Motivation in cognition
This is a large project that considers the impact of motivation on cognitive task performance.
Stereotype threat in chess
This project considers the impact of the negative stereotype that women are bad at chess. Thank you to Chessable.com for awarding one of the participating students, Sarah Kudron, with their undergraduate research award!
https://www.chessable.com/blog/chessable-research-awards-winners/
Here is the TCNJ story about Nick LoCassio and Sarah Kudron’s project:
https://news.tcnj.edu/2023/01/23/your-move/
Video games and cognition
This project focuses on the benefits of video game play for cognitive skills that improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outcomes. There is considerable research demonstrating the value of spatial skills in STEM fields and also research showing how training, using first-person perspective video games, enhances spatial thinking.