I recently learned of the passing of Jonny Smallwood. That news devastated me. I sadly never had the pleasure of meeting Jonny. But his work on mind-wandering was as impactful as anyone’s on the trajectory of my own research and career. I wish I could have told him as much.
Our latest is now out at JEP:General, “Quiet Eyes: Visual gaze stability predicts intra- and interindividual variability in attention control.” psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... (Abstract below)
Another tenure/TT open-rank position is open in Developmental Neuroscience!
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Deadline is also Sept. 15
Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229
Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)
and also Friday night, Stephen has a poster on the relation between individual differences in media multitasking and attention control abilities. Hope to see some familiar faces and meet plenty of new people over there!
Friday night, Lauren has a poster on how general cognitive ability, specific cognitive ability, conscientiousness, and physically active lifestyle predict academic performance,
Today the Notre Dame CAMLab (Stephen Campbell, Lauren Garner, and I) are headed to County Kildare, Ireland, to attend SARMAC 2025. I have a talk Thurs afternoon on the positive effect of performance feedback on free recall.
I'm excited to give the keynote at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition (11/20). Thanks for the invite! I'm esp. honored to be able to give this talk in Denver (I live in CO). If you're planning to attend Psychonomics, please consider coming one day earlier & attending SIDIC, too!
I am delighted to report that SIDIC, the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, will return in 2025 as a Psychonomics affiliate meeting, & Akira Miyake will deliver the Keynote address. Submissions will open 6/15-8/1; please consider joining us! Info: caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025
Alexis Torres has written an excellent review, now published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, on "The Role of the LC-NE System in Attention: From Cells, to Systems, to Sensory-Motor Control" (w/ me and Gene Brewer). check it out!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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I’d like to be added, thanks!
that sounds great, see you there!
We will be at Psychonomics this weekend, hope to see you there! #psynom24
We have a new paper in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics: “Pupillary correlates of individual differences in n-back task performance” rdcu.be/dybaV