…for taming the infamous drawer of chaos. AMAZING!
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