Psychology News

Check out the article about the tamarin lab in the Feb 21, 2021, issue of the Carletonian.

Julie Neiworth, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of Natural Sciences and Psychology, was awarded an NIH AREA grant (2R15AG051940-02) entitled “Longitudinal Cognitive Behavioral Testing and Immunohistochemical Assessment of Alzheimer’s Disease Markers, Immune Response, Neurogenesis, and Cell Loss in a Natural Aging Primate Model.”

Neil Lutsky leads a Research in Social and Personality Lab addressing topics in those areas. The group will meet regularly again starting in the Fall of 2021.

9th Saturday, November 14, 3:30 pm! Please join us via Zoom for a fun trivia night! See the poster below for more information!

The open house (presentations, panel discussions, virtual tours) will be held on Monday, October 19th, 2020, from 1:00 p.m – 3:00 p.m. It is intended for undergraduate students or alumni who are interested in school psychology. To register for this event, please use the following link: Register for UW Whitewater Talk.

Julia Strand, Assistant Professor of Psychology, published an article called “Rapid adaptation to fully intelligible nonnative-accented speech reduces listening effort” in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Julia Strand, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented research on listening effort and audiovisual speech in the Core for Advanced MRI (CAMRI) at Baylor College of Medicine Neuroscience (virtual) Seminar Series.

Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, directed the Teaching Social and Personality Psychology preconference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).

Sarah Meerts, Associate Professor of Psychology, published a paper with a colleague at Southwestern University in Current Aging Science. The paper was titled “Sexual Behavior is Enhanced by Regular, Repeated Mating from Young Adulthood to Middle Age in Female Long-Evans Rats”.