Roger Beaty, a graduate student in the social psychology program (faculty advisor: Dr. Paul Silvia), has published a review paper on “The neuroscience of musical improvisation” in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. The paper synthesizes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of improvisation, with the aim of identifying the complex brain… Continue reading…
We are delighted to announce that Jenna Mendelson, a graduate student in the clinical psychology program, has received the 2014 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Autism Spectrum and Developmental Disabilities Special Interest Group Student Award. Her faculty advisor is Dr. Rosemery Nelson-Gray. Mendelson’s research program is aimed at… Continue reading…
Graduate student Naomi Chatley (Advisor: Dr. Stuart Marcovitch) was selected to receive the Pete Pufall Emerging Scholar’s Travel Award of the Jean Piaget Society in May, 2014. Awards are given to promising scholars to support the dissemination of their research at the society’s annual meeting. The theme of this year’s… Continue reading…
