Newly Minted PhD: Dr. Lilian Azer
Congratulations to Dr. Azer! Lilian graduated from UCR with a BA in 2014 and then a MA in clinical psychology from CalState in 2017. After this brief detour, for lack of a better word, Lilian came back and joined our CCN program as a PhD student. Lilian’s research focuses on the impacts of various health-related…
UCR press release on our handgrip aging paper
Older adults are more easily distracted: Finding highlights age-related declines in short-term memory, cognitive control
Congratulations to Zane
After receiving a NIH K99 award, Zane will be starting his tenure-track faculty position and “Integrative Cognition and Neuroscience” lab at the University of Maryland in January 2024! Congratulations!
UCR press release on our face memory paper
“Celebrities can be easily spotted on the street, although the internet is also flooded with celebrity lookalikes and hilarious “celebrity sightings” where strangers were mistaken as celebrities. These seemingly contradictory “celebrity sightings” phenomena widely reported on social media bring up a question; are celebrity faces remembered more precisely (and hence more recognizable) but less accurately (with biases where…
Newly Minted PhD: Hyung-Bum Park
Congratulations to Dr. Park, our newly minted Ph.D. Dr. Park uses sophisticated experimental and computational methods to assess a unique aspect of memory representation, the precise correspondence between external stimulus and internal representation (i.e., accuracy). Since memory accuracy and various experimental effects on it are captured as μ (μs) in Park’s model, Park has officially…
Lilian received GSA Mentoring and Career Development Award!
Congratulations to Lilian for receiving 2022 Mentoring and Career Development Technical Assistance Workshop Diversity Fellow Award from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) !
Cognitive modeling of mammogram reading at ECR
Park & Tammy attended the annual conference of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna to collect data for the CRCC-funded project on cognitive modeling of mammogram reading. It is a part of the Medical Image Perception lab that Dr. Jeremy Wolfe has put together over the past few years. For this project in…
Congratulations to Professor Won!
Dr. Bo Yeong Won will be starting her tenure track faculty position at CSU next month.