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Child Studies Master’s student makes great strides on and off the court
May. 10, 2019—Briana (Bree) Horrocks is a May 2019 graduate of the Child Studies Masters program at Vanderbilt. She came to Vanderbilt in 2017 from Purdue University to pursue a basketball scholarship as well as an advanced degree in child development. She has disti...
CONGRATULATIONS GORDON!
Apr. 30, 2019—Gordon Logan has been elected as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a special distinction in that only a small fraction of scientists who are non-U.S. citizens are so honored each year. As you know, election to the NAS is am...
Congratulations Psychology Day award winners!
Apr. 24, 2019—The Jum C. Nunnally Honors Research Award - Leyao Yu (Undergraduate Honors student, Reyna Gordon lab) The Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award - Rebecca Cox (PhD student, Bunmi Olatiunji lab) The Jum C. Nunnally Dissertation Award - Mi...
Former student continues to break new ground!
Apr. 15, 2019— Robert Reinhart Ph.D. earned his doctorate degree from Vanderbilt University in 2016. He worked under the mentorship of Geoff Woodman in the Vanderbilt Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. Dr. Reinhart accepted a tenure-track faculty position at...
CONGRATULATIONS FRANK!
Feb. 28, 2019—The Department of Psychology would like to congratulate Frank Tong on being named to an endowed chair (Centennial Professor of Psychology). Vanderbilt University’s eight newest endowed chair holders were celebrated for their path-breaking scholarship a...
Alex Maier’s Findings on eye-signal blending re-examine Nobel-winning research
Jan. 24, 2019—Look at an object, cover one eye at a time, and the object appears to jump back and forth. Stare at it with both eyes working, and we take for granted a complicated process of the brain combining the signals into one, giving us a clear view and proper ...
Psychological Sciences Alumnae Named Finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship!
Dec. 12, 2018—Sarena Martinez, MS’16, Psychological Sciences alum and honors student, was named a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. Martinez, who studied psychology in the College of Arts ...
In Honor of the Late Vivien Casagrande!
Nov. 8, 2018—At a ceremony yesterday(11/6/18) at meetings of the Society for Neuroscience our friend and colleague Vivien Casagrande was announced as the 2018 winner of the Patricia Goldman-Rakic Hall of Honor Award. Named in honor of the late Paticia Gol...
Caoimhe Stack, Ariel James, and Duane Watson win 2018 Clifford T. Morgan Best Article Award!
Sep. 13, 2018—aoimhe, Ariel, and Duane are the recipients of the 2018 Clifford T. Morgan Best Article award for the most outstanding paper published this year in Memory & Cognition, a journal of the Psychonomic Society. Caoimhe will be recognized at the Annual Meeti...
Congratulations Daryl, Jurnell and René !
Aug. 24, 2018— Daryl Fougnie, Jurnell Cockhren and René Marois win the 2018 Clifford T. Morgan Best Article Award for the article entitled "A common source of attention for auditory and visual tracking" published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics in the past ...