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RuCCS NTT Faculty Ryan Rhodes won 1st place in the CogSci Mind Challenge
- December 10, 2024
Dr. Ryan Rhodes is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He won 1st place 🥇 in the 2024 CogSci Mind Challenge hosted at the Cognitive Science Society: https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-challenge/. In this video, Dr. Ryan Rhodes narrates several processes related to memory in an entertaining and informative way. He leverages exciting audiovisuals to underscore his approachable teaching style and make his video, well, memorable! Each year, the CogSci Mind Challenge invites Cognitive Scientists to create a five-minute video addressing a key question within Cognitive Science for an audience of non-experts, particularly high school and early college students. The question for this competition was, “Why do our memories sometimes fade or fail?”
A special thanks to Prof. Shannon Bryant for agreeing to be the opening act for the presentation~!Click here to learn more about his submission.
Professor Torres has published a new book by Elsevier Academic Press entitled, "Autism Autonomy: In Search of Our Human Dignity."
- October 9, 2024
Her book provides a new and unifying methodological framework and discusses machine learning and biometrics techniques to diagnose, characterize, and treat patterns of sensory motor control underlying autism symptoms. With the hope of improving basic research in these areas, this volume will allow readers to design better interventions and provide awareness of a number of new technologies used in the autism field. Wearable bio-sensing technologies, machine learning, and AI methods are all discussed regarding their applications to provide better self-awareness, interaction, diagnosis, and prognosis.
For more books written by Prof Torres, please visit:https://sensorymotorintegrationlab.com/books/
RuCCS Post Doctoral Associate, James Preston Lennon’s paper “Are Phenomenal Theories of Thought Chauvinistic? has been published in the American Philosophical Quarterly.
- September 16, 2024
Congratulations to James Preston Lennon, a RuCCS Post Doctoral Associate whose research paper, “Are Phenomenal Theories of Thought Chauvinistic? “ was published in a July 2024 issue of the American Philosophical Quarterly!
Read the paper here https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/issue/61/3
SAS Scientists Named Board of Governors Professors
- September 16, 2024
The Board of Governors appointed SAS professor Dimitri Metaxas as Board of Governors Professors, a designation that celebrates the most decorated academic scholars at the university. Metaxas, of the Department of Computer Science, has received numerous awards for his research and mentored many postdoctoral researchers, including over 67 Ph.D. students.
First Year Student Already Advancing Brain Research
- September 16, 2024
Even before taking her first class at Rutgers, Julia Rhodes had a paper published in a national scientific journal and worked on research at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute. The first year student plans to major in cognitive science in SAS and continue conducting research on the brain. "I want to join a lab and keep pursuing that kind of work," she told Rutgers Today. "It's really exciting that I got to start before going to college."