{"id":128,"date":"2013-11-22T16:19:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/risc\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:31:05","slug":"current-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/risc\/news__trashed\/current-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Current News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For inquiries related to applying to our graduate program please contact one of our RISC faculty<\/a> <\/em>members. Please ensure that you have read about our admissions requirements<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Graduate student Stephanie Doner at the 2026 CDS conference in Montr\u00e9al, presenting “Geo-owl Academy: Investigating the development of large – scale spatial skills in late childhood and early adolescence”. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Post-bac Lily Steele in front of her poster “Have I Seen This Story Before? Multiple Indices of Event Memory in”, presenting at the 2026 CDS conference in Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Post-bac Jordan Denaver at this year’s CDS conference in Montr\u00e9al, presenting her poster “Parental Support for Reminiscing is Person- and Situation-Specific”. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Post-bac Abby Losey and graduate student Stephanie Doner presenting their poster “Evaluating Spatial Thinking in Adolescence: Development of the Revised Spatial Thinking Ability Test (STAT-R)” at the 2026 CDS conference in Montr\u00e9al. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Check out Dr. Newcombe’s co-edited book “Challenges in Navigation Research: Mapping New Directions<\/em>“, now available online! Click this link for open access<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Nora Newcombe was interviewed on the \u201cIt\u2019s Innate\u201d Podcast, hosted by Dr. Deon Benton and Dr. Jenny Wang, where she discussed her background and research interests. Find the episode here: \u201cA conversation with a luminary #4: Nora Newcombe\u201d<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Nora Newcombe and her former doctoral student, Dr. Kim Nyugen, co-authored the chapter \u201cDevelopmental Sequences Constrain Models of the Mind,\u201d<\/em> recently published in the book Space, Time, and Memory. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous lab coordinator Rebecca Adler will be working as a postdoc at The Los Angeles Education Research Institute at UCLA. They’re collaborating with a digital learning platform, IXL, to test the effectiveness of their math learning platform. Congratulations Rebecca!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous Graduate Student Susan Benear was featured in an interview with Cognitive Neuroscience Society: “How Was Your School Day?: Unpacking Free Recall in Young Children<\/a>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Previous lab coordinator Rebecca Adler (pictured on the left) recently graduated with her PhD in Psychology from Vanderbilt University, where she worked with Dr. Bethany Rittle-Johnson (pictured on the right) in the Children’s Learning Lab. Congratulations Rebecca! <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Q&A with Dr. Newcombe<\/a> from PNAS. April 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Newcombe’s 2022 article “Spatial navigation in childhood and aging” was featured in this article published in Knowable Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RISC lab welcomes Olivia Biggs, Lily Steele, and Jordan Denaver as new Research Assistants.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have an opening<\/a> for one full-time post-baccalaureate research assistant! Please contact jacob.lader@temple.edu for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to undergraduate intern Caroline George for receiving the Creative Arts, Research and Scholarship (CARAS) Program Grant. May 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Congratulations to Dr. Karla Diaz for earning her Doctorate in Education. Dr. Diaz was an undergraduate intern in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RISC lab welcomes Sarah Hendricks, Kate Hill, Jacob Lader, and Josh Litwin as new Research Assistants.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell University\u2019s Eleanor J. Gibson and James J. Gibson Lecture in Experimental Psychology this year was presented by Dr. Newcombe. May 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Newcombe was recently featured in a Q&A for the American Psychological Association’s Scientist Spotlight.<\/a> March 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RISC lab welcomes Naoya Tani, our newest graduate student!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS Sunday Morning featured Dr. Newcombe in their episode, “A sense of direction: Finding your way without GPS.”<\/a> July 2021<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our 2017 Cognitive Science article about hierarchical alignment of large magnitude was mentioned in a recent New York Times article.<\/a> June 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UCSB Golledge Lecture 2021<\/a>: The Development of Navigation by Dr. Nora S. Newcombe<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out Dr. Newcombe’s Paul B. Baltes lecture at Max Planck: “Affordances and Representations: Understanding Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking and Spatial Reorientation”<\/a><\/span>
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Child Trends Organization made a video<\/a> on Best Toys for Baby featuring our research<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our colleagues at the Olson lab have created a Youtube channel. Check out their first video here<\/a>, which shows what it is like to get an MRI for a research study!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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