2021 Spring Class of Fellows

The Psychonomic Society Governing Board welcomes the following members as the newest Fellows of the Society:

Felipe De Brigard (Duke University, USA)

Felipe De Brigard is the Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Psychology and Neuroscience, and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. He is Principal Investigator of the Imagination and Modal Cognition Laboratory within the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. He earned a BA from the National University of Colombia, a MA from Tufts University, and a PhD from UNC, Chapel Hill. Before arriving to Duke, he was post-doctoral fellow at the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Lab and the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University.

 

Renato Frey (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Renato Frey is a psychologist and works as an SNSF Ambizione fellow at the Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Basel. He is also an associate researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. In his research he studies individual differences in decision making under risk and uncertainty, particularly focusing on the construct of risk preference. To this end he implements lab experiments, online studies, as well as ecological assessments, and he uses various data-science methods for psychometric, cognitive, and statistical modeling.

 

Jessica C. Lee (UNSW Syndey, Australia)
Jessica Lee is an ARC DECRA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales Sydney. Her research focuses on the role of higher-order cognitive processes in human associative learning. She is currently investigating the role of individual differences and inductive rules in generalization of associative learning using a combination of experimental and computational methods.

 

Alexandra Morrison (Sacramento State University, USA)

Dr. Alexandra (Alex) Morrison is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at California State University, Sacramento. She completed her doctorate at Temple University under the mentorship of Dr. Jason Chein and a postdoctoral position with Dr. Amishi Jha at the University of Miami. Her program of research investigates cognitive systems like working memory and attention in order to understand how they support ongoing cognition. She investigates the strengths and limitations of these systems as well as a variety of potential strategies or interventions to enhance them in younger and older adults.

 

Charan Ranganath (University of California, Davis, USA)

Charan Ranganath is Director of the Memory and Plasticity Program and a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California at Davis. Prior to starting at Davis, Dr. Ranganath received a PhD in Clinical Psychology at Northwestern University, and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Ranganath uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), intracranial and scalp electroencephalography (EEG), neuropsychology, and computational modeling to study the neural mechanisms of episodic memory. He has received several awards, including the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Yusuke Yamani (Old Dominion University, USA)
Dr. Yusuke Yamani is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Old Dominion University. Dr. Yamani received his PhD (Visual Cognition and Human Performance) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety in 2014. His research interests lie in the domain of visual attention and cognition including the study of basic and applied issues. Dr. Yamani’s research has been supported by agencies including National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles.

 

 

New Fellows are accepted into the Society twice a year. The next application deadline for Fellowship is September 1, 2021. Learn more and apply.

 

2021 Fellows Committee

Priti Shah, Chair, University of Michigan, USA
Aysecan Boduroglu , Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Maryanne Garry, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Caren Rotello, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Holly Taylor, Tufts University, USA