Engaged Graduate Student Grants
Sports, Memory and Decision Making: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Approach
Gathering data to better understand why many athletes underreport the severity of concussion symptoms and to create educational curricula for sports safety.
Despite growing concerns about traumatic brain injuries such as concussions, their full effects are still unknown. Researchers also don’t fully understand why many athletes underreport the severity of concussion symptoms. David Garavito is working with community partners to gather data that will help answer these questions and ultimately be used to create educational curricula for sports safety. His research also uses models and theory to examine the effects of concussions and the possible progression of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated concussions in athletes.
Topics: Children, Youth, Seniors and Families; Health, Nutrition and Medicine
The Team
- Graduate student: David Garavito, human development
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Special committee chair:
Valerie Reyna, Department of Human Development
College of Human Ecology
- Community partner: Ithaca Youth Bureau
In the News
FEBRUARY 2019
5 Questions with Valerie Reyna, Department for Human Development Professor and Extension Leader
– Cornell Cooperative Extension website
SUMMER 2018
Student Spotlight: David Garavito
– Cornell University Graduate School website
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Simulation workshops teach youth about concussion risks
– College of Human Ecology Human Development website