Welcome to the official Department of Psychology newsletter! We’re starting off the year with awards, illustrated memory-related brain activity, a special guest visit, and new publications.
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Hoffman Lab
Kari Hoffman, associate professor of psychology, was awarded first place in the 2023 BRAIN Initiative "Show Us Your Brains" video contest for Simian Symphony: Ripple Assemblies During Rest illustrating examples of hyper-synchronous, memory-related brain activity from our high-density recordings.
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Isabel Gauthier
Isabel Gauthier, Vice Chair of the Department of Psychology, has won The Davida Teller Award from the Vision Sciences Society! The Davida Teller Award is in honor of Professor Davida Teller’s exceptional scientific achievements, commitment to equity, and strong history of mentoring. The award is given to a female vision scientist in recognition of her exceptional, significant, or lasting contributions to the field of vision science. Read More.
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Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake, Centennial Professor and Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, has won The Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science from the Vision Sciences Society! The Ken Nakayama Medal is in honor of Professor Ken Nakayama’s contributions to the Vision Sciences Society, as well as his numerous innovations and consistent excellence in the vision sciences. The Medal is given to any vision scientist who has made exceptional, significant, or lasting contributions to vision science. Read More.
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Julia Lebovitz
Julia Lebovitz, first year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, was awarded a ThinkSwiss fellowship from the Embassy of Switzerland to conduct research at the University of Bern this summer. She will be collaborating with Sebastian Walther, professor of psychiatric neuroscience at University of Bern, on a project involving gesture processing.
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Ashley WattsStudents were thrilled to have Ashley Watts, Assistant Professor of Psychology, as a guest speaker in Ashley Maxcey's PSY1200 General Psychology class. After she left, a few seniors said, “That was insane. I wish I wasn’t graduating! I want to stay here and learn from her.” We are so lucky to have Ashley!
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Vanderbilt's Agreements Supporting Open Access Publishing
To better support open access publishing for Vanderbilt authors, the Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries negotiated agreements with several publishers which waive or discount the article processing charge (APC), reducing the barrier to publish OA. Learn more.
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Bastos LabThe first Bastos Lab publication, "A ubiquitous spectrolaminar motif of local field potential power across the primate cortex" was recently published in Nature Neuroscience! The project was a massive collaborative effort and involved multiple labs and institutions. Alex Maier, associate professor of psychology, and his students Brock Carlson and Blake Mitchell contributed data to the project. In addition, Jon Kaas, Gertude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair in Social and Natural Sciences and professor of psychology, contributed by providing access to his histology lab which they utilized to perform the crucial anatomical analysis that ended up giving a big boost to the study. In the Bastos Lab Sophy (Yihan) Xiong and Jacob Westerberg are also co-authors and assisted in data analysis and recordings.
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Logan Lab
"No position-specific interference from prior lists in cued recognition: A challenge for position coding (and other) theories of serial memory" by Gregory Cox, Simon Lilburn, Jana Ulrich, and Gordon Logan, Centennial Professor of Psychology, has been accepted for publication in Cognitive Psychology!
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Park Lab
"Paranoia - From Passive Social Threat Perception to Missatunement in Social Interaction" by Michal Hajduk, Noah Sasson, Amy Pinkham, and Sohee Park, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, was published in Clinical Psychological Science!
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Tong Lab"Improved modeling of human vision by incorporating robustness to blur in convolutional neural networks" by Frank Tong, Centennial Professor of Psychology, and his former postdoc, Hojin Jang was recenlty published in Nature Communications!
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