Gina Gwiazda ’22 is a Psychology and Neuroscience & Behavior double major. She is interested in the cognitive biases and neural processes that underlie decision making in children and adults.
Charlie Bondhus ’22 is majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior and Psychology and is on the premed track. He is interested in the differences in learning between adults and children as well as conscious and unconscious thought in decision making. Outside the lab, he can be found cooking, swimming, and walking his dogs.
Abstract: In number line estimation, numerals with different leftmost digits (e.g., 298/302) are placed farther apart than warranted, a phenomenon called the left digit effect (LDE). We tested whether directly instructing people about the LDE reduces the effect. Although informed participants (N=131) performed slower than controls, the LDE was unchanged.
