SRNDNA Conference 2023

  • Sunday, April 30, 2023
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
  • UC Santa Barbara (map)

We are excited to host in-person events again where we can reconnect and meet new researchers.

The day’s events include:

8:00/8:40 a.m. Meet in Mar Monte Hotel lobby to catch shuttle to UC Santa Barbara

9:00 a.m. Breakfast and Welcome 
SRNDNA Directors Kendra Seaman & Greg Samanez-Larkin
NIH Program Directors Luke Stoeckel & Matt Sutterer: NIH Funding Opportunities for SRNDNA Affiliates

9:30 a.m. Winston Chiong, MD, PhD (UC San Francisco): Financial mismanagement in neurodegenerative disease: Clinical impact, measurement problems, and a need for models

10:30 a.m. Nathan Spreng, PhD (McGill University): Exploration/exploitation based decision making in older adults, and its neural correlates

11:15 a.m. Angela Hill, PharmD, CRPh (USF Workgroup Enhancing Community Advocacy & Research Engagement (WE-CARE)): Using a community engagement model to enhance research recruitment and retention

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Vishnu “Deepu” Murty, PhD (Temple University) SRNDNA ’22 Pilot Grant recipient: Linguistic features of memory shape the social transmission of value

1:30 p.m. Hsiang-Yu Chen, PhD (Brandeis University) SRNDNA ’22 Pilot Grant recipient: How extrinsic and intrinsic motivation may affect decision-making in aging

2:00 p.m. Anne Krendl, PhD (Indiana University Bloomington): Understanding how social connectedness protects older adults’ cognitive health: the role of social cognition

3:00 p.m. Discussion

3:30 p.m. Poster Session

5:00/5:40 p.m. Shuttle ride to Mar Monte Hotel

Poster Session Preview

Information added as received

Chronic intranasal oxytocin administration increases positive mood and ability to repair mood in Older Adults
Dalia El-Shafie, Rebecca Polk, Marilyn Horta, Eliany Perez, Amber Heemskerk, Tian Lin, David Feifel, Natalie Ebner
University of Florida, University of California, San Diego

Memory encoding ability interacts with training interventions to improve memory-guided inference decisions
Sharon M. Noh, Keiland W. Cooper, Craig E.L. Stark, Aaron M. Bornstein
University of California, Irvine

Age-group differences in trust-related decision-making and learning
Marilyn Horta*1,2, Alayna Shoenfelt1, Eliany Perez1, Ian Frazier1,3, Amber Heemskerk1, Tian Lin1, Robert C. Wilson4, Nichole R. Lighthall5, Natalie C. Ebner*1
1Department of Psychology, University of Florida, 2Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence, University of Florida, 3Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, 4Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, 5Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida

The role of risk tolerance in navigation strategy decisions
Eliany Perez, Peter Kvam, Steven Weisberg
University of Florida

Interoceptive Accuracy Predicts Deception Detection Ability with Greater Age
Amber Heemskerk1, Tian Lin1, Didem Pehlivanoglu1, Ziad Hakim1, Pedro Valdes Hernandez1, Leanne ten Brinke2, Matthew D. Grilli3, Robert C. Wilson3, Gary Turner4, R. Nathan Spreng5, Natalie Ebner1
1Department of Psychology, University of Florida;  2Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia Okanagan;  3Department of Psychology; University of Arizona; 4Department of Psychology, York University; 5Department of Psychology, McGill University

Investigating connections between curiosity and impulsivity in late adulthood: Common mechanisms or unique characteristics?
Doheny MM, Wan X, Casanova G, Paulson D, Lighthall NR
University of Central Florida

The Role of Affective Arousal in the Description-Experience Gap of Risky Decision Making: A Skin Conductance Response (SCR) Study
Israel W. Smitherman, Colleen C. Frank, Qamar Omari, Junaid Rasool, & Kendra L. Seaman
The University of Texas at Dallas

Endogenous oxytocin in aging: interaction of plasma levels and receptor gene methylation on empathy
Rebecca Polk1, Tian Lin1, Kylie Wright1, Kathleen Krol2, Allison Perkeybile2, Hans P. Nazarlo3, C. Sue Carter3, Jessica Connelly2, Natalie C. Ebner1,4,5
1Department of Psychology, University of Florida, 2Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 3Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 4Institute on Aging, University of Florida, Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory, University of Florida

Reduced salience network integrity and social cognitive deficits in symptomatic frontotemporal dementia patients
Shanny Foo¹, Colleen Hughes², Alfie Wearn¹, David Cash³, Simone Ducharme¹, Genetic Frontotemporal Dementia Initiative GENFI³, Nathan Spreng¹
¹McGill University, ²Montreal Neurological Institute, ³University College London


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