The Psychonomic Society can now confirm that its 2021 Annual Meeting will be held November 4-7, 2021, at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.* Please note the NEW meeting dates and location.

The 2021 conference will be offered as a hybrid experience, integrating in-person presentations and on-site meeting opportunities with live-streamed and recorded presentations. The hybrid format will ensure that, whether members join the conference in-person or tune in online, they will have access to social gatherings and all conference presentations. Read more.

*Please note that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person component of the hybrid meeting could be canceled, resulting in a completely virtual event, if guidance from the CDC, WHO, and/or local health authorities prevents us from meeting in person.

A new thematic series from Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications

Submission Deadline: September 1, 2021

Karen Lander (University of Manchester, UK)

Gabrielle Saunders (University of Manchester, UK)

Jeremy M. Wolfe (Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA)

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, many governments around the world around the world required (or strongly) recommended the wearing of face coverings (masks) in public spaces – many of these restrictions remain in place today. While the wearing of face coverings to prevent spread of disease is fairly common in some Asian countries, it seems likely that their use elsewhere will continue, even after the immediate risk of COVID-19 subsides. View the Call for Papers.

Association of natural sleep with moral utilitarianism: No evidence from 6 preregistered studies 

Sleep has been credited with better memory, more creativity, greater implicit learning, etc. It's also been associated with moral judgment.

In six pre-registered studies, participants reported information about their sleep behaviors and made judgments on a series of morality measures, focusing on moral utilitarianism. The link between sleep quantity and quality and moral judgments was weak at best. Read the article.

More from Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

By F. Ebru Köse & Dinkar Sharma 

You've likely had the experience of recognizing someone outside of the everyday context. For example, you may have recognized a student from your class during a trip to the grocery store. This experience is called spontaneous recognition.

In an investigation of the role of working memory in spontaneous recognition, participants took part in a memory Stroop task and the n-back task concurrently. When the working memory load was high but not low, accuracy was higher when the target and distractor items were congruent. Read the article.

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Elections for the 2022 Governing Board will run from July 15 - August 31, 2021. New Board members will officially begin their terms on January 1, 2022. Learn more about the PS Governing Board election and nominate up to four potential candidates.

Proposals are invited for a Leading Edge Workshop to be sponsored by the Psychonomic Society in 2022. Leading Edge Workshops advance knowledge and understanding by bringing together senior scientists and early career researchers to examine the most innovative cognitive science of the day. Financial support of up to $50,000 USD is available.

The deadline for initial proposals (max 500 words) is June 30, 2021. Full proposals (by invitation only) will be due September 30, 2021. The final funding decision will be made in November. Workshop Proposal Submission Guidelines.

The William K. and Katherine W. Estes Fund, a joint program of the Psychonomic Society and Association for Psychological Science, is proud to sponsor the 2nd Workshop on Mental Effort, taking place virtually on September 9-10, 2021. The workshop is being organized by Sebastian Musslick (Princeton Neuroscience Institute, USA).

Registrants have the opportunity to submit a motivational statement for participating in hands-on modeling tutorials covering a variety of techniques, including symbolic architecture & connectionist modeling, non-parametric Bayesian methods, dynamical systems, as well as reinforcement learning. Poster abstracts (2,000 characters) can be submitted to present related research on mental effort. Registration is free and is limited to the first 200 participants. Registration and the Call for Submissions closes on July 15, 2021. Learn more and register.

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