A paper by Rankin McGugin, Jenn Richler, Grit Herzmann, Magen Speegle and Isabel Gauthier shows sex differences in object recognition, and that face recognition is related to ability to recognize sex-congruent categories.
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2012/09/visual-recognition-genders/
This paper ( McGugin, R.W., Gatenby, Gore, J.C., Gauthier, I. (in press). High-resolution imaging of expertise reveals reliable object selectivity in the FFA related to perceptual performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.) just got accepted! Yay!
This is Rankin’s Experiment 1 from her dissertation
Just accepted: Richler, J.J., Palmeri, T.J., Gauthier, I. (in press). How does using object names influence visual recognition? Journal of Memory and Language.
Isabel has been named the David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology!
Congratulations to Steph on doing a wonderful job defending her dissertation!
Kao Chua received an honorable mention on his NSF graduate fellowship application
Rankin McGugin wins a $2000 dissertation enhancement grant from the graduate school to go to ISMRM and learn more about ultra-high field imaging. Congrats!
Isabel had the great pleasure of hooding Drs. Yetta Wong, Olivia Cheung and Jenn Richler, and to celebrate their wonderful achievements with friends and family
Congratulations to Stephenie Harrison for passing her dissertation proposal with brio and to Ana Beth Van Gulick for a successful 2nd year meeting!
Rankin McGugin wins the Pat Burns memorial graduate student research award! Congratulations Rankin!