Psychology Professor Cathleen Moore elected 2016 chair of Psychonomic Society's Governing Board

Monday, November 17, 2014

Cathleen MooreCathleen Moore, professor of psychology and head of the Iowa Attention and Perception Lab, has been elected the 2016 chair of the Psychonomic Society’s Governing Board. The Psychonomic Society exists to support scientists and researchers who study basic fundamental properties of how the mind works.

Moore is a professor in the Department of Psychology, part of the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She has been a member of the Psychonomic Society’s Governing Board since 2011 and previously served as chair of the Psychonomic Society's Ethics and Audit committees. She will begin as chair-elect of the Governing Board next year and assume her role as chair in 2016.

Moore served as editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review from 2011-2014 and as associate editor from 2002-2005. She has also been a member of the editorial boards for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, and Visual Cognition.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.