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 starts with colourful loud pops of fireworks to celebrate Diwali and, soon after, Guy Fawkes Night and, later, I give thanks by stuffing my face with mashed potatoes to celebrate Thanksgiving (US).
Depending on your background and location, there’s much to celebrate in November: there’s Día de los Muertos (Mexico), Remembrance Day (Canada, Australia, Israel, Poland, Russia, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, etc.), Thanksgiving (US), to name a few. I reckon I’m not the only Psychonomic Society member who, since graduate school, immediately thinks of the Annual Meeting when November is brought up. And in my view, it’s a time to celebrate our science.
Whether you’re attending the 2022 63rd Annual Meeting in Boston or virtually, we come together to share our science. Behind the scenes, in addition to presenting our own research, the Society’s Digital Team is preparing to cover the event. Many of the Digital Associate Editors (Jonathan Caballero, Lisa Fazio, Anna Kosovicheva, Melinh Lai, Brett Myers, and Ben Wolfe) will write talk and symposia summaries to populate our daily emails.
For the past several years, Twitternomes covered the event’s happenings on our Twitter account, @Psychonomic_Soc. Three former Twitternomes, Kris Bowman, Gia Macias, and Raunak Pillai, agreed to tweet again, so you’ll be in for a tweet treat by following our Twitter account during the meeting.
The last time we convened over cognitive psychology in Boston was in 2016. Roberta Klatzky gave the keynote, “Perception and Action in the Wild.” This year, Jeremy Wolfe (pictured below) is the keynote speaker and will tell us about his research in his talk, “Normal Blindness: Why We Look But Fail To See” – don’t fail to see this talk! There will, of course, be plenty of talks and posters to satisfy your cognitive psychology thirst (get [with] the program).
While we prepare to live and breathe cognitive psychology for four days, if you’re attending in person, I hope you will indulge in Boston’s highlights, like Boston baked beans, Boston cream pie, and any number of the city’s attractions. See you there soon!