Recent Lab News

• Milestones -- Congratulations to Dana Slabbekoorn who successfully completed the preliminary exam!

• Prof. Hannula has been selected as a Teaching Fellow by the UWM Center for Student Experience and Talent and will be developed a careers-focused course for psychology majors. (https://uwm.edu/set/community-of-practice/teaching-fellowship/)

• Prof. Hannula wrote a commentary in response to a recent article from Steinkrauss & Slotnick. Check it out here: Hannula (2024) 

• Milestones -- Congratulations to Dana Slabbekoorn who successfully defended her master's project!

• Undergraduate Students -- Erin Sotelo, Avery Sparacino, and Milan Stojilovic -- presented posters at the 2024 UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium.

• Prof. Hannula has prepared a chapter on memory and consciousness, to appear in the Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, this September. In the meantime, it can be accessed here: Hannula (2024) 

• Dana Slabbekoorn presented posters at the 2024 Meetings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and the Midwestern Psychological Association.

• Prof. Hannula co-chaired a symposium - From Magic to Memory: Eye Movements, Cognition, and the Brain - at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association with Prof. Mita Puri from the U. of Central Arkansas.

• Prof. Hannula gave a talk - Memory-Based Eye Movements and Their Neural Correlates During Retrieval Control - at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. All of the heavy lifting was done by Mrinmayi Kulkarni, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, Canada.

• Check out this paper, from our group that reviews work focused on conscious awareness and memory systems in the brain: Hannula et al. (2023)  

• Check out this paper, from Mrinmayi Kulkarni, that examines retrieval control using eye-tracking methods: Kulkarni et al. (2023) 

• Dana Slabbekoorn presented a poster at the 2023 Context and Episodic Memory Meeting. 

• Check out this paper, from Greta Minor, that examines the integrity of item-specific and relational memory in individuals diagnosed with Autism using eye-tracking methods:  Minor et al. (2023) 

• Prof. Hannula was invited to attend a College Board Higher Ed Symposium on AP Psychology in Austin, TX.

• Milestones -- Congratulations to Greta Minor who successfully defended her PhD project!