Jennifer Richler, co-advised by Gauthier and Palmeri, successfully passed her doctoral dissertation defense today. Her thesis is entitled "Automaticity of basic-level categorization accounts for naming effects in recognition memory". Congratulations Dr. Richler! Now you get to learn the ultra-secret, very special handshake.
Read MoreMike Mack won a $500 travel grant from the Cognitive Science Society to its meeting in Amsterdam this July. He presented a paper entitled Recognizing Scenes Containing Consistent
or Inconsistent Objects. Congratulations Mike.
Read MoreAt the Fall Faculty Assembly, Gordon Logan, Thomas Palmeri, and Jeff Schall were awarded a Chancellor’s Award for Research for the theoretical and empirical work summarized in their 2007 Psychological Review paper. Their research has combined behavioral, electrophysiological, and computational methods to test and refine alternative models of the inhibitory control processes that are recruited during the stop-signal paradigm. It is very important to acknowledge additionally Leanne Boucher, who clearly has played a very central role in this line of work.
Read MoreA paper out of Alan Wong’s recent dissertation has been highlighted by Vanderbilt Exploration and the UPI.
Wong, A.C.-N., Palmeri, T.J., & Gauthier I. (in press). Conditions for face-like expertise with objects: Becoming a Ziggerin expert – but which type? Psychological Science.
Posters from the Catlab presented at VSS 2008 can be downloaded here.
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