Monthly News & Updates

August 2023 | Issue 8

2024 Governing Board Election

Voting is Open!

The Psychonomic Society's Governing Board (GB) Election is now open for voting. Two seats are available on the 2024 Governing Board. Newly elected GB members will serve six-year terms (January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2029). The two candidates who receive the highest number of votes from members (Member, Fellow, Emeritus Member, or Emeritus Fellow) will be elected to fill the two open seats on the Board. For those eligible to vote, the deadline is September 8. Meet the 2024 Candidates:

Chandramallika Basak, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Michael C. Hout, New Mexico State University, USA

Kristi Multhaup, Davidson College, USA

Evan F. Risko, University of Waterloo, Canada

Navin Viswanathan, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Claudia von Bastian, University of Sheffield, UK

2023 Graduate Conference

Award Recipients

Congratulations to the 2023 Psychonomic Society

Graduate Conference Award recipients!

Daniel Bialer, Cornell University, USA

Joshua Buffington, University of Illinois Chicago, USA

Alexa Bushinski, Purdue University, USA

Brooke Carlaw, Colorado State University, USA

Katherine Churey, University of Guelph, Canada

Madalin Marian Deliu, University of Salamanca, Spain

Melissa Evans, Vanderbilt University, USA

Garrett Greeley, Stony Brook University, USA

David Heath, University of Memphis, USA

Franziska Schäfer, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Corey Shayman, University of Utah, USA

Jeremy Thomas, University of Alberta, Canada

Runhan "Brad" Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Bugay Yildirim, Koç University, Turkey

Ece Yuksel, University of Florida, USA

The recipients will be honored at the 2023 Annual Meeting during the Awards Ceremony held on Saturday, November 18 from 5:10 PM to 6:00 PM Pacific Time.

PS One World Seminar Series presents

Ven Popov

If God Handed Us the Ground-Truth Theory of Memory, How Would We Recognize It?

Speaker: Ven Popov

Zurich University, Switzerland

September 27, 2023 | 11:15 AM - 1 PM ET | Register Now

Abstract: What makes a scientific theory convincing? We have many formal models of human memory, but no agreement about which is the right one. If anything, we agree that they are all wrong. Despite important theoretical milestones, models of human memory are fragmented, most often explaining single paradigms or memory types; they are incompatible with each other; they lack precision in their predictions, and due to our current parameter fitting approach, they are often little more than proof of concept exercises. More.

All talks in the One World Seminar Series are underwritten by the Psychonomic Society and made available free of charge. The Psychonomic Society is committed to programmatic accessibility and has secured ASL interpretation and quality closed captioning for all One World events in the 2023-2024 schedule.

2023 Fall Class of Fellows

Call for Applications Closes Soon

Fellowship in the Society recognizes members with clear evidence of independent scholarship, rigorous and compelling research, and demonstrated experience conducting and supervising scientific research in cognitive and experimental psychology. Becoming a Fellow:

Ensures your submissions to the Annual Meeting receive the highest priority for acceptance as spoken presentations
Enables you to submit two abstract submissions by a Graduate or Undergraduate Student members or a non-member
Qualifies you to participate in the annual Governing Board election, sit on committees, submit Awards nominations and proposals for Leading Edge Workshops and Collaborative Symposium
Provides for the use of the title FPsyS to indicate that you are a Fellow on your vitae and e-signature

Applications for the Fall Class of Fellows are due September 1. More.

Call for Applications

Family Care Grants

The Psychonomic Society's Family Care Grant program is designed to support attendees who incur extra family care expenses above and beyond their regular family care expenses, in order to present at the Annual Meeting. This year, the Society is offering up to $500 USD in reimbursable expenses for attendees. The total available funding for 2023 is $5,000 USD. The application deadline is September 20. More.

Call for Applications

Student Travel Award from

Emerging/Developing Nations

NEW IN 2023!

The Psychonomic Society will annually give up to five (5) Travel Awards for Graduate Student members of the Society who are traveling to the Annual Meeting from emerging or developing nations, as defined by the United Nations. Each Awardee will receive a stipend of $1,000 USD to support their participation in the annual meeting. The submission deadline is October 4. More.

Keynote and Symposia

Livestream Registration

Unable to make it to San Francisco? The Keynote and Symposia (only) will be livestreamed via Zoom this year. Click the link below to register and attend in-person or via livestream. Livestream attendees are asked to register by November 10. Livestream registration is required, links to access the sessions will be sent the week of the Annual Meeting.

These livestreamed sessions are only available in real-time. No other presentations will be livestreamed or recorded. Please join us in person if you wish to view other presentations.

Psychonomic Society Journals

Investigating the different domains of environmental knowledge acquired from virtual navigation and their relationship to cognitive factors and wayfinding inclinations

By Veronica Muffato, Laura Miola, Marilina Pellegrini, Francesca Pazzaglia & Chiara Meneghetti

During navigation, people learn about landmarks, their positions, and the routes interconnecting them. Participants engaged in visuospatial tasks, responded to questions about wayfinding, and learned a virtual pathway. Visuospatial abilities and wayfinding inclinations contributed to the overarching environmental knowledge. Read this paper.

Mechanisms and rules of social learning in crickets

by Yuan Lai, Isabelle Massou & Martin Giurfa

Crickets can develop a preference for scents by observing fellow crickets' reward-based choices without receiving the reward themselves. Simply observing the choices made by another cricket activates reward-related octopaminergic neurons in the observer's brain, enhancing learning. Read this paper.

The psychophysiology of guilt in healthy adults

By Chloe A. Stewart, Derek G.V. Mitchell, Penny A. MacDonald, Stephen H. Pasternak, Paul F. Tremblay & Elizabeth Finger

Stewart et al. investigated the physiological indicators of guilt. Participants watched videos designed to evoke feelings of guilt and other emotions for the sake of comparison. Guilt was associated with changes in gastric rhythms, electrodermal activity, and swallowing rate compared to other emotions. Read this paper.

Call for Papers

CABN: Preclinical Animal Models and Assays of Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Old Problems and New Vistas

Deadline: September 1

CR:PI: Automation and Human Cognition

Deadline: October 1

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Psychonomic Society 2023

Collaborative Symposium - ESCoP

"The Power of Language Use on Judgment and Decision-Making" will be presented in conjunction with the 23rd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP). ESCoP 2023 will be held in Porto, Portugal from September 6-9 at the Center for Psychology from the University of Porto.

The Society's Collaborative Symposium program was established in 2015 to strengthen the communication and collaboration between the Society and other international societies representing the field of experimental and cognitive psychology. A call for 2024 proposals will open this fall. More.

Call for Initial Proposals

The William K. and Katherine W. Estes Fund

Jointly overseen by the Psychonomic Society and the Association for Psychological Science, the Estes Fund supports a variety of activities aimed at strengthening methodology in mathematical, quantitative and experimental psychology and related areas. Learn more about the funded projects and how you can submit a 2024 initial proposal here. The deadline for initial proposals is September 1.

National Academy of Science

Troland Research Awards

Two Troland Research Awards of $75,000 are given annually to recognize unusual achievement by early-career researchers (preferably 45 years of age or younger) and to further empirical research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology. The Troland Research Award was established by a trust created in 1931 by the bequest of Leonard T. Troland.Scheduled for presentation in 2024, nominations will be accepted until Monday, October 2. More information on how to submit a nomination can be found here.

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