Current News

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Dr. Newcombe’s 2022 article “Spatial navigation in childhood and aging” was featured in this article published in Knowable Magazine.

We have two openings for full-time post-baccalaureate coordinators and research assistants! Please contact jacob.lader@temple.edu for more information.

Dr. Newcombe was the keynote speaker at this year’s Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, a new affiliate meeting to the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. November 2023.

Congratulations to undergraduate intern Caroline George for receiving the Creative Arts, Research and Scholarship (CARAS) Program Grant. May 2023.

Graduate students Kim Nguyen and Merve Tansan along with Dr. Newcombe had their article “Studying the development of navigation using virtual environments” published in Journal of Cognition and Development, Volume 24 Issue 1. January 2023.

Congratulations to Dr. Karla Diaz for earning her Doctorate in Education. Dr. Diaz was an undergraduate intern in 2008.

The RISC lab welcomes Sarah Hendricks, Kate Hill, Jacob Lader, and Josh Litwin as new Research Assistants.

Cornell University’s Eleanor J. Gibson and James J. Gibson Lecture in Experimental Psychology this year was presented by Dr. Newcombe. May 2022.

Dr. Newcombe was recently featured in a Q&A for the American Psychological Association’s Scientist Spotlight. March 2022.

The RISC lab welcomes Naoya Tani, our newest graduate student!

CBS Sunday Morning featured Dr. Newcombe in their episode, “A sense of direction: Finding your way without GPS.” July 2021

Our 2017 Cognitive Science article about hierarchical alignment of large magnitude was mentioned in a recent New York Times article. June 2021.

UCSB Golledge Lecture 2021: The Development of Navigation by Dr. Nora S. Newcombe

Check out Dr. Newcombe’s Paul B. Baltes lecture at Max Planck: “Affordances and Representations: Understanding Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking and Spatial Reorientation”

Child Trends Organization made a video on Best Toys for Baby featuring our research

Our colleagues at the Olson lab have created a Youtube channel. Check out their first video here, which shows what it is like to get an MRI for a research study!