Check out recent examples of Cognitive Science senior comprehensive projects, or senior comps. Completion of a senior comps project is part of Oxy’s graduation requirements.
Pooja Bansiya: Analysis of deep learning algorithms in medicinal fields
Jessica Borovoy: Music therapy interventions in parkinson's disease
Elise Corwin: Phishing susceptibility and hierarchical workplace culture
Jonathan Dever: A comparative analysis of neurological outcomes due to SARS-CoV-2 and influenza infection
Michael Eisenman: Social anxiety disorder and internet addiction
Ally Fukada: Effectiveness of cultural-responsivity in CBT for treating eating disorders in multicultural women
Danielle Jonas- Delson: Indigenous land-language relationship: linking linguistic and biological diversity
Yalda Kotobi: Childhood abuse impacts the adult brain
Joshua Lee: Mental health consequences of vulnerable populations stemming from social isolation (COVID-19 pandemic)
Zach Leid: Neurotrophins and Alzheimer's Disease
Corinne Maiorano: Metaphor: a window into the experience of chronic pain
Ingrid Odmark: Concussion effects on memory: insights from the multi-store model and the role of attention and sleep
Gabi Seeley: THC and CBD in parkinson's disease treatment
Ariel Shweiki: Adverse childhood experiences change the brain: how trauma leads to migraine and anxiety
Chantell Thompson: Awe, fear, and the sublime: how does contemporary scientific evidence reconcile historical philosophical ideas of the sublime?
Mia Wang: Physical movement's connection with learning - doodling
Maggie Baird: Temporal Binding: Integrating Multisensory Information
Justine Bessette-Denwood: Space and Plasticity: Environmental Consequences for Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Function
Day Blake: Chakra-Somatic Cognition
Gabi Callero: Art as Medicine: How Art Therapy can be Used for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Lee Chico: Effects of Multiplayer Video Games on Young Children
Cormac Clark: Social Justice and the Alignment Problem of Artificial Intelligence
Max Dowla: Bridging the Gap Between Mind and Technology
Neha D'Souza: The Healing Brain with Music
Pacita Del Balso: The Gut Microbiome and Bipolar Disorder
Tomi Eijima: Lifelong Bilingualism: A Behavioral Intervention for Alzheimer's Disease
Julian Garman: The Traits of ADHD and the Effects of Stimulant Medication
Baruch Goodman: Mystical Medicine: Ethical Considerations in Utilizing Mystical Experiences for Clinical Therapy Protocols
Colette He: How Can Horses Help Individuals with Neurological Disorder?
Justin Kent: Phonological Language Processing in Bilinguals
Chloe Lahham: Creativity and Cognition: Domain Specific Processes
Lily Lin: Accessibility and Effectiveness of Opioid Dependence Treatments for Homeless Populations
Carly Mitchell: The Brain at Bat
Divya Prakash: The Cognitive Limitations of Classical Logic
Isabelle Rusk: Grammatical Gender Effects: An Argument for Linguistic Relativity?
Elliot Schena: Top Herbicide may Cause Neurological and Biological Impairments
Clara Thielke: Multisensory Change Blindness in Mobile Device Interactions
Nolan Upchurch: The Effect of Training Cognitive Abilities Through the Use of Different Types of
Action Video Games
Camille Williams: Disembodiment: The Role of Bodily Awareness in Conscious Presence
Aarushi Arora: Rewire Your Brain: Meditation, the Default Mode Network, and Depression
Ava Lubetkin: How Dance Intervention Works in Healing Emotional Trauma: Spontaneity, Movement, and Awareness of Body
Chloe Hong: Online Consumer Decision-Making in Millennials vs. Gen Z
Emily Driscoll: Ayahuasca and Addiction: A Cognitive Science Mechanistic Explanation to Psychedelic Medicine
Emmaline Jeansonne: How YouTube Capitalizes on Cognitive Qualities to Recommend Homologous Ideologies
Ethan Ferrall: Bilingual Speech Perception and Age of Acquisition
Graham Gerrity: The Role of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Chemo Brain
Hanyun Lou: Fish Consciousness: Do Fish Experience Conscious Pain?
Jenn Zaratan: Connecting Children's Development of Theory of Mind to Social Anxiety
Jessica Fan: Music Therapy as an Intervention Option for Autism Spectrum Discord and Specific Language Impairment
Jiani Chen: Stem Cells and Therapeutic Application in the Central Nervous System
Layal Bata: Investigating Methodological Limitations in Studying Theory of Mind, Empathy, and Cooperation
Lexi Leggin: Embodiment and Delusions in Schizophrenia
Lily Fisher: More Horror, Please! Examining How Horror is Enjoyed and Who Consumes It
Liz Frissell: Ought Military Commanders be Held Responsible for Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems?
Liz Spiller: Long Term Neurological Effects of Coronavirus Infection: Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS)
Mint Zekoll: The Future is Nanosized: The Prospects of Nanoparticle Assisted Drug Delivery to the CNS for Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neda Rabii: Convolutional Neural Networks and Alzheimer's Disease
Rachel Kolpa: Investigating the Comorbidity Between ADHD and Addiction
Siena Lucido: The Mental Health Implications of Distorted Time Perception
Sydney Leiweke: The Behavioral Immune System: What it's Supposed to Do Versus What it's Actually Doing
Will Ackerman: The Current State and Forecast of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Technology
Maeve Clayton: The Purpose and Potential of Artificially Intelligent Clinical Decision Support Systems
Shelby Cooper: Considering a Cognitive Map for Foreign Language Anxiety
Jenna Enoka: A Problem with Problematizing Impulsive Adolescents?
Isabella Fabiani: The Impact of Social Isolation on Health and Well-Being
Ibrahim Finch: The Effects of Music on the Brain: Music Therapy as a Rehabilitation Tool
Joelle F. Floyd: The Role of Dopamine in Schizophrenia Psychosis
Yuki Han: How is Implicit Sequence Learning Formed? The Influence of Explicit Knowledge, Multisensory Information, Attention, and Motivation
Nathan Lam: To Flip or Not to Flip: An Analysis of the Flipped Classroom Model
Kristine Lee: Nostalgia: The Mixed Emotion
Julia MacLaughlin: Generational Trauma: How We Carry Our Families’ Histories
Declan Ryan: Psilocybin as a Treatment for Depression
Dylan Ryan: Analyzing the Intersection of Language and Thought: How Words Define What You See
SaraJoy Salib: Nerve X: A Puzzle Piece to the Mental Health Pandemic Amidst a Global Pandemic
Jordan Saltzman: Graph Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease: Hubs, Rich- Clubs, and Small-World Networks
Devoney Amberg: The Overlap Between Specific Language Impairment and Bilingualism: Enhancing Our Understanding of Language Processing
Erin Ball: Moral Decision-Making in the Brain
Isaiah Bird: An Analysis on Mirror Neurons
Michael Caballero: The Limitations of Language's Reach in Cognition
Annalie Virginia Dern: Memory in Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Impacts of Trauma on Explicit Recall
Isabel Geddes: Reflecting on the Limitations of the Cognitive Reflection Test
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