This Friday, April 13th in Union South the undergraduate symposium will feature four senior thesis presentations connected with LCNL (full program here).
Teresa Turco will present a talk titled ‘The Effects of Accented Speech on Knowledge Acquisition’ at 9:30 am in the Alumni room. Her senior thesis was conducted in LCNL under the mentorship of Elise Hopman and Prof. Maryellen MacDonald.
Left: Natalie Ghaffari-Nikou with her poster; Right: Teresa Turco 4/13/2018
Natalie Ghaffari-Nikkou will present a poster titled ‘An Exploration of the Correlation Between Fiction Exposure and Theory of Mind’ during the 11am – 12:15 pm poster session in Varsity Hall (poster #123). Natalie conducted her senior thesis in LCNL mentored by Prof. Maryellen MacDonald as well as Prof. Paula Niedenthal.
Madison Barker with her poster 4/13/2018
During that same poster session, Madison Barker will present her poster titled ‘Is dislike female in written Chinese? Computing sublexical semantics in Mandarin character reading’ (poster #159). She conducted this senior thesis in LCNL under the mentorship of Matt Cooper Borkenhagen and Prof. Mark Seidenberg.
Furthermore, Kendra Lange will present a talk titled ‘Possible Mechanisms of Bilingual Advantage on Creativity’, during the 11 am – 12:15 pm talk session in the Alumni room. Kendra conducted this research in the Austerweil lab co-supervised by LCNL’s Elise Hopman.
