TDLC PI honored by the National Academy of Sciences

January 22, 2008 / By Maureen O'Leary, Director of Public Information

Troland Research Awards – annual research awards of $50,000 given to each of two recipients to recognize unusual achievement and to further their research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology – Isabel Gauthier, associate professor of psychology, department of psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.  was honored "for seminal experiments on the role of visual expertise in the recognition of complex objects including faces and for exploration of brain areas activated by this recognition."  The Troland Research Awards were established by a bequest from Leonard T. Troland and have been presented since 1984. [More ]