Student Awards

Erika Taylor

Biomag 2008, International Conference on Biomagnetism (http://www.biomag2008.org/)
Young Investigator Award

Ran Liu

Effects of short-term experience on auditory categorization: An event-related potential study
Fall 2007/Spring 2008
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant.

Emma Friedman, Lindsey Yao, & Xiaoyi Fei

Statistical Analysis of Eye-tracking
Spring 2007

Brian Mathias

Brian Mathias was selected as a recipient of the exclusive German Chancellor Scholarship. The scholarship will fund a year of study for Mathias at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. The prestigious scholarship is awarded each year by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to only 10 prospective leaders from the United States, under age 35, in the academic, economic and political fields.

Read more about Brian's award here:http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2007/April/april2_mathias.shtml.

Galit Frydman

The Effect of Human Contact on Elephant Heart Rate
Summer 2006
Supported by a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
See CMU News Coverage: http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/practical/2007/summer/lifes-a-zoo.shtml .

Josh Fishbein

Auditory Cue Weighting as a Function of Distribution Variance
Spring 2006
Honors Thesis
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant.

Brian Leahy

Cross-Modal Interference in Ambiguous Syllable Discrimination.
Summer 2004
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant.

Kathleen Agres

Bridging Music and Psychology: A Study of Context Effects in Musicians with Absolute Pitch
Spring 2004 pdf
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant.
First prize (shared) Psychology Department Competition, Meeting of the Minds 2004
Second prize Bose Competition, Meeting of the Minds 2004.

Eva Stroynowski

Object Recognition in Relation to Drawing Experience
Spring 2004
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant. (Mentored by Professor Marlene Behrmann.)
First prize (shared) Psychology Department Competition, Meeting of the Minds 2004

Sara Kapner

Using Cotton Top Tamarins as a Model of How Experience Shapes Speech Perception
Summer 2003
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant.

Seth Liber

From Nonsense to meaning: Statistics in word learning
Spring 2003
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant.
Results presented at Meeting of the Minds 2003 (view poster)

Erika June Laing

Senior Thesis - The ability of the African elephant to discriminate and identify its peers
Summer 2001
Co-advisor with Dr. William Langbauer of the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium.
Supported by a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Investigating the influence of speaker identity on speech identification
Spring 2001

Siobhan Cooney

Developing the gerbil (Mericones unguiculatus) as a model of the effect of experience on speech perception
Summer 2001
Supported by a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
The role of experience in speech perception
Spring 2001.
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant.
Results presented at Meeting of the Minds 2001

Zeljka Buturovic Bradaric

Correlated Audio-Visual Experience in Category Learning Results
reported in Senior Honors Thesis
Contexts effects in speech perception
Spring 2001.
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant.
Results presented at Meeting of the Minds 2001
Awarded a campus-wide Phi Kappa Phi Award for Undergraduate Research Examining second language acquisition through complex auditory category formation.
Summer 2000.
Supported by Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition REU Summer Program.
Awarded a CMU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (declined)
Ontogeny of speech perception: Can learning account for patterns of infant speech perception?
Spring 2000.
Supported by Small Undergraduate Research Grant.
Results presented at Meeting of the Minds 2000