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The university’s Memory Optimization Lab creates an automated method for selecting helpful memory cues during recall difficulties
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-researchers-develop-reminder-system-enhance-memory-recall#
External reminders are crucial for memory support because they can unlock information that was previously hard to access. Professor Qiong Zhang and graduate student Charlotte Cornell sought to develop an automated way of selecting helpful reminders when memory recall becomes challenging. This work is supported by National Science Foundation and recently published in the journal Psychological Science.
Meet the New Honors College Faculty Fellows!
This year, the Honors College welcomes four new Faculty Fellows to join Dean Bowers, including two Residential Fellows who live in the Honors College and two Affiliate Fellows who are present at regular times throughout the week. All are here to offer their time and ear for mentorship and conversation about anything on students' minds.
One of which is our own, Kristen Syrett, HC Affiliated Faculty Fellow—a Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and an advocate for gender equity and diversity.
To learn more, please see this link.
Study Examines What Drives Belief
In a study published in Psychological Review, Drs. Sommer, Hemmer, and Musolino analyzed previous studies and have developed a new scientific theory they say is behind the psychology of belief.
To learn more, please see this link.
Alan M. Leslie Appointed Board of Governors Professor of Psychology
The Rutgers University Board of Governors has named Alan M. Leslie as Board of Governors Professor of Psychology effective July 1.
Leslie, a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science in the School of Arts and Sciences, is renowned for
his research into the mechanisms of the mind that give rise to thought and knowledge.For more information please see this link.
Prof. Elizabeth Torres, Rutgers Professor Receives Career Development Award
Professor Torres, Director of the Sensory Motor Integration Laboratory, receives Career Development Award from the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation. The award, a second in her tenure at Rutgers University, is to lend continuity to her research program in autism and embodied cognition. This brings the generous contributions of the Foundation to over 1.3 million dollars to the Torres lab, for research in autism.
- Rutgers Sensory Motor Integration Lab Awarded by the I-ASC
- Professor Elizabeth B Torres Awarded 4 Patents!
- Congratulations to Pernille Hemmer, Ryan Rhodes, & Bruce Tesar for receiving the 2022-23 Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Award
- Spring 2023 Cognitive Science Evolution, Cognition and Culture class field trip