Tom James has received the 2008 Randolph Blake Early Career Award it was announced recently.

 

The program in Psychological Sciences established this award to recognize exemplary alumni of our program in the early stages of their career. The nominee must have been an honors student, a graduate student, or a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology or the Department of Psychology and Human Development. Nominees must be within the first five years of appointment in their first faculty position. The winner was decided by a committee of faculty from both departments.  

 

Tom James was a postdoctoral fellow with Isabel Gauthier from 2001-2004. He is currently on the faculty at Indiana University as an assistant professor. Tom’s research has used a combination of functional brain imaging and behavioral experiments to tackle a number of basic problems in visual cognition, such as visual priming, multimodal and semantic interactions on vision, and classical issues of viewpoint selectivity. Tom has published 22 peer-reviewed articles, most of them first-authored, in top journals such as Neuron, Psychological Science, and Neuropsychologia.

 

Congratulations to Tom.

As part of this award, Tom will be invited to give a colloquium some time in the future.