Project Repository

Role: Data collection, data management, data cleaning & analysis

​

Exploring the individual differences within younger and older adult age groups that may lead to differences in false memory susceptibility using behavioral and neuroimaging techniques.

Role: Project & program development, data collection, data management, data cleaning & analysis, manuscript writing

​

A fully remote project aimed at understanding the various ways adults use memory strategies and how they change based on stimuli and list length. 

Role: Project development and testing, data collection, data management

​

This project assessed children and adolescents on an implicit learning serial recall task where half of the task was reliant on language and the other was not. The goal of this project was to compare speed and recall accuracy between young cochlear implant users and typically developing children. 

Role: Data collection, management, cleaning & analysis, manuscript writing

​

Typically developing children are tasked with remembering lists of digits in order. Depending on the child's age, and the list length received, different patterns of rehearsal are expected. These varying factors are expected to influence the recall accuracy of the children.

Role: Primary Investigator

project development, grant writing, experiment coding, IRB protocol management, data collection, management, and analyses, manuscript writing

​

In this study, I aimed to understand the influence of background noise and age on adult recall accuracy and false memory production in an auditory DRM task. Young adults and older adults were anonymously recruited from the United States to participate.

Role: Experiment creation, data collection and management, manuscript writing

​

An adaptation from previous work out of the Working Memory and Language Lab, this remote study presented lists of phonologically similar and dissimilar words. Participants were instructed to serially recall the lists and self-report their memory strategies using our strategy survey. 

Role: Project & program development, data collection, data management, data cleaning & analysis

​

Based out of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, this fully remote study's goal is to understand how adults perceive variability between different metronomes and how their confidence in their response changes across the metronomes and throughout the study.

Role: Data collection, fNIRS data analysis

​

This was a longitudinal study conducted at the University of Nebraska at Omaha by Dr. Vivien Marmelat, Ryan Meidinger, Meghan Prusia, and colleagues. This study is observing prefrontal cortical data along with gait pattern analyses during single- and dual-task walking to gauge the role of attention as a predictor of falls in older adults with Parkinson's Disease. 

Role: Data collection, data coding

​

This was a registered replication of Flavell, Beach, and Chinsky's 1966 publication which found that older children (age 10) produced more spontaneous verbalization behaviors compared to younger children (age 5) during a memory task. This report used multi-site data collection procedures to collect data from over 900 children. The replication found that, similar to the original study, older children were more likely to verbalize, improving their memory spans. Unlike the previous study, younger children used overt verbalization more often and those that did had significant increases in their recall ability.

Role: Data collection, management, and basic analyses

​

This project used an extensive short-term and working memory battery to measure adult rehearsal using electromyography. Due to COVID-19 precautions, data collection on this project was halted.

Role: Data collection

​

This project used vocoding technology to degrade the acoustic representation of words. The representation of those words were then mapped onto phonetically matching, or mismatching words. Participants were trained on these mappings, then were asked to complete a serial recall task. 

Role: Data collection & management, undergraduate assistant training 

​

This project was a multi-site project between the Cortese Lab at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and researchers at Doane University. The project compared child and young adult recall and false memory production on an auditory DRM task. The within subjects design compared participant's list recall accuracy and false memory production when they were recalling the list by writing down their answers, or when they were recalling the list aloud to the present researcher. 

Role: Data collection

​

This study used the common color-word relationships (e.g. green and frog, blue and ocean) to observe priming effects in participant response times and their memory accuracy for matching and mismatching words.