ARMADILLO Conference 2023 Schedule
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Day 1 (Friday, October 6th):
8:00-8:45 AM Check-in and continental breakfast/coffee: Flowers Hall (FH) lobby/230
8:45-9:00 AM Opening Remarks: Assistant Vice President for Research, Dr. Aimee Roundtree in Flowers Hall 341
9:00-10:20 AM Faculty/Post-doc Talks (Attention/Visual-spatial Processing): FH 341
9:00-9:20 Dawn R. Weatherford (Texas A&MU-San Antonio)
Can Eye-Tracking Metrics Predict Accuracy on a Facial Identification Matching Task?
9:20-9:40 Takashi Yamauchi (Texas A&M University)
Linking body, emotion, and cognition: Unveiling affective traits through mouse cursor tracking – grounded cognition and constructed emotions approach
9:40-10:00 Murray Bennet (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Improving human perception and computer vision identification of malignant melanoma
10:00-10:20 Logan Trujillo (Texas State University)
How are faces mentally represented? Evidence for an ideal representation format
10:20-10:40 AM Break
10:40-12:00 AM Faculty/Post-doc Talks (Decision-making/Learning): FH 341
10:40-11:00 Tom Faulkenberry (Tarleton State University)
Using censoring to build process models that account for both RT and errors in high-accuracy cognitive tasks
11:00-11:20 Alan Daniel (Texas A&MU-San Antonio)
The Unique-Naming Effect: When Labeling Leads to Love
11:20-11:40 Darrell Worthy (Texas A&M University)
A Critique of the Delta Rule Reinforcement Learning Model
11:40-12:00 Malin Lilley (Texas A&M Univ. – Central Texas)
Visual Displays as Cues for Learning Sexual Behavior in Belugas
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch in UAC 275/atrium (Fresco grain bowls)
1:00-2:00 PM Poster Session 1 in Flowers Hall 230
2:10-3:30 PM Faculty/Post-doc Talks (Memory/Language): Flowers Hall 341
2:10-2:30 Wendy Francis (The University of Texas at El Paso)
Who said what to whom? Memory for sources and destinations in monolinguals and bilinguals
2:30-2:50 Heather Lucas (Louisiana State University)
Gestures as “conceptual pegs”: Evidence from imagery and associative memory
2:50-3:10 Amandine Grenier (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Beginner’s Luck? An Event-Related Potential Study of Arithmetic Processing in Second Language Learners
3:10-3:30 Christopher Cox (Louisiana State University)
Does context warp semantic associations?
3:30-4:15 PM Appetizers/Refreshment in Alkek Teaching Theater Atrium
4:15-5:30 PM Keynote Speaker (Dr. David Gallo) in Alkek Teaching Theater
5:30 PM Day 1 Closing Remarks (Conference Committee)
6:30-10:00 PM Conference Dinner at Roughhouse Brewing
Day 2 (Saturday, October 7th):
8:30-9:00 AM Check-in and continental breakfast/coffee in Flowers Hall lobby and 230
9:00-10:00 AM Poster Session 2 in Flowers Hall 230
10:15-10:55 AM Faculty/Post-doc Talks (Language) in Flowers Hall 341
10:15-10:35 Jane Childers (Trinity University)
Using eye tracking to better understand attentional strategies children may use during verb learning
10:35-10:55 Iva Ivanova (University of Texas- El Paso)
People reuse each other’s words, but what kind of words?
11:00-12:00 PM Student Flash Talks in Flowers Hall 341
11:00-11:10 Anapaula Themann (University of Texas- El Paso)
Adolescent Exposure to Ketamine, Independent of Psychological-Stress History, Increases Hippocampal AKT-mTOR Signaling in Adult Female C57BL/6 Mice
TALK WITHDRAWN
11:10-11:20 Juan Balcazar (Texas A&M University)
An EEG study of mental workload during spatial cognition in extreme virtual environments
11:20-11:30 Anahy Barragan-Diaz (University of Texas- El Paso)
Language Control over Structural Representations in Bilinguals
11:30-11:40 Clinton Dennard (Texas A&M Univ – Commerce)
Decision Making in Poker: Evaluating Optimality After A Bad Beat
11:40-11:50 Paulina Skolasinska (University of Texas at Dallas)
The Effects Of Combined Mindfulness Meditation And Executive Control Training On Working Memory Task-Related Functional Connectivity Of The Prefrontal Network In Healthy Aging: A Feasibility fNIRS Study.
11:50-12:00 Giang Le (University of Houston)
How much object shape is enough: Exploring the relationship between infants’ object viewing during interactive play matters for vocabulary development
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch in UAC 275/atrium (McAlister’s Deli: sandwiches and baked potatoes)
1:00-2:00 PM Faculty/Post-doc Talks (Attention): Flowers Hall 341
1:00-1:20 Grant Shields (University of Arkansas)
Selective Stopping? Maybe Sometimes
1:20-1:40 Jason Scimeca (Lousiana State University)
The causal roles of frontal and parietal cortex in working memory capacity
1:40-2:00 Chandramallika Basak (University of Texas at Dallas)
Higher cognitive control in working memory training enhances cognition and brain plasticity in normal aging: results from a Phase I Clinical trial
2:00-2:10 PM Student Awards Presentation: Flowers Hall 341
2:10-3:10 PM Faculty/Post-doc Talks (Memory): Flowers Hall 341
2:10-2:30 Curt Carlson (Texas A&M University – Commerce)
Was he the perpetrator or a bystander? Testing theories of unconscious transference for eyewitness identification
2:30-2:50 Benton Pierce (Texas A&M University – Commerce)
Effects of Emotional Expression on Face recognition
2:50-3:10 Steven Smith (Texas A&M University)
Creative Aha! Moments in Category Generation and Divergent Thinking
3:10-3:30 PM Business Meeting and Wrap Up: Flowers Hall 341