UCI Distinguished Professor Barbara A. Dosher Wins the Society for Mathematical Psychology Senior Fellow Award (2024).

MATHPSYCH.ORG — UCI Distinguished Professor Barbara A. Dosher, PhD, was named winner of the prestigious Society for Mathematical Psychology Senior Fellow Award (2024) on July 21, 2024, for her lifetime contributions to the field of mathematical psychology. Professor Dosher won the prize for her contributions innovating mathematical psychology methods that have also impacted psychophysics, cognitive neuroscience, and neurophysiology, as well as for her mentorship of students, faculty, and academic leaders and for her Society and department service that has advanced the field of mathematical psychology.

Dr Dosher’s nominators praised her lifetime of contributions: “Throughout her esteemed career, she has consistently demonstrated brilliance, creativity, and unwavering dedication to scientific rigor.” Long-time collaborators cited her many achievements innovating stimuli and experimental paradigms to “provide unique insight into the mechanisms underlying cognition and perception.” She pioneered models of the speed-accuracy trade-off paradigm to elucidate information processing mechanisms in visual attention, sentence processing and semantic memory. Her rigorous use of theoretical advances coupled with experimental design produced “groundbreaking findings on the mechanisms of attention and perceptual learning”.

Dr. Dosher earned her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1977. She joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine, in 1992, and currently holds the position of UCI Distinguished Professor of Cognition (since 2012); at UCI, she served as the Chair of the Cognitive Sciences Program from 2000-2002 and as the Dean of the School of Social Sciences from 2002-2013. Prior to joining the UCI faculty, she held academic positions in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University and the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. She serves on the editorial boards of top-tier journals and has an extensive track record publishing theoretical, modeling and empirical work, contributing to mathematical psychology and a number of related fields. Dr Dosher was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011, in addition to holding Fellow status in the American Psychological Society (elected 2006), in the Society for Experimental Psychologists (elected 1996), and in the Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (elected 1994). She served on the board of the Society for Mathematical Psychology from 1985-1991, including serving as President in 1988.

You can read more about Dr Barbara Dosher’s research at https://cnlm.uci.edu/dosher/

The Society for Mathematical Psychology promotes the advancement and communication of research in mathematical psychology and related disciplines. Mathematical psychology is broadly defined to include work of a theoretical character that uses mathematical methods, formal logic, or computer simulation. The official journals of the society are Journal of Mathematical Psychology and Computational Brain & Behavior.

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