When we launched the Psychonomic Society’s featured content site back in 2014, we had a simple idea: take the remarkable work of cognitive scientists and make it approachable, inviting a broader community into the conversation.
Over the years, we did just that.
Through blog posts (over 800!), podcasts (6 seasons!), interviews, research highlights, and digital events, we featured the questions that drive this community and the people who dedicate their careers to understanding how the mind works. It has been a genuine joy to shine a light on the science and the scientists behind it.
While people worldwide visited the site, which countries were in the top three? The US, UK, and Canada (perhaps not a surprise).
Our most widely read posts were:
- Who kidnapped Charles Lindbergh, Jr? Forensic handwriting analysis and expertise by Stephan Lewandowsky (the first PS Digital Content Editor).
- Putting p’s into lmer: mixed-model regression and statistical significance by Richard Morey.
- Color me impressed! Psychology research links colors and emotions for over a century by Brett Myers.
Our longest digital event was on strategic learning (13 posts long!), organised by Michelle Rivers.
As we wrap up our activities, we want to acknowledge everyone who built this space.
- To the readers who came along for the ride: thank you.
- To the authors who trusted us to cover your work: thank you.
- To the contributors who wrote posts: thank you.
- To the Psychonomic Society for giving us space to play: thank you.
- To the past editors and science communication interns for all your work: thank you.
What’s next? The current digital team is going on to focus on our own research and our full-time roles. While we’re stepping down from our digital duties, the Society will reimagine what comes next in this space with the appointment of a Science Communication Editor.
In the meantime, the site will remain up as an archive of the years we spent telling stories about science: the people, the failures, the puzzles, and the improbable successes.
Until then, we will read your research in the pages of the Society’s journals.
So, so long … for now.
With kind wishes and gratitude,
The Psychonomic Society Digital Team:
- Laura Mickes (Digital Content Editor 2020-2025)
- Jonathan A. Caballero (Digital Associate Editor 2020-2025)
- Anna Kosovicheva (Digital Associate Editor 2021-2025)
- Melinh Lai (Digital Associate Editor 2022-2025)
- Heather Manitzas Hill (longest serving Digital Associate Editor 🏆 2016-2025)
- Brett Myers (Digital Associate Editor 2019-2025)
- Ben Wolfe (Digital Associate Editor 2021-2025)
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Laura's research is focused on understanding basic and applied aspects of memory, including eyewitness memory. She is currently a Professor at the University of Bristol in the School of Psychological Science and the Psychonomic Society Digital Content Editor.
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Jonathan Caballero is a cognitive and behavioral scientist specializing in social perception and its role in decision-making. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, in Canada, where he conducts studies addressing the role that verbal and non-verbal cues play in the perception of social situations, personal traits, and affective inferences and how this information influences social interaction and ultimately health and well-being in healthy and clinical populations. His research is done using a combination of perceptual, behavioral, acoustic, and electrophysiological methodologies. The long-term goal is to generate knowledge of how ambiguous social information guides decision-making and to use this knowledge to inform interventions for improving the quality of social outcomes in clinical populations and in healthy individuals that, nevertheless, are exposed to negative social treatment, such as speakers with nonstandard accents.
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Anna Kosovicheva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Her research focuses on visual localization and spatial and binocular vision, with an emphasis on the application of vision research to real-world problems.
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Melinh K. Lai is a graduate student in Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on predictions that people make as they comprehend language, with a current focus on how both prediction dynamics and broader comprehension and memory processes change in accordance with different goals. She primarily studies these concepts through the use of event-related potentials (ERPs).
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Heather Hill is a Professor at St. Mary’s University. She has conducted research on the mother-calf relationship and social development of bottlenose dolphins in human care. She also studied mirror self-recognition and mirror use in dolphins and sea lions. Most recently, she has been studying the social behavior and cognitive abilities of belugas, killer whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, and bottlenose dolphins in human care. She has also been known to dabble in various aspects of human cognition and development, often at the intersection of those two fields.
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Brett Myers, PhD, CCC-SLP is an Associate Professor and the Director of Clinical Education in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Utah. He received his doctorate from Vanderbilt University, where he studied with Duane Watson and Reyna Gordon. His research investigates planning processes during speech production, including parameters related to prosody, and their role in neural models of motor speech control.
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Benjamin Wolfe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. His research sits at the intersection of applied and basic vision science, including questions of visual perception in driving, improving readability and extending our understanding of visual perception in real-world settings.
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