Articles Containing “Janet Spence” — 209 result(s)

The APS Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, in recognition of the significant impact their work is having in

Naomi I. Eisenberger University of California, Los Angeles What is the focus of your award-winning research? I am primarily interested in trying to understand why our social relationships have such a profound impact on our

Daphna Shohamy Columbia University What is the focus of your award-winning research? My research aims to understand how we learn from experience, how we use what we learn to guide decisions and actions, and how

Wendy B. Mendes University of California, San Francisco What is the focus of your award-winning research? The research in my lab focuses on embodiment or how the mind and body reciprocally influence each other. Specifically

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