New NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation has officially awarded our lab a new grant entitled “Perceptual Categorization in Real-World Expertise”. Now the work begins.
Read MoreThe National Science Foundation has officially awarded our lab a new grant entitled “Perceptual Categorization in Real-World Expertise”. Now the work begins.
Read MoreCongrats to former CatLab graduate student Alan Wong,
who just earned tenure at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Well deserved!
Read MoreCongratulations to Braden Purcell for winning the The Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award.
Pat Burns touched generations of doctoral students during her nearly four decades of service to Vanderbilt University. In memory of her tireless efforts to help guide our students through all phases of their graduate education, the Department of Psychology establishes a Graduate Student Research Award to recognize outstanding achievement in research by our most outstanding graduate students. The recipient receives a plaque and a $500 award.
Along with Michael Mack and Jennifer Richler, this makes the third CatLab member to win this prestigious award.
Read MoreJonathan Folstein, a recent postdoctoral fellow in the
CatLab and OPL, has accepted a faculty position in psychology at Florida State University. Congratulations Dr. Folstein!
Read MoreOn Friday March 15, 2013, Braden Purcell successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Decision Making. Dr. Purcell will soon begin a postdoctoral fellowship at NYU with Roozbeh Kiani and Xiao-Jing Wang.
Read MoreCongratulations to Akash Umakantha for his acceptance into the Cold Spring Harbor Undergraduate Research Program. Akash is an undergraduate in biomedical engineering and neuroscience who is working on a research project with Braden Purcell and Thomas Palmeri.
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