Filipina awarded William James Prize in US
Photo from Yale University’s website/ MANILA BULLETIN Joan Ongchoco was honored for her work on “Figments of imagination: Scaffolded attention creates non-sensory object and event representations.” Recipients of the awards were chosen by an ad hoc committee appointed by the president in consultation with the executive committee. The William James Prize is awarded to the “most outstanding single published contribution to the empirical or philosophical study of consciousness.” Ongchoco primarily worked with Brian Scholl at the Perception and Cognition Lab at Yale University. She was a...