Theory of Mind: Investigating the Dimensions and Supportive Neural Architecture of the “Mentalizing Module”
Sophia Vranos (Psychology – Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps) Reconsolidation and Cognitive Restructuring of Autobiographical Memories
2021-2022
Oluwatobi Ariyo (Neuroscience/Philosophy – Advisor: Randy Buckner) The Fragmentation of the Moral Brain: Exploring the Component Processes of Moral Reasoning and its Relevance to Large-scale Association Networks
Jacob Blair (Neuroscience/Philosophy – Advisor: Mina Cikara) We Can’t All Be Right: The Neural Correlates of Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion Statements in a Political Context
Oliver Sussman (Neuroscience – Advisor: Alfonso Caramazza) Neural Representations of Motion Events: The Role of Agency
2020-2021
Isabella Shaw (Neuroscience – Advisor: Randy Buckner) Hippocampal Correlations: A Fine-Scale, Trial-Specific Investigation of the Subcortical Brain and Distributed Cortical Networks Within Individuals
2019-2020
Kelsey Ichikawa (Neuroscience/Philosophy – Advisor: Mina Cikara) The Reward of Others’ Pain: The Morality of Schadenfreude and Neural Correlates of Latent Preferences for Out-Group Harm
Katherine Miclau (Neurobiology – Advisor: Randy Buckner) Selective Activation, Collective Suppression: Provisional Evidence for Broad Modulation of Large-Scale Networks from Within-Individual Analysis of the Default Network
Emilé Radyté (Neuroscience/Anthropology – Advisor: Jason Mitchell) Reading the Mind: Semantic Representations of Self and Others in the Theory of Mind Network
2018-2019
Shenyece Ferguson (Neurobiology – Advisor: George Alvarez) An Exploration of the Effects of Attention on Neural Processing of Visual Information
Joanna Tao (Neurobiology – Advisor: Justin Baker) Toward Understanding the Role of Physical Activity and Functional Connectivity in Health and Pathology using Machine Learning
2017-2018
Anna Riley-Shepard (Psychology – Advisor: George Alvarez) The Motor and Memory Abilities of Effortful vs. Non-effortful Attentional Systems: Evidence from Action Processing in Dancers
2016-2017
Bryan Bu (Bioengineering – Advisor: Mark Ottensmeyer) MRI Phantommaker: A 3D Printed DTI Calibration Platform for Water Diffusion Direction and Anisotropy in the Brain
Isobel Green (Psychology – Advisor: Diego Pizzagalli) The Effect of Affective Priming on Reward Processing in Individuals with Low vs. High Levels of Depressive Symptoms
Meghan Hind (Neurobiology – Advisor: Randy Buckner) Longitudinal Deep Phenotyping of the Individual: Dynamics Associtated with Real-World Stress
Micah Sivitz Gellman (Neurobiology – Advisor: Gigi Luk) Investigating the Relationship between L2 Acquisition and White Matter Integrity: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study
2015-2016
Claire Leibowicz (Psychology – Advisor: Mina Cikara) Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Examine the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex’s Role in Intergroup Empathy
Constanza Vidal Bustamante (Psychology – Advisor: Leah Somerville) Cognitive and Biological Underpinnings of Reward-Control Interactions Across Development
2014-2015
Hannah Borowsky (Neurobiology – Advisor: Margaret Sheridan) A Biological Perspective on Why Teenagers Do Stupid Stuff: Exploring Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Relationships between White Matter Integrity, Childhood Adversity, and Adolescent Risk-Taking
Jeffrey Edwards (Neurobiology – Advisor: Joshua Buckholtz) Selectively Altering Intertemporal Decision-Making Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Christina Herbosa (Neurobiology – Advisor: Margaret Sheridan) Investigating Differences in Neural Activity of Young Children with and without Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Bernadette Wharton (Neurobiology – Advisor: Edwin Robertson) Using Functional Connectivity to Understand Memory System Communication During Off-line Learning
Malte Zopfs (Neurobiology – Advisor: Joshua Buckholtz) Localizing Subtypes of Impulsivity to Subregions of the Striatum
2013-2014
Alexandra Haber (Neurobiology – Advisor: George Alvarez) Your Brain on SET: An Exploration of the Neural Basis of Expertise in Rule-Based Pattern Recognition
Morgan Henry (Neurobiology – Advisor: George Alvarez) Exploring Object Invariance in Visual Processing with Predictive Modeling and fMRI Pattern Analysis (Hoopes Prize)
Cheng Li (Psychology – Advisor: Alfonso Caramazza) Effects of First And Third Person Verbs On Primary Motor Cortex Activity: A TMS Investigation
Allie Pace (HEB/MBB – Advisor: Christine Hooker) Your Brain on Games: Neural Activity Differences in Emotion Recognition after Plasticity-based Social Cognitive Training
Arielle Rabinowitz (Psychology – Advisor: Leah Somerville) The Impact of Childhood Stress on Emotional Response in Early Adulthood
Nina Sokolovic (Neurobiology – Advisor: Margaret Sheridan) How does Socioeconomic Status Affect Children’s Executive Function? Examining Motivation and Neural Structure as Possible Mediating Factors
Theresa Tharakan (Neurobiology – Advisor: Joshua Greene) Deconstructing the Moral Mind: An fMRI Investigation Mapping the Foundations of Moral Judgment
2012-2013
Matthew Coates (Neurobiology – Advisor: Margaret Sheridan) Association of Socioeconomic Status with Prefrontal Cortical Thickness and Subcortical Volumes in Children and Adolescents
Brian Yang (Neurobiology – Advisor: Randy Buckner) Exploring Multisensory Facilitation Using Functional Connectivity MRI in Humans
Matthew Yung (Psychology – Advisor: Christine Hooker) An Investigation of the Neural Mechanisms and Functional Outcomes of Theory-of-Mind in Couples
2011-2012
Samia Arthur-Bentil (Neurobiology – Advisor: Christine Hooker) Evidence for Neural Plasticity in the Neurocognitive Training of Individuals At-Risk for Developing Psychosis
Caitlin Carey (Psychology – Advisor: Christine Hooker) An fMRI Investigation of Automatic Simulation in Schizophrenia (Awarded the Hoopes Prize and nominated for the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize)
Nadia Liyanage-Don (Neurobiology – Advisor: Christine Hooker) Abnormalities in Neural Structures of Attention and their Relation to Impaired Social Function in Schizophrenia
Juan Munoz (Neurobiology – Advisor: Margaret Sheridan) Development of the Implicit Learning Mechanism in Children: An fMRI Study
Matthew Sachs (Psychology – Advisor: Joshua Greene) Functional and Structural Neural Connectivity Associated with Individual Differences in the Chill Response to Music
2010-2011
Henrietta Afari (Psychology – Advisor: Randy Buckner) The Neural Correlates of Aversive Feelings: Anterior Insula Responses to Route Obstructions during Virtual Navigation
Sophie Wharton (Psychology – Advisor: Joshua Greene) Thou Shalt vs. Thou Shalt Not: The Neural Processes Underlying Decisions to Help vs. Decisions to Avoid Doing Harm (Hoopes Prize)