CATLAB

National Science Board recommends renewal of TDLC for 5 years

Posted on Feb 16, 2011

At the February 2011 meeting of the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation, the TDLC was approved for renewal for five year of additional funding: "RESOLVED that the National Science Board authorize the Director, at his discretion, to make

an award to the University of California, San Diego for the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) for an amount not to exceed $18,840,000 over 60 months."

Real-world birding expertise project now online

Posted on Nov 4, 2010

We have begun a new project recruiting and testing birding experts from around the country and beyond. After months of development and pilot testing, our web site for online tests of perceptual expertise is now up and running:

expertise.psy.vanderbilt.edu. After just a few weeks, with only cursory recruitment efforts, we have had well over 50 participants. Mike Mack deserves all the credit for his hard work putting this site together.

As part of this project, we have also created a new blog called This is Your Brain on Birds. Our goal is to share some of the past and current scientific findings with the birding community and other interested readers, as well as reflect on the insights of birders and their unique expertise. We hope that this blog will also serve as a gateway to interest and encourage even more birders to participate in our online experiments.

New papers from the CatLab

Posted on Oct 10, 2010

Mack, M.L., Richler, J.J., Gauthier, I., & Palmeri, T.J. (in press). Indecision on decisional separability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Folstein, J., Gauthier, I., & Palmeri, T.J. (2010). Mere exposure alters

category learning of novel objects. Frontiers in Cognitive Science.

Neurons Cast Votes to Guide Decision-Making

Posted on Oct 10, 2010

A new paper published in Psychological Review by Purcell, Palmeri

and colleagues is highlighted in this Vanderbilt news story: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2010/10/neurons-cast-votes-to-guide-decision-making/

New GPU Cluster Funded by Grants from NSF and Vanderbilt

Posted on Aug 2, 2010

Palmeri is a co-PI on grants recently funded by NSF and Vanderbilt to create a GPU computational cluster at Vanderbilt. GPU’s promise 10-100 fold speedups in simulations of computational models developed by the lab. For more information on this project, check out this recent new article: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/myvu/news/2010/07/29/more-computer-power-for-university.120764

New papers from the CatLab

Posted on Jun 10, 2010

Mack, M.L., & Palmeri, T.J. (in press). Decoupling object detection and categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Mack, M.L., & Palmeri, T.J. (in press). Modeling categorization of scenes containing consistent versus inconsistent objects. Journal of Vision.

Nelson, M.J., Boucher, L., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T.J., Schall, J.D. (in press). Impact of nonstationary response time in stopping and stepping saccade tasks. Attention, Perception, & Performance.

Purcell, B.A., Heitz, R.P., Cohen, J.Y., Schall, J.D., Logan, G.D., & Palmeri, T.J. (in press). Neurally-constrained modeling of perceptual decision making. Psychological Review.

Gauthier, I., Wong, A.C.-N., Palmeri, T.J. (in press). Manipulating visual experience: Comment on Op de Beeck and

Baker. Trends in Cognitive Science.