Overview
The Psychonomic Society's One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series runs online during the academic year and features a seminar approximately once every month. Each session includes a talk by an exceptional cognitive psychologist, following by audience discussion with participants from all over the world. The series represents an incredible opportunity to reach cognitive psychologists around the world with your latest research, as well as to forge collaborations with fellow scientists doing groundbreaking work. More recent recordings of past seminars are now available with American Sign Language interpretation and captioning.

2025/2026 SCHEDULE	SPEAKER	SEMINAR TITLE	REGISTRATION
October 8, 2025 11:15 am - 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time	Gordon Pennycook Cornell University, USA	"Dialogues with AI demonstrate the persuasive power of facts and evidence" Full Description	Watch the Recording
February 26, 2026 11:15 am - 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time	Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois, USA	"Inattentional blindness in and out of the lab" Full Description	Registration Opens January 2026
2024/2025 SCHEDULE	SPEAKER	SEMINAR TITLE	REGISTRATION
September 25, 2024 11:15 am - 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time	Liane Gabora The University of British Columbia, Canada	"Creative Ideas: Their Emergence and Evolution" Full Description	Watch the Recording
October 23, 2024 11:15 am - 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time	Richard Prather University of Maryland, USA	"Critical Approaches to Human Cognition" Full Description	Watch the Recording
January 22, 2025 11:15 am - 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time	Morgan Barense University of Toronto, Canada	"Enhancing Real-World Event Memory" Full Description	Watch the Recording
February 26, 2025 11:15 am - 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time	Mel Goodale        University of Western Ontario, Canada	"How big is that bagel? Differences in size constancy for perception and action" Full Description	Watch the Recording
March 26, 2025 11:15 am - 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time	Penny Lewis Cardiff University, UK	"Sleep Engineering for Health and Cognition" Full Description	Watch the Recording
April 23, 2025 11:15 am - 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time	Alin Coman       Princeton University, USA	"Groundbreaking large-scale social outcomes in psychological phenomena: from measurement to interventions" Full Description	Watch the Recording
May 21, 2025 11:15 am - 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time	Frances Wang  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA	Euclidean or not: Human navigation in curved and wormhole spaces Full Description	POSTPONED
2023/2024 SCHEDULE	SPEAKER	SEMINAR TITLE	REGISTRATION
May 22, 2024	Leah Fostick Ariel University, Israel	"Different perceptual strategies in auditory processing" Full Description	Watch the Recording
April 24, 2024	Gregory Cox University at Albany -SUNY, USA	"Integrated representations in perception and memory illuminated by neural and behavioral dynamics" Full Description	Watch the Recording
March 27, 2024	Danny Oppenheimer Carnegie Mellon University, USA	"Cognitive Science in the age of Augmented Cognition" Full Description	Watch the Recording
February 28, 2024	Malte Wöstmann University of Lübeck, Germany	"Attention, please! Behavioral and neural dynamics of distraction" Full Description	Watch the Recording
January 24, 2024	Arturo Hernandez University of Houston, USA	"Sensorimotor plasticity and cognitive flexibility: A Neuoremergentist approach" Full Description	Watch the Recording
October 25, 2023	Rebecca Treiman Washington University in St. Louis, USA	"Spelling and learning to spell." Full Description	Watch the Recording
September 27, 2023	Ven Popov  University of Zurich, Switzerland	"If God Handed Us the Ground-Truth Theory of Memory, How Would We Recognize It?" Full Description	Review the Presentation
2022/2023 SCHEDULE	SPEAKER	SEMINAR TITLE	REGISTRATION
May 17, 2023	Claudia von Bastian The University of Sheffield, UK	"Mechanisms of Cognitive Training and Transfer Effects: Capacity and Efficiency"  Full Description	Watch the Recording
March 22, 2023	Mark McDaniel Washington University in St. Louis, USA	"Individual Differences in Concept Learning: Persistence from Laboratory to Classroom" Full Description	Watch the Recording
February 22, 2023	Rain Bosworth  Rochester Institute of Technology, USA	"Learning about Language from Bimodal Babies" Full Description	Watch the Recording
January 25, 2023	Arthur Glenberg Arizona State University, USA	"Embodied Cognition for Kids: Applying Principles of Embodiment to Education" Full Description	Watch the Recording
October 19, 2022	Karla Evans The University of York, UK	"All that One Sees in a Blink of an Eye from Natural to Radiological Images" Full Description	Watch the Recording
September 21, 2022	Barbara Tversky  Stanford University & Columbia University, USA	"Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought"  Full Description	Watch the Recording
2021-2022 SCHEDULE	SPEAKER	SEMINAR TITLE	REGISTRATION
	Helen Fischer Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media, Germany	"A Metacognitive Perspective on Politicized Science" Full Description	Watch the Recording
	Karen B. Schloss  University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA	"That Color Means What? Understanding People's Expectations About the Meanings of Visual Features To Facilitate Visual Communication" Full Description	Watch the Recording
	Anna-Lena Schubert Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz, Germany	Why Does a Higher Speed of Information Processing Facilitate Reasoning? Full Description	Watch the Recording
	Julia Strand  Carleton College, USA	"Beware the Jingle and the Jangle: Cautionary Tales from Research on Listening Effort" Full Description	Watch the Recording
	Jeremy M. Wolfe Harvard Medical School / Brigham Women's Hospital, USA	"If You Don't Find It Often, You Often Don't Find It: Effects of Target Prevalence in Visual Search and Decision Making" Full Description	Watch the Recording

History of the One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series 
A team at the University of Mannheim School of Social Sciences, led by Beatrice Kuhlmann, Meike Kroneisen, Arndt Bröder, and Edgar Erdfelder, introduced the  One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar in early 2020, to continue providing a platform for dissemination of research findings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The seminar was hosted weekly online via Zoom. It featured a presentation by an exceptional cognitive psychologist and was then followed by audience discussion. The seminar was highly successful, regularly attracting 100-150 people for each presentation. To view talk recordings and past programs, click here. 

Transition to the Psychonomic Society 
In order to keep this seminar going, the team at the University of Mannheim School of Social Sciences approached the Psychonomic Society about taking over the series. The Governing Board enthusiastically approved the idea. The Psychonomic Society extends its heartfelt gratitude to the University of Mannheim for creating this seminar and ensuring its ongoing success by transitioning the series to a space where it will have ongoing staff support.

Diversity Statement 
The Psychonomic Society is committed to scientific merit, which entails the inclusion of scientists regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, disability status, country of origin, geographic location, and disciplinary expertise. As our members submit nominations and proposals, we ask that they critically examine their deliberations to eliminate biases that detract from our commitment to merit.

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