Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people.
By @callimcflurry
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As we close out OCD Awareness Week, we're sharing our third in a series on some of the most frequently misconstrued and misused psychological terms. Dr. Daniel Chazin, professor at @Penn, shares his concerns on using #OCD as something people choose.
https://t.co/jzYVNzYyqo
My Twitter-less advisor Vikram Jaswal @PsychologyUVA is recruiting 1-2 PhD students this cycle! If you're interested in #Nonspeaking#Autism, communication, and #Neurodiversity, check him out! I think he's a wonderful advisor and I'm having a great time! https://t.co/0CtMfbmbqg
Our memories are not like recordings.
Learn the psychology of how memory actually works by listening to Dr. @JohnTWixted of @UCSDPsychology on For the Innocent, hosted by @MSemanchik of @TheInnCenter: https://t.co/NbijM8JmtY ����
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I am hoping to recruit a new student for my Psycho-Legal Experiments & Applications (PLEA) Lab for Fall 2025. Interested students should apply to the Iowa State University (Cognitive) Psychology Ph.D. Program.
New Scholarship! #Eyewitness memory is a critical component of many criminal cases. But what do experts say about eyewitness memory? Wilson Center researchers surveyed the experts: https://t.co/RMAtIRRuK7
New from@sciencenews: how flawed forensics can lead to wrongful convictions, featuring work of both Faculty Director @brandonlgarrett & and our former post-doctoral fellow @adelequigley16 on the problems that can arise in eyewitness evidence and line-ups. https://t.co/GdJmHxCjo7
This summer, I will be teaching an NSF-funded virtual workshop on "R Programming for Cognitive Neuroscience." This free workshop will teach beginning students the basic skills needed to analyze data from cognitive tasks in R. More info can be found here:
https://t.co/umRVyiQwzd
Interested in how people control unwanted memories? Davide Nardo and I published a detailed guide to the Think/No-Think task in Behavior Research Methods with best practice advice, including a training package with videos, spreadsheets and code. https://t.co/n8QBqFxsZz
This is, to quote our President, "a big F*#!ing deal" - 30,000 inaccurate cases a year - tens of thousands of people with convictions they don't deserve, suffering the consequences of a wrongful conviction.