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Recent Papers

Posted on Feb 2, 2019

Servant, M., Tillman, G., Logan, G.D., Schall, J.D., & Palmeri, T.J. (in press). Neurally-constrained modeling of speed-accuracy tradeoff during visual search: Gated accumulation of modulated evidence. Journal of Neurophysiology.

Annis, J., Evans, N.J., Miller, B.J., & Palmeri, T.J. (in press). Thermodynamic integration and steppingstone sampling methods for estimating Bayes factors: A tutorial for psychologists. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.

Boehm, U., Annis, J., Frank, M.J., Hawkins, G.E., Heathcote, A., Kellen, D., Krypotos, A.-M., Lerche, V., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T.J., Servant, M., Singmann, H., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Starns, J.J., Wiecki, T.V., Voss, A., Matzke, D., Wagenmakers, E.-J. (in press). Estimating between-trial variability parameters of the drift diffusion model: Expert advice and recommendations. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.

Annis, J., & Palmeri, T.J. (2018). Modeling memory dynamics in visual expertise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Ross, D.A., Tamber-Rosenau, B.J., Palmeri, T.J., Zhang, J.D., Xu, Y. & Gauthier, I. (2018). High resolution fMRI reveals configural processing of cars in right anterior Fusiform Face Area of car experts. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Welcome New Members to the CatLab

Posted on Jun 24, 2018

We welcome three new members to the CatLab this summer:

Greg Cox received his PhD from Indiana University in Psychological and Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science, where he worked with Rich Shiffrin. Greg completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Syracuse University and will be joining our lab as a postdoctoral fellow in July. He will be working with Palmeri, Logan, and Schall on model-based cognitive neuroscience. Greg is interested in the development of experimental techniques and mathematical/computational models that help us understand how neural and cognitive processes jointly unfold across time.

Craig Sanders is receiving his PhD from Indiana University in Psychological and Brain Sciences this summer, where he has been working with Rob Nosofsky. Craig will be joining our lab as a postdoctoral fellow next month. He will be working with Palmeri and Gauthier on project using cognitive and deep learning models to understand individual differences in visual cognition. Craig is broadly interested in combining machine learning (especially deep learning) with classic cognitive models to understand how people perceive, categorize, and mentally represent objects.

Jason Chow completed his undergraduate degree in May 2018 at the University of Toronto, he worked with CatLab alumnus, and now University of Toronto faculty member, Michael Mack on the development and validation of a printable 3D stimulus set for categorization experiments in visual and tactile modalities. As a PhD student at Vanderbilt, Jason will be working with Palmeri and Gauthier on combining computational modeling and neuroimaging to gain insights on perceptual expertise.

Mathieu Servant wins Bob Fox Award of Excellence in Postdoctoral Research

Posted on May 15, 2018

Congratulations to Mathieu for being the 2018 winner of the Bob Fox Award of Excellence in Postdoctoral Research.

This award is granted to a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in research. It is named in honor of Robert “Bob” Fox for his essential role in guiding the evolution of of the department over a five-decade period starting in the mid-60’s. Bob enjoyed a highly productive research career, with publications in major journals and continuous grant funding for decades, and he trained a number of students and postdocs who went on to successful careers themselves. Bob has served as an inspiration to generations of subsequent faculty members. This award not only serves as a humble note of appreciation for Bob’s numerous accomplishments, it also acknowledges the critical role that postdoctoral fellows play in the scientific vibrancy of our department. Postdocs are not only highly skilled, accomplished and dedicated young scientists, they also are reference models for our graduate students and are the first to represent Vanderbilt at the next academic level.

Data Science Working Group Report Released

Posted on May 14, 2018

A data science institute, new faculty and technical staff, and expanded educational offerings are the key investments recommended by the Data Science Visions Working Group to leverage Vanderbilt’s collaborative culture and advance foundational research and data science skills across campus.

Click here for the Vanderbilt News story.

Click here for the Working Group report.

Palmeri becomes Associate Editor at Cognitive Psychology

Posted on Dec 1, 2017

In December 2017, I became an Associate Editor at Cognitive Psychology: Cognitive Psychology is concerned with advances in the study of attention, memory, language processing, perception, problem solving, and thinking. Cognitive Psychology specializes in extensive articles that have a major impact on cognitive theory and provide new theoretical advances.

Cognitive Psychology is one of the premier theoretical journals in the field, with an impact factor of 4.945.

New papers

Posted on Oct 31, 2017

Annis, J., & Palmeri, T.J. (in press). Bayesian statistical approaches to evaluating cognitive models. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews in Cognitive Science.

Dutilh, G., Annis, J., Brown, S.D., Cassey, P., Evans, N.J., Grasman, R.P.P.P., Hawkins, G.E., Heathcote, A., Holmes, W.R., Krypotos, A.-M., Kupitz, C.-N., Leite, F.P. Lerche, V., Lin, Y.S., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T.J., Starns, J.J., Trueblood, J.S., van Maanen, L., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Vandekerckhove, J., Visser, I., Voss, A., White, C.N., Wiecki, T.V., Rieskamp, J., & Donkin, C. (in press). The quality of response time data inference: A blinded, collaborative approach to the validity of cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

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