Recent CU Psychology and Neuroscience PhD Hannah Snyder, now doing a postdoc at the University of Denver, along with her former mentor CU Psychology and Neuroscience professor Yuko Munakata (Cognitive), were in the news in an article in the Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine as a result of some research published in the journal Cognition and Emotion. This research, regarding executive function, showed that people who were depressed were better able to perform a word selection task. In contrast, people who were anxious performed more poorly. Read the .