Undergraduate Presentations
Our undergraduate research assistants are vital in keeping the lab running smoothly. In addition to gaining skills and confidence through helping in larger research projects, our undergraduate research assistants are given the opportunity to present research of their own! Below are some of the presentations that were given during capstone presentations, lab meetings, and at the Northeastern Undergraduate Research Conference poster presentations.
2025
Malis Arroyo: Valence Biases in Reinforcement Learning Shift across Adolescence and Modulate Subsequent Memory
Michael El Choueiri: The Upside of ADHD-related Risk-taking: Adolescents with ADHD Report a Higher Likelihood of Engaging in Prosocial Risk-taking Behavior Than Typically Developing Adolescents
Mia Ferrari: Dopamine-Related Striatal Neurophysiology is Associated with Specialization of Frontostriatal Reward Circuitry through Adolescence
Claire Fiedler: Beyond the 30-Million-Word Gap: Children’s Conversational Exposure Is Associated with Language-Related Brain Function
Madalon Hammell (’25): The Relationship of Emotional Working Memory with Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety [Honors Thesis Manuscript and RISE poster]
Kiara Roque (’25): Social Prediction and Reversal Learning in Adolescence [RISE poster and directed study student]
2024
Malis Arroyo: Food Insecurity and Adolescent Impulsivity: The Mediating Role of Functional Connectivity in the Context of Family Flexibility
Claire Fiedler: A New Look at Emotion Perception: Concepts Speed and Shape Facial Emotion Recognition
Madalon Hammell (’25): Investigating Emotional Working Memory and Mental Health [Honors Thesis Project]
Natalee Huli: Development of Prosocial and Risk-Taking Behavior in Adolescence through Neural and Behavioral Pathways
Natalee Huli: Dopamine and Adaptive Memory Curriculum Vitae Juliet Y. Davidow, Ph.D. 20
Monica Karori: The Role of Intergenerational Trauma and its Effects on Depression and Suicidality
Monica Karori: The Role of Neuroplasticity and Learning in Children and Adolescents
Anika Kopczynski (’24): Effects of Anxiety on Emotional Working Memory: A Comparison of Adolescents and Adults [RISE poster]
Rishi Kudaravalli (’24): Revisiting the Reminiscence Bump: A Preliminary Investigation of Musical Reward across Development [RISE poster]
Matthew Love (’25): Investigating the Relationship between Adolescent Brain Morphology and Transfer of Learning [PEAK award]
Briana Mallouh: Consider the Source: Adolescents and Adults Similarly Follow Older Adult Advice than Peer Advice
Briana Mallouh: Within-Person Fluctuations in Objective Smartphone Use and Emotional Processes during Adolescence: An Intensive Longitudinal Study
Eve Melychev: Encoding Colors and Tones into Working Memory Concurrently: A Developmental Investigation
Viktor Nemes (’25): Mindfulness and the Brain’s Default Mode Network [RISE poster & directed study student]
Viktor Nemes (’25): Quantifying Numerical and Spatial Reliability of Hippocampal and Amygdala Subdivisions in Freesurfer
Kiara Roque (’25): Reversal Learning & Social Prediction
Xingfang Zhao: Setting the Stage for a Mindfulness Study: Navigating Challenges and Ethics Considerations
2023
Oreoluwa Afolabi: Understanding the Emergence of Socially-Based Decision-Making in Adolescence [RISE poster]
Aanchalika Chauhan (’25): Acquired Equivalence in Adolescence and Learning How to Code
Aanchalika Chauhan (’25): LearnFlex – End of Semester Presentation
Kai Doran (’25): The Role of Emotional Valence in Learning and Transfer [PEAK Award]Curriculum Vitae Juliet Y. Davidow, Ph.D. 21
Kai Doran (’25): The Neuroscience of Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer [RISE poster & co-op student]
Maddy Hammell (’25): Adolescent Social Sensitivity and Possible Implications in Education
Maddy Hammell (’25): Value-Motivated Memory and Decision-Making across Adolescence [PEAK Award & RISE poster]
Anika Kopczynski (’24): Reward Sensitivity, Impulsivity, and Decision-Making in Adolescence [RISE poster]
Rishi Kudaravalli (’24): Effects of Music on Decision-Making in Times of Acute Stress [RISE poster]
Lucio Lachowski (’24): Development of Risk-Taking during Adolescence: A Literature Review [Directed Study Student]
Eve Melychev: Heightened Emotional Perception: Exploring the Profound Differences Between Adolescents and Adults
Carlie Orr: Emotional Memory and Development [Directed Study Student]
Kiara Roque (’25): Family, Friends, and Fun: Reward Learning as a Measure of Resilience in Undocumented Children
Xingfang Zhao: Compulsivity is Linked to Reduced Adolescent Development of Goal-Directed Control and Frontostriatal Functional Connectivity
2022
Aanchalika Chauhan (’25): The Limited Research of Surprise: Evidence Against Effects of Surprise Memory for Preceding Elements of an Event
Maddy Hammell (’25): Friendship Stability in Adolescence is Associated with Ventral Striatum Responses to Vicarious Rewards
Maddy Hammell (’25): States of Curiosity and Interest Enhance Memory Differently in Adolescents and Children
Maddy Hammell (’25): The Relationship between Stressful Life Events and Error-Related Negativity in Children and Adolescents
Victoria McCray (’22): Effects of Cannabis for Persons with Schizophrenia: Implications for Reward Processing [Honors Thesis Manuscript & RISE poster]Curriculum Vitae Juliet Y. Davidow, Ph.D. 22
2021
Jingwen Ren (’21): Learning from Social Feedback in Adolescence: Influence of Social Status Information on Prosocial Behavior [RISE poster]
2020
Jingwen Ren (’21): Learning and Generalization in Adolescence: Behavioral and Neural Interactions with Age from a Sensory Preconditioning Paradigm [multi-lab meeting with Brenhouse & Whitfield-Gabrieli groups]
Ian O’Shea (‘20): Pavlovian Bias Interferes with Instrumental Responses to Aversive Stimuli in Adolescents [Directed Study Student]