Congratulation to Giselle Fiestan for completing the Honors program in Psychology with High Honors. The title of her thesis was “What’s That on My Plate? Individual Differences in Visual Recognition of Prepared Food”
Oakyoon won the Bob Fox Award of Excellence in Post-Doctoral Research for 2021
Ting-Yun Chang won the William F. Hodges Teaching Assistant Award for 2021!
Keila is an undergraduate majoring in Medicine, Health and Society, and working with Dr. Gauthier on an immersion project focused on expanding the OPL sampling to Spanish-speaking individuals.
Mel Kacin will be starting in the graduate program in clinical psychology at Queens College, City University of New York, in Fall 2021, and also recently got her paper with Isabel and Oakyoon Cha, on ensemble perception accepted in Vision Research. Congrats, and go get them!
We are happy to announce that Oakyoon Cha, who worked as a postdoc for 3 years in the OPLab as well as with Randolph Blake at Vanderbilt, has been offered a faculty position at Sungshin Women’s University, In Seoul, South Korea, starting in March 2021.
These are the OPL presentations at VSS this year:
Cha, O., Blake, R., & Gauthier, I. (2020) Judgments of average and variance within object ensembles rely on a common ability. Poster at V-VSS.
Chow, J., Palmeri, T., & Gauthier, I. (2020). Tactile object recognition performance on graspable objects, but not texture-like objects, relates to visual object recognition ability. Poster at V-VSS.
Gauthier, I., Sunday, M.A., Tomarken, A.J. & Cho, S.J. (2020). o is the same for familiar and novel objects. Poster at V-VSS.
Sun, J. & Gauthier, I. (2020). Car expertise does not compete with face expertise during ensemble coding. Poster at V-VSS.
File that includes all posters
Mackenzie Sunday will start at Google in December as a “quantitative user experience research on Google Cloud” – Congrats Mackenzie!!
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