Research Volunteer (laboratory of Prof. Antonia Kaczkurkin)
Aug. 6, 2024—Research volunteers in the BRAINS Lab in Wilson Hall assist with data collection for studies on anxiety and depressive symptoms. Duties may include recruiting participants, administering cognitive tests, assisting with prepping participants for EEG and fMRI data collection, serving as a back-up MRI participant, completing data preprocessing and cleaning, conducting literature reviews, assisting with IRB...
Jordan Gunn receives the College of Arts & Science Outstanding Student Teaching Assistant Award
Jul. 30, 2024—Ph.D. candidate, Jordan Gunn received the College of Arts & Science Outstanding Student Teaching Assistant Award. Established in 1985, this award is given each year for exceptionally effective classroom and/or laboratory instruction by a graduate teaching assistant. The Committee on Graduate Education selects an award winner from departmental nominations. The winner receives a cash prize and an engraved plaque. Jordan...
Tim McNamara named Dean of College of Arts and Science
Jul. 30, 2024—Vanderbilt University has named Timothy P. McNamara, as Ginny and Conner Searcy Dean of the College of Arts and Science. McNamara’s appointment for a two-year term, announced by C. Cybele Raver, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, follows McNamara’s exemplary service as interim dean since July 2023. McNamara, whose appointment is effective July 1...
Commencement Celebration 2024
Jul. 26, 2024— 2023-2024 Commencement Award Winners: Undergraduate Overall Excellence Award: Sophia Mueller & Chloe Hord Jum Nunnally Undergraduate Honors Research Award: Kavi Jakes Undergraduate Academic Achievement Award: Sophia Potolsky Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award: Qimeng Wang Jum Nunnally Dissertation Award: Saman Abbaspoor William F Hodges Teaching Assistant Award: Jordan Gunn Vivien Casagrande Travel Award:...
VSS 2024 – a great Vanderbilt showing
May. 26, 2024—This year, Vanderbilt was well represented at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference with several exciting presentations from researchers from Psychology as well as other departments. Randolph Blake and Isabel Gauthier presented during the awards ceremony as their received, respectively, the Ken Nakayama Medal and the Davida Teller awards, Frank Tong had a talk in...
Kickball 2024 edition!
May. 16, 2024—This year’s Kickball event was a success! Playing under the tent was surprisingly nice, and we didn’t break anything. A team of staff, faculty and student from Psychology (aka “not Ashleigh’s team”) was victorious against the younger, stronger and eager (but perhaps still too green?) team of students from PSY 1200 General Psychology Maymester (team...
5/24/24 John Reynolds: Intrinsic Traveling Waves and Visual Perception
Apr. 23, 2024—John Reynolds, PhD Professor, Fiona and Sanjay Jha Chair in Neuroscience The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Systems Neurobiology Laboratory Date: Friday, May 24, 2024 Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: 1220 MRBIII Intrinsic Traveling Waves and Visual Perception Perceptual sensitivity varies from moment to moment. One potential source of this variability is spontaneous...
Radnor Lake birdwatching April 20, 2024
Apr. 23, 2024—(Our full list for that morning can be found here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S169454419) At Radnor Lake, with gentle tread, The psychology folks, with eyes ahead, Spied birds aloft and on the wing, In a chorus only spring could bring. Canada Geese in stately flight, Wood Ducks glimmered in morning light, Mallards waddled, a charming view, Chimney Swifts...
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)...