Alumnus Tim Vickery wins 2009 Best Article Award from the Psychonomic Society
Nov. 20, 2009—Congratulations to Tim Vickery for winning a 2009 Best Article Award from the Psychonomic Society. His article with Yuhong Jiang entitled "Associative grouping: Perceptual grouping of shapes by association" appeared in the journal Attention, Perception...
Gauthier featured on NewsChannel 5
Nov. 16, 2009—Dr. Gauthier's method of soliciting questions from her class and using the "clicker" to obtain students' responses in real time was featured on a report on NewsChannel 5's Nov. 11 nightly news broadcast.
Kaas to discuss “The Human Spark” Nov. 19 at Adventure Science Center
Nov. 16, 2009—From the Adventure Science Center:In anticipation of a new three-part series airing on NPT in January 2010, the Adventure Science Center is tackling the issue of what is it that makes us "human." On November 19, Jon Kaas will explore such aspects of th...
Armstrong wins ABCT Student Research Award
Oct. 12, 2009—Tom Armstrong has been selected as one of three winners of the 2009 ABCT Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Research Award for his poster entitled "Selective Attention in Contamination-Based OCD: Eye Tracking of Affective Content and Time Course." He will ...
Olatunji wins ABCT President’s New Researcher Award
Sep. 29, 2009—Bunmi Olatunji won the President's New Researcher Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT). Last year he won an Early Career Award from ABCT from the Anxiety Disorders Special Interest Group. This award is ABCT-wide and a ...
Logan, Palmeri, Schall awarded Chancellor’s Award for Research
Sep. 1, 2009—At the Fall Faculty Assembly, Gordon Logan, Tom Palmeri, and Jeff Schall were awarded a Chancellor's Award for Research for the theoretical and empirical work summarized in their wonderful 2007 Psychological Review paper. Their research has combined be...
Wong wins SfN Cortical Scholar award
Aug. 28, 2009—Peiyan Wong received the Cortical Scholar award from the Cajal Club for her PhD research. She receives $1000 plus travel expenses to the Society for Neuroscience meeting where she will accept the award at the Cajal Club Meeting.
Gauthier promoted to Professor; W. Smith recognized as emeritus
May. 15, 2009—Isabel Gauthier has officially been promoted to the rank of full Professor, an honor that reflects her influential body of work in visual object recognition. Bill Smith has also been recognized as an emeritus professor of psychology for his decades of ...
David Lyon wins the Randolph Blake Early Career Award
Feb. 19, 2009—David Lyon is this year's winner of the Randolph Blake Early Career Award. This award recognizes exemplary alumni of the program in Psychological Sciences in the early stages of their career.
Team of Laura Novick and Kefyn Catley awarded IES grant
Dec. 29, 2008—The team of Laura Novick, PhD (Department of Psychology and Human Development) and Kefyn Catley were awarded an IES grant to (a) study college and high school students' understanding of tree diagrams that depict evolutionary relationships among taxa (p...