The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Marianne Lloyd (Seton Hall University, USA) has been selected as the next PS Secretary. She will begin her term on January 1, 2023, but will shadow the current Secretary, Reed Hunt, for the remainder of 2022. Lloyd currently serves as the PS Treasurer, a position she has held since 2017.

Call for Nominations:

PS 2022 Awards

PS Members are invited to nominate outstanding scientists in our field for the 2022 Early Career Award, Mid-Career Award, and Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award. Nominations are due March 15.

The Psychonomic Society's 2023 Collaborative Symposium will be held in conjunction with the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) at their January 2023 meeting in London. Proposals for the symposium, including funding of up to $5,000 USD, are being accepted through March 31. Read more.

By Kaitlyn M. Fallow & D. Stephen Lindsay

Not all memory stimuli are created equal. Some will lead to better memory performance. For example, people typically remember paintings better than words. But did you know that some memory stimuli lead to different responses? Read the article.

The optimal use of computer aided detection to find low prevalence cancers

By Melina A. Kunar

When cancer rates are low, radiologists miss many tumors. Missing cancer can have obvious noxious consequences. Can we use computer-aided detection (CAD) to reduce misses when prevalence is low? Kunar investigated. Read the article.

By Emily J. Urban-Wojcik, Soomi Lee, Daniel W. Grupe, Laurel Quinlan, Lauren Gresham, Angel Hammond, Susan T. Charles, Margie E. Lachman, David M. Almeida, Richard J. Davidson, & Stacey M. Schaefer

Consider your daily activities. Are they varied? Or is it the same old. same old every day? Urban-Wojcik and colleagues hypothesized that the more varied daily activities are, the greater the hippocampal volume. Read the article.

Plans for the Psychonomic Society's 2022 Annual Meeting are well underway. Thank you to all of you who responded to our post-conference survey and shared your ideas for future meetings. We will be incorporating many of your ideas into this year's conference.

The Call for Symposia has opened and proposals will be accepted through March 31. The Call for Abstracts will open in early April.

Applications for this year's J. Frank Yates Student Conference Awards and Graduate Student Conference Awards will open in conjunction with the Call for Abstracts in April.

The Society will continue offering Family Care Grants to members who need additional financial support to participate in the meeting. Grant applications will open in July in conjunction with the opening of Registration.

We look forward to seeing you, online or in-person in Boston, for our 2022 Annual Meeting!