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<font face="Palatino">Come hear what Emma Opitz, Emile Rutherford,
Kat Mott, and Leanna Pohevitz have been doing in science!</font><font
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== LIGHTNING TALKS BY STUDENTS! ===<br>
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Emma Opitz, an Independent Study<br>
"An Investigation into the Acoustic Properties of Distress and
Alarm Calls in Sciurus carolinensis"<br>
Abstract: Humans use the descending minor third intonation in
speech to communicate sadness. The evolutionary implications of
this suggest that before language these intonation patterns were
used to convey emotion to conspecifics. If this is so than we
should be able to see similar patterns of vocalization in nonhuman
communication systems. Using the grey squirrel as a subject,
vocalizations were recorded and analyzed to look for properties of
this or a similar intonation pattern.<br>
The Ray and Lorna Coppinger Endowment provided funding for this
research.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hampshire.edu/cs/Ray%20&%20Lorna%20Coppinger%20Endowment%20Grants.htm">http://www.hampshire.edu/cs/Ray%20&%20Lorna%20Coppinger%20Endowment%20Grants.htm</a><br>
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Samuel Emile Rutherford, Division III research<br>
"The effects of anger and depression on attention: An ERP
examination of early attentional biases in a forensic sample"<br>
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Katherine Mott, Division III research<br>
“Critiquing the Neural Correlates of Consciousness: What Can
Neuroscience Say About Phenomenal Consciousness?"<br>
Abstract: In attempting to correlate neural activity to
consciously experienced events, neuroscientists may be
overreaching in both their reduction of mind and their reliance on
correlations. However, there is some evidence that neural activity
can be differentiated by its role in the creation of a conscious
percept. I discuss my own and a few others' findings to this end,
and suggest a more conservative interpretation of the existing
data.<br>
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Leanna Pohevitz, Division III research<br>
"The Pedagogically Better Option for Learning Arabic: From
Research to Textbook Writing - An Analysis and An Answer"<br>
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Paula Harmon, Administrative Assistant <br>
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