2023 Highlights
January
- January 1: Congratulations to former lab RA Brylee Hawkins, who just had her undergraduate thesis work from the laboratory published in the journal PLoS One! Well done, Brylee!
February
- February 27: Congratulations to former lab RA Faith Kimmet, who just had her undergraduate thesis work from the laboratory published in the journal Multisensory Research! This article contains additional work by former lab undergrads Victoria Cardenas, Camila Rubiera, Samantha Pedersen, and Grey Johnson. Plus additional work by the lab manager, Addison Sans. Great work, everyone!
April
- April 13: Congratulations to lab manager Ryan Faulkner, who received 2nd place for his poster (“Evidence of misrepresentation in Saccadic Blindness”) at the PGSO Research Forum today. Bravo, Ryan!
- Late April: We are excited to welcome the first postdoctoral researcher to the laboratory, DoYeon Lee! DoYeon will be joining us shortly, following her dissertation defense in May. Welcome, DoYeon!
May
- May 19-24: Our laboratory attended its first conference! Saurabh Ranjan, Joseph Pruitt, Trevor Caruso, and PI Odegaard all presented work at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida. Saurabh presented his recent work on metacognition and reality monitoring, Joey presented new experimental results from his study of peripheral vision, and Trevor presented his master’s work on a new color-judgment task. Well done, all!
June
- June 5-9: PI Odegaard wraps up his first year as an ONR Young Investigator with the annual program review meeting in Norfolk, VA.
- June 22-25: PI Odegaard teams up with Megan Peters (UC-Irvine) and Nora Bradford (UC-Irvine) to teach a seminar on communicating consciousness science to the general public at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Meeting in NYC. PI Odegaard also presents new experimental results from a collaboration with Lingnan University in Hong Kong at this event
July
- July 3: Graduate student Saurabh Ranjan has submitted his first manuscript to a journal. Well done, Saurabh!
- July 21: We are excited to welcome back our coding-and-machine-learning expert Anurag Shenoy to the lab! Anurag will be working with us as an OPS researcher to explore how to predict phenotypes from brain data from the UKBioBank, and build better ways of decoding attention in real-time
August
- August 7: Congratulations to former lab RA Randolph Maynes, who just had his undergraduate thesis work from the laboratory published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B! This article contains additional work by former lab undergrads Grace Callahan, Callie E. Mims, and Justine Stalzer, as well as current lab members Ryan Faulkner and Saurabh Ranjan. Great work, everyone!
- August 29: Our laboratory kicks off this year by welcoming 18 new undergraduate research volunteers to the laboratory! These undergrads will help run experiments with our graduate students Saurabh, Joey, Trevor, and Alejandro. Welcome, everyone!!!
September
- Sept 16-Sept 23: I signed the “IIT-is-pseudoscience” letter and it spurred some interesting debates and press coverage. Check out the “Publications” tab on my lab webpage for the letter itself, a public statement I made regarding why I signed it, and some coverage of the ongoing debate
November
- Nov 23: Saurabh’s first paper is out in Neuroscience Research! The online version is available in the publications tab.
December
- Dec 22: Graduate student Joseph Pruitt just submitted his first preprint/journal article today, based on his successful master’s thesis defense in October. Well done, Joey! Looking forward to reviewer feedback in 2024.