The 2017 Cognitive Science Undergraduate Research Presentation Day will take place on April 12, 2017. Students currently enrolled in a COGS research course will be giving poster presentations of their work. There will be a pizza lunch for participants and attendees, and prizes for the best presentations, as determined by a panel of judges!

Information on the previous edition of this presentation day can be found here.

We are delighted to have the following invited talks given by faculty members working in cognitive science.

Ross Otto

Department of Psychology, McGill University
Using "Big Data" to understand real-world risk-taking

Francisco Torreira

Department of Linguistics, McGill University
The time course of language production in conversational turn-taking

Schedule Overview

11:00am – 11:30am	Invited Talk: Dr. Francisco Torreira The time course of language production in conversational turn-taking
11:30am – 1:30pm	Student Poster Session   Session A: 11:30am – 12:30pm   Session B: 12:30pm – 1:30pm Pizza lunch at 12:30pm
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Invited Talk: Dr. Ross Otto Using "Big Data" to understand real-world risk-taking
2:00pm	Poster Awards

Student Presenters

The student presenters and their projects are listed below. Student presenters, please carefully note your poster number and session! You are asked to set up your poster at the indicated position according to your poster number, and to be present at your poster during your session. Session A takes place from 11:30am to 12:30pm. Session B takes place from 12:30pm to 1:30pm.

Presenter	Project Title	Supervisor	Poster #	Session
Manon Rouanet	Suicidality, Current Mood & Personality Factors in Bipolar Disorder	Dr. Outi Mantere	2	B
Victoria Poulton	Investigating the effects of lexical frequency and executive function on word recognition in older adults	Dr. Meghan Clayards	3	A
Olivia Larson	Get Real! From Group Interactions to Gaze Following	Dr. Jelena Ristic	4	B
Jackie Brown	Can't take my eyes off of you	Dr. Jelena Ristic	5	A
Colin Fisher	Deactivation of the fronto-parietal network during interictal discharges of patients with posterior quadrant periventricular nodular heterotopia	Dr. Jean Gotman	6	B
Dominique Danco	Countering ethnocentric dominance with adaptive variations of humanitarianism	Dr. Thomas Shultz	7	A
Yi Yang Teoh	Combining attention networks increases visual awareness	Dr. Amir Raz	9	A
Rebecca Kahn	Precognitive dreams as embodied preparation for social interactions	Dr. Ian Gold	10	B
Caroline Esmonde-White	Comparison of Transcriptome Profiles of Adult Human Oligodendrocyte Progenitor (A2B5+) Cells and Mature Oligodendrocytes	Dr. Jack Antel	11	A
Olivia Leone	Interhemispheric Interaction in the Posterior Parietal Cortex and its Functional Connectivity with M1: A Pilot Study	Dr. Caroline Paquette	12	B
Maddie Gregory	The Influence of Age on Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis	Dr. Lisa Koski	13	A

General Chair: Meghan Clayards
Organizing Members:

• Ryan Bouma
• Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
• Kristine Onishi

Chair of CogSci Committee: Joelle Pineau