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NYU Psychology in the News:

Four new faculty joining Psychology:

Todd Gureckis joins the Department of Psychology from Indiana University where he has been a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychological and Brain Sciences program.  Gureckis develops computational theories of the processes underlying human learning, memory, categorization, and decision making in order to understand how these abilities contribute to adaptive behavior.

Athena Vouloumanos joins the Department of Psychology from McGill University where she has been Assistant Professor and co-director of the McGill Infant Development Centre. Vouloumanos studies language
acquisition, speech perception, and cognitive development, using classic behavioral methods and techniques of cognitive neuroscience.

Alec Marantz joins the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Psychology from MIT, where he has been Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Research Director of the KIT/MIT MEG Joint Research Lab. Marantz studies Linguistic theory, Universal grammar, Syntax, Morphology, Language acquisition, and Neurolinguistics.

Nathaniel Daw joins CNS and the Department of Psychology from University College, London, where he has been a postdoctoral fellow with Peter Dayan at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. Daw studies decision-making and neuromodulation, using theoretical, behavioral, and functional imaging techniques.


Ilke Oztekin, of our Cognition & Perception Program, has been awarded a 2007-2008 Dean's Dissertation Fellowship.

Cheryl Wakslak, of our Social Program, has been awarded a 2007-2008 June Frier Esserman Fellowship.


Student awards.

 

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How does attention affect visual processing? We used a peripheral cue to elicit an involuntary orienting of attention, and separated neural responses to the cues (blue areas) and to the stimuli (green areas) in the visual cortex. We find that attention increases neural activity, more at higher stages of visual processing. Taosheng Liu, Franco Pestilli, Marisa Carrasco, Neuron 2005. Click image to see another.