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OPAM, 2016 : First international poster presentation!
I had the exciting opportunity to present my undergraduate research at the 2016 Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. This was my first international conference attendance!
Research Overview
My poster explored the generalizability of the Mirror Effect—a well-documented empirical phenomenon in Recognition Memory—to the domain of visual perception. The Mirror Effect typically shows that when comparing performance between different classes of stimuli (e.g., high vs. low-frequency words), there are systematic differences in both hit rates and false alarm rates.
In this project, I explored the Mirror Effect outside of memory tasks, specifically in a pure perception task. I designed an experiment using the Ebbinghaus illusion to create conditions of differential discriminability, applying Signal Detection Theory to analyze participants’ performance.
You can view the full poster here: View Poster.