A monthly newsletter of the Psychonomic Society
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- 2020 Annual Meeting Goes Fully Virtual & Call for Abstracts Reopens
- 2020 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award recipients
- 2020 Mid-Career Award recipients
- 2020 Early Career Award recipients
- Diego A. Pizzagalli named Editor of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
- Latest Research
- Latest Digital Content
- Call for Papers
- COVID-19 Resources
- Donate to the SPARK Society and J. Frank Yates Student Travel Awards
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2020 Annual Meeting Goes Fully Virtual &
Call for Abstracts Reopens
Submission Deadline: July 15
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2020 Annual Meeting
A Virtual Psychonomics Experience
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The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that its
annual meeting in November will now be
fully virtual. In the interest of the health and safety of our members, the in-person portion of the meeting has been canceled.
The move to a fully virtual conference will make our society more international and inclusive by opening up our activities to those who are unable or unwilling to participate in-person due to concerns about the environment, travel bans, disabilities, family needs, health risks, or lack of funds. We remain committed to making the conference as accessible as possible, so the annual meeting will remain a free conference for all Society members.
The JW Marriott Austin has graciously agreed that the Society's contract with the hotel can be canceled without penalty due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This frees up the Society to invest its financial and staff resources into creating and executing a fully virtual Psychonomics experience, bringing the science you love directly to you, in the comfort of your home or office.
While we will all miss the in-person networking, we hope you will take advantage of the many opportunities to interact online through the conference portal, as you continue to build relationships within the Psychonomics network and strengthen collaborations to improve the science in our field. We also hope that the move to a fully virtual format will open doors for more participation than ever before, as the format eliminates conference travel and lodging costs and makes it easier for cognitive scientists all around the world to participate.
More information about the format of the
2020 Annual Meeting, a Virtual Psychonomics Experience, will be announced in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we are reopening our
Call for Abstracts to allow as many people as possible to participate. Everyone who has already submitted an abstract will be contacted to confirm that they are willing and able to present remotely.
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2020 Clifford T. Morgan
Distinguished Leadership Award recipients
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Temple University, USA
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Nora’s record of accomplishment exemplifies the qualities of a truly distinguished leader. She has been a longstanding member of the Psychonomic Society and is a past member of the Society’s Governing Board.
In 2011, she was a keynote speaker at the Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. She has shepherded the advancement of countless early career scientists working in, and beyond, experimental cognitive psychology, and has been a central figure in promoting the Psychonomics community and its many contingents. Dr. Newcombe is an internationally lauded researcher with more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles to her name and 120+ invited talks at national and international conferences. Her work has had a huge impact on the field, just as her leadership and mentorship—both formal and informal—has touched countless individual lives.” Jason Chein (Temple University, USA); Asifa Majid (University of York, UK)
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Washington University in St. Louis, USA
“It is hard to imagine anyone in the field who combines the world-class record of scholarly achievement with the exhausting citizenship Roddy Roediger performs for the field. Roddy has served in several leadership roles for the Psychonomic Society, as well as for other associations of psychologists. He has attended the Society’s meetings ever since the early 1970s, and he has presented at many of them. He gave the Keynote address in 2009, when the Society celebrated its 50th anniversary. Roediger served on the Governing Board for three years and was its chair from 1990-1991. He helped close the old
Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society
and founded in its stead
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
. Recently, Roddy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. I can think of no one more deserving of this award.” Randall W. Engle (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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2020 Mid-Career Award recipients
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Ghent University, Belgium
“Jan De Houwer is a true scholar who desires to provide unique, integrative, and accurate accounts of a vast range of psychology. By any measure, he has made exceptional contributions to the field of experimental and cognitive psychology. He has published more than 300 articles in refereed journals, and his current H-indexes for citations are 90 in Google Scholar and 43 in the Social Sciences Citation Index, both of which are exceptionally high for a cognitive psychologist at the mid-career stage. From the beginning, I have found Jan to be a very intellectually stimulating individual. He is exceptionally knowledgeable of many areas in psychological science, including learning, social psychology, emotional processes, and response selection, and has a strong desire to understand and unite them all.” Robert W. Proctor (Purdue University, USA)
