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ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Cultural diversity is a critical component of human societies, shaping individuals' behavior, beliefs, and values. Therefore, it is crucial to incorporate cultural backgrounds when developin…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
As a student, and a daughter of a science teacher, I want to know what makes students have difficulty: more specifically if the teaching style - audio, visual, or audio-visual styles - affec…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Severe distances between grocery stores and a lack of transportation restrict residents from making trips for nutritious food, discriminating against poverty-ridden areas. Often trade-offs b…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Children with social and emotional learning suffer daily with conversation due to the lack of social interaction in the classroom setting. The purpose of the project was to create a robot to…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
An estimated 31.1% of all adults will experience an anxiety disorder in their lifetime, yet mental health diagnostic and intervention tools remain largely inaccessible, unaffordable, and cul…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Our aim is to help children with sensory processing disorder which is a neurological disorder that disrupts how the brain responds to external stimuli to achieve the desirable improvements i…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting 50 million people around the world, characterized by brain atrophy, memory loss, and cognitive decline. While much has been…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
A speech sound disorder is any difficulty with perception or motor production of speech sounds and speech segments. If complications persist into late adolescence, individuals develop Residu…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
How has the representation of family structure in children's literature evolved over time? Books offer a critical opportunity to understand changing attitudes among individuals, families, an…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are two brain disorders that predominantly cause behavioural changes and cognitive decline. Presently, there is no cure for these diseas…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Have you ever played Rock, Paper, Scissors, it’s a very elementary game often used to make a quick decision. “Who has to do the dishes?” or “Who gets to eat the last cookie?”. But can you wi…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A key component of autism is its effect on one's ability to communicate, for their brain is able to process information better visually than they are verbally. The purpose of this study is t…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the work environment, employees with functional disabilities have the right to request tools and accommodations in order to be more productive and perform their tasks efficiently. In the…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Addiction is a disease in which the structures and function of the brain’s dopamine pathways are altered, resulting in compulsive indulgence in a substance or activity. Although much progres…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Education is a sociocultural process aimed at the full realization of the human being as a person and the improvement of all the conditions that benefit the development and transformation of…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Over the past several years, aggressive behaviors have increased due to a number of issues, including social isolation, which was especially prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Counterin…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
My research examines whether bilingualism improves cognitive control and whether the onset age of bilingualism enhances bilinguals' cognitive control through the Stroop Task. Cognitive contr…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative condition that impairs daily functioning, memory, and cognition. The ability to treat and manage the disease effectively depends on ear…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Swallowing difficulties impact 30-40% of older adults impairing their treatment adherence and negatively affecting the therapeutic benefits of drugs. This study seeks to use 3D-printing tech…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Bilinguals process and acquire language differently than their monolingual counterparts and have been shown to do better on tasks that involve cognitive control. High-definition transcranial…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
While driving, mere seconds are the difference between life and death. These seconds are your reaction time. Teenage drivers are too relaxed at the wheel. They believe they are driving safel…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
For seven decades, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been psychiatrists’ diagnostic textbook-of-choice, but do its pages belong in 2023? The DSM’s problems…
ISEF · 2023
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…
ISEF · 2023
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…
ISEF · 2023
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…
ISEF · 2023
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.…
ISEF · 2023
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…
ISEF · 2023
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…
ISEF · 2023
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…
ISEF · 2023
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…