{"643503":{"#nid":"643503","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Where Linguistics, French, and Psychology Intersect: Zach Hopton Discusses Collaborative Time at Tech ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen\u0026nbsp;Zachary\u0026nbsp;Hopton began his first semester at Georgia Tech, he\u0026nbsp;quickly\u0026nbsp;realized that his\u0026nbsp;degree program\u0026nbsp;was going to be a bit atypical.\u0026nbsp;He\u0026nbsp;wanted to find a major\u0026nbsp;with a scientific and technical focus to\u0026nbsp;complement his interests in\u0026nbsp;linguistics, but\u0026nbsp;was unsure what that perfect major would be.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInitially, Hopton considered majoring\u0026nbsp;in mathematics, computer science, and biochemistry, but none of them\u0026nbsp;felt\u0026nbsp;right for\u0026nbsp;his interests and envisioned career path.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I just wanted to figure out what perspective sort of worked for me to look at language at,\u0026rdquo; shares Hopton. \u0026ldquo;Eventually, I ended taking a psychology class on human language processing, and I realized it was psychology.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the class taught by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/daniel-spieler\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDaniel Spieler\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;associate\u0026nbsp;professor\u0026nbsp;in the School\u0026nbsp;of Psychology, Hopton says that he found himself fascinated with \u0026ldquo;how our brains have produced language as such an intricate thing that sets us apart from so many other species.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe course\u0026nbsp;also\u0026nbsp;included neuroscience, biological, behavioral, and experimental components, which\u0026nbsp;Hopton\u0026nbsp;says showed him that the\u0026nbsp;flexible nature of psychology would make it the best degree for his interests.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith his major officially declared, Hopton decided to explore research pathways\u0026nbsp;to further\u0026nbsp;enhance\u0026nbsp;his education.\u0026nbsp;Though there were no available undergraduate research opportunities\u0026nbsp;directly related to language and cognition at Georgia Tech, Hopton realized that cognitive psychology research would provide valuable insight to\u0026nbsp;increase\u0026nbsp;his understanding of brain processes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of the things that interested me in psychology\u0026nbsp;so much was the fact that the biological basis for language was crazy to me,\u0026rdquo; remembers Hopton. \u0026ldquo;That applies to other areas of cognition as well, like, memory,\u0026nbsp;retention.\u0026nbsp;The way the brain works is similar, regardless of what area of cognition you\u0026rsquo;re in.\u0026nbsp;So\u0026nbsp;I figured that was good experience for me to have, even if I changed the exact path later.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his sophomore year, Hopton began research in\u0026nbsp;associate\u0026nbsp;professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/audrey-duarte\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAudrey\u0026nbsp;Duarte\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/duartelab.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMemory and Aging Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;where EEG\u0026nbsp;(electroencephalogram)\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;fMRI\u0026nbsp;(functional magnetic resonance\u0026nbsp;imaging)\u0026nbsp;studies are used to analyze behavior.\u0026nbsp;Initially, his responsibilities were largely related to recruiting participants for studies,\u0026nbsp;but\u0026nbsp;as he\u0026nbsp;continued to work in the lab,\u0026nbsp;he\u0026nbsp;began to more actively\u0026nbsp;and deeply\u0026nbsp;engage in research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently, Hopton\u0026nbsp;joined a team of researchers led by his\u0026nbsp;graduate student mentor,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/drupal.psychology.gatech.edu\/taylor-james\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETaylor James\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and Duarte on\u0026nbsp;analyzing the ways\u0026nbsp;that\u0026nbsp;depression affects a specific type of memory throughout the lifespan.\u0026nbsp;He\u0026nbsp;helped\u0026nbsp;collect\u0026nbsp;data from hundreds\u0026nbsp;of articles for\u0026nbsp;nearly a year.\u0026nbsp;The research\u0026nbsp;studied\u0026nbsp;specific variables, but instead of getting lost in the details, Hopton learned\u0026nbsp;the importance of\u0026nbsp;analyzing each unique variable.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In a clinical setting,\u0026nbsp;for example,\u0026nbsp;that can be the difference between a diagnosis for subthreshold depression for a\u0026nbsp;50-year-old\u0026nbsp;or maybe some sort of dementia or Alzheimer\u0026#39;s,\u0026rdquo; says Hopton. \u0026ldquo;Both\u0026nbsp;affect memory,\u0026nbsp;so it\u0026rsquo;s important to understand if there are differences between them or if\u0026nbsp;depression\u0026nbsp;may\u0026nbsp;be\u0026nbsp;a symptom of early onset dementia.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThoughts on the research\u0026nbsp;encouraged\u0026nbsp;Hopton to ask\u0026nbsp;questions\u0026nbsp;on\u0026nbsp;how his\u0026nbsp;discoveries\u0026nbsp;could\u0026nbsp;relate to public policy, technology development, and public health resources.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If we know that one sort of memory works better for older people, then we\u0026nbsp;have to\u0026nbsp;make sure that if we\u0026rsquo;re teaching them something or giving them some sort of information that\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;important,\u0026nbsp;we\u0026nbsp;make it accessible to them,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Hopton explains. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s important that we understand the memory loss symptoms that come with depression because we need to make therapies that accommodate that\u0026nbsp;treat\u0026nbsp;the memory \u0026mdash; the cognition aspects as well as the emotional parts of depression.