Article archive / April 1, 2011
Originally published: . Volume 2, No. 8. Source pages: 8.
Centenary Professor Dr. Amy Hammond told the Times that a group of her students have worked together on a “student- initiated” research project, and have been accepted to present the results at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, to be held in Washington, D.C., in May.
The student researchers are Amanda Shackleton, Jessica Garris, Michael Naquin, Shakeria Alcorn, Jacob Jones, and Katherine Shamburger.
The students developed their ideas for the project in the research methods course at Centenary, making changes and refining the research as they learned more, Dr. Hammond explained.
The study is titled, “A Sense to Remember: Seeing and Touching is Better than Hearing.” The student researchers presented participants with 21 words in three modalities—auditory (read aloud), visual (a photograph), or tactile (placed in the hands).
They discovered that recall was significantly better for items presented in tactile and visual modes than for items in the auditory mode.
Michael Naquin said, “The thing I enjoyed most about the research was working with my friends to apply our class concepts to real life, and at the same time we found some interesting results.”
Dr. Hammond’s students from Centenary getting set to present their poster research at APS in May. From L to R: Shakeria Alcorn, Jessica Garris, Michael Naquin, and Amanda Shackleton. (Photo courtesy, Dr. Hammond.)
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