Lab news

2012–2013

• Summer research (May–August 2013)

  We have been awarded CSU Undergraduate Research & Creative Achievement Award (4 years in a row!). With support from this award, we will investigate the possible effect of aging on distance perception.

• Cleveland Psychological Association student research poster session (May 2013)

  Cindy presented her project at CPA's student research conference.

  Rohde, L. V., & Yamamoto, N. (2013, April). Using schizotypal traits to determine the effect of efferent signals on self-motion sensing. Poster presented at the 4th annual student research poster session of the Cleveland Psychological Association, Beachwood, OH.

• Midwestern Psychological Association annual meeting (May 2013)

  Maria gave a talk, and Jayleen and Cindy presented posters at MPA's annual meeting.

  Donaldson, M. J., & Yamamoto, N. (2013, May). Change detection in naturalistic scenes: Is our attentional system flexible? Talk given at the 85th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

  Meléndez, J. A., & Yamamoto, N. (2013, May). Path crossover: Is it detrimental to spatial orientation? Poster presented at the 85th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

  Rohde, L. V., & Yamamoto, N. (2013, May). Influence of schizotypal traits on real and imagined walking. Poster presented at the 85th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

• Dale's M.A. thesis completed! (April 2013)

  Dale successfully defended his thesis. He will graduate with an M.A. in Psychology degree at the end of the semester, and will begin his Ph.D. study at Kent State University in the fall. Well-done, Dale!

• Honors theses completed! (April 2013)

  Jessica and Astrid successfully defended their honors theses. Congratulations!

• Jessica is an outstanding senior! (April 2013)

  Jessica has been selected as one of only six graduating students who are recognized as outstanding seniors in the College of Sciences and Health Professions. Congratulations for this great award!

  
  
• College of Sciences and Health Professions Research Day (April 2013)

  Many of us participated in Research Day this year too—Cindy, Jayleen, Jessica, Kim, and Saliha presented posters.
  

• One more McNair conference (March 2013)

  Jayleen presented her research at the McNair research conference held at the University of Maryland, College Park.

• New publication (January 2013)

  A new study on the role of peripheral vision in spatial learning has been published in Memory & Cognition!

  Yamamoto, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (2013). Peripheral vision benefits spatial learning by guiding eye movements. Memory & Cognition, 41, 109–121.

• McNair research conference (November 2012)

  Jayleen presented her research at the McNair annual national research conference held in Grand Geneva Resort, Wisconsin.

• Great Lakes Vision Research Conference (September 2012)

  This was a busy month! We gave yet another presentation at the Great Lakes Vision Research Conference.

  Yamamoto, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (2012, September). What role does peripheral vision play in learning spatial layouts? Poster presented at the 2012 Great Lakes Vision Research Conference, Cleveland, OH.

• ICSC 2012 (September 2012)

  We presented one more paper at ICSC 2012, a triennial international conference on spatial cognition held in Rome, Italy.

  Yamamoto, N. (2012). The role of active locomotion in space perception. Cognitive Processing, 13, S365–S368.

  
  
• Spatial Cognition 2012 (September 2012)

  We presented our paper at Spatial Cognition 2012, an interdisciplinary conference on human spatial cognition involving psychologists, geographers, roboticists, and computer scientists. The conference took place in Germany at an old monastery by a beautiful lake, but we were stuck in meeting rooms most of the time...

  Donaldson, M. J., & Yamamoto, N. (2012). Detection of object onset and offset in naturalistic scenes. In C. Stachniss, K. Schill, & D. Uttal (Eds.), Spatial cognition viii (Lecture notes in computer science, Vol. 7463, pp. 451–460). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

  
  
• Undergraduate research poster session (September 2012)

  Laura, Jessica, and Jayleen presented their summer projects at the undergraduate research poster session.

2011–2012

• Jessica received the Graduate College and Provost Undergraduate Research Fund! (August 2012)

  Jessica's honors project has been funded by the Graduate College and Provost's Office. Congratulations Jessica!

• CogSci 2012 (August 2012)

  We presented our research at CogSci 2012, the 34th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

  Yamamoto, N., & Hirsch, D. A. (2012). “What” versus “how” in nonvisual whole-body movement. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2558–2563). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

• Cindy got an award! (June 2012)

  Cindy has received the Outstanding Undergraduate Psychology Student Award! Congratulations on this well-deserved award!

• New publication (June 2012)

  Greg's thesis research has been published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience!

  Yamamoto, N., & DeGirolamo, G. J. (2012). Differential effects of aging on spatial learning through exploratory navigation and map reading. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 4(14), 1–7.

