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