Cognitive science in the news

FACULTY NEWS 

Danielle McNamara was recently honored by UC Merced with the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award of 2015.  Read More .  Danielle has also been elected for a second three-year term as the Chair of the Governing Board of the Society for Text & Discourse.

DOCTORAL STUDENT NEWS

Hunter Ball is now a post-doctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis.
Justin Fine is now a post-doctoral researcher at ASU’s School of Biological & Health Systems Engineering.
Erica Snow will begin a position at SRI in November.
Tamer Soliman is now a post-doctoral researcher at the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute.

Recent Publications by CS Doctoral Students

2015
Godwin, H. J., Walenchok, S. C., Houpt, J. W., Hout. M. C., & Goldinger, S. D. (2015). Faster than the speed of rejection: Object identification processes during visual search for multiple targets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(4), 1007-1020.

Hout, M. C., Walenchok, S. C., Goldinger, S. D., & Wolfe, J. M. (2015). Failures of perception in the Low-Prevalence Effect: Evidence from active and passive visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(4), 977-994.

Soliman, T., Ferguson, R., Dexheimer, S., & Glenberg, A. M. (2015). Consequences of joint action: Entanglement with your partner. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 873-888.

2014
Fine, JM, & Amazeen, E.L. (2014). Stabilizing Perceptual-Motor Asymmetries During Social Coordination. Human Movement Science. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2014.01.004

Fine, JM, Ward, KL, & Amazeen, E.L. (2014).  Manual Coordination with Intermittent Targets: Velocity Information for Prospective Control. Acta Psychologica, 149, 24-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.02.012

Likens, A. D., Amazeen, P. G., Stevens, R., Galloway, T., & Gorman, J. C. (2014). Neural signatures of team coordination are revealed by multifractal analysis. Social neuroscience, (ahead-of-print), 1-16.

Soliman, T., & Glenberg, A. M. (2014). The embodiment of culture.  In L. Shapiro (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition

Soliman, T., & Glenberg, A. M. (2014). What Does the Forward Model of an Expert Hand-Tool Motor Program Code? Comment on Semantics: A unifying conceptual framework for the selective use of multimodal and modality-specific object knowledge by van Elk, van Schie, & Bekkering.  Physics of Life Reviews.