Graduate Student Presentations:
Sylvia Guillory
Sekuler Lab
Poster Presentation, "Alpha-band Oscillations Distinguish Endogenous and Exogenous Attentional Influences,"
19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Chicago, IL
March 31 - April 3, 2012
Abigail Noyce
Sekuler Lab
Poster Presentation with Rober Sekuler, "Source localization of EEG signals generated during sequence learning and
expectation monitoring"
19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Chicago, IL
Mar 31 - Apr 3, 2012
Abigail Noyce
Sekuler Lab
Talk with Robert Sekuler: "Working Memory Resolution Increases Faster Than Capacity in Visuomotor Sequence Learning"
Vision Sciences Society
May 11-16, 2012
News
Sign up for PSYC 51a and PSYC 52a for Fall 2012!
Tuesday, April 3 & Wednesday, April 4
at 8:45 am outside of Brown 125! (click the course link for more details).
Department News
Congratulations to Nicole Rosa, recipient of a 2012-2013 University Prize Instructorship. University Prize Instructorships are sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and award a stipend to students to design and teach upper-division courses in their field of research. Instructorships are awarded to exceptional doctoral candidates who have made substantial progress toward their degree. Nicole's course, "Seminar on Self and Identity" will be offered in the fall of 2012 as PSYC143a. This is a central topic for the Psychology curriculum, and Nicole's syllabus touches on all branches of our discipline. "Seminar on Self and Identity" is a wonderful example of how our graduate students enrich the intellectual life of our department. Congratulations Nicole!
Congratulations to Margeaux Auslander! Margeaux is the 2012 recipient of the Verna Regan Award, which is given annually to an outstanding teaching fellow in Psychology. Congratulations, Margeaux!
The Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society has announced their selection of 77 new members. The Psychology Department is proud to announce that 14 of those 77 students are psychology majors! The Class of 2012 students elected are: Talya Davidoff, Emily R. Farver, Kassandra J. Gibbs, Allison R. Joseph, Michelle S. Kaplow, Austen D. Katz, Nicole Z. Litvak, Jessica L. Nusbaum, Dara S. Rosenkrantz, Carolyn M. Schweitzer, Daniel A. Simansky, Marianne F. Specker, Jeremy W. Weinberg, Johanna L. Wickemeyer. The criteria for selection is based on the students’ academic record, breadth of interest, and the opinions of faculty and senior administrators. Congratulations to our students!
Professor Raymond Knight knight2@brandeis.edu is the Undergraduate Advising Head (UAH) for the Spring 2012 semester. His office is located in Brown 322 and his office hours are Tuesdays 8 -10 am and Thursdays 10:00 - 11:45 am and by appointment.Professor Joe Cunningham is on sabbatical during the Spring 2012 semester. When he returns in Fall, 2012, he will once again be the Undergraduate Advising Head.
We are pleased to announce our new visiting faculty members for the Spring 2012 semester.
Dr. GraysonKimball is a certified sport psychology consultant in Boston. He teaches is an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern and Tufts University, teaching undergraduate sport psychology courses and statistics courses. He also serves as a full-time faculty member for the Sport & Exercise Psychology Master’s program through Argosy University Online. An avid runner, Dr. Kimball enjoys running marathons and recently published his first book; “Grateful Running: Mental Training for the Long Distance Runner.”
Dr. Yoko Okado will be teaching NPSY 154a, Human Memory, in spring 2012. She received her master's degree and Ph.D. in psychological and brain sciences from Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on human memory and the medial temporal lobe and she is particularly interested in examining memory reconstruction and false memories using fMRI.
Awards
Professor Arthur Wingfield receives a Brandeis-Israeli Collaborative Seed Grant! He will be working with the IDC, in Herzliya to initiate collaborative research efforts there.
Professor Nicolas Rohleder receives the 2011 Curt P. Richter Award!
Professor Arthur Wingfield receives 2010 Baltes Distinguished Research Award!
In the News
Professor Leslie Zebrowitz is featured in romantic comedy Losing Control
Health Psychology Laboratory profiled in Brandeis Magazine.
Aging, Culture and Cognition Laboratory study on BrandeisNOW.