Working Memory & Plasticity Lab Undergraduate Researchers Awarded Funding for UROP Proposals

​UCI’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), launched in 1995, integrates undergraduate students into UCI's research culture by providing opportunities for faculty and students to work together on research and creative projects. Undergraduates can apply for UROP grant funding by submitting a proposal during Calls for Proposals in the Fall and Spring Quarters of each school year.

This year, UROP has received a record number of 628 proposals in response to UROP’s Fall 2018 Call. The submitted proposals involve 1275 unique (unduplicated) students who are mentored by 392 unique faculty members.

Undergraduate research assistants in the Working Memory & Plasticity (WMP) Lab submitted 14 proposals, and all 14 have been awarded funding. Undergraduates will be conducting their work in collaboration with WMP graduate students and/or lab managers, and will be advised by Associate Professor Susanne Jaeggi. 

The 14 WMP groups, research titles, and group mentors are as follows:

• Simran Kukreja - Gender Differences in Inhibitory Control among Children with ADHD, mentored by Masha Jones and Francesca Trane
• Shireen Khan and Bryce Carson - The Effects of Medication on Inhibitory Control in Children with ADHD as Observed in Lab and in Context, mentored by Masha Jones and Francesca Trane
• Lara Barakat - Among an Array of Skills, which Emerges as the Greatest Resource for Students with ADHD?, mentored by Masha Jones and Francesca Trane
• Yuya "Winnie" Xu - ADHD Subtypes and Symptom Severity as a Predictors of a Motivation Intervention Outcomes, mentored by Masha Jones and Francesca Trane
• Yulissa Rojas-Montes De Oca - ADHD: Perceived Effectiveness of Motivation and Study Skill Interventions, mentored by Masha Jones and Francesca Trane
• Yunke "Kerri" Zheng - Do Children with ADHD and Dyslexia Differ in Divergent Thinking Abilities?, mentored by Masha Jones and Francesca Trane
• Angelica Sheen - Special Call (Computer Gaming): Validity-Testing a Virtual Reality Measure of Risk Propensity, mentored by Grace Lin, Emily Sumner, and Kimia Akhavein
• Katrina Christhilf and Rachel Smith - Exploring the Relationship between Working Memory, Metamemory and Fluid Intelligence: A Correlational Study, mentored by Grace Lin
• Jennifer Truong - The Effect of Positive Mood on Spatial/Verbal Working Memory, mentored by Austin Moon
• Elena Park, Amanda Bishop, and Joanna Nguyen - Implications of Working Memory Training and Transfer on College Undergraduates, mentored by Austin Moon
• Jamisyn Atlas and Angelina Quagletti - Impact of Cognitive Task Training on Older Adults' Working Memory, mentored by Austin Moon
• Elizabeth Carlisle, Daniel Milton, Tommy Chee, and Galila Assefa - Effects of Gender Identity and Types of Digitized Memory Games on Working Memory Training Efficiency, mentored by Austin Moon
• Rachel Smith - Improving Memory Consolidation through Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Older Adults, mentored by Austin Moon
• Madison Ramos - The Effect of Inhibitory Control on Socially-Sensitive Implicit Association Test Effect Sizes, mentored by Austin Moon

All UROP students will be presenting their research results and findings at the UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium scheduled for Saturday, May 18, 2019. In addition, they are invited to submit a research paper for possible publication in The UCI Undergraduate Research Journal.