Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Cognitive Science program are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
In addition to this digital archive, physical copies of the Cognitive Science comps from the past five years are available for browsing in Music Hall 313.
Submissions from 2024
Nicholas Berry, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2024, A Neurophenomenal Inquiry Into The Nature of Mind
Isabel Folger, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2024, The Role of Source Forgetting in Misinformation Acceptance: Insights from Philosophy and Psychology
Submissions from 2023
Fiona Gillen, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, “Life is Like a Video Game:” The Impact of Violent Media on Moral Development
Chiamaka Ifedi, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, A Social Intuitionist Perspective On Morality And Persuasion
Shannon Liu, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, Generalization of Attention and Working Memory Skills from Cognition Training Games by Elderly Clients: Does Lumosity Really Work?
Kayla Passino, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, Beyond Learning Styles: Applying Cognitive Science in the Classroom
Submissions from 2022
Isabella Chaffee, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, Bounded Morality: To What Degree Are Moral Judgments Similar to Non-Moral Judgments?
Jordan Navarro, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, Effect of Religiosity on the Conjunction Fallacy
Ali Purdum, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, The Tic-Reducing Effect of Music on Tourette's Syndrome
Julia Shirley, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, Cognitively Bounded Morality: How Cognitive Limits Could Impact Moral Decisions
Jed Villanueva, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, You Can’t Get Groovier Than This: A Replication of Janata et al. (2012)
Submissions from 2021
Lily Danna, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2021, Dopamine and Motivation in Schools: Implementing Teaching Methods that Increase Dopamine Release and Motivation in Grades 6-12
Laura Savage, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2021, Age and Distraction: A Misunderstanding of Memory
Submissions from 2020
Tyler A. Chang, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2020, Emergence of Hierarchical Syntax in Neural Machine Translation
Alina Maki, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2020, Comparing Lies by Size, Medium, and Perspective
Daniel Quintero, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2020, Disruption of CSF Glymphatic Flow after Anti-AQP4 Antibody and Bumetanide Injection
Alex Zhai, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2020, Coarticulatory Influences of Liquid Consonant on Stop Perception in Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
Submissions from 2019
Ahmed Abdirahman, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2019, What Is Interaction? Embodied Interaction in Human-Computer Interaction
Morgan Ross, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2019, Quantifying Self-Phones: The Effects of Smartphone Usage on Self-Extension
Elliot Schwartz, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2019, The Effect of Repetition on Acceptability and Confidence Judgments of Linguistic Tokens
Valerie Umscheid, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2019, Academic Self-Concept, Theory of Intelligence, and Overconfidence in Late Elementary School
Submissions from 2018
Trixie Dao, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2018, The Child as a Consumer: Issues with Child-Directed Advertising
Submissions from 2017
Hanbit Shiny Choi, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, The Foreign Language Effect on The Sunk-Cost Fallacy with English-Chinese Bilinguals
Charlotte Duong, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Effects of Foreign Language of Decision Making
Jessi Gant Jacobsen, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Talking to nonnative speakers: Investigating language-specific audience design and cognate use
Yining Liu, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Using Self-paced Reading to Test the Syntactic Structure of Serial Verbs in Mandarin Chinese
Sanders Kai McMillan, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Creativity Embodied
Zachary Taylor Montes, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Hallucination as a Response to the Ecological Approach to Perception
Charles Hancock Moore, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Multisensory Illusions in Peripersonal Space Using Tools in Reality and Virtual Reality
Robbye Devyn Raisher, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Does Music Make You Smarter? The Legacy of the Mozart Effect®
Anna Pauliina Smith, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Effects of Cortical Schemas on Memory Trace Competition
Laura Katherine Soter, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Is Lying Less Wrong in a Foreign Language? Everyday Moral Reasoning and the Moral Foreign Language Effect in the Absence of Outcome Information
Hettie Kathryn Stern, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Deaf Literacy: Learning to Read English with Strong ASL Skills
Submissions from 2016
Alexander Auyeung, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2016, Beyond Bambini: Montessori Methods for the College Classroom
Connor Ryan Dale, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2016, Inattentional Blindness in Early and Middle Childhood
Joyce Yu, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2016, Neuroprosthetics: Reconnecting with the World
Submissions from 2015
Emily Natanya Dorothy Bauer, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, The Evolution of Narrative Cognition
Carl Bou Mansour, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, Radical Testimony: An Exploration of Radical Embodiment and Credulous Testimony
Michelle Chen, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, To Afford or Not to Afford: Does the Digital Environment Have Affordances?
Andrew Hwang, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, Processing Fluency in Website Navigation
Submissions from 2014
Jeffrey Jordan Berg, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2014, A Bat and a Ball and a Ballot: Proposing a Cognitive Foundation for Partisan Ambivalence
Lauren Kathleen Chuin-Wei Chow, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2014, Use What You Already Know: Positive Language Transfer in Adolescent Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners
Nicholas Robert Jones, Noah Carnahan, Marcus Huderle, Zach Wood-Doughty, Tony Tran, and Cole Stephan, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2014, Plagiarism Detection
Rebecca Ruth Plotnick, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2014, Is There a Context Effect for the Identification of Brand Logos
Submissions from 2013
Benjamin Avi Altshuler, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, The Puzzle Puzzle: A Cross-disciplinary Approach
Kelsey Han, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, How We Make Meaning: The Mental Representation of Concepts in Cognitive Science
Patrick Nalepka, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, Us or Just You and Me? An Empirical Approach to Understand (Shared) Intentions in Joint Action
Lauren Elizabeth Partch, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, Neuroscience of Free Will
Andrea Marie Simenstad, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, Modeling Moral Cognition: Virtue Ethics and Connectionist Architecture
Submissions from 2012
Lauren Maria Hickman, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2012, How Cognitive is Cognitive Therapy?
Jane Madeleine Tandler, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2012, Ordering Disorganization Syndrome: Modeling Schizophrenic Language
Submissions from 2010
Elizabeth Hoffman Aeschlimann, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2010, Eliciting Emotion and Affect in Moral Judgment: An Examination of Intention, Personal Force and Personal Relevance
Heather Renee Campbell, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2010, Emergent Consciousness: An ant-based explanation of subjective experience
Laura Elise Stone, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2010, Stereotype Alteration through a Cognitive Dual-Process Lens: Examining Stereotype Knowledge Structures, Stereotyping Processes, and Perspective Taking
Submissions from 2009
Kathryn Stroud, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2009, Cue type and biasing verb presence: factors influencing false memory development in pseudo-jurors
Submissions from 2005
Drew Dara-Abrams, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2005, Architecture of Mind and World: How Urban Form Influences Spatial Cognition
Alanna McLeod, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2005, ”Putting the Baby Down”: The Role of Physical Proximity in Mother-Infant Vocal Communication