• New grant! (May 2012)

  We have been awarded CSU Faculty Research Development Award to conduct research on Parkinson's disease. In this study, we will investigate whether the caudate nucleus, an area of the brain, actually contributes to human spatial navigation.

• Summer research (May–August 2012)

  We have been awarded CSU Undergraduate Research & Creative Achievement Award (3 years in a row!). Laura Elias and Jessica Willesch will conduct a summer project with support from this award.

• Greg's thesis completed! (April 2012)

  Greg successfully defended his Master's thesis. He will graduate with an M.A. in Psychology degree at the end of the semester, and will start his doctoral training at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the fall. Congratulations Greg!

• College of Sciences and Health Professions Research Day (April 2012)

  We were busy presenting our research at Research Day! Astrid, Dale, Greg, and Jessica gave poster presentations.
  

• Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (November 2011)

  We presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

  Yamamoto, N., & Muschter, E. (2011, November). Schizotypal traits and nonvisual space perception: Exploring the role of efference copy. Poster presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

• Cleveland State Interdisciplinary Research Conference (October 2011)

  Dale and Cindy presented posters at Cleveland State Interdisciplinary Research Conference.

• Undergraduate research poster session (September 2011)

  Cindy and Pappu presented their summer project at the undergraduate research poster session.

  
  

2010–2011

• Master's thesis completed! (August 2011)

  Maria successfully defended her Master's thesis! She will graduate from CSU with an M.A. in Psychology degree at the end of this summer, and will be back as a doctoral student next year. Congratulations Maria, we will be looking forward to working with you again!

• Summer research (May–August 2011)

  We have been awarded CSU Undergraduate Research & Creative Achievement Award (again!) to conduct research during summer. Two undergraduate lab members, Govind Sailesh Pappu and Cindy Rohde, will be working with support from this award.

• Annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science (May 2011)

  We presented a poster at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science.

  Yamamoto, N., & Muschter, E. (2011, May). Schizotypal traits and distance perception. Poster presented at the 23rd annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

• Honors theses completed! (May 2011)

  Dagmara and Evelyn successfully defended their honors theses. Congratulations!

• College of Sciences and Health Professions Research Day (April 2011)

  Greg presented his research project at College of Sciences and Health Professions Research Day.

  
  
• Cleveland Psychological Association student research poster session (February 2011)

  Dagmara and Evelyn presented their projects at the annual student research poster session of the Cleveland Psychological Association. Dagmara's poster received an honorable mention in the poster contest!

  Mach, D. E., & Yamamoto, N. (2011, February). The role of anticipation error in imagined walking. Poster presented at the 2nd annual student research poster session of the Cleveland Psychological Association, Beachwood, OH.

  Muschter, E., & Yamamoto, N. (2011, February). The effect of schizotypal traits on distance perception via nonvisual walking. Poster presented at the 2nd annual student research poster session of the Cleveland Psychological Association, Beachwood, OH.

  
  
• OPAM (November 2010)

  Maria made an international debut at the annual meeting of OPAM! She received COSHP Student Travel Award to present at this conference. Congratulations!

  Donaldson, M. J., & Yamamoto, N. (2010, November). Enhanced change detection ability for object onsets in natural scenes. Poster presented at the 18th annual workshop on Object Perception, Attention, & Memory, St. Louis, MO.

  
  
• Ohio Psychological Association convention (November 2010)

  Dagmara presented her honors thesis research at the annual convention of the Ohio Psychological Association.

  Mach, D. E., & Yamamoto, N. (2010, November). The role of anticipation error in the underestimation of imagined walking time. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Ohio Psychological Association, Columbus, OH.

  
  
• Cleveland State Interdisciplinary Research Conference (October 2010)

  Maria presented a poster at Cleveland State Interdisciplinary Research Conference.
  

2009–2010

• Summer research (May–August 2010)

  We have been awarded CSU Undergraduate Research & Creative Achievement Award to conduct research during Summer 2010! Two undergraduate lab members, Dale Hirsch and Dagmara Mach, will be working with support from this award.

• College of Science Research Day (April 2010)

  Dagmara, Dale, and Evelyn presented their research projects at College of Science Research Day.

• Psychonomic Society meeting (November 2009)

  We presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Dr. Yamamoto was a co-author of another poster too.

  Yamamoto, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (2009, November). What role does peripheral vision play in learning spatial layouts? Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

  Sargent, J. Q., Gajewski, D. A., & Yamamoto, N. (2009, November). Effects of spatial and temporal proximity on chunking in spatial memory. Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

• Spatial Cognition and Navigation Lab is open! (August 2009)

  OK, not quite yet, but we'll be up and running soon!