Intro Adding to his long list of awards, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus David Sherry (pictured below) of Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, was awarded the Comparative Cognition Society 2021 Research Award. Recipients of the award give a master lecture at the International Conference on Comparative Cognition and a Special Issue in the Psychonomic Society’s journal, Learning & Behavior, is dedicated to research […]
Interview
Professor David Sherry (pictured below) is the awardee of the Comparative Cognition Society‘s Annual Research Award for 2021 for his contributions in the field of comparative psychology. The award is associated with a Special Issue in Learning & Behavior in honor of his research. In the interview, I talk with Professor Scott MacDougall-Shackleton (pictured below), on the the Guest Editors of the […]
Professor Irene Pepperberg (pictured below) is the awardee of the Comparative Cognition Society‘s Annual Research Award for 2020 for her body of work. With that, it is a Special Issue in Learning & Behavior in honor of her research contributions. In the interview, she reflects on her career, gives her 20-year self some advice, talks about research with African Grey […]
The title of this post is “How are aware remote operators of autonomous vehicles?” According to a new paper by Mutzenich, Durant, Helman, and Dalton (pictured below) published in the Psychonomic Society journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, the answer is: we don’t know. One of the points of the paper is to urge researchers to […]
What?! Two new Digital Associate Editors in one week?! That’s right. I’m pleased to introduce you to our newest member of the Psychonomic Society’s Digital Content Team, Benjamin Wolfe (pictured below). To do so, I’ll start with a test question. Ben Wolfe ___________________________. a. is married to Anna Kosovicheva b. is the son of Jeremy Wolfe, […]
Please allow me to introduce you to our newest Digital Associate Editor, Anna Kosovicheva (pictured below). Anna joined the Psychonomic Society’s Digital Content Team just this year. In this capacity, she will play a role in many of our activities, including covering some of the latest research that fills the pages of the Society’s journals. […]
Michelle Rivers, former Twitternome, is now on the Psychonomic Society’s Digital Content Team as one of the Digital Associate Editors! In a series of interviews leading up to the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, Kimele Persaud and I interviewed our 2020 Twitternomes. Including Michelle (pictured below; check out that interview). That makes Michelle our most interviewed […]
I’m pleased to introduce you to the newest Psychonomic Society Digital Associate Editor, Christie Chung (pictured below). Christie is a Professor at Mills College in Oakland, California where she investigates the impact of cultural differences and aging on emotional memory. As a memory researcher myself, I must say that I wholeheartedly agree with her response to my […]
With less than one week until the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, the excitement continues to build. Be sure that you register before the deadline of November 16, 2020. Also, be sure to follow us @Psychonomic_Soc and use the #psynom20 during the Meeting to get updates on the fly. We are at our seventh and final Twitternome […]
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society is right around the corner, and to quote the song Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield: The conference is “So close you can almost taste it.” Now under usual circumstances, we all would be busily (some frantically) planning our travel to the conference. This might have included checking and […]