Congratulations to the WiCS+ Junior Research Networking Awardees 2024

  • Ruhi Bhanap

    University of Zürich

    How do Representations in Working Memory and Long-term Memory Interact in Guiding Attention?
    Authors: Ruhi Bhanap, Lea M. Bartsch
    Which Information is Retrieved During Different Maintenance Strategies? Evidence from Eye Movements.
    Authors: Ruhi Bhanap, Lea M. Bartsch, Agnes Rosner 

    “My research investigates how eye movements can act as a measure for tracking retrieval processes in working memory.”

  • Lizzie Bradford

    St. Andrews, Scotland

    Positive Perceptions of Autism in Job Applications by Autistic and Allistic Raters
    Authors: Elisabeth Bradford, Katharine Chadbourn, & Nina Fisher  

    “Impression management: experimental study examining how autism diagnosis disclosure impacts perception of job applicants.”

  • Anna McCarter

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

    The Benefits of Drawing and Describing for Visual Long-Term Memory.
    Authors: Anna McCarter, Jeffrey Starns.

    “This research explores how drawing and describing object images impacts the subsequent object memories.”

  • Michelle Rivers

    University of Santa Clara

    Does Pretesting Enhance Learning When it is Done Covertly?
    Authors: Michelle Rivers, Ashley Berdelis, Steven C. Pan, and Uma Tauber

    “Pretesting boosts learning more than just reading, with both written and mental formats equally enhancing performance..”

  • Victoria Tkacikova

    University of Pittsburgh

    Music, Memory, and Second Language Grammar: An EEG Study.
    Authors: Tkacikova, Terrazas, Slevc, & Tokowicz

    “Using EEG, we examined the relationship between musical experience, working memory, and sensitivity to second language grammar violations.”

Networking Awards for Junior Scientists encourage graduate students, postdocs, and assistant professors to engage in networking activities at the Psychonomics Society Meeting. Awardees are selected based on the strength of their networking plan toward developing collaborative or mentoring relationships while attending Psychonomics. 

Sponsored by:

No longer accepting applications for our 2024 Junior Research Networking Awards
Deadline was September 15, 2024.

65th Annual Meeting

November 21-24, 2024
New York City, NY, USA
New York Marriott Marquis, Times Square

Presenting one’s research at professional meetings such as the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society is an important way for individuals to become known in the professional community and to develop collaborative relationships with other professionals in the field. Building these networks early can open opportunities for a successful career, thus it is essential that individuals attend professional meetings early in their careers. Therefore, the purpose of this award is to encourage early career researchers to participate in and network at the 2024 Meeting of the Psychonomic Society that will be held in New York City, NY from November 21-24, 2024.

Awards will provide up to $1,000 to cover the expenses of travel for the purpose of networking.

Who can apply:
Applicants must be:

  1. A graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or assistant professor

  2. Listed as an author on a talk or poster at the 2024 Meeting of the Psychonomic Society

  3. Note: A woman scientist of any nationality may receive the award. Depending on the final availability of funds, there may be some networking awards that are restricted to particular locations, and taxation of awards may vary by location.

How to apply:
To apply, submit the following to the Networking Award Committee:

  1. Evidence of a submitted paper or poster abstract

  2. A networking plan.This plan should identify a senior scientist with whom the applicant would network at the conference; although only women scientists are eligible for this award, the targeted senior scientist can be of any gender. The plan should also include the specific goals to be accomplished with the targeted scientist (e.g., develop a collaboration, exchange research ideas, receive input on experiments, a grant proposal, or a manuscript), and should describe the relevance of this to the applicant's research program. The plan should be no more than 2 pages long (single-spaced, using a 12-point font)

  3. Evidence of agreement from the networking target(s) to carry out the plan (e.g., an email confirmation)

  4. A current CV

Please combine all four components into ONE single pdf file named [firstname_lastname] & submit all materials to womenincognitivescience@gmail.com before the deadline on September 15, 2024 (11:59pm)

Conflict of Interest: Applicants must not be current (or former, within the last 5 years) trainees of current members of the WiCS Leadership Team, Advisory Board or of the current Networking Awards Committee.

