Congratulations to Dr. Matt Goldrick for this well-deserved recognition of his contributions to Cognitive Science.

Dr. Kyriaki Neophytou accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Nicosia (UNIC) Athens. She will contribute to building and shaping the future of this new program. Congratulations, Kyriaki!

Angela Xu earned a competitive one-year dissertation fellowship from Hong Kong Polytechnic University to conduct research on the representation and processing of compound words in Cantonese during speech production.

Dr. Brenda Rapp was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. This prestigious recognition highlights Dr. Rapp’s significant contributions to the field of reading science and the impact it has had on an international scale. As noted by UCLouvain’s Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Dr. Rapp’s research has greatly contributed to elucidating...

Dr. Wiley explains how handwriting can boost memory during learning.

Kyriaki Neophytou finished her PhD degree this spring, defending her dissertation on “Selection in Written Language Production: Evidence from Aphasia.” Kyriaki has started a postdoc position at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine working with Dr. Kyrana Tsapkini.

Please join us in congratulating Brenda Rapp, who has just been elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists.  Membership is a great honor as it recognizes significant accomplishments in experimental psychology, encompassing cognitive, perceptual, developmental, neuroscientific, and social areas of the field. The society currently admits at least 6 new members annually from among the leading experimentalists...

Hand-writing letters more effectively teaches reading skills compared to typing and watching videos, study finds. Drs. Wiley and Rapp discuss their recently published article "The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Literacy Learning."

Celia Litovsky finished her PhD degree this spring, defending her dissertation on “Structural Connectivity Underlying Executive Processing in Post-stroke Aphasia.” Celia has started a postdoc position in the Concepts & Cognition Lab at Temple University working with Dr. Jamie Reilly.

As part of The Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, Drs. Brenda Rapp and Jeremy Purcell taught neuroscience to Tibetan Buddhist monks for 10 days in the Gaden Monastery in India, Karnataka State. ETSI is a fascinating program designed to teach modern science to Tibetan monastics.