2024 Highlights
February
- February 3: Today, the lab enjoyed its first-ever manatee viewing field trip in Crystal River, Florida! Many thanks to Birds Underwater for leading us on such an amazing journey! You can see some photos and read more about our journey in this thread on Twitter
March
- March 7: Saurabh Ranjan has won his first national award as a member of the lab! He received notice today that he is the winner of the Scott O. Lilienfeld APS Travel Award. This award will support Saurabh’s travel to San Francisco in May to present his work at the APS Convention. Congratulations, Saurabh!
- March 24: Saurabh Ranjan has published his first commentary as a graduate student in the laboratory! Saurabh has some thoughts on the HeXaGen model of visual imagery, which you can find on our publications tab. Well done, Saurabh!
April
- April 18: Undergraduates from the lab gave two fantastic posters today at the PGSO forum here in the UF Psychology department. First, Madeline Maw, Lindsey Zhuang, and Jessica Baltes (mentored by Saurabh Ranjan) won third place for their poster titled, “Task Demands and Sensory Externalization Interact to Influence Accuracy and Metacognition in Reality Monitoring.” Also, Sanjana Dundigalla, along with co-authors Delaney Johnson and Adyssa Roh (also mentored by Saurabh) gave a fantastic poster titled, “Cognitive Strategies in Reality MOnitoring Change Based on Extraneous Factors.” Congratulations to our research teams!
May
- May 19: The lab will be giving two posters at the annual Vision Sciences Society meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida. First, Dr. Odegaard and Joseph Pruitt will delivering a poster called, “Near Optimal Metacognition Across the Visual Periphery” in the Sunday morning session. Later that day, Alejandro Gamba will present work from a research team on how “Task-irrelevant motion information modulates working memory representations.”
- May 23-May 25: Joseph Pruitt and Saurabh Ranjan delievered flash talks at the APS convention in San Francisco on May 23! Saurabh also delivered a poster in the evening session (4-5pm) on May 24, and Joey delivered a poster on May 24
June
- June 27: PI Odegaard gave a talk at the ONR annual portfolio review about all of the lab’s research from the last calendar year. Looking forward to all of the work to come in the last year on the grant!
August
- August 7: Congrats to graduate student Joey Pruitt on his first empirical paper, now published in the Journal of Vision! Great work, Joey!!! The first of many.
- August 30: We are kicking off the fall semester with our largest team ever! This year, we have 6 continuing lab members (1 post-doc, 1 OPS RA, 4 grad students) and we are welcoming 27 undergraduate RAs, who will be helping with experiments. Looking forward to the work ahead!
November
- November 11: The lab celebrated the Veteran’s Day holiday with our first outing on the high-ropes course at UF. Well done to all the courageous members that attended!
- November 15: Joey and Doyeon, together with Eric Du’s lab, have a new preprint with some thoughts on how metacognitive sensitivity is important for trust calibration and optimal decisions with AI agents. This can be found in the publication tab.
- November 19: It was just announced that Saurabh Ranjan has been awarded a UF CLAS Dissertation Fellowship ($8,000), funded by the Threadgill Dissertation Fellowship. Congrats, Saurabh!!! Well done!
- November 21-24: Saurabh, Doyeon, and Trevor will all be at the Psychonomics Society annual meeting in New York City presenting posters!
December
- December 6: Doyeon Lee just submitted her first empirical paper from the lab, related to the experiments she has developed in virtual reality. The preprint can be found in the publications tab. Great work, Doyeon!