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The Role of Interests in STEM Pursuit and Academic Performance: Examining Major-Level and Student-Level Patterns
International Journal of Curriculum Development and Learning Measurement
Miranda M. McIntyre (psychology) led a team of researchers to publish an article on the role of interest in student performance. From the abstract: “To investigate how interests are related to academic outcomes, the current work combined psychological and institutional data in a sample of N = 8,326 students enrolled in 249 different majors. Study 1 identified five major clusters that reveal diversity in interests across STEM and non-STEM majors.”
Modulation of face processing by top-down attention: Insights from early ERP waveforms
Brain Research
Nicolas M. Burnet (psychology), with Britney M. Aguirre published a paper that examined delays in facial processing. From the abstract: “The face fusiform area (FFA) plays a pivotal role in face recognition, yet the precise timeline of its activity remains debated. Using EEG, we conducted three experiments to investigate how expectancy-consistent versus expectancy-inconsistent visual stimuli influence processing dynamics.”
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