USC Union PALM Psych Lab

USC Union PALM Psych Lab This page serves as a starting point for students who are interested in the field of Psychology or who may want to pursue some type of undergraduate research.

Founded by Dr. Randy Lowell, Campus Dean & Professor of Psychology, the USC-Union PALM Psych Lab offers students an opportunity to engage in the research process in the areas of perception, attention, language, and memory. Here we will highlight students who have previously conducted research in the PALM Lab, provide updates on future research projects, and provide a forum for students to contact

one another. Here you will find interesting articles and research information, links and updates to outside resources that may be helpful in pursuing your research interests or general research for class assignments, as well as giving visitors a means to share things that they find interesting. You can use the page to communicate with one another about class related issues and ideas and as a way to keep up to date on current happenings in the PALM Lab. If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to let me know.

Keep an eye out for an upcoming article in Carolina CrossTalk by the PALM Lab's own, Caden Jackson, who just graduated w...
05/16/2023

Keep an eye out for an upcoming article in Carolina CrossTalk by the PALM Lab's own, Caden Jackson, who just graduated with his B.A. in Liberal Studies and Graduation with Leadership Distinction in Diversity and Social Advocacy. His article describes his research journey, including in the PALM Lab on the USC Union campus. He also wraps up his run as the first non-Columbia-based Magellan Ambassador on behalf of Columbia's Office of Undergraduate Research. Also, congrats to Caden on his most recent accolades, earning an Outstanding Senior Award and a President's Award at the annual Awards Day ceremony on the Columbia campus!

Special shout out to PALM Lab student researcher, Jessica Dawkins! Over the past year, starting with some PURE Grant wor...
05/16/2023

Special shout out to PALM Lab student researcher, Jessica Dawkins! Over the past year, starting with some PURE Grant work last summer (2022) to work through the literature and finalize preparations for the experiment, and wrapping up the school year with a Spring independent study to finish collecting the data and preparing it for dissemination. Great work in April in sharing that work in New Orleans at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), and at the annual Discover USC event on the USC Columbia campus!

Great job by Caden Jackson presenting our research today, representing the PALM Lab at Discover USC!!!
04/22/2022

Great job by Caden Jackson presenting our research today, representing the PALM Lab at Discover USC!!!

Great job today by Caden Jackson presenting some of our research at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological...
03/24/2022

Great job today by Caden Jackson presenting some of our research at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association!

04/13/2021

The panel is joined by USC-Union interim dean Dr. Randy Lowell and Spartanburg Community College-Union Campus Director Isaac McKissick as they discuss the education, Grown of USC Union, college educat

01/27/2021

Today, Dr. Emily Lowell, psychologist and faculty with UofSC School of Medicine, discusses the intersection of research and clinical practice. This includes discussions of the scientist-practitioner model, evidence-based practice, program evaluation, and direct participation in research.

Check out the presentation on our YouTube channel (link in the bio) or click this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPyNaqK280

01/25/2021

The authors examined the influence of context meaning consistency on incidental vocabulary acquisition during reading. Context meaning consistency refers to informational context that reflected the s...

01/25/2021


Randy Lowell, Kaitlyn Pender, and Katherine Binder describe their experimental study into incidental vocabulary learning in their article, "Impact of Informative Context’s Meaning Consistency During Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition." They examine whether adults better process and remember unfamiliar words when they read them multiple times, and if those repeated encounters are in similar or different contexts (i.e. if the words mean the same thing in both sentences). The researchers find:

"Based on the results reported [in this article], context meaning consistency has an impact on the acquisition process during reading and on the nature of memory representations for novel words following those encounters in context" (p. 689).

This conclusion has many actionable implications for teachers, policy makers, and curriculum developers. See a few here, and then read the whole piece in :
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rrq.295

To see more of Lowell's research, check out his lab at .PALM.PsycLab

01/25/2021


In their article, "Impact of Informative Context’s Meaning Consistency During Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition," Randy Lowell, Kaitlyn Wade Pender, and Katherine S. Binder summarize their findings:

"Consistently providing the same meaning for a new word over the course of repeated exposures, using different wording in the context each time, seems to provide a particularly strong foundation for developing a representation for the new word in our lexicon" (p. 693).

This result raises questions and implications for literacy researchers and educators in higher and continuing ed, as well as K-12. Let us know what you think of the questions here, or any others this piece raises for you!

Find the article in :
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rrq.295

To see more of Lowell's research, check out his lab at .PALM.PsycLab

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