Cognitive Science
Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has received the 2013 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.
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If you ask a rat whether it knows how it came to acquire a certain coveted piece of chocolate, Indiana University neuroscientists conclude, the answer is a resounding, "Yes." A study newly published in the journal Current Biology offers the first evidence of source memory in a nonhuman animal.
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At a Bloomington, Ind., toy store, kids ages 8 to 12 gather weekly to trade Pokemon cards and share their mutual absorption in the intrigue and adventure of Pokemon. This may seem an unlikely source of material to test the theories in cognitive neuroscience. But that is where Indiana University brain scientists Karin Harman James and Tom James were when an idea took hold.
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Indiana University Bloomington cognitive scientist Michael Jones, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Colorado, University of Texas at Austin and Washington University in St. Louis, was awarded $2.5 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop an automated system for large-scale synthesis of human neuroimaging data. NeuroSynth.org is intended to be sort of a "Google of the brain" for researchers in cognitive neuroscience.
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Indiana University Distinguished Professor Linda B. Smith, internationally known for her pioneering research and theoretical work in the development of human cognition, is the 2013 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize. The prize, which includes a $100,000 monetary award, recognizes teams or individuals "making a significant contemporary contribution to the theoretical foundations of human cognition."
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A research group at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing has received over $1.85 million to create the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing. The award was announced June 26 by Intel Labs as part of a $12 million research center composed of faculty from IU and four other universities.
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