Article archive / March 1, 2016
Originally published: . Volume 7, No. 3. Source pages: 15.
Dr. Sean Lane was appointed as the new Associate Dean of the Louisiana State University Graduate School. He started on January 4.
He has served as Professor in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychology and has also served as Psychology Associate Chair, and as cofounder of the Office of Applied Cognition.
He and his research group has had several major research areas. These are eyewitness memory, memory errors, education/learning/ teacher expertise, experience- based (implicit) learning, and medical cognition. In these main areas the researchers push to undercover the often puzzling and counterintuitive findings regarding the quirkiness of our minds. Although Sean works in all these areas, he has long- standing interests in the topics of eyewitness suggestibility, eyewitness identification, and beliefs about eyewitness memory.
His insights for applied settings come from his varied background. Before coming to LSU, and after starting a doctoral program in applied experimental as a professor at the U. of Nevada in Las Vegas, Dr. Lane worked in Silicon Valley. It was during the booming dot com era. “I primarily did research in human factors,” he said in a previous interview. And, “…was the Director of a User Experience group that included User Interface Designers, Graphic Designers and Information Architects.”
In 2014 Dr. Lane and his team presented research on some of the complex cognitive science behind lies and deception, at the conference of the American Psychology– Law Society. Lane and his team delved into the convoluted nature of humans and their lies, how memory affects lies and truth, and the nuances of detection.
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