Program Graduates

 

Enrica Costello (Media Arts and Technology), 2024

• "Cognitive and Affective Learning through Immersive Story Worlds: Designing Social Virtual Reality for Inclusive Attitudes and Behaviors"

 

Nathan Fisher (Religious Studies), 2023

• “Towards and Ecology of Hesrt”

 

Daniel Martini Tybjerg (Comparative Literature), 2023

• “Aesthetic Affordances: Form and Intuitive Mind”

 

Alexis Story Crawshaw (Media Arts & Technology), 2022

• “Computational Paideia through the New Media Arts: Toward the embodiment of value, meaning, and holistic thinking in information”

 

Giorgina Samira Paiella (English), 2021

• "Feeling Machines: Affect, Automation, and Machinic Assemblages of the Self

 

Gengchen Mai (Geography), 2021

• "Geographic Question Answering with Spatially-Explicit Machine Learning Models"

 

Crystal Bae (Geography), 2020

• "Paired Social Wayfinding: Dyadic Interaction in Real-World Navigation"

 

Peri Gunalp (Psychological and Brain Sciences), 2020

• "Examining Perspective Taking and its Relation to Map Use and Environment Learning"

 

David Hallowell (Education), 2020

• "Spatial Reasoning in Elementary School Children's Geometry Insight: A Neo-Piagetian Developmental Proposal"

 

Chelsea Lonergan (Communication), 2020

• "Extending the Model of Intuitive Morality and Exemplars: Sex Differences in Evaluations of Moral Conflict in Narratives"

 

Daniel Phillips (Geography), 2020

• "The Nature and Scale of Cognitive Communities of Interest"

 

Alexander Boone (Psychological and Brain Sciences), 2019

• "The Influence of the Human Stress Response on Navigation Strategy and Efficiency"

 

Yingjie Hu (Geography), 2016

• "Valuing geographic information: extending information value theory in the context of human mobility"

 

Richard Huskey (Communication), 2016

• "Intrinsic Reward Motivates Large-Scale Shifts Between Cognitive Control and Default Mode Networks During Task Performance"

 

Hannah Grossman (Education), 2016

• "Information Contexualization within Video Educational Media in Rural West Africa"

 

Heather Simpson (Linguistics), 2016

• "The role of Intonation Units in memory for spoken English"

 

Alex Wahl (Linguistics), 2015

• "The Distributional Learning of Multi-Word Expressions"

 

Yu Zhang (Education), 2015

• "Learning 10-ness horizontally Improves First Graders’ Estimation of Numerical Magnitudes"

 

Patrick Pieng (Education), 2015

• "Promoting Young Children’s Understanding of the Situations, Thoughts, and Prosocial Responses Related to Jealousy"

 

Heather Burte (Psychology), 2014

• "Individual and strategy differences in allocentric-heading recall performance and its neural basis"

 

Brendan Barnwell (Linguistics), 2014

• "Effects of Non-Linguistic Context on Language Production"

 

Amber L. Westcott-Baker (Communication), 2013

• "Dynamics of Persuasion in Response to Public Service Announcements"

 

Danqing Xiao (Geography), 2013

• "The Role of Individuals' Cognitive Characteristics in the Comprehension and Production of Verbal Place Descriptions"

 

Benjamin Adams (Computer Science), 2012

• "Conceptual Spaces for the Semantic Web"

 

Kirk Sturm (Education), 2012

• "How leader behaviors influence task, procedural, and social goals in small group decision making: A mixed methods approach"

 

Drew Dara-Abrams (Geography), 2011

• "The World in the Head: Measuring People's Spatial Knowledge and Travel Patterns Using Mobile Devices"

 

Stacy Rebich Hespanha (Geography), 2011

• "Thematic and Affective Content in Textual and Visual Communication About Climate Change: Historical Overview of Mass Media Sources and Empirical Investigation of Emotional Responses"

 

Andrew Dalton (Psychology), 2011

• "A Psychological Calculus for Welfare Tradeoffs"

 

Theresa Robertson (Psychology), 2011

• "A Complex and Dangerous World: Two Sets of Evidence for the Recalibrational Theory of Exclusion Response"

 

Christopher Von Rueden (Anthropology), 2011

 

Monica Bulger (Education), 2009

• "Online Literacy and the Trouble with Information"

 

Peter Khooshabeh (Psychology), 2009

• "Is mental rotation color blind?"

 

Andrew T. Stull (Psychology), 2009

• "Anatomy Learning in Virtual Reality: A Cognitive Investigation"

 

Julie Dillemuth (Geography), 2008

• "Map Use and Spatial Knowledge Acquisition with Small, Mobile Map Displays"

 

John Jabagchourian (Education), 2008

• "Incremental Changes in Children's Multi-Digit Number Representations and Arithmetic Procedures: Linking Strategies and Concepts in Early Mathematics"

 

Alexis Filippini (Education), 2007

• "Effects of a Vocabulary-Added Instructional Intervention for At-Risk English Learners: Is Efficient Reading Instruction More Effective?"

 

Sarah Battersby (Geography), 2006

• "Distortion of Area in the Global-Scale Cognitive Map: A Geographic Perspective"

 

Alan Bates (Education), 2005

• "Maternal Scaffolding During Children's Attempts at Solving Quantity Comparison Problems in a Game Context"

 

Alex Keuper (Geography), 2004

• "The Influence of Uncertainty Metadata on Decision-making Using Geographic Data Products"

 

Rachel Nilsson (Psychology), 2003

• "The Tradeoff Between Usability and Usefulness for Educational Software"

 

Toru Ishikawa (Geography), 2002

• "Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in the Environment: The Integration of Separately Learned Places and the Development of Metric Knowledge"

 

Jill Leafstedt (Education), 2002

• "Crossover of Phonological Processing Skills: A Study of Spanish-speaking Students in Two Instructional Settings"

 

James Marston (Geography), 2002

• "Towards an Accessible City: Empirical Measurement and Modeling of Access to Urban Opportunities for those with Vision Impairments, Using Remote Infrared Audible Signage"

 

Scott Bell (Geography), 2000

• "Comprehension of Location in Large and Small Spaces by Children and Adults"

 

Bryan Moseley (Education), 2000

• "Pathways to Linking Formal and Informal Knowledge: A Comparison of Elementary Students Constructing Mathematical Knowledge with Ratio or Part-Whole Perspectives of Rational Numbers"

 

Reagan Curtis (Education), 1999

• "The Development of Counting Skills and Concepts in Preschoolers: Three Predictions Based on a Preverbal Counting Mechanism and Mapping Hypothesis"

 

Roxana Moreno (Psychology), 1999

• "Introducing Social Cues in Multimedia Learning: The Role of Pedagogic Agents' Image and Language in a Scientific Lesson"