PhD candidate, Fall 2018 – present
Brain, Behavior, & Cognition
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
Office: Cresap 309
Email: evan.grandoit@u.northwestern.edu
Primary Research Interest
My main research goal is to quantify the gains in memory consolidation through various methods of repetitive practice. To investigate this, we program memory and learning paradigms in Python, JavaScript, and HTML5 to generate computer-animated behavioral tasks which allow us to infer the underlying neurological processes leading to enhanced memory.
Selected Publications
Grandoit, E., Cohen, M. S., & Reber, P. J. (2024). Reward enhancement of item-location associative memory spreads to similar items within a category. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2352184
Elbulok-Charcape, M., Grandoit, E., Krishnan, A., Bergdoll, R., Fogel, J., & Rabin, L. (2024). Changes in undergraduate students’ self-efficacy and outcome expectancy in an introductory statistics course. Graduate Student Journal of Psychology, 22. doi: 10.52214/gsjp.v22i1.12178
Jutten, R. J., Grandoit, E., Foldi, N. S., Sikkes, S. A. M., Jones, R. N., Choi, S-E., Lamar, M., Louden, D. K. N., Rich, J., Tommet, D., Crane, P. K., Rabin, L. A. (2020). Lower practice effects as a marker of cognitive performance and dementia risk: A literature review. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & & Disease Monitoring, 12, e12055. https://doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12055
Grandoit, E., Bergdoll, R., Rosales, E., Turbeville, D., Mayer, S., & Horowitz, G. (2020). Exploring organic chemistry I students’ responses to an exam wrappers intervention. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 20(1).
Elbulok-Charcape, M., Grandoit, E., Berman, L., Fogel, J., Fink, L., & Rabin, L. (2019). Improving exam performance in an undergraduate statistics course for at-risk students through peer tutoring. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 25, 3-17.
Rosales, E., Chavarga, A., Grandoit, E., Mayer, S., Hackman, N., Elbulok-Charcape, M., Domzalski, A. C., & Horowitz, G. (2019). An exam wrapper intervention in organic chemistry I: Impact on course performance & study behavior. Journal of College Science Teaching, 49, 53-61.
Hazan, B., Zhang, W., Olcum, E., Bergdoll, R., Grandoit, E., Mandelbaum, F., Wilson-Doenges, G., & Rabin, L. (2018). Gamification of an undergraduate psychology statistics lab: Benefits to perceived competence. Statistics Education Research Journal, 17, 255-265.
Selected Conference Presentations
Grandoit, E., Subramanyan, J., & Reber, P. J. (2024, April 13-16). Associative memory formation but not consolidation is affected by distracting information during repeated study [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Grandoit, E., & Reber, P. J. (2023, March 25-28). No enhancement of episodic memory from visual statistical learning detected when using a forced-choice recognition test [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Grandoit, E., Cohen, M., & Reber, P. J. (2022, April). Comparing monetary and points-based reward effects recognition and item-location memory [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Grandoit, E., & Reber, P. J. (2021, November). Examining reward-enhancement of memory consolidation from earning points competitively [Poster presentation]. Society for Neuroscience, Virtual.
Grandoit, E., Schmidt, K. D., Grabowecky, M., & Reber, P. J. (2020, November 30-December 4). Cognitive expertise through repetition enhanced simulation (CERES): Training to understand topographic maps [Paper presentation]. Virtual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (v/I/ITSEC), Online. https://www.xcdsystem.com/iitsec/proceedings/index.cfm?Year=2020&AbID=79847&CID=572#View
Grandoit, E., Cohen, M. S., & Reber, P. J. (2020, May). Enhancing object-location associative memory through reward [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Virtual.
Rabin, L., Grandoit, E., Choi, S-E., Foldi, N., Jones, R., Jutten, R., Lamar, M., Louden, D., Rich, J., Sikkes, S., Tommet, D., & Crane, P. (2019, July). Practice effects as a marker of cognitive performance and dementia risk: A systematic literature review. Poster presented at the 2019 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Miles, R., Rabin, L., Grandoit, E., Mandelbaum, F., & Stewart, G. (2018, June). Charting a course: Increasing mental health literacy through classroom instruction. Poster presented at the 81st Annual Convention of the New York State Psychological Association, New York, NY.
Horowitz, G., Grandoit, E., Bergdoll, R., Rosales, E., Mayer, S., & Turbeville, D. (2018, March). Improving STEM outcomes for underrepresented students: Can a modest intervention impact a deep-seated problem? Poster presented at the Understanding Interventions Conference, Baltimore, MD.
Grandoit, E., Bergdoll, R., Chan, J., Rabin, L., Kletenik, D., Chung, C., Zhang, W., Olcum, E., Menedes, C., Rishty, A., & Hazan, B. (2017, October). Comparison of learning efficiency with and without relevant extrinsic rewards in gamified psychological statistics classrooms. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology, Newton, MA.