ISEF · 2018
Test Tunes
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I investigated the use of lyrical music to enhance test performance. In this experiment, 25 people took a four-section test with three minutes to complete each section. I found that lyrical…
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CSEF · 2018
The Association between Cybersecurity Knowledge and Password Strength
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My question was whether a college students knowledge of cybersecurity would be associated with their password strength. This question is particularly important as young adul…
CSEF · 2018
The Earworm Effect
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Which gender, between eleven to thirteen year olds, will experience INMI (Involuntary Musical imagery) more, after listening to clips of three well known songs? Methods/Mate…
CSEF · 2018
The Effectiveness of Signage
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if signage encourages people to recycle more in order to help the environment. Methods/Materials To experiment on how people…
ISEF · 2018
The Effect of Altering Drosophila Gut Microbiota On Mate Choice, Immunity, Memory, and Aggression
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
It has become well established that the gut and the brain communicate with each other in a bidirectional manner. The objective of this experiment was to determine if altering the gut microbi…
ISEF · 2018
The Effect of Exercise on Neuroplasticity: A Skill-Based Approach
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emerging evidence is suggesting that exercise can be used as a primer for neuroplasticity. This relationship was investigated in the current study, by having three groups of participants com…
CSEF · 2018
The Effect of Gender on Short-Term Memory Recall
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how gender affects short-term memory recall of pictures, numbers, and words in 11-13 year olds. We predicted that girls would have a higher rec…
AJAS · 2018
The Effect of Humanoid Robot Movement on Emotional Reactions of STEM-Focused Students
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
Masahiro Mori’s Uncanny Valley is the notion that as robots appear more human like, humans will find them more like-able until they reach a spot where they turn unsettling. This dip in likab…
CSEF · 2018
The Effect of Interrupted Sleep on Cognitive Behavior and Neurophysiology in Drosophila melanogaster
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Our experiment's objective is to determine interrupted sleep's effect on cognition. Common diseases like sleep apnea and generalized anxiety disorder interrupt sleep instead…
ISEF · 2018
The Effect of Metformin on Post Traumatic Brain Injury Learning and Learning Disabilities
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) whether mild, moderate or severe, can have a direct and definite impact on a person’s everyday life. The initial treatment after TBI usually consists of inter…
CSEF · 2018
The Effect of Music on the Brain Using Machine Learning
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Determine the effect of all genres of music on the frontal and temporal lobes. Methods/Materials Headphones. Laptop computer with an iOS simulator. Students took the test on…
ISEF · 2018
The Effect of Noise Reduction and Pink Noise on Memory and Cognition
Behavioral and Social Sciences
My experiment’s purpose was to compare the memory and cognition of high school students when exposed to different levels of noise. For the second year of my project, I chose to add pink nois…
CSEF · 2018
The Effects of Background Noise on Auditory Perception
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if background noise affects hearing. Methods/Materials 75 students, scripts, downloads of background noise (static, music with w…
ISEF · 2018
The Effects of Lithium on Insomniac Drosophila melanogaster
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Insomnia is a condition occurring in 30% of Americans and it is known to significantly impair a person’s cognitive function (Pirone et al., 2016). While the benefits of lithium on memory and…
ISEF · 2018
The Effects of Multilingualism on the Working Memory of Human Subjects
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not multilingualism had an effect on working memory capacity and retention of information. The null hypothesis was that there would be n…
CSEF · 2018
The Effects of Visual Distraction on Recall
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I visited the Museum of Science in Boston and came across an experiment that focused on attention span. I was inspired by this exhibit to design a project to test visual dis…
ISEF · 2018
The Expression of Genes Correlated with ADHD and Dyslexia on the Vocal and Auditory Pathways of a Zebra Finch Model
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigated expression of genes correlated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia on the vocal and auditory pathways of a zebra finch, a model for unde…
CSEF · 2018
The Extent and Effect of School Burnout on Adolescents
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to compare the extent and effect of school burnout on adolescents in high and low-income schools. Methods/Materials The study was conducted ut…
ISEF · 2018
The Impact of Emotionally Targeted Branding on Social Behavior
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment aims to discover how the omnipresence of media in today’s society influences a person’s perception during social situations. Given that the processes of emotion and social pe…
CSEF · 2018
The Influence of Athletes' Assumed Race on Perceptions of Potential Success
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if a high school athlete's assumed race, using name as a proxy for race, would influence subjects' perceptions of his potential…
ISEF · 2018
The Language of Facial Expressions: A Neuroimaging Study on How a Smile Is Generated and Perceived by Another Person
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Facial expressions, particularly smiles, have implications for debilitating psychiatric disorders such as autism, depression, and schizophrenia, which make them a critical area for study. As…
ISEF · 2018
The Petroglyphs Attribute in Pre-Columbian of Caldera
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
We carried out an archaeological investigation to determine if the authorship of the petroglyphs located in Caldera, province of Chiriquí, is really from the group known as the Dorasques. To…
CSEF · 2018
The Posture Genie: "Better Posture, One Buzz at a Time"
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to examine whether awareness of incorrect posture, communicated through as reminders, will induce a postural improvement among humans of all ages. Hypotheses…
CSEF · 2018
The Power of Yet
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, we will compare growth vs. fixed mindset in Honor and CP level senior high school students and see if there is any effect of early class separation and g…
CSEF · 2018
The Pressure to Fit In: Testing Conformity in Middle Schoolers
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test how different genders, ages, and grades reacted to being influenced to choose an incorrect answer. The hypothesis was that when in…
ISEF · 2018
The Upside Down in the Modern Day: The Changing Role of Father and Mother in Parenting World
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Culture is related to parenting style. It shapes the way parents take care of their children. In Asia, they live in patrilineal descendant group. Father is leading role. In Indonesia, especi…
CSEF · 2018
To Fear, or Not to Fear? That Is the Question
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal is to find out what people fear by filling out surveys about fears, and based on those results, determine if fears change with age. Methods/Materials I made a quest…
ISEF · 2018
Treating Parkinsonian Neurodegeneration in Diabetic, Paraquat-exposed Drosophila by Increasing Caffeine Intake
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
The majority of Western nations are living on unhealthy diets with high amounts of sugar and few nutrients. This diet, coupled with a lack of exercise, is associated with higher incidences o…
ISEF · 2018
Unplugged: Quantifying the Effects of Technology on Adolescent Sleep and Mood
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Sleep is a fundamental building block for human health, directly affecting mood, safety, and academic and physical performance. Despite this, only 20% of adolescents receive the recommended…
ISEF · 2018
Using Python to Develop Twitter Personas
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project intends to determine how much of a social media user’s interests can be predicted by Twitter’s algorithms. The idea for the project stemmed from an article detailing possible Ru…