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Chloe Hord BA ’24
Jun. 18, 2026—Chloe Hord, Vanderbilt University Class of 2024, has accepted an offer to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue her PhD in Clinical Psychology. In 2024 Chloe graduated from Vanderbilt magna cum laude with her B.A. in Psychology and French, with Highest Honors in French. During her undergraduate years, Chloe served...
5/13 Department Colloquium Speaker: David Freedman
May. 4, 2026—Colloquium speaker David Freedman, PhD University of Chicago Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: 103 Wilson Hall Recruitment of primate oculomotor networks for abstract cognition Humans and other animals are adept at learning to perform cognitively-demanding behavioral tasks. Neurophysiological recordings in non-human primates during such tasks find that task-related cognitive variables...
4/9/26 CCN Brown Bag: Lanting Qiu
Apr. 7, 2026—CCN brown bag Lanting Qiu Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Are there information-processing limits in conscious perception across modalities? We cannot perform two attention-demanding tasks at once, even if they do not overlap in sensory and motor modalities. By contrast, it has been claimed that two targets...
Bunmi Olatunji, PhD, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Clinical Training
Mar. 4, 2026—Bunmi O. Olatunji, Ph.D. Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Clinical Training The Emotion & Anxiety Research Laboratory (EARL) Why do some people develop anxiety disorders while others do not? What role does disgust—an emotion typically associated with contamination and disease—play in conditions like OCD and PTSD? And how...
Frank Tong has been elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologist (SEP)
Jan. 7, 2026—Congratulations to Frank Tong on being elected a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP). https://www.sepsych.org/ The Society of Experimentalists was founded by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1904. Titchener’s design for his “Experimentalists” was that it be an ongoing workshop, with “members visiting labs, studying apparatus, and hearing and commenting on reports of ongoing...
Mark Wallace, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Dean, Graduate School
Dec. 17, 2025—Mark T. Wallace, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Dean, Graduate School, Vanderbilt University The Wallace Lab Why do our senses often work better together than alone? How do sound, sight, and touch combine to shape behavior? And what happens when multisensory processing goes awry in autism, ADHD, or dyslexia? The Wallace Lab investigates the brain’s...
Geoff Woodman named 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner
Dec. 16, 2025—Geoff Woodman, PhD Professor of Psychology, E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University From the nomination letter: After earning his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in psychology from the University of Iowa working with Steve Luck (then at Iowa), Geoff joined Vanderbilt as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology with Jeff Schall and Marvin Chun (when...
12/4/25 Faculty Panel: Making Rejection Work for You – a panel discussion on how to deal with rejection in academia.
Dec. 1, 2025—CCN brown bag Isabel Gauthier, PhD, Andre Bastos, PhD, Ashley Watts, PhD Professors- Psychology Department Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Making Rejection Work for You – a panel discussion on how to deal with rejection in academia. On an average day in our department, many of us face...
12/2/25 Sarah Jessup: What makes a good exposure? An empirical update on approaches to exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders and directions for future research
Dec. 1, 2025—Clinical brown bag Sarah Jessup, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00 pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall What makes a good exposure? An empirical update on approaches to exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders and directions for future research Exposure therapy is considered a highly efficacious, first-line treatment for anxiety-related disorders. Yet,...
12/5/25 Valentina Cigliola: Innate Mechanisms of Spinal Cord Regeneration
Dec. 1, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Valentina Cigliola, PhD Assistant Professor, Pharmacology Date: Friday, December 5, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15 Location: 316 Wilson Hall Innate Mechanisms of Spinal Cord Regeneration Adult mammals including humans fail to regenerate the spinal cord after injury, leading to sensorimotor deficits and paralysis. In contrast, zebrafish can fully regenerate and recover motor function after...