If you haven’t already submitted your pre-recorded presentation for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, then you’re busily preparing it to meet the final deadline. The first deadlines have passed, and just as a reminder, the last deadline is quickly approaching: the 2nd of November for recorded talks. For the last several years, […]
When you sit down at the end of a long day and turn on Netflix, do you turn the subtitles on? If so, you are joined by many other viewers who prefer watching television and movies with the closed captions feature. In 2006, the Office of Communications in the UK found that 7.5 million people […]
As the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society swiftly approaches, our Digital Content Team and Twitternomes are beyond excited! This year’s conference boasts a record-breaking eight symposia and a host of poster presentations that are sure to engage a wide variety of research interests. Here to help disseminate the research, the Twitternomes will provide up-to-date posting on […]
“I am an island” (Simon & Garfunkel) Consider the lyrics from Simon & Garfunkel’s “I am a Rock,” A winter’s day In a deep and dark December I am alone Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow I am a rock I am an island I’ve built […]
Our 61st Annual Meeting is one month away! You’re probably well aware because you’ve been feverishly working on your pre-recorded poster or talk presentation to meet the pre-recorded video submission deadlines. The pandemic has necessitated that we no longer meet in Austin, Texas, as initially planned, but instead, we will converge virtually to discuss our research. As in […]
One recommendation to reduce COVID-19 transmission is to keep a distance of at least 2 meters/6 feet from others. If you are a pedestrian making your way through busy city streets, this advice is easier said than done. There’s a lot to keep track of to maintain distance with people coming from different directions and […]
Goals and temptations. The first, the very substance of life. But, oh, the second, they are everywhere! Both are desirable in their own ways, and they do not always align. We wouldn’t call them temptations if they did, would we? In other words, we often need to decide between behaviors leading to short-term immediate rewards […]
Have you ever said hello to someone who looked familiar, but then realized that they are a complete stranger? It’s embarrassing, sure. But the cost of mistaking someone for another person is much greater if you made this error as an eyewitness to a crime. This type of error is made when an eyewitness identifies an […]
Compound words are funny creatures. They exist as words themselves, but also contain smaller words which have their own unique meanings. For example, the compound word butterfly refers to the pretty insect with wings, but it also contains the smaller words butter (yellow spread made from cream) and fly (move through the air). But how […]
My friend recently exclaimed with delight, “You will not believe this!” but before she could tell me what I wouldn’t be able to believe, she answered her phone. What was the news? She sounded happy, for sure. Was she awarded major funding? Did her crush just ask her out? Did she solve a difficult problem? Much […]