Congratulations to Victoria, Sara, and Liz on publishing Victoria’s honors thesis with the USF Psychology Honors Program in Psychophysiology! Her project is titled “Event-related potentials show that parafoveal vision is insufficient for semantic integration”.
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Poster Sessions at the 63rd Annual Psychonomics Meeting
This year’s Psychonomics meeting was held at Boston, Massachusetts. EMaC Lab members presented the results from their most recent projects. On Thursday, Sara presented her poster titled: ” Parafoveal processing provides a head start on word recognition and reduces foveal N400 effects” On Friday, Brian presented his poster titled: “Investigating the relationship between language skillContinue reading “Poster Sessions at the 63rd Annual Psychonomics Meeting”
Poster Session at the 10th Annual USF Psychology Expo
Casey, Hannah and Katie presented their posters at the 10th Annual USF Psychology Expo!
Dr. Liz Schotter Awarded Outstanding Research Achievement Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Schotter for being recognized by the University of South Florida with an Outstanding Research Achievement Award!
EMaC in-person lab party
The EMaC lab has finally held their first in-person lab party of the past two years to celebrate their finished projects, accepted manuscripts and all other achievements! During the party, the lab members got the chance to meet with Evan (the youngest RA of the lab)!
EMaC Lab is awarded a three year NSF grant!
The lab is excited to get started on a project, in collaboration with Karen Emmorey’s lab at San Diego State University, which investigates the visual and linguistic factors that predict the size of the perceptual span in hearing and deaf readers.
Neslihan Caliskan Awarded Psi Chi Summer Undergraduate Research Grant!
Congratulations to Nesli for being awarded the Psi Chi research grant for her individual honors thesis project! She will receive $1,500 for her project to collect ERP data over the summer and upcoming fall semester. Her project will focus on the functional role of the N400 event-related potential component during word recognition and sentence comprehension.
Congratulations to Dimitri and Nesli for BOTH receiving the PAR scholarships for Excellence in Psychology!!
This year, the psychology department offered two awards for a graduating senior (Dimitri) and Junior-come-Senior (Nesli). Each of them received $ 5,000 in tuition reduction and were selected as the winners among two pools of highly competitive applicants. Keep up the great work!!
Victoria Estevez and Sam Shinde Awarded Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grant!
Congratulations to Victoria and Sam for being awarded Psi Chi research grants for their individual honors thesis projects! They will receive $1,500 per project to collect data over the upcoming summer and fall semesters. Their projects will focus on the role of language-related ERPs during word recognition and semantic integration.
Check out our alumna Anna Marie’s honors thesis published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review!
Congratulations to our alumna, Anna Marie, on publishing her honors thesis with the USF Psychology Honors Program in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! Her project looks at how music interferes with working memory for language and how musical training may be correlated with greater verbal working memory! Special thanks to our collaborators Dr. Jennifer Bugos @ The SchoolContinue reading “Check out our alumna Anna Marie’s honors thesis published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review!”
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