Helping Soldiers Deal With Stress in the Field

December 3, 2020 by Katianne Williams

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Growing up, Caroline Mahoney thought she would become a veterinarian. A few psychology courses at Denison University, though, changed that. A cognitive psychology course led to another in nutrition and cognitive development, and soon Mahoney was working in a research lab studying the psychology of language. Under the leadership of a great mentor, she became interested in research, and went on to earn her Ph.D. degree from Tufts University, where she worked under Prof. Holly Taylor in the Spatial Cognition Lab in the School of Arts and Sciences. Her training was in experimental psychology with a specialization in cognition, and her work focused on the impacts of nutrition on cognitive performance in both children and adults.

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When the Enchanted Tiki Room opened at Disney-land in Anaheim, Calif., in 1963, it was, by all accounts, thrilling. Inside were dozens of talking flowers, totem poles, and birds-colorful macaws, toucans, and cockatoos-and together they per-formed a musical show by dancing and singing along to tunes like the “Hawaiian War Chant.” Huge crowds visited the attraction, excited to get a look at these early Audio-Animatronics-“audio” meaning that sound triggered a series of mechanisms, like cams and levers, that caused a pneumatic valve to open and close, moving an eye, a beak, or part of the body in time with the music. People loved them.

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