{"id":2279,"date":"2025-11-19T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:58:09","slug":"conor-smithson-successfully-defends-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/2025\/11\/19\/conor-smithson-successfully-defends-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Smithson successfully defends dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"markyz062ffm1\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2280 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/19175623\/Conor-Smithson-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/19175623\/Conor-Smithson-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/19175623\/Conor-Smithson.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"markyz062ffm1\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Conor<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"mark70vsiv8ww\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Smithson<\/span>\u00a0from The Object Perception lab successfully defended his dissertation titled &#8220;The Structure and Correlates of Domain-general Object Recognition Ability&#8221; on 11\/5, under the supervision of Dr. Isabel Gauthier. This work uses structural equation modeling to advance our understanding of the relations between a high-level visual ability for subordinate-level object recognition and a number of other constructs,\u00a0including intelligence, spatial abilities, auditory object\u00a0recognition and episodic memory for the location of objects.\u00a0<span class=\"mark1feq1a6h0 uM2yb\" data-markjs=\"true\">Congratulations<\/span>\u00a0Dr.\u00a0<span class=\"mark70vsiv8ww\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Smithson<\/span>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor\u00a0Smithson\u00a0from The Object Perception lab successfully defended his dissertation titled &#8220;The Structure and Correlates of Domain-general Object Recognition Ability&#8221; on 11\/5, under the supervision of Dr. Isabel Gauthier. This work uses structural equation modeling to advance our understanding of the relations between a high-level visual ability for subordinate-level object recognition and a number of other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[3],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}