Spring Academy 2019

University of Michigan

Date: May 28 – May 31, 2019
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Organizers: Toni Antonucci & Jacqui Smith

ALUMNI AWARD LECTURE

Gizem Hülür, University of Zurich
Cognitive and psychosocial aging: Emerging potentials and challenges

LECTURES

Yvonne Anders, Freie Universität Berlin
Potentials of early childhood education in institutions and families
Douglas Garrett, MPI for Human Development
Constrained moment-to-moment brain signal variability as a principled marker of the ageing brain
Hudson Golino, University of Virginia
Entropy fit index: A new fit measure for assessing the structure and dimensionality of two multiple latent variables
Myriam Thoma, University of Zurich
Differential aging trajectories in high-risk individuals with past experiences of early adversity: A project of the Swiss National Research Program (NRP)
Jacqueline Mattis, University of Michigan
Divesting from a social science of urban misery: Towards a humanistic approach to urban community life
Martin Meyer, University of Zurich
The relationship between brain aging, hearing loss, speech understanding, cognition and tinnitus
Peter Railton, University of Michigan
Why is the current wave of artificial intelligence different? — And how does this connect with fundamental questions in ethics and moral psychology?

FELLOW PRESENTATIONS

In alphabetical order by author; Posters follow below.

Context and person matter: Building a recommender system for emotion regulation strategies
Miranda Beltzer, UVA
Co-authors: Mawulolo Ameko, Laura Barnes, & Bethany Teachman
All you need is a little motivation: Predictors of health behavior change after discharge from cardiac rehabilitation
Walter Bierbauer, UZH
Advisor: Urte Scholz
A framework for the understanding of long-term health trajectories following early adversity and trauma in individuals of advanced age
Carla M. Eising, UZH
Advisor: Myriam Thoma
Affective forecasting: A selective relationship with working memory for emotion
Colleen Frank, UM
Associations between violations of the classical ACE model, phenotypic complexity, and SNP heritability
Evan J. Giangrande, UVA
Co-author: Eric Turkheimer
Sense of campus belongingness, academic confidence, and mental health outcomes among African American college students
Janelle R. Goodwill, UM
Investigating core aspects of the "American dream": Historical changes in how adolescents’ socioeconomic status, IQ, and GPA are related to key life outcomes in adulthood
Andrea Hasl, Uni Potsdam
Co-authors: Julia Kretschmann, Dirk Richter, Manuel Voelkle, & Martin Brunner
Speech perception under effortful listening conditions in older adults
Laura Jagoda, UZH
The whats and whens of sleep-associated memory consolidation across childhood
Ann-Kathrin Joechner, MPIB
Advisor: Markus Werkle-Bergner
Development of active function learning
Angela Jones, MPIB
Advisor: Azzurra Ruggeri
Exploring the gut-brain axis in infancy
Caroline Kelsey, UVA
How aging shapes neural representations: fMRI evidence for broader tuning functions in older adults
Christoph Koch, MPIB
Advisor: Nicolas Schuck
Restoration of missing auditory input is related to alpha desynchronization
Ira Kurthen, UZH
Co-authors: Allison Christen, Oliver Profant, Zbyněk Bureš, Martin Meyer, & Nathalie Giroud
Prospective effects of well-being on job loss: The role of anticipation and controllability
Mario Lawes, FU
Psychological signatures of age and gender in language: Accommodation and real-life outcomes
Tabea Meier, UZH
Modeling nonlinear human behavior through intermittent forcing: A HAVOK analysis
Robert Moulder, UVA
Nature and consequences of health sensitivity in daily life
Sophie Potter, HU
Advisors: Denis Gerstorf & Annette Brose
Fairness reexamined
Meltem Yucel, UVA

FELLOW POSTERS

Improvisational theater for psychological health
Peter Felsman, UM
How do children perform in mapping linguistic cues to causal events in Turkish and Swiss-German?
Ebru Ger, UZH
Physical activity in early and middle adulthood are linked to later-life longitudinal memory trajectories
A. Zarina Kraal, UM
Co-author: Laura B. Zahodne
Differential effects of parental monitoring on substance use among American Indian adolescents
Jessica Mazen, UVA
The salutogenic influence of Sense of Coherence-Revised (SOC-R): Assessing the role of SOC-R in mental health in a representative sample
Shauna L. Mc Gee, UZH
Co-authors: Myriam V. Thoma, Jörg M. Fegert, Heide Glaesmer, Elmar Brähler, & Andreas Maercker
Brain structure and hearing acuity in older adults: A surface-based morphometry study
Tabea Neuschwander, UZH
Auditory discrimination training: Probing the expansion renormalization model of plastic changes in the perceptual domain
Eleftheria Papadaki, MPIB
Co-authors: André Werner, Ziyong Lin, Yana Fandakova, Ulman Lindenberger, & Elisabeth Wenger
Longitudinal co-development of well-being and emotional experiences in dyadic partner relationships in old age
Elisa Weber, UZH
Trajectories of environmental instability and the development of disruptive behaviors from late-childhood into adolescence
Sean Womack, UVA