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Rogers named recipient of Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building
Tim Rogers, Professor of Psychology and Faculty Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, has been named the recipient of the 6th Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building. The award recognizes …
Rogers receives competitive Research Forward award
A project led by Professor Tim Rogers has been chosen from 101 initial applications for one of nine Research Forward awards. Research Forward, a competition sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research …
Saalmann receives grants to advance research in the emergence of consciousness and predictive coding
Congratulations to Yuri Saalmann on two multimillion-dollar awards to advance two different tracks of his research: one in the emergence of consciousness and the other in predictive coding. The National Science Foundation Growing Convergence Research …
Saffran receives 2026 Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award
Each year, students elected to Phi Beta Kappa nominate their favorite professors for the annual Teaching Award. Nominations include a short statement and the names and email addresses of six other students who support the …
Saffran receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring
The Graduate School announced six UW–Madison professors as recipients of the inaugural Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring. This award recognizes faculty who demonstrate exceptional commitment to supporting the growth, success, and well-being …
Saffran’s Infant Learning Lab featured on Netflix docuseries ‘Babies’
The Infant Learning Lab, led by Professor Jenny Saffran, is featured in the Netflix docuseries, Babies, out today. In the fourth episode, First Words, Saffran discusses how babies figure out where words begin and end …
Schloss featured on WPR’s Larry Meiller Show
Colors convey meaning, influence behavior and make us experience emotions. To explain why this is, Larry Meiller of WPR’s The Larry Meiller Show talks with Karen Schloss, associate professor of cognition in UW-Madison’s Department of …
Schloss Lab Receives NSF grant to understand visual reasoning
Led by Assistant Professor of Psychology Karen Schloss, the Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab investigates how people make conceptual inferences from visual information, and how those inferences influence judgments about the world. Now, armed with a …
Schloss recognized with Departmental Teaching Award
The Department of Psychology is pleased to recognize Associate Professor Karen Schloss with this year’s Departmental Teaching Award. Schloss’s contributions in her courses, Information Visualization (Psych 711/601) and Psychology of Perception (Psych 406), have had …