President’s Note: A big difference in the academy today compared with the academy we knew 25 years ago is the emergence of interdisciplinary approaches to research and scholarship. While there are a number of reasons
The APS Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2011 recipients of the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, in recognition of the significant impact their work is having in
Thomas L. Griffiths University of California, Berkeley What is the focus of your award-winning research? My research explores mathematical models of human cognition, trying to understand how people do things like learn categories, causal relationships