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese questions and considerations tie into public policy, which Hopton studied\u0026nbsp;in-depth\u0026nbsp;on his spring 2020 exchange semester in Paris, France at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/en\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESciences\u0026nbsp;Po\u003C\/a\u003E, which was compressed due to Covid-19. It was Hopton\u0026rsquo;s second study abroad program after\u0026nbsp;participating in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/lbat\/france\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFrench Language, Business, and Technology program.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fact,\u0026nbsp;after accumulating enough credits in\u0026nbsp;his\u0026nbsp;French\u0026nbsp;courses, Hopton is\u0026nbsp;now undertaking a second major in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/degrees\/alis\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EApplied Language and Intercultural Studies\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHopton shares that\u0026nbsp;while in Paris\u0026nbsp;he truly began to recognize the balance between experimental psychology and humanities, and the relationship that the two disciplines have with each other.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For\u0026nbsp;example\u0026nbsp;there was a class I took there on the psychoanalysis of politics,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;he\u0026nbsp;says. \u0026ldquo;That was crazy to me \u0026mdash; I never thought about in my life,\u0026nbsp;applying things\u0026nbsp;from\u0026nbsp;clinical psychology \u0026mdash; to think about how the government works.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his exchange semester in Paris, Hopton immersed himself in Parisian culture and challenged himself to meet new people. Rather than living with the four Georgia Tech students also studying at Sciences Po, he decided to live with\u0026nbsp;roommates\u0026nbsp;from Chile, Spain, Germany, and Ireland.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;That was so cool to me, because at Tech I lived in the \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ihouse.gatech.edu\/\u0022 style=\u0022text-decoration:none;\u0022\u003EInternational House\u003C\/a\u003E for most of college, so I\u0026rsquo;m used to this environment of constantly\u0026nbsp;having\u0026nbsp;other people from different cultures around me.\u0026nbsp;Even just the action of sitting down for breakfast with another person, I end up coming away from it with crazy information about a different place that I\u0026rsquo;ve never heard of before.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his classes in Paris, the majority of which were taught in French, Hopton noticed that he\u0026nbsp;also\u0026nbsp;had flexibility to customize his studies to his specific interests.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The professors were there to guide the conversation, but the majority of the classes that I had at that school were student-led and kind of took on their interests,\u0026rdquo; remembers Hopton.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn a typical day of classes, students would\u0026nbsp;begin\u0026nbsp;class\u0026nbsp;with a presentation on an assigned topic. \u0026ldquo;They were given a topic to present about, and then they\u0026nbsp;went in their direction just with that topic, and then when they finished the professor would lecture for 10 or 30 more minutes and\u0026nbsp;sort of fill in the blanks,\u0026rdquo; remembers Hopton.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe class structure surprised Hopton \u0026ndash; on the first day of classes, he remembers being unprepared when\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;professor asked each student to decide on a major project that would determine\u0026nbsp;most of\u0026nbsp;their grade.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;On the first day of class they assigned everyone their work for all of the semester. I didn\u0026rsquo;t know that was going to happen, I was looking through the syllabi like \u0026#39;Oh...\u0026nbsp;I don\u0026rsquo;t know what this work means but I\u0026rsquo;ll take it, why not.\u0026#39;\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd although\u0026nbsp;Hopton\u0026nbsp;had to return\u0026nbsp;home halfway through the semester due to the spread of Covid-19, he\u0026nbsp;says he\u0026nbsp;looks back fondly on his exchange semester.\u0026nbsp;When he returned to Tech, he was\u0026nbsp;warmly welcomed back to his research lab, where he is currently working on his undergraduate thesis.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHopton was able to complete that research from home throughout last fall semester.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s fantastic that I already have this relationship with professors and graduate students, and I\u0026rsquo;ve been working with this study, and now I can just say, \u0026#39;Okay, well I\u0026rsquo;m really interested in this aspect of it, and so I\u0026rsquo;d like to do these different analyses.\u0026#39;\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHopton decided to complete a thesis after advice from\u0026nbsp;James,\u0026nbsp;who shared with Hopton that her thesis\u0026nbsp;allowed her to build important connections with professors and other members of a lab, while also being\u0026nbsp;helpful\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;graduate school\u0026nbsp;applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s always some sort of variable that\u0026rsquo;s gone unanalyzed, there\u0026#39;s always some sort of different analysis you can do,\u0026rdquo; Hopton says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor his thesis, Hopton is analyzing how\u0026nbsp;built-up\u0026nbsp;memory relates to one\u0026rsquo;s ability to learn and retain new information, and if the memory process is different for various ages.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor example, Hopton\u0026rsquo;s research ponders if a phenomenon, such as seeing an abnormal object in a bathroom, would be difficult or easy to remember.