May 2024: Honored to attend the Festschrift for Randolph Blake.
New lab t-shirt!
*lab alumni should email Geoff and he will send you one.
Spring 2024: We got a new lab t-shirt.
Fall 2023: Dr. Sisi Wang wins the Bob Fox Award for Excellent in Postdoctoral Research from the Psychology Department of Vanderbilt University! Great job Dr. Wang!
Jan 2023: Dr. Xinger Yu will be joining us from Joy Geng’s lab at UC Davis. Welcome aboard, Dr. Yu!
Fall 2022: Dr. Sisi Wang got multiple job offers from Universities China! Congratulations Sisi! We will miss you. Even as you decline those offers and take a postdoctoral position at the VU in Amsterdam.
August 2022: Rob Reinhart, former graduate student in the lab, won the Science Magazine 2022 PINS prize for Neuromodulation!
2022: The lab was informed that our NSF proposal will be funded by CogNeuro! Thanks to those who helped assemble the plans, and to the fans.
2022: Geoff got a medal at the Endowed Chair Investiture Ceremony in March! This has not happened to Geoff before. Thank you to the family of E. Bronson Ingram and Vanderbilt. We will do our best to discover new and useful things about how our minds work.
2022: Stan Huynh Cong joined us as a visiting graduate student from the Université De Genéve! Stan is already an expert in how working memory and attention interact. It is great to have him making the group even better!
2021: Sisi Wang was the most successful visiting graduate student in lab history (but see next announcement). Now she is back as a postdoc! She is already working on several very cool projects!
2021: Quilla joined us as the labs youngest collaborator. Thanks to our postdoc, Dave Sutterer, for recruiting her.
2021: Year-end painting party!
2021: Geoff and Ashleigh traveled to La Jolla, CA in November 2021 for the reunion of a lifetime in celebration of Ashleigh’s paper with these two crazy kids and Denis Cousineau. Read it HERE.
2021: Wishing @EmmaMegla all the best as she pursues her PhD with @WilmaBainbridge! The University of Chicago Psychology Department is the lucky winner of another fantastic lab alumnus!
2021: The lab recently celebrated our 100th peer-reviewed publication. Thanks to our many productive collaborators!
2021: Geoff Woodman was awarded the E. Bronson Ingram Endowed Chair in Neuroscience.
2021: Julia Pruin is joining the lab from the University of Chicago. Welcome Julia!
2021: Emma Megla will be heading to the University of Chicago for her PhD. Congratulations Emma!
2020
2020 was a wild year but we did manage to have some fun times on zoom, such as buying these shirts (from John Wixted’s website here) to celebrate our Megla, Woodman, & Maxcey JoCN paper testing a signal detection explanation of induced forgetting using ERPs (here) and 99th peer-reviewed paper in the lab.
2020
What’s work-life balance?
From Start to Finish: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Scientist in Psychology and Neuroscience
Geoff has co-authored a book with Dr. Ashleigh Maxcey. In this book we attempt to pack most of what we know to provide guidance and tips about navigating a career in Pscyhology or Neuroscience. It is titled: From Start to Finish: A Practical Buide to Becoming a Scientist in Psychology & Neuroscience. It has advice for undergraduates through to tenured professors. Available on Amazon (here) and Cognella (here).
2019: Jason Rajsic got a faculty in Scotland at Northumbria University! Slangevar.
2019: We are lucky to be joined by David Sutterer, a recent Ph.D from the University of Chicago. David is already doing cool work and we expect he will churn out a ton of awesome stuff.
2019: Help us welcome Jason Rajsic as new postdoc in the laboratory. He comes to us from The University of Toronto. Looking forward to his continued productivity and great things.
2019: We had all of our grad students finish in 2016. So we are still aggressively looking for new graduate students. Please contact Geoff if you are interested (geoff.woodman@vanderbilt.edu).
2016: Our lab just got its third concurrent R01 from NIMH (September 2016). This grant will fund work with Sohee Park's lab using brain stimulaiton and recordings of electrophysiology to understand the top-down control of cognition.
2016: Congratulate Josh Cosman on his fancy new job with Pfizer. He will be able to continue work with both nonhuman primates and humans, performing cognitive and neurophysiological testing of the hottest new drugs.
2016: Taha Bilge won our department’s award for the best TA, and Kei Fukuda won the award for the most outstanding postdoctoral researcher at our department’s Psychology Day 2016. Congratulations guys!
2016: Kei Fukuda has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at University of Toronto. His lab and primary appointment will be on the Mississauga campus. Please join me in congratulating Kei. He will be missed!
2016: Rob Reinhart has accepted the offer of a tenure-track faculty position from Boston University. Join us in congratulating Rob in achieving the impossible of getting an R1 faculty job straight out of grad school.
2016: Rob Reinhart won our inaugural 2016 Posner Award for the study of attention. Rob’s 2015 PNAS paper (the first of two PNAS papers in 2015) combined behavior, electrophysiology, and brain stimulation to understand how our memories flexibly control visual attention.
2016: Kei Fukuda won our inaugural 2016 Shiffrin Award for the study of human memory. His work used electrophysiological activity to predict which objects people will remember hours later after they see each object for just a couple hundred milliseconds. This work has recently resulted in a patent filing.
2016: Campus press for Rob Reinhart’s Current Biology paper.
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/06/30/a-little-spark-for-sharper-sight/
2015: Josh Cosman won the 2015 Box Fox Award for the best postdoctoral researcher. Rob Reinhart won our department’s award for the best graduate student researcher. Way to be gentlemen!
2015: Good press on Rob Reinhart’s work with Sohee Park’s group. They are finding that brain stimulation can normalize behavior and EEG activity in patients with schizophrenia.
http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2209
2015: February 2015: The lab got its second R01 from the National Eye Institute! This work combines our electrophysiological work with the modeling expertise of Gordon Logan.
2015: Rob Reinhart had a cool paper published in PNAS. Please check out this beautiful work.