Author: Edward McLaurin III (page 3)

Congratulations to Rosa for winning the best poster award at the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Berlin!

Congratulations to Jonathan Winkle for successfully defending his MAP! Winkle just happened to defend his MAP the same week we were hosting social hour. Since this was also the week of Cinco de Mayo, we figured we’d just combine everything…

Congratulations to Katherine, Payal, and Sheetal! Each recently presented their work as the last step in the process of graduating with distinction. Katherine graduated with distinction from the Psychology department, and Payal and Sheetal graduated with distinction from the Neuroscience…

Congratulations to Huettel Lab alumni Jake Young, Dave Smith, and Chris Coutlee on a new paper, Synchrony Between Sensory and Cognitive Networks is Associated with Subclinical Variation in Autistic Traits. The paper was accepted by Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Nichole has recently accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Psychology at the University of Central Florida. UCF’s psychology department is the largest in the western hemisphere and has a focus on psychological research that can be used to address…

Rosa’s paper “Children do not exhibit ambiguity aversion despite intact familiarity bias” was accepted to Frontiers. Congratulations Rosa!

Nichole’s paper, Functional compensation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex improves memory-dependent decisions in older adults, was accepted in the Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations to Nichole on her publication.

Congratulations to Amanda Utevsky for earning a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health! There is a huge amount of work that goes into the preparation and application for an NRSA, so it’s great to see that…

Youngbin’s paper “Differential reward learning for self and others predicts self-reported altruism” was accepted in PLOS One. Congratulations Youngbin!

The new edition of the textbook Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging has just been published. This revision contains expanded content on new analysis methods, sources of the BOLD signal, and ethical controversies in fMRI practice – among many other new and…