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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.

New papers

Posted on Aug 20, 2017

New papers from the CatLab:

Cheng, X.J., McCarthy, C., Wang, T.S.L., Palmeri, T.J., & Little, D.R. (in press). Composite faces are not (necessarily) processed coactively: A test using Systems Factorial Technology and logical-rule models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Vogelsang, M.D., Palmeri, T.J., Busey, T.A. (2017). Holistic processing of fingerprints by expert forensic examiners. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2: 15.