Two A&S psychology faculty receive prestigious awards in vision sciences
Apr. 15, 2024—Two leading scholars in the College of Arts and Science Department of Psychology were recognized by the Vision Sciences Society, the leading international society for vision science research. Randolph Blake, Centennial Professor of Psychology, won the 2024 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science Award for lasting, high-impact contributions to vision science. Isabel Gauthier, David K....
3/7/24 – Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Brown Bag: David Coggan, PhD
Mar. 7, 2024—Modelling human visual perception of occluded objects: insights from training 150 convolutional neural networks. Date: Thursday, March 7 Time: 12:20 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Location: Wilson Hall 115 Human observers can readily perceive and recognize visual objects, even when occluding stimuli obscure much of the object from view. By contrast, state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNNs)...
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Internalizing Disorders at Vanderbilt University (Prof. Antonia Kaczkurkin)
Mar. 5, 2024—The BRAINS Lab in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University seeks applicants for a postdoctoral researcher position. The lab’s research program focuses on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to internalizing disorders. The lab integrates multimodal measures such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), cerebral blood flow, brain anatomy, psychophysiology (e.g., electroencephalography (EEG), startle...
3/5/24 – Clinical Brown Bag Lecture Series: Junghee Lee, PhD
Mar. 5, 2024—Social Cognition in Severe Mental Illness: Where we are and where we are going. Date: Tuesday, March 5 Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location: Wilson Hall 316 Social cognition refers to a set of abilities that recognize, understand and respond to socially relevant information from oneself and others. Social cognition is considered one of...
3/1/24 – Friday Neuroscience Brown Bag Lecture Series: Ken Rahman
Mar. 5, 2024—Macaque learning of spatiotemporal sequences and their mapping to hippocampal representational geometry Date: Friday, March 1 Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: Wilson Hall 115 Hippocampal activity in freely-moving rodents shows the capacity for stable spatiotemporal representations of the environment (through ‘place cells’) that may serve as a cognitive map. These findings have been...
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...
Advancing Forensic Psychiatry – Lindsey Gilling McIntosh BA’14
Feb. 28, 2024—Lindsey Gilling McIntosh focused on clinical psychology during her undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt. Lindsey worked with Sohee Park, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in forensic psychiatry from the University of Edinburgh where she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2023, she was awarded the Christopher...
Developing AI-Assisted Patient Treatment – Zachary Cohen BA’09
Feb. 28, 2024—Zachary Cohen completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Psychology in 2009, taking neuroscience and clinical psychology classes, and went on to complete a doctorate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. After a postdoc period, he accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Arizona in the clinical program, becoming the clinical director....