Behavioral and Social Sciences
Learning disorders (LDs) are neurodevelopmental disabilities with a worldwide prevalence of 5-15%. Lack of awareness paired with heterogeneity in testing methods results in non-identificatio…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Users with visual impairments should be able to access the internet without getting blocked by CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA is a technology that helps differentiate humans from SPAM Bots. For users with…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Confirmation bias is a subconscious bias in which people selectively search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms their pre-existing beliefs. The purpose of my rese…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Chat GPT is a groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) application that can write essays in under a minute. Since its release in November 2022, it has sparked a worldwide debate about its…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Violence in academic institutions has been notably increasing in the United States. School shootings and violence are at an all-time high, and so are suicide rates. The purpose of this exper…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Electric vehicles (EVs) are growing exponentially in global sales and have become one major mode of urban mobility, but still face range anxiety due to insufficient charging infrastructure.…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Background: Dementia is highly prevalent neuropsychiatric condition characterized by impairments in memory, reasoning, mood, and behavior; yet it has no effective treatment. This project uti…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One major impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the transition between in-person and remote working environments. Studies show that working from home leads to social isolation, which caus…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
As part of my 2019 Science fair project recommendation, I proposed ‘retina scanning solution’ and alerting the driver when they get distracted behind the wheels. In 2020, my Objective was to…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the past, there have been more males in fictional literature. Now, the ratio of female to male authors is closer to half and half, but studies have shown that there is still a significant…
Cognitive Science
First Award
Sleep is critical for memory, especially your declarative memory, which is used for storing facts and information. During sleep, your brain consolidates the information you learned throughou…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by the death of dopamine-producing neurons. Due to a decrease in dopamine, patients suffer from both motor and n…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Tens of millions suffering from chronic conditions specifically, hearing loss affects 466 million individuals worldwide, face challenges in communication and interaction with caregivers, spe…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
In this study, young participants (n=29) were instructed to perform the functional reaching task with their right upper limb in motor execution (ME), motor imagery (MI), motor observation (M…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Gendered parenting teaches children the reality of gender roles in society but interferes with recognizing their true skills. This project aimed to investigate how early childhood gender-bas…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Mildly autistic children lack effective social communication skills, making it crucial to utilize modern technology to elevate their social communication and help them blend in with their co…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
The brain is excellent at changing and adapting to a new environment. This adaptation is done by the temporal lobe and the hippocampus. Learning is done when a person tries a new task and a…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
With the increasing use of social media in our daily lives, it is crucial to maintain safe and inclusive platforms for users of diverse backgrounds. Offensive content can inflict emotional d…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Over half of 37 million antidepressant users experience side effects that influence long-term antidepressant efficacy. However, their biological causes are still mostly unknown. By using ani…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the last decade, there was a significant increase in interest in mental health services, particularly in young adult populations, which has resulted in university counseling departments b…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous category of impairments characterized by repetitive behaviors and impaired social communication which is currently diagnosed behaviorally. I…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers experience high levels of occupational stress due to long hours, short staffing, and patient deaths, among other factors. Little is known about the…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study aimed to devise a spreadsheet, mathematically, to identify the sounds people feel comfortable, and create an environment where people worldwide can enjoy music with others towards…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
According to a UNICEF study in 2022, Brazil has around 2 million teenagers who have dropped High School before graduating. Shocked by these numbers, I started to think about what I could do…
Cognitive Science
Honorable_mention Award
According to WHO, more than 55 million people are living with dementia worldwide, with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) representing up to 70 percent of those cases. AD is currently the 6th leading…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Throughout the country, school shootings have disrupted harmony and injected fear into the lives of students and the community. The trait Psychopathy has been clearly linked to gun violence…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to see how a pupil reacts to emotional stimulation. I hypothesized that a pupil reacts by dilation to nonverbal emotional stimuli. The participants sat in f…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
The current ways to diagnose depression are heavily dependent on patients self-reporting their symptoms which is closely related to its high rate of misdiagnoses. The purpose of this investi…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
1 in 44 children in the USA are impacted by autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but only <50% of children received effective early intervention due to delayed diagnosis. This represents a huge m…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Worldwide 1 in 8 people live with a mental illness (WHO, 2022). Music releases neurotransmitters, including dopamine, but without the side effects of medications (Schriewer, Bulaj, 2016). Th…