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In May, students and faculty traveled to Chicago for the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. Students presented their independent research projects, many of which they conducted to earn Senior Honors in the Discipline.

Ashley Whitmarsh ('08), supervised by Dr. Smith (above, right), presented her project, "Maternal Influences on the Gender Self-Concepts of Emerging Adult Women". Ashley's research was completed as a senior thesis for her Women & Gender Studies minor.

For her honor's thesis, Catherine Reich ('08) examined the performance of college students with and without ADHD on an auditory task. This work was supported by a CISP grant awarded to Dr. Lemley, who supervised the project.

Recently, Dr. Lemley began conducting research on synesthesia, a neuropsychological condition in which one sense involuntarily triggers another. Her research has primarily focused on people who see colors whenever they hear particular sounds.

For her Research in Perception project, Mindy Johnson ('08) compared people with and without synesthesia on their ability to detect slight changes in a visual scene. Mindy received departmental honors for her project.

Janet Richards ('09) also presented work she conducted with participants who have synesthesia. Her research found that synesthetes experience the octave illusion similarly to controls.

Marissa Madalis ('08; pictured above with Dr. Lemley) and Eric Kelly ('08; pictured below) presented research they conducted as part of their Research in Perception course with Dr. Lemely. Both students examined the role that emotion-inducing information plays on visual attention performance. For the quality of their projects, Marissa and Eric were both awarded departmental honors.

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