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Meerts publishes paper
15 December 2019Sarah 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”.
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Strand publishes paper with Brown ’17
2 December 2019Julia Strand, assistant Professor of Psychology, published a paper in the Journal of Cognition, titled About Face: Seeing the Talker Improves Spoken Word Recognition but Increases Listening Effort.
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Strand gives talk, presents posters
2 December 2019Julia Strand, Assistant Professor of Psychology, gave a talk called “The Jingle and Jangle of Listening Effort” and presented posters called “What Accounts for Individual Differences in the McGurk Effect?” and “About Face: Seeing the Talker Improves Spoken Word Recognition but Increases Listening Effort”.
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Flores-Montoya gives talk
2 December 2019Gisel Flores-Montoya, Assistant Professor of Psychology, gave a talk titled “Neuroimmune mechanisms underlying behavioral disruptions in chronic low-level lead exposed young mice” to the Neuroscience department at Macalester College on November 13.
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London presents paper
19 November 2019Justin London, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, Cognitive Science, and the Humanities, presented a paper on “Musical instruments as cognitive extensions, or ‘Why our students suck at aural skills'”.
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Galotti writes chapter for book
15 November 2019Kathleen Galotti, W. H. Laird Professor of Cognitive Science, provided an invited chapter for a newly released book, entitled The Psychology of Human Thought (Heidelberg Press, 2019).
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Strand inducted as a Fellow in the Psychonomic Society
4 November 2019The Fellows program “recognizes members who demonstrate clear evidence of independent scholarship, active engagement in methodologically rigorous and theoretically interesting high level research, and indications of an imminent national/international reputation for excellence in the psychological sciences.”
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Julie Neiworth and five student researchers presented their work “Case study of an aging monkey: Cognitive decline, cell loss, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) markers, immune response, and neurogenesis” in poster form at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting on Oct 19, 2019, Chicago, IL.
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Comps Insider: Nam Anh Nguyen ’19
14 February 2019Nam Anh Nguyen ’19, a psychology major with a minor in creative writing from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, tells us about her senior capstone experience, or ‘Comps,’ in support of her psychology degree.
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Lutsky receives Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award
12 February 2019Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology, recently received the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award at the annual convention of the society held February 7-9, 2019, in Portland, Ore.