Dr Vivas and Dr Chrysochoou at the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society 2016 in Granada

In the context of the Second International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society that took place in Granada in May of 2016, Dr Ana Vivas, Head of our Psychology Department and Dr Elisavet Chrysochoou, Lecturer at the Department and Academic Director of the postgraduate programmes in Neuropsychology, successfully presented their research work.

Dr Ana Vivas was an invited speaker in the Symposium Linking Basic and Applied Science: The Case of the Differential Outcomes Effect, and presented work conducted in collaboration with the Hellenic Society for Alzheimer Disease and the University of Almeria (Spain) to investigate the effectiveness of a simple but powerful learning manipulation - the differential outcome procedure - to improve memory in healthy older adults and individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer disease. Many times applied science benefits from findings coming from basic science, and so the objective of this symposium was to illustrate how adapting a procedure coming from experimental psychology has been used to ameliorate learning and/or memory deficits associated with diverse pathological conditions. Dr Chrysochoou presented work conducted in the psychology lab investigating the effect of bilingualism on cognition in Greek-Albanian bilinguals.

The Psychonomic Society is the home for scientists who study how the mind works.  Members of the Society are experimental psychologists among whose numbers are some of the most distinguished researchers in the field.  

Dr Vivas next to presenters and organizers of the Symposium: from right –to left, Dr Angeles Estevez, Dr Bruce Overmier, Dr Ana Vivas, Dr Rebeca Mateos, Dr Luis Fuentes, Dr Carlos Flores, Dr Lisa Savage, Dr Robert Lowe, and Dr Victoria Plaza.