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JCU’s Dr Bridget McConnell has been one of only 10 people chosen to be a select-speaker

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Tue, 19 Jul 2016
JCU’s Dr Bridget McConnell has been one of only 10 people chosen to be a select-speaker

Dr Bridget McConnell, Lecturer in Psychology at JCU Singapore has been one of only 10 people chosen to be a select-speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society held in Boston in November.

This is an extremely prestigious award and she has been selected together with people from universities including Syracuse University, University of California, Davis, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, University of Konstanz, Germany, Regensburg University, Germany, University of California, Davis, University of Pittsburgh, and Heidelberg University, Germany.

She will present a paper entitled “Retrieval-Induced Forgetting of Spatial Information for Items with Equal Strengths”.  The citation states that “The Psychonomic Society Member Select-Speaker Awards are designed to showcase exceptional research by 10 Members”.  According to the citation “the main criteria for selection are overall quality of research, theoretical impact, and methodological rigor”.

For further information on the Psychonomic Society conference please click here and the select-speaker award please click here.