{"id":76,"date":"2016-11-08T22:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T22:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/undergraduate-excellence\/2016\/11\/08\/profiles-samira-amirazizi\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:23:34","slug":"profiles-samira-amirazizi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/2016\/11\/08\/profiles-samira-amirazizi\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles: Samira Amirazizi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-123 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/samira-headshot-sized.png\" alt=\"samira-headshot-sized\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SURF fellow Samira Amirazizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Often, the research topics that fascinate us come from personal history. Because her parents are from Iran, Samira Amirazizi (Psychology, \u201918) was interested in studying the brain functions of bilingual speakers. The focus of her research has a lot to do with her own life, and she finds it particularly relevant in current society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the support of<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/research-and-institutions\/office-undergraduate-research-creative-activity\/index.aspx\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (OURCA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), Samira was able to spend the summer of 2016 studying whether or not \u201cbilingual speakers are on the same emotional page as monolingual speakers.\u201d She partook in OURCA\u2019s competitive Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/research-and-institutions\/office-undergraduate-research-creative-activity\/funding-opportunities\/surf-program.aspx\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(SURF)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a ten-week intensive program during which undergraduates across academic fields and individual interests work side by side with faculty mentors. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-125 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/Session9-10.jpg\" alt=\"session9-10\" width=\"204\" height=\"306\" \/>In addition to working on their own projects, SURF fellows attend bi-weekly lectures that expose them to other fields of study and to avenues for professional development.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samira worked closely with Dr. Connie Shears, with whom she also works with during the school year at Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences. Samira sifted through archival research from prior experiments conducted over the last decade. She said, \u201cPast experiments really only look at native English speakers, so now we\u2019re looking at bilingual speakers.\u201d She organized study participants according to those who were bilingual at birth, those who were bilingual from elementary school, those who were bilingual from high school, and those who were native English-only speakers.<br \/>\nThe goal of the project was to decipher whether memory and emotional inference differed between bilingual speakers and monolingual speakers. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-135 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/undergraduate-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/11\/Session9-02.jpg\" alt=\"session9-02\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" \/>In the future, Samira plans to continue her research. She\u2019d like to conduct a study specifically designed for and catering to bilingual speakers. After graduation, she expects to apply to PhD programs around the country. \u201cMore. School,\u201d she said. 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