Division 3 New Investigator Awards, 2012

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
Elske van der Vaart (doctoral student at University of Groningen; elskevdv@ai.rug.nl and
elskevdv@gmail.com)

For the article:  van der Vaart, E., Verbrugge, R. & Hemelrijk, C. K. (2011). Corvid caching: Insights from a cognitive model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37, 330-340.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
David M. Cades (doctoral student at George Mason University; dcades@gmu.edu)

For the article:  Cades, D. M., Boehm-Davis, D. A., Trafton, J. G., & Monk, C. A. (2011). Mitigating disruptive effects of interruptions through training: What needs to be practiced? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 17, 97–109.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Karl Healey (currently a postdoc at Penn; was a doctoral student at the University of Toronto when article submitted

For the article:  Healey, M. K., Hasher, L., & Danilova, E. (2011). The stability of working memory: Do previous tasks influence complex span? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 573–585.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Tao Gao (currently a postdoc at MIT; was a doctoral student at Zhejiang University; paper submitted based on Gao’s masters thesis; taogao@mit.edu)

For the article:  Gao, T., Gao, Z., Li, J., Sun, Z., & Shen, M. (2011) The perceptual root of object-based storage. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 1803-1823.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
(two awardees; split award)

Daryl Fougnie (currently a postdoc at Harvard; was a doctoral student at Vanderbilt when paper was submitted; darylfougnie@gmail.com)

For the article:  Fougnie, D., & Marois, R. (2011). What limits working memory capacity? Evidence for modality specific sources to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1329-1341.

Adam Harris (currently a lecturer at University College London; was a doctoral student at
University of Cardiff; paper submitted when he was a postdoc at Warwick; adam.harris@ucl.ac.uk )

For the article:  Harris, A J. L., & Corner, A. (2011). Communicating environmental risks: Clarifying the severity effect in interpretations of verbal probability expressions. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1571-1578.

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