Check out this article about aphantasia, featuring Dr. Sarah Shomstein!
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=What%20Happens%20in%20a%20Mind%20That%20Can%E2%80%99t%20%E2%80%98See%E2%80%99%20Mental%20Images&utm_campaign=Getting%20Press%20-%20September%202024
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Congratulations Dr. Prachi Mahableshwarkar!
Please join us in congratulating Prachi Mahableshwarkar, who successfully defended her dissertation last week! The title of her dissertation is: "Natural Scene Perception: Interactions between Semantics and Space".
Committee members included Drs. John Philbeck, Dwight Kravitz, Sarah Shomstein, Steve Mitroff, and Robert Pless. Dr. Gabriela Rosenblau served as the Chair.
Congratulations Prachi!! 🥳🥳🥳
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Spring Advising Day 2024
Spring Advising Day was a wonderful event co-hosted by Psi Chi. It was great to see many current PBS majors and minors for advising and to learn about available research opportunities. We also welcomed many new majors and minors to our PBS community!
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