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Elizabeth Torres, Rutgers' Professor's focus on Sensory-Motor Performance
Elizabeth Torres is a Rutgers' Professor and as well as part of Rutgers Center of Cognitive Sciences and Department of Psychology. Her area of focus is Cognitive Psychology. She received her PhD in Cognitive
Science in 2001 from the University of California, San Diego and did her Post-Doctoral training in electrophysiology at CALTECH. She has been on the faculty at Rutgers since 2008. Her research combines theory and experiments
to study how primates plan, execute, learn and adapt to natural voluntary motions. Torres recently extended computational measures of sensory-motor performance in adults to the developmental stages of pre-pubertal individuals. The main focus of the lab will assess a broad range of natural voluntary behaviors in children who
suffer from autism and other developmental disabilities. The main goal of this component of her research is to provide early intervention therapies to improve communication skills and social interactions in these young individuals.
Rutgers Graduate Students Have Team Work Project Published
Congratulations to Gwendolyn L. Rehrig, Michelle Cheng, Brian C. McMahan and Rahul Shome (two in Psychology; two in Computer Science) who, with funding from the Perceptual Science IGERT (NSF), worked
as a team on a project as part of the IGERT-created Interdisciplinary Methods in Perceptual Science course. Their project, published recently in the journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, used an innovative active visual search task combined with Bayesian ideal observer modeling to show that people
have limited ability to learn to override semantic priors when searching for common objects within visual
scenes. The students worked as a team on all phases of the project, from initial design through manuscript
submission and acceptance, with exceptional levels of coordination and cooperation, contributing different aspects to the project and learning from one another.The full reference is Rehrig, G.L., Cheng, M., McMahan, B.C. & Shome, R. (2021) Why are the batteries in the microwave?: Use of semantic information under uncertainty in a search task. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implication, 6:32, 1-22 (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)
RuCCS EC Member Konstantinos Michmizos to give keynote speech on Neuromorphic Computing and Neuro-Robotics at the 2021 IEEE International Conference
Konstantinos Michmizos, RuCCS EC Member, will be giving the keynote speech on Neuromorphic Computing and Neuro-Robotics at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST). The conference is to be held on August 24th-26th of this year in New York. The IEEE IST is the premier conference demonstrating frontier research results in imaging technologies, systems, and techniques. For more information on the conference, visit here.
RuCCS Executive Council Member Karin Stromswold selected as recipient of the 2019-2020 School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education
Congratulations to Dr. Karin Stromswold, RuCCS Executive Council Member and Professor of Psychology, has been selected as a recipient of the 2019-2020 Rutgers School of Arts and Science Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the Professor rank! The awards for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education are given annually to professors and teaching assistants in the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) to "recognize their outstanding achievements in and beyond the classroom, their engagement with their students and pedagogic communities, and their overall commitment to the undergraduate education mission."
RuCCS Affiliate Mariapaola D'Imperio elected to the International Speech Communication Association Board for 2021-2025
Mariapaola D'Imperio, RuCCS Affiliate and Distinguished Professor, has been elected to the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Board for 2021-2025. She is elected to the board alongside 7 other international members from the US, the UK, Singapore, Sweden, Japan, India, and the Netherlands. For more on ISCA, visit the website here.
- RuCCS Associate Austin A. Baker interviewed on Ipse Dixit podcast
- Graduate student Carolina Flores wins SWIP-NYC Essay Prize for paper on epistemic styles
- Scientific paper by RuCCS Research Programmer Jason Geller accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Rutgers Dr. Julien Musolino Invited to Speak at the 2021 Vatican Conference