As mentioned in the last post, the Psychonomic Society launched a new program, a Science Communication internship for graduate students to gain experience writing about scientific findings for the general public. Two interns, Kelly Cotton and Raunak Pillai (Raunak’s interview is here), were selected for the first term that will last over the next six months. During this time, […]
The Psychonomic Society launched a new program, a Science Communication internship. Not all graduate students wish to continue in academia, so this program offers experience writing about science for the general public. Even for those students who do wish to go down the academic path, communicating our research to other people than other scientists is […]
November is here. The leaves changed from green into vibrant yellows, oranges, and reds and carpeted the streets. The air chilled, so my winter clothes reappeared, replacing my summer clothes, as I braced myself for the colder months ahead. Root vegetables supplanted fresh salads on my menus. For me, an American in the UK, November […]
In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Anna Kosovicheva and Ben Wolfe (pictured below) about their research described in an article recently published in the Psychonomic Society journal, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. They co-authored the paper with the first Editor in Chief of another of the Society’s journals, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Jeremy Wolfe. […]
For the next two weeks, we are running a digital event called “#WeNeedEDI: Striving for equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout academics’ careers.” The event focuses on the experiences of underrepresented academics and potential ways to increase equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as we go from early-career academics to emeriti. The Psychonomic Society “recognizes the strategic […]
In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Caitlin Sisk (pictured below). Caitlin took a break from wedding celebrations in Cape Cod to tell me about the research she and co-authors published recently in the Psychonomic Society journal, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI). To be clear, she was attending the wedding, not a star […]
In this podcast episode, I interview Sezin Öner about her paper published in Memory & Cognition. The paper reports research conducted collaboratively with 30 researchers from 15 countries around the world. Participants in those countries reported unusual national and global events during the first signs of the pandemic and what may occur in the future. The authors considered […]
What do we know about the structures of our knowledge and its connectivity? Do they differ between novices and experts, especially on the topics of experts? Imagine if I asked you to come up with as many words as possible related to quantum mechanics. How many words would you generate? How about if you had […]
I’m pleased to introduce you to our new Digital Associate Editor (DAE), Melinh Lai (pictured below). If you read her post authored in a guest capacity, you are already familiar with her. In the interview with Melinh, I asked my now-standard DAE questions and was entertained by her thoughtful, clever, humorous responses and I suspect […]
If you watched the Academy Award winning film, CODA (trailer below), you’ll appreciate that the character who played the son is a native signer. That is, he learned sign language from his parents from the start. How do we learn spatial relations? It’s a fundamental ability we pick up early. Much of what we know […]