Deadlines:
Relevant Dates: September 15, 2024 (11:59pm)

Notification of awards:
Awards will be announced on or around October 1, 2024. Winners will be honored at a ceremony at the 2024 Annual WiCS+ Meeting on Thursday, November 21 at 3pm (ET) before the start of the Psychonomic Society Meeting.
Winners are required to submit a report on the meeting and networking experience. The deadline for submitting the final report is December 9, 2024. Reports should be submitted to womenincognitivescience@gmail.com.

Decisions will be made by the WiCS Networking Awards Committee.

Application for 2024 Junior Research Networking Awards. (Deadline September 15, 2024)

WiCS Junior Research Networking Awardees 2023

  • Carolyn Baer

    University of British Columbia

    Global Estimates of Self-Performance in Childhood
    Authors: Carolyn Baer and Daniel Bernstein

    “My research uncovers how children track their performance to form beliefs about their abilities.”

  • Halszka Bak

    Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Poland

    Feeling it Differently: Emotional Causality of Verbs Across Languages
    Authors: Halszka Bąk & Jeanette Altarriba

    “We studied how emotions expressed as verbs in different languages are perceived in terms of who causes the emotions to arise.”

  • Sita Carraturo

    Washington University in Saint Louis

    Listening Effort in Bilinguals and Monolinguals
    Authors: Sita Carraturo & Kristin Van Engen

    “Pupillometry reveals differences in cognitive demands of speech processing between listener groups and among listening conditions.”

  • Isu Cho

    Brandeis University

    Age-related differences in fairness-related decision-making in social contexts
    Authors: Isu Cho, Angela Gutchess

    “This research examines how older adults differ from younger adults in making fairness-related decisions.”

  • Ummi Coats

    Union College and Duke University

    The Role of Valence and Speaker Identity in False Hearing
    Authors: Ummi K. Coats, Hannah Soliman, Chad S. Rogers

    “Our research examines whether bias against an outgroup predicts false hearing in speech perception.

  • Febe Demeyer

    KU Leuven (Belgium)

    Is the Aha! Experience Ageless? Exploring Insight versus Analytical Problem Solving in Older Adults.
    Authors: Febe Demeyer, Hans Stuyck, Céline R. Gillebert and Eva Van den Bussche

    “We examine whether more implicit cognitive functions such as insight problem solving remain intact or improve with aging.”

  • Lan Anh (Bella) Do

    Tufts University

    The Cognitive and Affective Consequences of Collaborative Learning
    Authors: Lan Anh (Bella) Do & Ayanna K. Thomas

    “We provided a comprehensive picture of how collaborative learning impacted students’ performance and emotional experience.”

  • Maggie K. McCracken

    University of Utah

    Assessing Visual Capture of Audiovisual Distance Perception in Virtual Reality
    Authors: Maggie K. McCracken, Hunter C. Finney, Sarah H. Creem-Regehr, Jeanine K. Stefanucci

    “I examined the integration of auditory and visual cues in distance judgments using virtual reality.”

  • I-An (Amy) Su

    Cornell University

    Norms for Survival- and Forensic-False Memory Lists
    Authors: I-An Su, Allison Gendreau, Michael P. Toglia, & Charles J. Brainerd

    “Our development of normed DRM word lists for survival and forensic false memory research unveiled distinct encoding patterns in the human brain, as indicated by recall and recognition data.”

  • Jessica Udry

    Georgia State University

    Talk: Semantic Coherence is Necessary to Explain Repetition-Based Illusory Truth Effects.
    Poster: 'How Worried Were You?': Biases in How Younger and Older Adults Remember Their Prior Feelings About COVID-19.
    Authors: Jessica Udry & Sarah Barber

    “My research investigates which components of a statement must be repeated for repetition to increase belief..

