Eva Van den Bussche Assumes Role
as Chair of the 2025 Governing Board
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The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Eva Van den Bussche, KU Leuven, Belgium, has assumed the role of Chair for the 2025 Governing Board. Van den Bussche, a Fellow of the Society, has been an integral part of the Governing Board since January 2021, contributing significantly by serving on most of our committees and chairing the Workshop, Audit, and Publications Committees.
Biography
Eva Van den Bussche is currently a research professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. She received her PhD in Psychology from KU Leuven in 2009. During her postdoc period with a fellowship of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), she visited the Université Paris Descartes as a postdoc fellow. Afterwards, she accepted an assistant professorship position at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2010 and worked at the University of Essex as a visiting lecturer. In 2018, Eva moved back to KU Leuven, where she was awarded a highly competitive associate research professorship (BOFZAP). In 2021 she was promoted to professor.
Eva's research group investigates cognitive control, both from a fundamental and a more clinical/developmental angle, using experimental and neuroimaging methods and advocating an open science policy. Their goal is to place cognitive control in a broader context, incorporating task-related, dynamic, social and developmental aspects of cognitive control exertion, ultimately bringing us closer to how cognitive control functions in everyday life. More.
2025 Governing Board
The Society thanks Steve Lewandowsky, Past Chair, for his leadership in 2024 and congratulates Myra Fernandez, University of Waterloo, Canada, who becomes the Chair-Elect. PS welcomes new Governing Board members Lisa K. Fazio, Vanderbilt University, USA, Arturo Hernandez, University of Houston, USA, and Jill Shelton, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. Click here for a complete list of the 2025 Governing Board. 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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Call for Fellows Applications
Deadline: March 1
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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 top priority as spoken presentations
- Enables you to sponsor two abstract submissions from a Graduate Student Member, Undergraduate Student member, or a non-member
- Participate in the annual election, join committees, submit award nominations, and proposals for the workshops and symposia
Self-nominations for the Spring Class of Fellows are due March 1. More.
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Call for 2025 Award Nominations
Deadline: March 31
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The Governing Board created a range of awards with the aim of recognizing individuals who have made outstanding contributions to advancing the experimental study of cognitive psychology in various stages of their career. Fellows and Members are invited to nominate outstanding scientists in our field for the 2025 Early Career Award, Mid-Career Award, and Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award. Nominations are due March 31.
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The Psychonomic Society's Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award annually recognizes up to two deserving candidates who have demonstrated significant contributions to the field of cognitive psychology, been in the field for 10+ years, and modeled sustained leadership and service to the discipline. Recipients will be formally recognized at the 2025 Annual Meeting and will be presented with an award, complimentary registration, and up to $1,000 USD in travel reimbursement upon request. Learn more and submit a nomination.
The Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award is given for exceptional contributions to the field of experimental and cognitive psychology and related areas by an individual who is currently in the middle of their career. Recipients will be formally recognized at the 2025 Annual Meeting and will be presented with an award, complimentary registration, and up to $1,000 USD in travel reimbursement upon request. Learn more and submit a nomination.
The Psychonomic Society Early Career Award is given annually to scientists who have made significant contributions to scientific psychology early in their careers. Recipients will be formally recognized at the 2025 Annual Meeting and will be presented with an award, a $2,500 USD cash prize, complementary registration, and economy airfare or travel reimbursement to assist them in attending the Annual Meeting. Learn more and submit a nomination.
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One World Seminar Series Presents
Morgan Barense on January 22
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Enhancing Real-World Event Memory
Speaker: Morgan Barense
University of Toronto, Canada
January 22, 2025
11:15 AM - 1 PM U.S. ET | Register Now
Abstract
Memory is essential for shaping how we interpret the world, plan for the future, and understand ourselves, yet effective cognitive interventions for real-world episodic memory loss remain scarce. This talk introduces HippoCamera, a smartphone-based intervention inspired by how the brain supports memory, designed to enhance real-world episodic recollection by replaying high-fidelity autobiographical cues. It will showcase how our approach improves memory, mood, and hippocampal activity while uncovering links between memory distinctiveness, well-being, and the perception of time. 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 2024-2025 schedule.
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Call for Symposia Opens February 3 | |
A symposium proposal should highlight new and emerging ideas that are likely to have broad influence in shaping future research, including ideas from related disciplines. Start planning now in anticipation of the submission deadline, proposals are due April 1.
All Members, Fellows, Emeritus Members, and Emeritus Fellows, are eligible to organize a symposium for the 2025 Annual Meeting, November 20-23, 2025, in Denver, Colorado, USA. | |
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The deadline for the international search for new Editors-in-Chief (EIC) for two of our seven esteemed journals: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics and Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, is approaching on February 15, 2025. This is an excellent opportunity for experienced researchers to shape the future of these publications and contribute to the advancement of our field.
Key Details
- Application Deadline: February 15, 2025
- Start Date: January 1, 2026 (accepting manuscripts)
- Competitive honorarium provided
- Publisher: Springer
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Journals Seeking Editors-in-Chief
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Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (APP)
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Chair, Search Committee: Jeremy M. Wolfe, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Focus: All areas of research in sensory processes, perception, attention, and psychophysics
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Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications (CR:PI)
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Chair, Search Committee: Nora Newcombe, Temple University
- Focus: New empirical and theoretical work covering all areas of Cognition, with emphasis on use-inspired basic research
- Fully open access journal
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Nomination Process
We encourage you to recommend individuals (including self-nominations) whom you believe are capable and interested in accepting one of these positions. The search is open to all candidates regardless of their place of residence.
In late February/early March, the Search Committee will select a short list from among the nominees, invite those individuals to provide additional information (in particular, a statement of their vision for the journal), and solicit input from their referees.
Questions?
Please contact the appropriate Chair of the Editor Search Committee, Claudia von Bastian (Chair, PS Publications Committee), or Lou Shomette (PS Executive Director).
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Announcing the PS Collaborative Symposium
at ESCoP 2025
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We Speak Many Languages: Bridging Barriers to Bring Diversity of Language Experience into Cognitive Psychology
In conjunction with the:
24th Conference of the European Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology
Sheffield, UK | September 1-6 2025
Organizers: Ingrid Finger, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Judith F. Kroll, University of California, Irvine, USA; Janaina Weissheimer, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; and Megan Zirnstein, Pomona College, USA.
Language is with us everywhere and in everything we do. But as most of the world is multilingual, our lives involve many day-to-day cross-language interactions that implicitly and explicitly draw upon our cognitive resources. It is only in the last 30 years that mainstream cognitive science has come to embrace the variation of language science and the power of the lens it provides for illuminating cognitive mechanisms. The goal of this symposium is to bridge language, methodological, and paradigmatic barriers in the science of bilingualism to further our understanding of the relationship between multilingual language use and cognition. Talks in this symposium will highlight researchers from a diverse set of disciplinary, methodological, and international backgrounds who are currently exploring the cognitive and neurological processes underlying second language learning and bilingual language use. More.
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Psychonomic Society Journals
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By Kenji Ikeda, Yosuke Hattori, Yuichi Ito & Yuki Hamamoto | |
This study examined how different types of anchors—informative and uninformative—influence judgments of learning (i.e., how confident people feel about their memory). The results show informative anchors directly shift confidence, supporting the optimistic/pessimistic theory. Uninformative anchors mainly distort scaling, aligning with the differential-scaling theory. Read this paper.
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By Daniel Corral & Shana K. Carpenter | |
Corral and Carpenter conducted six experiments to understand how training and feedback can improve learning. Participants learned by classification or observation, and feedback was either just the right answer or this plus a detailed explanation. Explanation feedback was more effective for learning and applying knowledge than correct-answer feedback. Read this paper.
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By Domicele Jonauskaite & Christine Mohr | |
People often associate specific colors with certain feelings. To better understand these links, the authors reviewed 132 studies. One finding was that light colors are linked to positive emotions, while dark colors are tied to negative ones. The patterns of results suggest shared ways of using color to communicate emotions. Read this paper.
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Abstracts in Languages other than English | |
The Psychonomic Society welcomes and encourages authors to submit manuscript abstracts in languages other than English. Authors should place the additional abstract immediately below the English-language abstract in the manuscript.
If the manuscript is accepted, the additional abstract will be published alongside the English abstract. Please note that we cannot do any copyediting to the additional abstract.
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