Stories: Research
Jon Kaas, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair in Social and Natural Sciences
Feb. 28, 2024—Jon Kaas leads a world-renowned neuroscience laboratory that has led to seminal scientific contributions to understand the structure and function of the cerebral cortex. Kaas’s work has received multiple prestigious awards, including the 2021 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, the highest recognition conferred by the Society for Neuroscience. Kaas has had a groundbreaking career...
Antonia Kaczkurkin, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Feb. 28, 2024—Antonia Kaczkurkin leads award-winning research on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to the etiology of internalizing disorders. Her work was recently awarded the prestigious APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, which recognizes researchers who have made transformative early career contributions to psychological science. Kaczkurkin researches the neurobiological mechanisma of how we...
Gordon Logan, Centennial Professor of Psychology
Feb. 28, 2024—Gordon Logan is a highly distinguished scholar with profound theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of psychology through his seminal studies of attention, skill acquisition, and executive control. He is a foreign associate of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Logan has pioneered the widely influential “stop-signal paradigm” that forces an individual to inhibit...