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;So\u0026nbsp;if you think about it, you are a person who\u0026rsquo;s been in a bathroom many times, so you have this built-up knowledge in your memory of what you can see in the bathroom. It wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be surprising to see a toilet there, a sink, soap, shampoo \u0026mdash; but if you were to go into a bathroom and see a blender, that would be\u0026nbsp;really weird. It wouldn\u0026rsquo;t fit your expectation, based off what you already know. So\u0026nbsp;later on, are you going to remember that the blender was there more than some other thing that belongs in a bathroom, or is it going to be harder to remember because you don\u0026rsquo;t normally see a blender in a bathroom \u0026mdash; so why would you remember that it was there?\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;asks Hopton.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis idea was first suggested to him by\u0026nbsp;his graduate student advisor,\u0026nbsp;James,\u0026nbsp;who\u0026nbsp;noticed variables during her research that she thought Hopton might be interested in analyzing. She\u0026nbsp;has continued to support Hopton through the process\u0026nbsp;of research and writing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHopton is also advised by\u0026nbsp;Duarte, who he\u0026nbsp;meets with weekly to discuss his thesis, and who he\u0026nbsp;shares has also been instrumental\u0026nbsp;in his research experience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s been nice. She knows me \u0026mdash; she knew me before I did my thesis as well,\u0026rdquo; says Hopton.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;And then,\u0026nbsp;now that I\u0026rsquo;m doing my thesis with her, she provides a lot of intellectual support. She\u0026rsquo;s very good with explaining how concepts apply and making them relevant to you personally.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHopton also took a behavioral pharmacology course with Duarte, where,\u0026nbsp;on the first day of classes,\u0026nbsp;students were welcomed into the lecture hall by a Gregorian chant playing out of the speakers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Gregorian chant was because she was explaining the history of pharmacology and she wanted to talk about a nun in the 13th\u0026nbsp;century who did all this research on herbal remedies and their psychoactive properties,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;he\u0026nbsp;remembers.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;She was also a musician, and Dr. Duarte wanted to play her music for us to tie it in. It was clear when she got up to the podium that she was having a good time and enjoying what she was teaching about \u0026mdash; so\u0026nbsp;it was a great class.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with Duarte and James, Hopton has received support and guidance on his thesis from\u0026nbsp;Spieler\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/8af23dda-e19a-5930-82e7-c057ef649a38\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELelia\u0026nbsp;Glass\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor of Linguistics and coordinator of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/degrees\/minors-and-certificates\/minor-linguistics\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELinguistics Program.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe collaborative nature of his thesis project has allowed Hopton to combine important independent study with advice and support from experienced professors and students. He also appreciates the interdisciplinary nature of his thesis, which was his initial impetus for choosing a degree\u0026nbsp;in psychology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHopton\u0026nbsp;notes that\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;the\u0026nbsp;interdisciplinary\u0026nbsp;nature\u0026nbsp;of the thesis, for me, is the biggest thing.\u0026nbsp;It\u0026rsquo;s gotten to bring in neurosciences\u0026nbsp;aspects, behavioral aspects \u0026mdash; still psychology, linguistics as well \u0026mdash; and I\u0026rsquo;m using computer science data analysis.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduation,\u0026nbsp;Hopton\u0026nbsp;says he\u0026nbsp;sees his future\u0026nbsp;taking one of two paths. On one route, he\u0026nbsp;sees\u0026nbsp;himself\u0026nbsp;attending graduate school and working in experimental psychology with a language focus. On the other route, he\u0026nbsp;shares that he\u0026nbsp;is interested in working in public health,\u0026nbsp;particularly\u0026nbsp;the growing\u0026nbsp;field of global mental health.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut\u0026nbsp;before starting on either of those paths, Hopton plans to spend a year abroad teaching English through a fellowship program and experiencing language development first-hand.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve looked at language from this really structural point of view in my linguistics classes,\u0026nbsp;along with a\u0026nbsp;biological and psychological point of view, but I\u0026rsquo;ve never really had the chance to see\u0026nbsp;how these perspectives can be put to use,\u0026rdquo; says Hopton.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;One field of\u0026nbsp;applied linguistics\u0026nbsp;looks at how\u0026nbsp;people\u0026nbsp;learn a second or third language,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;how that changes\u0026nbsp;with age.\u0026nbsp;What better way to learn that than in a classroom helping people learn\u0026nbsp;English.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd after his fellowship ends, Hopton hopes that his ultimate\u0026nbsp;career path\u0026nbsp;will be clear.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If I get there and I\u0026rsquo;m like dang, I really miss the scanner, or the MRI machine, then maybe neurolinguistics research is the path I\u0026rsquo;m meant to go on!\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFourth-year undergraduate Zach Hopton, who is double majoring in Psychology\u0026nbsp;and Applied Languages \u0026amp; Intercultural Studies (ALIS) with a concentration in French, discusses study abroad, research, and his path to finding the right\u0026nbsp;major.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fourth-year undergraduate Zach Hopton, who is double majoring in Psychology and Applied Languages \u0026 Intercultural Studies (ALIS) with a concentration in French, discusses study abroad, research, and his path to finding the right major. 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