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- Welcome to Duane Watson, 2021 Governing Board Chair
- Welcome to new PS Editors Diego Pizzagalli & Sarah Shomstein
- Catch Up on Presentations from the 2020 Annual Meeting
- Stream Now for Free: Special 2020 Symposium on Seeing Race in Cognitive Psychology
- Editor Search for CR:PI (March 15 deadline)
- Call for Papers
- Call for Fellows (March 1 deadline)
- Latest Research
- Latest Digital Content
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Welcome to Duane Watson,
2021 Governing Board Chair
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The Psychonomic Society is pleased to welcome Duane Watson (Vanderbilt University, USA) as the new Chair of the Governing Board. Watson has served on the Governing Board since January 1, 2018. He currently co-chairs the Society's Task Force on Racial Discrimination, and previously served as chair of the Program and Ethics Committees, as well as a member of the Awards, Communications, and Fellows Committees.
Biography
Watson's primary interest is in understanding the cognitive mechanisms that underlie human communication. He studies how speakers use prosodic features such as speech rate, rhythm, pausing, and intonation in communication. Duane is also deeply interested in how individual differences in language experience and cognitive abilities contribute to language production, comprehension, and reading. (Full Bio)
The Society expresses its gratitude and appreciation to James Pomerantz (Rice University, USA) for his leadership as 2020 Chair of the Governing Board. Pomerantz, along with GB Chair Duane Watson and Chair-elect Penny Pexman (University of Calgary, Canada), will serve on the Executive Committee through 2021.
2021 Governing Board
The Society extends a warm welcome to the 2021 Governing Board, including new members Jeanette Altarriba (University at Albany, SUNY, USA), Priti Shah (University of Michigan, USA), and Eva Van den Bussche (KU Leuven, Belgium). The Governing Board serves as the organization's board of directors, responsible for the business, organizational, and legal affairs of the Society.
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Welcome to new PS Editors
Diego Pizzagalli & Sarah Shomstein
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Biography
The Society thanks Marie Banich (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) and her outgoing Editorial Team for their stewardship of CABN over the past several years. Banich completed her term as CABN Editor on December 31, 2020.
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Biography
Sarah Shomstein is the Thelma Hunt Professor and Chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences at The George Washington University. Her research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms of attentional selection. Namely, examining factors that influence attentional selection with the focus of being able to predict what aspects of the perceptual environment are more efficiently represented in the human brain and subsequently impact behavior. (Full Bio)
The Society thanks Michael Dodd (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) and his outgoing Editorial Team for their stewardship of AP&P over the past several years. Dodd completed his term as AP&P Editor on December 31, 2020.
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Available through May 21, 2021
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All conference sessions can now be viewed online for free at the Virtual Psychonomics website. Simply provide your name and contact information for full site access.
Highlights:
Also available are recordings of all eight symposia, over 250 spoken sessions, and over 1,000 posters. Log in to Virtual Psychonomics to access the recordings. The video archive will be available through May 21, 2021.
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The symposium continues to contribute to the Society's discussions on identifying and addressing systemic racism in the fields of psychology and cognitive science.
- The Mental Representation of Race (Mahzarin Banaji, Howard University)
- How to Predict Bad Policing: Theory and Evidence (Phillip Goff, Center for Policing Equity)
- Visual Dehumanization of Blacks under Economic Stress: ERP and fMRI Evidence and Implications for Biased Behavior (David Amodio, New York University)
- Moving Beyond a Hypodescent Framework for Ambiguous Face Categorization (Sarah Gaither, Duke University)
- Question & Answer session (Moderated by Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University)
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Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CR:PI) is an Open Access journal that publishes new empirical and theoretical work covering all areas of Cognition, with a special emphasis on use-inspired basic research: fundamental and theoretically relevant research that grows from hypotheses about real-world problems. The role of the Editor is to select Associate Editors and an Editorial Board, handle manuscripts, assign manuscripts to Associate Editors, and interface with editorial staff and the Psychonomic Society Governing Board.
Appointment/Term/Transition
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(Feb 28 deadline)
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CR:PI) publishes “use-inspired basic research”: fundamental and theoretically relevant research that grows from hypotheses about real-world problems. Systemic Racism is an urgent, real-world problem with implications for every area of cognitive research. The purpose of this special issue is to add to the scientific understanding of the cognitive roots of and fallout from minority status, discrimination, police violence, vigilantism, implicit bias, and more. View the Call for Papers.
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You've worked hard to develop your expertise and contribute meaningful research to the field of psychological science. Be recognized for your contributions. Become a Psychonomic Society Fellow!
The Psychonomic Society 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. Fellows have been Society members in good standing for at least 2 years, have a minimum of 3 years post-PhD experience, and have at least six recent research publications in high-quality refereed journals, in addition to publications resulting from the PhD.
Fellow applications are accepting on a rolling basis, with applications reviewed twice a year. Applicants wishing to be considered for the Spring 2021 Class of Fellows must submit their applications by March 1, 2021. Apply for Fellow Status.
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By Nicholas Hon & Nicholas Yeo
Memory is better when you have a sense of control over events. At least, that's the conclusion from this paper reporting results from two cleverly designed experiments. Read the article.
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By Ana Baciero, Isabel Uribe & Pablo Gomez
In this article, the researchers adapted the Eriksen flanker task for touch instead of vision. Do the results replicate those found in vision research? Partly! The findings have implications for tactile use and feedback that is increasingly used with modern technological devices. Read the article.
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By Maël Mauchand, Jonathan A. Caballero, Xiaoming Jiang & Marc D. Pell
"Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?" Participants listened to and judged a set of ironic statements with varying prosody while having their neural responses measured. Event-related potential results lead the authors to conclude that the prosody influences the listener's predictions as statements unfold. Read the article.
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