2015 Department News

New Cognitive Neuroscience faculty member听Maureen Ritchey听听by the Association for Psychological Science. Posted 12/23/15.

Jennifer Drake, 热点爆料入口 Psychology Ph.D 2012,听. Posted 12/23/15.

Kelly Dumais听and听Alexa Veenema听published a paper in the journal听Psychoneuroendocrinology听entitled "." This is the first study exploring the concomitant dynamics between the oxytocin receptor and oxytocin release in a single brain region and revealing higher oxytocin receptor binding and higher oxytocin release during social recognition in male rats compared to female rats. These findings emphasize the importance of studying both sexes in order to better understand the neurobiological basis of normal and impaired forms of social behavior. Posted 12/2/15.

Incoming assistant professor听Katherine McAuliffe听and colleagues published a听听today on how a sense of fairness develops in children in seven different cultures. News reports about this paper have appeared in听,听, and听. Posted 11/19/15.

Gene Heyman听and听Michael McDannald听have each been awarded a Faculty Fellowship for the Fall 2016 semester. Congratulations Gene and Michael! Posted 11/16/15.

Kelly Bennion听has been awarded a Dissertation Research Award from the American Psychological Association. Posted 11/5/15.

Sindy Cole听and听Gorica Petrovich听published a paper in听Scientific Reports听entitled "." Posted 11/5/15.

Donghee Han,听Dolichan Kollareth, and听James Russell's paper titled "The Words for Disgust in English, Korean, and Malayalam Question its Homogeneity" is accepted for publication in听Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Posted 11/5/15.

M.E. Panero听and听Ellen Winner's paper entitled "Do Actors Possess Traits Associated With High Hypnotizability?" has been accepted for publication in听Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics, and the Arts.听This paper is a collaboration with Thalia R. Goldstein (Pace University), Robin Rosenberg (UC, San Francisco), and Hannah Hughes (a 2009-2010 Arts and Mind Lab intern from the University of Bath). Posted 11/4/15.

Sarah Kark听and听Elizabeth Kensinger's paper entitled "" has been accepted for publication in听Neuropsychologia. Posted 10/14/15.

Kelly Dumais听and听Alexa Veenema听published a book chapter in听听entitled "Presence and Absence of Sex Differences in Structure and Function of the Brain Oxytocin System: Implications for Understanding the Regulation of Social Behavior." This book provides a comprehensive examination of the current state of sex differences research, from both basic science and clinical research perspectives. Dumais and Veenema discuss, among other topics, that the reported sex differences in the brain oxytocin system are not ubiquitous, but appear to be highly species-specific and that actions of the oxytocin system on behavior and neuronal responses are often sex-specific, but do not necessarily correspond with sex differences in oxytocin and the oxytocin receptor in the brain. Posted 10/13/15.

Christina Reppucci听and听Gorica Petrovich听have published a paper in the journal听Brain Structure and Function听entitled "." Posted 8/17/15.

Lauren Anderson听and听Gorica Petrovich听have published a paper in the journal听Physiology & Behaviorentitled "Renewal of conditioned responding to food cues in rats: Sex differences and relevance of estradiol." Posted 8/17/15.

Caroline Smith听and听Alexa Veenema听published a paper in the听Journal of Neuroendocrinology听entitled "." They demonstrate that social novelty-seeking in juvenile rats is facilitated by the opioid system in the brain, while dopamine, oxytocin, or vasopressin systems do not seem to be involved in mediating this behavior. This finding is relevant because impaired social novelty-seeking is characteristic for autistic children, which may hamper their development of social skills. The next step will be to localize the effects of the opioid system to specific brain regions and neural circuits. Posted 7/31/15.

Chris Madan听is co-author of "" in the听Journal of Neuroscience. Posted 7/29/15.

Mary Kayyal,听Joe Pochedly, and听James Russell, with an undergraduate student, recently published听. Posted 7/29/15.

Kelly Bennion听was awarded the 2015 Scott Mesh Honorary Grant for Research in Psychology. Posted 7/21/15.

Sarah Kark听was awarded a travel award from the New England chapter of Graduate Women in Science. Posted 7/21/15.

Elizabeth Kensinger听was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation, in collaboration with Jessica Payne at Notre Dame, to examine how "Stress at learning interacts with sleep to optimally consolidate emotional memories." Posted 7/21/15.

