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document.writeln('Robert Levenson 2009-2010 winner of the Psychological Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Award'); document.writeln('');
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document.writeln('Robert Levenson is the 2009-2010 winner of the Psychological Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Award.');
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document.writeln('Bob received his Ph.D. from the Arts and Science Psychology Department in 1974. Since leaving Vanderbilt, he has held academic positions at Indiana University (from 1974-1986) and the University of California, Berkeley (1986-present). During this thirty-five year period, Bob has attained a position of eminence in the field. He is well known for his seminal contributions to emotion research. Earlier studies focused on the question of whether there are unique patterns of autonomic activity associated with the experience and facial expression of discrete emotions. More recent work has focused on the physiological correlates and consequences of emotion regulation. Bob has also begun examining the neural substrates of emotional regulation by studying patients with fronto-temporal dysfunction. He has also done ground-breaking collaborative work with John Gottman on the physiological concommitants and predictors of marital satisfaction and outcomes. Bob is a past president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and of the American Psychological Society and he is currently the Director of the Institute of Personality and Social Research at Berkeley. ');
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document.writeln('Among his many contributions to the field, he has mentored several generations of emotion researchers. ');
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document.writeln('Alumnus Tim Vickery wins 2009 Best Article Award from the Psychonomic Society'); document.writeln('');
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document.writeln('Alumnus Tim Vickery wins 2009 Best Article Award from the Psychonomic Society');
document.writeln('Congratulations to Tim Vickery for winning a 2009 Best Article Award from the Psychonomic Society. His article with Yuhong Jiang entitled "Associative grouping: Perceptual grouping of shapes by association" appeared in the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. Tim earned his undergraduate degree in Psychology and Computer Science at Vanderbilt in 2002 and continued as a research assistant at Vanderbilt in the Blake, Gauthier, and Palmeri laboratories before going on to graduate school. In 2008, Tim earned his PhD in Psychology from Harvard University with Yuhong Jiang and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University with Marvin Chun. ');
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document.writeln('Gauthier featured on NewsChannel 5'); document.writeln('');
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document.writeln('Dr. Gauthier\'s method of soliciting questions from her class and using the "clicker" to obtain students\' responses in real time was featured on a report on NewsChannel 5\'s Nov. 11 nightly news broadcast. ');
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document.writeln('Kaas to discuss "The Human Spark" Nov. 19 at Adventure Science Center'); document.writeln('');
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document.writeln('From the Adventure Science Center:');
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document.writeln('In anticipation of a new three-part series airing on NPT in January 2010, the Adventure Science Center is tackling the issue of what is it that makes us "human." On November 19, Jon Kaas will explore such aspects of the human experience as language, morality and the ability to create and use complex tools. ');
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document.writeln('Yetta Wong earns Dissertation Enhancement Award'); document.writeln('');
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document.writeln('Congratulations to Yetta Wong for winning a $2000 Dissertation Enhancement Award from the Vanderbilt University Graduate School. She will use the award to learn how to apply Independent Components Analyses (ICA) to her proposed research using Evoked Response Potentials (ERPs). '); document.writeln(''); document.writeln(' | ');
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