2019-11-20 - Consisting of four seminars held during a 12-month period, the objective of the leadership program is to broaden participants’ understanding of higher education issues and to strengthen their skill sets in leading and managing a public institution at the university or system level. The Board of...Posted:
2019-11-04 - Researchers in the Cognition and Brain Lab, led by Kara Federmeier, have recently published a paper in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience that investigates how predicting during sentence comprehension affects memory. This study demonstrates that what you predict can affect what you later...Posted:
2019-10-01 - Chadly Stern has received the 2019 Early Career Award from the International Social Cognition Network (ISCON). The award recognizes and encourages a distinguished junior scientist who has made outstanding theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of social cognition....Posted:
2019-10-01 - On Thursday 09/26, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee hosted the Inclusive Psych Party, a party to promote inclusiveness among students, faculty, and staff within the department. Representatives from a number of organizations like Psychology Leaders, Undergraduate Neuroscience Society, the...Posted:
2020-02-04 - The journal Psychophysiology has published an article honoring Drs. Monica Fabiani and Gabriele Gratton in response to their award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychophysiology.Posted:
2019-10-01 - The Society for Personality and Social Psychology bestowed Dr. Brent Roberts with the 2019 Block Award for his distinguished contributions to our understanding of personality. His work has lead to new insights into the...Posted:
2019-09-27 - Professor Alejandro Lleras, along with a team of researchers from around the country, receives a grant from the NSF to fund the activities of the SPARK society. The SPARK Society’s mission is to establish a society of Cognitive Scientists of color that improves the visibility of its membership...Posted:
2021-08-10 - We are proud to announce the following grants have been recently awarded to faculty in the Psychology Department.Posted:
2019-09-20 - Psychology Professors Sepideh Sadaghiani and Wendy Heller receive NIH funding to investigate how inherent brain oscillations relate to cognition.Posted:
2019-08-27 - In an article featured in Psychology Today, Dr. Gaither discusses the tension between the desire for large sample sizes and the difficulty in recruiting minority populations. Dr. Gaither uses the work conducted at the Illinois Summit on Diversity in Psychological Science as...Posted:
2019-05-19 - This project will develop, implement, and evaluate a transformative virtual initiative, high-impact initiative for protecting rural drug-using populations at risk from HIV/HCV outbreaks in the midst of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Most counties at high risk for HIV/HCV outbreaks are...Posted:
2019-05-06 - Predictions were recently proposed to be the core mechanism organizing brain functioning at all levels and in all domains. However, in contrast, within language comprehension, evidence for predictions has not been ubiquitous across participants, tasks, and materials. Earlier research by Jakub ...Posted:
2019-03-07 - The title of the project is "Phthalates and Maternal Infections: Implications for Schizophrenia". Congratulations Dr Juraska!Posted:
2019-01-28 - Student characteristics play a crucial role in the attention and enthusiasm directed toward learning. If a student sees no value in learning or does not expect to do well in an academic setting, then the student is unlikely to be motivated. Unraveling the antecedents of effort put toward learning (...Posted:
2019-04-19 - Janice Juraska is Co-Investigator on a grant from the US Department of Agriculture (National Institute of Food and Agriculture) titled "Role of naturally-occurring vs. synthetic vitamin E in brain using a vitamin E deficient mouse model" (PI: J. Erdman).Posted: