Peters publishes on ChatGPT performance and life sciences assessment design
John Peters, assistant professor of biology, published "Designing life science assessments in the era of generative artificial intelligence" in PLOS ONE.
Student Research & Teaching Opportunities
We encourage cognitive science majors to develop their scientific exploration skills by becoming involved in faculty-mentored research. The best way to find a research experience that fits you is to explore faculty interests and the research projects that are currently active using the link below. If you are interested in learning more about conducting research, contact a faculty whose projects or areas appeal to you. Many faculty members are actively seeking students, and will be happy to talk about how you might become involved.
Dr. Lambert Finalist for Cherry Award
Kelly Lambert, MacEldin Trawick Professor in Psychology, was named one of three finalists for Baylor University’s 2024 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. This national award for exceptional teaching is the single largest monetary reward presented by a college or university.
As a Cherry Award finalist, Lambert received $15,000 as well as $10,000 for the University of Richmond Department of Psychology to foster the development of teaching skills.
Faculty Highlights
Lowder publishes on memory retrieval and language processing
Matthew Lowder, associate professor of psychology, along with Gwynna Ryan '21, published "Retrieval Interference in the Processing of Relative Clauses: Evidence from the Visual-World Paradigm" in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
Lowder publishes first Korean dominance norms to understand lexical ambiguity processing
Matthew Lowder, associate professor of psychology, published "Dominance Norms for 274 Korean Homonyms" in the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
Robbins and student publish on webcam photo dataset that enables distance estimation
Arryn Robbins, assistant professor of psychology, along with Yixuan Zhai, ’26, published “Face2Cam: A user-to-webcam distance estimation image dataset” in the Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (Volume 3).
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