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Lexie Topete recently received an NIH F99/K00 Transition to Aging Research award, which will fund her last year of graduate school and up to 4 years of postdoctoral work!

The Spatial Thinking Lab (Lexie, Mitch, Mable, and Zoe) presented their work in San Francisco at the 2025 Cognitive Science Conference!

Congratulations to Chelsie McWhorter on earning her PhD! 

The newest lab member joined on May 27th - welcome Lillian Catena!

The whole Spatial Thinking Lab represented their research at iNav 2024 in Merano, Italy!

That's a wrap on Psychonomics 2023! In case you missed it, check out the talks and posters presented by our Spatial Thinking researchers Dr. Hegarty, Lexie Topete, Mitch Munns, and Mable Zhou on the 2023 program page below.

Congratulations to Carol He on earning her PhD and receiving the prestigious Ashby Award!

For more information about the award, and previous recipients, see: https://cogsci.ucmerced.edu/about/distinguished-cognitive-scientist-award

Honors student Mable Zhou graduated Winter quarter 2023 and will be joining the lab as a lab manager until September 2023.

Carol He published a paper on pointing and shortcutting in PBR, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, on March 17, 2023. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02266-6