Spring Academy 2017
Date: May 21-24, 2017
Location: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan
Organizers: Toni C. Antonucci, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Jacqui Smith
For invited participants only.
ALUMNI AWARD 2016 LECTURE
Gene-environment interplay and lifespan psychological development
Elliot Tucker-Drob, University of Texas at Austin
FACULTY LECTURES
- Unspecific blobology or neurophysiology? What can magnetic resonance imaging tell us about brain plasticity?
Arno Villringer, MPI for Human Development
- Psychosocial mechanisms of inequalities in dementia
Laura Zahodne, University of Michigan
- Learning to Move on Earth and in Space
Rachel Seidler, University of Michigan
- Ecological Learning - Adaptive selection of learning strategies across the lifespan.
Azzurra Ruggeri, MPI for Human Development
- Understanding the Bilingual Brain through Child Language and Literacy Development
Ioulia Kovelman, University of Michigan
FELLOW PRESENTATIONS
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An eye movement analysis of grocery shopping: Is there a link to the Big Five personality traits?
Damaris Aschwanden, University of Zurich (Advisors: Mathias Allemand & Mike Martin)
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Scope of credibility: selective learning across domains
Julia Brehm, University of Zurich (Advisor: Moritz M. Daum)
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Indicators of recovery: Results from the fitness and relaxation study
Brian Cardini, University of Zurich (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
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Rhythmic neural activity and neuromodulation shape selective attention in healthy aging
Martin Dahl, MPI for Human Development (Advisor: Markus Werkle-Bergner)
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Self-perceptions of aging and activity engagement: Linking positive and negative appraisals to behavior
Hannah L. Giasson, University of Michigan (Advisor: Jacqui Smith)
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Treating chronic tinnitus with tomographic neurofeedback
Dominik Güntensperger, University of Zurich (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
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On the use and usefulness of individual scores in dynamic factor models
Katinka Hardt, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Advisor: Manuel C. Voelkle)
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Social support among older Latina/os in the United States
Elise Hernandez, University of Michigan (Advisors: Jacqui Smith & Toni Antonucci)
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Application of an oscillation theory of handwriting to human developmental data
Stefan Hess, MPI for Human Development (Advisor: Sascha Schroeder)
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How childhood adversities can lead to beneficial consequences for healthy aging: A qualitative study on former ‘Verdingkinder’
Jan Hoeltge, University of Zurich (Advisor: Andreas Maercker)
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Investigating contributions of media use to black American students’ gender beliefs
Morgan Jerald, University of Michigan (Advisors: Elizabeth Cole & Monique Ward)
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Linear or not? Domain specific functional relationship between academic achievement and academic self-concepts across 14 countries and two age groups
Lena Keller, Freie Universität Berlin (Advisor: Martin Brunner)
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African American patients' attention to health information is influenced by in-group peers in health clinics
Neil Lewis Jr., University of Michigan (Advisors: Denise Sekaquaptewa and Allison Earl)
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The course of Adjustment Disorder symptoms following involuntary job loss
Louisa Lorenz, University of Zurich (Advisor: Andreas Maercker)
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Getting an education: The long-term influence of childhood social relations
Jasmine Manalel, University of Michigan (Advisors: Toni Antonucci & Jacqui Smith)
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Where do you focus on? Finding methods to assess goal focus from early childhood to old age
Lea Mörsdorf, University of Zurich (Advisors: Moritz M. Daum & Alexandra M. Freund)
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Regional changes of white matter microstructure in healthy aging: A longitudinal investigation
Jessica Oschwald, University of Zurich (Advisor: Mike Martin)
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No second chance to make a first impression? The “Thin-Slice” effect on instructor ratings and learning outcomes in higher education
Inah Park, University of Michigan (Advisors: Kevin Miller & Kai Cortina)
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Variability in brain signal complexity in infancy is associated with epigenetic variability of the oxytocinergic system
Meghan Puglia, University of Virginia (Advisor: James P. Morris)
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Shifting priorities: The impact of life domains on life satisfaction across the life course
Julia Rohrer, DIW Berlin (Advisors: Jürgen Schupp & Gert G. Wagner)
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Exploring the influence of maternal depression on the neural basis of emotion processing, regulation, and the functional organization of the infant brain
Paige Safyer, University of Michigan (Advisor: Patricia Reuter-Lorenz)
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The entropic brain: Towards a unifying endophenotype between genes and behavior
Tyler Santander, University of Virginia (Advisor:Chad Dodson)
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What qualities make neural representations beneficial for memory and how do they change with age?
Verena R. Sommer, MPI for Human Development (Advisor: Myriam Sander)
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Examining implicit and explicit attitudes about mental health treatment across the adult lifespan
Alexandra J. Werntz, University of Virginia (Advisor: Bethany A. Teachman)
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Relational permanence: What is it? What are its predictors? Is it correlated with positive outcomes among African American adolescents in foster care?
Abigail Williams, University of Michigan (Advisor: Pamela Davis-Kean)
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
- Socio-cognitive factors of behaviour change and adjustment disorder: An intensive-longitudinal study with coronary heart disease patients
Tania Bermudez, University of Zurich (Advisors: Urte Scholz & Andreas Maercker)
- Back home = back to normal? Examining cardiac rehabilitation patients’ daily attempts to change their health behaviors after discharge
Walter Bierbauer, University of Zurich (Advisor: Urte Scholz)
- Learning to make economic decisions under perceptual uncertainty
Rasmus Bruckner, Freie Universität Berlin (Advisor: Hauke R. Heekeren)
- The effects of cognitive training on decision making processes.
Tiago Cabaço, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Advisor: Manuel Völkle)
- Heroes, villains, and everything in between: Children’s assessment of morally ambiguous characters
Sierra Eisen, University of Virginia (Advisor: Angeline Lillard)
- The influence of individual differences in math anxiety on learning novel mathematics content
Amira F. A. Ibrahim, University of Michigan (Advisor: Priti Shah)
- Depression interacts with cholinergic genetic variant to affect cognition in older adults
Tiffany K. Jantz, University of Michigan (Advisor: Cindy Lustig)
- Conflict and support in adolescent romantic relationships as predictors of emerging adult mental health and well-being.
Jessica Kansky, University of Virgina (Advisor: Joe Allen)
- MOASIS: An ambulatory assessment study to measure the dynamics of healthy older adults’ everyday life activities.
Marko Katana, University of Zurich (Advisor: Mike Martin & Lutz Jäncke)
- Speech comprehension in older adulthood: neural contributions to speech processing
Matthias Keller, University of Zurich (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
- Age differences in training of cognitive flexibility in childhood and adolescence
Neda Khosravani, MPI for Human Development (Advisors: Ulman Lindenberger & Yana Fandakova)
- About the specificity of cognitive influence on speech processing in the context of age-related hearing loss
Ira Kurthen, University of Zurich (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
- Exploring dedifferentiation across the lifespan
Claire La Fleur, University of Virginia (Advisor: Chad Dodson & Timothy Salthouse)
- Differential effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on position sense in healthy young and elderly subjects
Toni Muffel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Advisor: Arno Villringer)
- Attentional patterns involved in infants’ visual exploration of pointy-shaped objects.
Aleksandra Włodarczyk, MPI for Human Development (Advisor: Annie E. Wertz)