Moore Assumes Role of 2016 Chair of the Governing Board

The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Cathleen Moore is now the Chair of the Governing Board. She will serve a one-year term.

Cathleen Moore’s research is concerned with visual perception and attention.  Her work uses behavioral techniques to understand the underlying visual processes that resolve ambiguity in light information at the eye and how current goals, biases, and motivations of the perceiver affect those processes and their outcome.  How visual processes work, change with healthy aging, disease, and injury, and how they interact with other cognitive processes has important implications for healthcare, education, and artifact design (e.g., phones, computers, cars, and other machines).

Moore obtained a BA in Psychology and Philosophy from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY in 1988, where she received research training from long-time Psychonomic Society Member and former Secretary-Treasurer, Jonathan Vaughan.  She received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1994, working under the guidance of Psychonomic Society Member Allen Osman, and further supported by Psychonomic Society Members Hal Pashler and Jeff Miller.  From 1994-96, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, working with Psychonomic Society Members and Governing Board Chairs Howard Egeth and who was a member of the Governing Board that guided the society through the transition to Springer X years ago.  Moore then served as an Assistant Professor, and later as an Associate Professor, in the Department of Psychology at Penn State University from 1996 – 2007.  In 2007 she moved to the University of Iowa, where she is now Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for their PhD program.

She has been a member of the Psychonomic Society since the mid-90s, and was elected to the Governing Board in 2011.  She served on the Strategic Planning Committee in 2011-12 that lead to the new initiatives that the Society has been implementing over the past three years (see the strategic plan). She has also served on the Ethics, Audit, Finance, and Workshop committees.  She served as Editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review from 2011-2014 and as Associate Editor from 2002 – 2005.  She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 3), a member of Sigma Xi, and the recipient of an APA (Division 3) Young Investigator Award.

Robert Logie, University of Edinburgh, becomes Past Chair and Aaron Benjamin, University of Illinois, becomes Chair-elect. Continuing Governing Board members include: Teresa Bajo, University of Granada, John Dunlosky, Kent State University, Fernanda Ferreira, University of California, Davis, Janet Metcalfe, Columbia University, Lynne Reder, Carnegie Mellon University, Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, University of Michigan, and Valerie Reyna, Cornell University. Edward Awh, University of Chicago and Laura Carlson, University of Notre Dame were elected by the Society’s membership in September and join the Governing Board now. Retiring Governing Board members include: Jeremy Wolfe, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School who stepped down in July to become the Editor of our new open source journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, and Colin M. MacLeod, University of Waterloo.