Gene Heyman听has been awarded an Ignite Award for his research on attention allocation. Posted 7/8/15.

Kelly Dumais听and听Alexa Veenema听published a review paper in the journal听Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology听entitled "." Among the most interesting findings is that vasopressin parameters are typically higher in males than in females across species. Fewer sex differences have been reported for oxytocin parameters, but if such sex differences are reported, oxytocin is typically higher in females while oxytocin receptors are typically higher in males. Posted 6/29/15.

Sara Cordes听and听Nadia Chernyak听have been awarded a three-year grant from the Templeton Foundation on the 鈥淐ognitive Underpinnings and Consequences of Generosity.鈥 Posted 6/22/15.

Shannon Snapp听(Ph.D. 2010 with advisor Karen Rosen) will join the Psychology department at California State Monterey Bay as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the fall of 2015. Shannon will teach undergraduate courses and continue her research on adolescent health and sexuality. Posted 6/4/15.

Alexa Veenema听was appointed to serve on the Editorial Board of the journal听Hormones and Behavior.Posted 5/22/15.

Barry Schneider听has been elected fellow of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development. Posted 5/18/15.

Kelly Bennion听won the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award. Posted 5/7/15.

Sara Keefer听was selected to present a talk at the 2015 Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior meeting. She was awarded a NITA, New Investigator Travel Award, to present her data at the annual meeting in July in Denver. Posted 4/27/15.

Lauren Anderson听was awarded the Florence P. Haseltine award for best poster presentation by a new investigator at the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences annual meeting. Posted 4/27/15.

Jill Waring, who received her Ph.D. in 2011, has accepted a tenure-track position at Saint Louis University. Posted 4/23/15.

Drew Linsley听was awarded a $1,500 grant by Sigma Xi to support his dissertation research. Posted 4/23/15.

Kelly Bennion听and听Elizabeth Kensinger听have published a new paper entitled "" in听Translational Issues in Psychological Science. Posted 4/22/15.

Laura Niemi听was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Award co-sponsored by Dr. Steven Pinker and Dr. Jesse Snedeker at Harvard University. Posted 4/17/15.

Kelly Bennion听won an听听to spend summer 2015 at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore researching the effects of sleep restriction on long-term memory and false memory in adolescents. Posted 4/8/15.

Barry Schneider听presented a continuing-education workshop for Montreal clinical psychologists entitled "Adolescent Depression: Treating Moods, Not Just Cognitions." Posted 4/7/15.

Kelly Dumais听was awarded a Dissertation Fellowship for the 2015-2016 year by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Posted 4/6/15.

Michelle Hurst听was selected to present a poster at the 2015 NIH Math Cognition Conference and received a $500 travel award. The poster competition selects a maximum of eight posters to be presented at the conference. Posted 4/2/15.

Posters by听Jordan Theriault听and听John Ksander,听Drew Linsley, and听Chris Madan听have won SANS Poster Awards from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. Posted 3/30/15.

Kelly Bennion听won a Sleep Research Society Abstract Merit Based Award for an abstract that she submitted for presentation at SLEEP 2015, the 29th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. Posted 3/25/15.

Larisa Heiphetz, postdoctoral fellow in Liane Young鈥檚 Morality Lab, will be joining the Department of Psychology at Columbia University in July 2016. Congratulations Larisa! Posted 3/24/15.

Incoming faculty member听Josh Hartshorne's听. Posted 3/6/15.

Liane Young听was awarded a university Research Across Disciplines and Schools (RADS) grant for her proposal 鈥淜nowledge is Power: The Impact of Education on Knowledge of and Attitude about Terrorism,鈥 in collaboration with Peter Krause from the Political Science Department. Posted 2/26/15.

Liane Young听and听Ehri Ryu听have both been granted tenure and will be promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations Liane and Ehri! Posted 2/26/15.

Scott Slotnick听was awarded a university Ignite grant for his proposal, 鈥淭he Role of the Human听Hippocampus听During Spatial Memory.鈥 Posted 2/25/15.

Kelly Bennion听won the听. Posted 2/12/15.

Scott Slotnick听is the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal听Cognitive Neuroscience听(published by Taylor & Francis in the United Kingdom). In this role, Scott has appointed听, revised听, and revamped听. Posted 1/21/15.

Barry Schneider听has a听. Posted 1/15/15.