The activities of the Young Researchers Committee of the Japanese Psychonomic Society in 2016

Abstract

This note is a short report on the activity of the Young Researchers Committee of the Japanese Psychonomic Society (JPS) in 2016. As the highlighted activity of the committee in 2016, we held the satellite oral session of the 35th annual meeting of JPS. Eight young researchers were selected as the finalists from 17 entries and made presentations on their studies that have already been published in peer-reviewed journals. One of the finalists who got the most votes from audience was awarded as the Young Psychonomic Scientist of the Year 2016.