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Benefits Annual Membership Fee The normal membership fee is $90 EUR Student membership fee is $35 EUR Membership 2024 Full membership €90,00 EURStudent membership €35,00 EUR Members who do not attend are required to pay the same fee as those with student membership.
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Author: Dr. Yoshitaka Nakajima (Fukuoka, Aug. 15th, 2023) Almost one thousand days have passed since our colleague, Yuko Yamashitaʼs, passing. On the one hundredth day since Yukoʼs farewell, in April, 2021, her family, relatives, friends, and coworkers met in a Buddhist ceremony held in a quiet temple in Fukuoka. This intended to bring our…
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The Yuko Yamashita Memorial Award for Best Poster Presentation by a Young Researcher honors the legacy of Dr. Yuko Yamashita, who devoted her career to nurturing young talent in research. This award is given at the Fechner Day conference, organized by the International Society for Psychophysics (ISP). Dr. Yamashita, a respected Associate Professor at…
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Society President Prof. Wm Wren Stine, Ph.D.Department of PsychologyProgram in Neuroscience & BehaviorMcConnell HallUniversity of New HampshireDurham, NH 03824USAemail: bill.stine@unh.edu Society Vice President Yaniv Mama, Ph.D.Chair, Departmaent of PsychologyHead of the Neuro-Cognitive Lab.Ariel UniversityAriel, Israel email: yanivma@ariel.ac.il Society Secretary Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan, Ph.DDirector, Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and DidacticsPatrizio Paoletti Foundation for Development and…
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Martha Teghtsoonian Robert Teghtsoonian (1932-2017) was born in Toronto, Canada, where his parents had emigrated from Armenia in the wake of the Armenian genocide and the First World War.1 Bob (as everyone called him) earned his bachelor’s degree and his master’s in psychology from the University of Toronto, his Ph. D. in the Department of…
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Imagine Gene Galanter in military uniform atop a hill. He is looking at the vast expanse of human behavior unfolding below him. The behaviors range from gallantry, Eugene himself received the French Legion d’Honeur, to self preservation. Perhaps his WWII experiences shaped the keen perception of human behavior he used to stimulate and drive…
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Ragnar Steingrimsson, UCI IMBS associate project scientist, dies at 50 Ragnar Steingrimsson, associate project scientist in the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at University of California at Irvine, passed away in his sleep on May 22. He was 50. Steingrimsson received his Ph.D. in cognitive sciences from UCI in 2002 and went on to…
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Åke Hellström Stockholm University, Sweden Our very distinguished member, Professor Hannes Eisler, Stockholm University, has left us. He died on May 28, 2015, at the age of 91. He was a member of the ISP from its beginnings. At Fechner Day 2014 in Lund, Sweden, Hannes lectured on “Some research tips from 55 years’…
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Fechner Day 2015 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics The 31st meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (ISP) was held in Québec, Canada, 17th – 21st of August, 2015. For details please visit Fechner Day website.
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Åke HellströmStockholms universitet, Stockholm Anna D. Eisler was born near Bratislava in former Czechoslovakia. In 1968 she came to Stockholm. Educated as an economist, she became employed as a bank clerk. After meeting her future husband, Hannes Eisler, she studied psychology at Stockholm University. The title of her doctoral dissertation (1993) – “Time perception:…