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Washington University in St. Louis, USA
“It’s hard to see how one person could have done so much and had such a powerful influence in such a short time, but then Jeff Zacks is extraordinary, and his accomplishments deserve celebrating. Jeff has made countless contributions to the field, to research, to mentoring, and to service. He is the acknowledged leader of the burgeoning field of event cognition. In parallel, he has pursued research enlightening many rich strands of spatial cognition. Jeff’s influence on the field and those in it has been enhanced by his thoughtful teaching and mentoring of students at all levels, many of whom have gone on to make their own contributions, and of his generous service, including Chair of the Psychonomic Society Governing Board and positions in the AAAS, in APA, on the US National Committee, at his university, and in his community.” Barbara Tversky (Professor of Psychology, Emerita, Stanford University and Professor of Psychology, Columbia Teachers College)
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2020 Early Career Award recipients
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Brock University, Canada
"Karen Campbell did extraordinary, creative work as a graduate student and she continues to produce outstanding, important findings. She is, in my view, on a vector to be a superstar!" Lynn Hasher (The Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre, Canada)
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University of York, UK
“Aidan Horner is an exceptionally creative, sophisticated and productive psychologist who has made critical contributions to the fields of memory, vision, and spatial navigation. He has a remarkable enthusiasm for scientific discovery, but at the same time applies appropriate caution and scepticism to ensure that his research is robust and reliable.” Gareth Gaskell (University of York, UK)
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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
“Roland Pfister is a very energetic, knowledgeable scientist. He goes beyond standard, basically correlational approaches in trying to explain lying-related phenomena in terms of well-understood cognitive and neurophysiological mechanisms, and in trying to link such phenomenon to recent action-control theorizing. It is these down-to-earth approaches that are likely to move our understanding of social cognition forward.” Bernhard Hommel (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
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Steven Yantis Early Career Award
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
“Karen Schloss is at the forefront of the best and the brightest early career scientists in our field. Karen developed the Color Inference Framework (CIF), whereby color-concept associations are built from detecting statistics of cooccurrence and represented in a color-concept association network. The CIF predicts that different weights are placed on different parts of the network depending on the judgment at hand.” Mary Peterson (The University of Arizona, USA)
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Diego A. Pizzagalli named Editor of
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
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CABN
is an official journal of the Psychonomic Society. It offers theoretical, review, and primary research articles on behavior and brain processes in humans. Coverage includes normal function as well as patients with injuries or processes that influence brain function; neurological disorders, including both healthy and disordered aging; and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.
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Elizabeth Cox, Catherine M. Sabiston, April Karlinsky, Joseph Manzone, Heather F. Neyedli & Timothy N. Welsh
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"The present study examined the influence of athletic clothing style and body awareness on visual-motor performance in women.
"...the study revealed that tight and revealing athletic clothing can hinder efficient motor performance."
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By
Upamanyu Ghose, Arvind A. Srinivasan, W. Paul Boyce, Hong Xu & Eng Siong Chng
"PyTrack ... allows users to analyze eye-tracking datasets using a few lines of code."
Read the article
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The code is available
here
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By
Jessica Bowers, Tahirah Nimi, Jack Wilson, Shannon Wagner, Dragoş Amarie & Vinoth Sittaramane
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"We found that, when presented with inaccessible prey, cuttlefish selectively inhibit tentacle strikes without reducing the amount of time oriented towards prey, or total distance moved."
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Donate to the SPARK Society &
J. Frank Yates Student Travel Awards
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On June 5, 2020, the Psychonomic Society Governing Board and Diversity & Inclusion Committee released a
Statement on Racism, condemning structural racism and outlining a series of actions the Society is undertaking in order
to better understand and counter racism. Members of the Society are encouraged to donate to the
SPARK Society
(
donate
),
J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award
(
donate
), and other causes dedicated to fighting racism and to enhancing the safety and well-being of victims of discrimination.
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