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97more beneficial for students with higher, rather than lower, levels of math anxiety.POSTER 23EXAMINING THE STARE-IN-THE-CROWD EFFECT IN RELATION TO DEPRESSION AND AUTISM SYMPTOMSNICOLE TOUMANIOS (TUFTS UNIVERSITY), REILLY UITERWYK (TUFTS UNIVERSITY), EILEEN CREHAN (TUFTS UNIVERSITY) We used eye-tracking to examine adaptive and regulative gaze behaviors in response to the Stare-inthe-Crowd (SITC) effect. Young adults with and without depression and autism viewed dynamic and stable crowd images to assess gaze patterns during social perception (Crehan & Althoff, 2015). We predicted that individuals with depression and autism would make less eye contact and demonstrate aversive gaze behaviors. Our findings explore the feasibility of eye-tracking for diagnostic insights.POSTER 24EXPLORING SERIAL VS. PARALLEL MULTI-ITEM ACCESS IN WORKING MEMORY USING REPETITION EFFECTSCHEN TIFERET-DWECK (THE GRADUATE CENTER AND QUEENS COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK), KERSTIN UNGER (THE GRADUATE CENTER AND QUEENS COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK) This study examined whether multi-item access in working memory (WM) occurs serially or in parallel. Participants encoded four digits and their spatial locations, followed by two single-item access tests and a subsequent dual-item access test. Repeating one target twice in the single-access tests produced a large reaction time benefit in the dual-access test while repeating both targets once resulted in an underadditive benefit. These findings refute cost-free parallel access, suggesting serial or limited parallel retrieval.POSTER 25EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VIVIDNESS OF VISUAL IMAGERY AND LEXICAL PROCESSINGREBECCA JOHNSON (SKIDMORE COLLEGE), SOPHIE PAJAKOWSKI (SKIDMORE COLLEGE), HAYLEY YUN (SKIDMORE COLLEGE) The current study presents the findings from three experiments (a lexical decision task, a naming task, and a sentence reading task while eye-movements were recorded) to explore whether frequency and imageability effects in reading differ across individuals who possess varying levels of visual imagery capacity (VVIQ scores). While typical frequency and imageability effects were replicated across the three studies, these lexical effects did not depend on the vividness of one's visual imagery.POSTER 26EYE TRACKING, TEST ANXIETY, AND THE EFFECT OF MOTIVATION ON TEST PERFORMANCEBRIANNA DALY (UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON), TOBIAS CONNER (UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON), JULIA PATRICK (UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON), ACE COOPER (UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON), ALEX DELANO (UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON), MARCUS LEPPANEN (UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON) Test anxiety can be distracting for students and negatively impact their academic performance. Prior research has shown that one cause may be testrelated distractors drawing the attention of those with test anxiety. In our study, we used eye tracking measures to explore the relationship between testrelated distraction and performance on a timed test presented in Canvas. We also examined the impact of emotions and motivation on performance.POSTER 27FAMILIAR ITEMS INCREASE ASSOCIATIVE MEMORYANGELA KILB (PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY), LEA GUIMONT (PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY) We examined whether learning associations is easier for familiar items. Our results show a significant increase in associative recognition for pairings composed of familiar faces and familiar scenes. A follow-up experiment ruled out the explanation that the effect was due to increased verbal rehearsal for the familiar stimuli. These results are consistent with the Source of Activation Confusion model (Popov & Reder, 2020), positing that familiar items reduce the working memory load required for binding.POSTER 28FANS LITERALLY VIEW IMAGES DIFFERENTLY THAN NON-FANSAYESHA MULLA (NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), STEVIE ANN HILL (NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), JOSEY M SPIERS (NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), AZIZA SWIFT (NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), JESSICA HAUTSCH (NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY), 97Saturday, March 8