Posts by Edward Vessel

4 weeks ago

Edward Vessel awarded IAEA’s Washburn Award for Midcareer Scientist

The International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA) has selected Dr. Vessel as the 2026 recipient of the Margaret Floy Washburn Award for outstanding contributions to empirical aesthetics research by a mid-career…

3 months ago

New Review Paper on Default-Mode Network

Check out this new review paper, published with PhD student Hannah Ovadia, on “The role of the default-mode network in aesthetic appeal,” out now in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.…

8 months ago

VisNA Lab Awarded NSF Grant

We are delighted to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant to Dr. Vessel and co-PI Michael Grossberg for their project entitled “Combining category learning with…

8 months ago

Edward Vessel selected as 2026 Cal Academy Osher Fellow

Dr. Vessel has been selected as a 2026 Osher Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences (https://www.calacademy.org/osher-fellows) for a project with Indre Viskontas and Cal Academy. The project will investigate…

9 months ago

Congrats to Spring 2025 Graduates

Congrats to the lab’s Spring 2025 Graduates! Andrew Frankel and Ashley Gurung both graduated from the Grad Center’s Cognitive Neuroscience Master’s program, and Aubrey Valdez graduated from the CCNY Psychology…

10 months ago

Victor Omilabu Poster Presentation @ EPA 2025

In March, Victor Omilabu presented a poster on his work at the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) 2025 annual meeting in NYC. Victor’s poster detailed the analysis work he’s done of…

11 months ago

VisNA Lab @ APA Division 10 Annual Meeting

This past March, the VisNA Lab showed up in force at the 2nd annual APA Division 10 conference on the Psychology of the Arts, Creativity and Aesthetics. The conference was…

VisNA Lab at APA Div10 Meeting in New Haven, CT

11 months ago

Dr. Vessel Elected Secretary General of IAEA

At the beginning of the year, the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA) has elected lab PI Edward Vessel as its next Secretary General. The term is for two years.…

11 months ago

Edwarné Woodley-Gift Receives ORCA Fellowship

Edwarné Woodley-Gift, a CCNY Psychology and Biology double major, has been awarded a fellowship from ORCA (Opportunities in Research and Creative Arts) to do research in the VisNA Lab over…

1 year ago

New Paper out in PNAS

New paper alert! We’re very excited to announce that a new paper from the lab is out today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Conwell, C., Graham, D.,…

Posts by Edward Vessel

Edward Vessel awarded IAEA’s Washburn Award for Midcareer Scientist

New Review Paper on Default-Mode Network

VisNA Lab Awarded NSF Grant

Edward Vessel selected as 2026 Cal Academy Osher Fellow

Congrats to Spring 2025 Graduates

Victor Omilabu Poster Presentation @ EPA 2025

VisNA Lab @ APA Division 10 Annual Meeting

Dr. Vessel Elected Secretary General of IAEA

Edwarné Woodley-Gift Receives ORCA Fellowship

New Paper out in PNAS

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