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Scott Yancey Former Primary Research Assistant New York University Department of Psychology B.S. in Psychology Santa Clara University, Class of 1999

Research

     As the primary research assistant for the Phelps Lab for the past year, my involvement in research has been varied to say the least. I will highlight several studies to try and offer a complete picture. I have been significantly involved with a study examining the effects of how negative versus neutral imagined scenes affect the Potentiated Startle eyeblink response. I have designed, administered, and analyzed the resulting data from a study examing how neutral versus taboo words affect later performance on a reaction time judgment concerning these words. In collaboration with Adam K. Anderson, Ph.D., I have administered a study that aims to uncover how words of an emotional nature interact with an attentional phenomenon know as the "attentional blink." Going forward, I will be focusing on designing and running an experient which uses virtual reality technology to further explore conditioning paradigms. Furthermore, I will be attempting to fit this particular study within a fMRI experimental design.