Category: Lab Updates
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Poster Presented at Bard Summer Research Institute Poster Session
On Thursday, September 28, research assistants Aileen Lian and Sigi Nielsen presented research at the Bard Summer Research Institute poster session in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The research, conducted over the summer, explored the benefits of eye tracking technology in examining college students’ classroom experiences.
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Chapter to be published in Essays from E-xcellence in Teaching
In response to the increased use of personal technologies, such as laptops and cell phones in the classroom, instructors have begun to implement technology bans. The purpose of this essay is to review the evidence in favor of a technology ban, describe recent results which suggest a ban can be harmful to students’ engagement in…
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New Publication in Acta Psychologica
According to existing theories of context-driven control, participants unconsciously implement multiple control settings within a single task. In our paper entitled “Properties of Context-driven Control Revealed through the Analysis of Sequential Congruency Effects,” we find that sequential congruency effects (the reduction in the congruency effect following incongruent relative to congruent trials) are present within but…
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Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention
Research conducted in the Cognitive Ctrl Lab assessing the impact of autobiographical growth narratives on women’s math performance was presented at the APS Annual Convention in Boston, MA on May 25th, 2017. In this work, we tested whether requiring women to write about a time in their life where they showed growth in some area…
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Lab Awarded Funding from Bard Summer Research Institute
Research assistants Aileen and Sigi will be conducting research in the Cognitive Ctrl Lab this summer as a part of the Bard Summer Research Institute (BSRI) Program. Primary research topics for the summer include the implementation of eye tracking technology as well as a Grade Visualization program to improve students’ experience in the classroom.
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Prof. Hutcheon Receives Early Career Travel Grant from STP
Prof. Hutcheon recieved a 2017 Early Career Psychologist Travel Grant from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). This grant will be used to fund Prof. Hutcheon’s travel to the annual Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology (NECTOP) in October, 2017 where he will present recent work which attempts to understand how providing students…
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Poster Presented at Annual Psychonomics Conference
On November 17th, the lab attended the 57th annual Psychonomics conference in Boston, held at the Sheraton Hotel. Prof. Hutcheon along with lab members Anna Richard, Aileen Lian, and Elizabeth Fitzgerald presented at the first poster session, where they discussed their novel findings regarding the implementation of stimulus driven control vs. contingency learning in item…
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Cognitive Ctrl Lab Welcomes New Lab Members
Meet our new lab members! Sigi Nielsen and Elizabeth Fitzgerald, who are both junior psychology majors at Bard, are excited to be the latest research assistants to join the Cognitive Ctrl Lab. In the upcoming weeks, they’ll join the other lab members in running participants through an experiment that examines the effects of memory load…
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Prof. Hutcheon receives Early Career Psychologist Poster Award at STP Annual Conference
For work done in collaboration with undergraduate research assistants Aileen Lian and Anna Richard, Prof. Hutcheon received the Early Career Psychologist Poster Award at the Society for Teaching Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching. The poster entitled “The impact of a technology ban on student’s perceptions and performance in Introduction to Psychology” presented results from a…
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Poster Presented at 2016 STP Annual Conference
Research conducted in the cognitive ctrl lab assessing the impact of a technology ban on student’s perception of Introduction to Psychology was presented at the Society for Teaching Psychology (STP) Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT) in Atlanta, GA on October 21, 2016. In contrast to previous studies, our preliminary findings suggest that the implementation of…
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