Our team (Laura, Pernille, and Julien) has a new paper which calls for a reinterpretation of Temporal Binding, a core psychological phenomenon that has been studied for over 20 years. The paper is based on Laura’s work on the Sense of Agency (SoA). To access the pre-print, click here.
Joseph Sommer, Julien Musolino, and Pernille Hemmer are the authors of a new paper entitled “The memorability of Supernatural Concepts: Some Puzzles and New Theoretical Directions” which will appear in the Journal of Cognition and Culture. You can access the preprint here.
Nicole King was awarded the Marilyn Shaw Award for Research Promise for her undergraduate Honors thesis and accepted an offer to join the graduate program at Ohio State where she will be working with Dr. Brandon Turner in the Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.
Julien Musolino was one of the invited panelists at a roundtable on critical thinking and fake news organized by the University of Geneva, Switzerland on April 13, 2021.
Julien Musolino is one of the invited speakers at the Fifth International Vatican Conference. Other invited speakers include Anthony Fauci, Jane Goodall, Chelsea Clinton among many influential voices.
Laura Saad was awarded a Repperger Research Internship with Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing. Selected individuals are appointed by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). Laura will be working on a research project entitled “Science of Understanding” with Dr. Leslie Blaha, June 7th – August 13th, 2021.
Pernille Hemmer was recently congratulated by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) as the winner of the 2021 Society for Mathematical Psychology Early Career Impact Award. This award is presented to early career scientists of FABBS member societies during the first 10 years post-PhD and recognizes scientists who have made major contributions to … Read More
Pernille Hemmer was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the conference Generative Episodic Memory (GEM21) held virtually in Bochum, Germany, February 16-18, 2021
Julien Musolino, Joseph Sommer, and Pernille Hemmer signed a book deal with Cambridge University Press. The book, provisionally titled The Science of Beliefs: A multidisciplinary Approach, is an edited volume dedicated to the scientific understanding of beliefs. The book will include chapters from leading international scholars in a range of disciplines including psychology, linguistics, economics, … Read More
Pernille Hemmer is part of a team of Rutgers researched who were recently awarded a $3 million grant from NSF to develop robots of the future. For the full story, click on the link below: https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-researchers-awarded-3m-grant-nsf-research-traineeship-robotics-future-improve-quality