Bridgewater State University

Research Contingency Planning

When early-career scientists first experience “things going wrong” during independent research, whether as undergraduate or graduate students, their confidence, resilience, and sense of competency as researchers can become undermined. These research roadblocks may delay progress...

Advanced footwear technology improves sprinting mechanics and performance

Sprint running performances have improved with the use of advanced footwear technology, but the mechanisms responsible are unknown. Here, we tested two hypothesized mechanisms: 1) faster maximal speeds resulting from greater ground force application, and 2) associated contact tim...

Intact Visual Correlation Detection in Autistic Adults

The ability to detect recurring temporal co-occurrence, or temporal correlation, of sensory events is fundamental for organizing perceptual input into coherent representations. Although past work has revealed differences across several aspects of temporal processing in autism, it...

Traumatized undocumented immigrant women asking for help: an act of resiliency

Resiliency is defined as ‘rebounding’ and ‘possessing power of quick recovery.’ The goal of this article is to learn how undocumented immigrant women and their families remain resilient by adopting strategies to survive and thrive despite obstacles that deny legal residence in th...