North Carolina Cognition Conference
General Information
Host Institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date and Time: Saturday, February 18, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location and Directions: The conference will take place at the Friday Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Friday Center is located a short distance from the main campus. Directions and a map can be found here.
Parking: There is plenty of guest parking at the Friday Center.
Contact: If you have any questions, please email us at: nccg@unc.edu.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Fernanda Ferreira, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, University of South Carolina. Professor Ferreira is a leading researcher in psycholinguistics.
To learn more about Dr. Ferreira, please visit her website.
Schedule of Events
(Click on the link to view the abstract for each talk.)
8:15 Registration and Coffee
9:00 Welcome - Neil Mulligan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
9:10 A Second Look at the Mehta and Zhu (2009) Color Priming Effect
Presenters: Kenneth Steele, Christopher Thorstenson, Kristen Sugg, Erin Gurgainous, Andrea Stecher, Emily Putnam, & Emily Antolic (Appalachian State University)
9:30 Autobiographical Memory Retrieval in Healthy Older Adults
Presenters: Jaclyn H. Ford (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), David C. Rubin (Duke University), & Kelly S. Giovanello (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
9:50 The Effects of Familiarity and Context on Memory for Popular Music
Presenters: Matthew A. Rashotte & Douglas H. Wedell (University of South Carolina)
10:10 Rehearsing to forget: The influence of metacognition in item-method directed forgetting
Presenters: Nathan Foster & Lili Sahakyan (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 Associative Mechanisms Can Differentiate Between Observation and Intervention in Rats
Presenters: Munir G. Kutlu & Nestor A. Schmajuk (Duke University)
11:10 Keynote Address: Shallow Processing in the Visual World
Presenter: Fernanda Ferreira (University of South Carolina)
12:15 Lunch and Poster Session
2:00 Does working memory training really improve intelligence?
Presenter: Michael J. Kane (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
2:20 The neural basis of illusory memories derived from conceptual fluency
Presenters: Ilana Dew & Roberto Cabeza (Duke University)
2:40 Alcohol attentional bias in treatment-seeking alcoholics: treatment effects and moderation by family history
Presenters: VW Chanon, LS Kalka, CJ Gillen, AB Kampov-Polevoy, JC Garbutt, & CA Boettiger (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
3:00 Eyewitness Lineups: Examining the Effect of Lineup Race on Lineup Format
Presenters: David Dobolyi and Chad Dodson (University of Virginia)
3:20 Coffee Break
3:40 Object orientation impacts memory for scene views’ spatial expanse
Presenters: Christopher A. Dickinson, & Dan C. LaCombe (Appalachian State University)
4:00 Effects of Sentence Structure on Figurative Language Processing: The Case of Metonymy
Presenters: Matthew W. Lowder and Peter C. Gordon (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
4:20 Activation and suppression of focus alternatives
Presenters: E. Matthew Husband & Fernanda Ferreira (University of South Carolina)
4:40 Individual and Age-Related Differences in Source Memory: The Role of Mediator-Based Encoding Strategies
Presenters: Beatrice G. Kuhlmann & Dayna R. Touron (University of North Carolina, Greensboro).
Registration
The registration fee is $30 for faculty and $5 for students and post-docs. This includes morning and afternoon coffee service and lunch. The conference center provides a buffet lunch with a choice of multiple main dishes (including a vegetarian option) along with salads and desserts.
Please register by February 10. To register, please send an email to nccg@unc.edu with your name, affiliation, and status (faculty or student/post-doc). We will accept payment the day of the conference by cash or check (sorry, we are not able to process credit cards).