NOWCAM 2025

May 9-10, 2025. It’s conference season! The Different Minds Lab attended the 27th annual Northwest Cognition & Memory Conference, in Victoria BC.

TALKS

Bennett King-Nyberg — Seeing Similarity: Predicting Lineup Performance from Psychological Embeddings of Perceptual Similarity

Daniela Orellana Gonzalez — Category learning, retention and psychological embeddings

Yueling Sun — Investigating Diagnostic Features in Prototype Category Learning Task: A Deep Learning Perspective

Nick Argument — Attending to faces and bodies in person perception

POSTERS

Lucas Copp — RUBubbles vs. Warbler’s: Examining Individual Differences in Category Learning Across Naturalistic & Artificial Categories

Grace Veugelers & Nas Khodaeian — EEG insights into Semantic Categorization through Visual Perceptual Learning [PDF]

Abby Hunter, Tove Jensen, & Jonathan Kiss — LLMs and Thematic Analysis: A Collaboration of Humans and Machines [PDF]