WiCS Junior Research Networking Awardees 2022

  • Hui W Cheung

    University of Essex

    The Automaticity of Feature Binding in Working Memory
    Authors: Hiu Wah Cheung, Nicolas Geeraert, Vanessa Loaiza.

    “My research is about whether cultural differences and prior knowledge influence feature binding in working memory.”

  • Hannah Dames

    University of Zurich & University of Freiburg

    Mechanisms Underlying Directed Forgetting in Working Memory
    Authors: Hannah Dames, Vencislav Popov, Klaus Oberauer

    “My research explores the cognitive mechanisms contributing to short-term and long-term effects of directed forgetting in working memory.”

  • Meltem Karaca

    Boston University

    Performance Predictions and Confidence Over Time in Low- and High-performing Students
    Authors: Meltem Karaca, Lisa Geraci, Nayantara Kurpad, Marcus Lithander, Steve Balsis

    “Our research aims to find methods to improve students’ metacognition, with the goal of improving their self-awareness and academic performance”

  • Tanya M. Paes

    Purdue University

    The Relations Between Parent–Educator Communication, the Home Environment, and Preschoolers' Numeracy, Literacy, Executive Function, and Vocabulary Skills.
    Authors: Tanya M. Paes, Joyce Lin, Robert Duncan, David J. Purpura, Sara A. Schmitt

    “I examined concurrent relations among parent–educator communication and children’s outcomes in the spring of preschool”

  • Jocelyn Teng

    University of Arizona

    Time Estimation and Passage of Time Judgment Predict Eating Behaviors During COVID-19 Lockdown
    Authors: Jiaxuan (Jocelyn) Teng, Sara Lomayesva, Eve Isham

    “Our research examines how time perception predicts eating behaviors during Covid-19 lockdown.”

WiCS Leadership Awardees 2022

For many years WiCS selected leadership award winners. Previous WiCS leadership award winners are listed below. WiCS will no longer be making awards for leadership after 2022. While WiCS continues to recognize the importance of leadership in advancing women scientists, the organization will direct monetary awards to supporting early career advancement activities for women scientists.

  • Sarah Brown-Schmidt

    Vanderbilt University

    For leadership in promoting gender equity in the editorial and review processes in journals in the field.

  • Jean E. Fox

    University of California, Santa Cruz

    For leadership in promoting gender equity in the editorial and review processes in journals in the field.

  • Evie Vergauwe

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    For providing leadership in informal mentoring of young women scientists within the field.

  • Leor Zmigrod

    University of Cambridge

    For demonstration of leadership at an early career stage aimed at expanding opportunities for young researchers interested in cognitive science.

  • Alan Hartley

    Scripps College

    For providing decades of leadership in the education of undergraduate women in cognitive science.

WiCS Junior Research Networking Awardees 2021

  • Dahwi Ahn,

    Iowa State University

    How Does Testing Affect Future Learning Strategies?

  • Caro Hautekiet

    University of Geneva

    Is There an Asymmetrical Switch Cost between the Internal and External Focus of Attention?

  • Mane Kara-Yakoubian

    Ryerson University

    The Effects of Emotion on Hindsight Bias in Younger and Older Adults During the 2020 U.S. Election.

  • Nayantara Kurpad

    University of Massachusetts Lowell

    Impact of Lecture Modality and Visuals on Students' Learning Performance and Metacognitive Judgments.

  • Laura Morett

    University of Alabama

    Conceptual Metaphor, Embodiment, & Non-native Lexical Tone Learning.
    Do Emphasis Cues Enhance Young Children’s Ability to Associate Novel Objects with Learned Names?

  • Lauren Salig

    University of Maryland

    Linking Processing Costs to Distributional Patterns of Bilingual Code-switching.

  • Beatrice Valentini

    University of Geneva

    Comparing Adults’ Working Memory Search Rates in Sub-span vs. Supra- span Situations: A Novel Approach of Developmental Relevance.

  • Cristina D. Zepeda

    Washington University in St. Louis

    Bridging Cognitive and Educational Psychology Perspectives on the Self- Regulation of Learning.