Elizabeth Hammock

Assistant professor
Florida State University

Elizabeth Hammock is assistant professor of psychology at Florida State University.

From this contributor

Spectrum

By Elizabeth Hammock

9 July 2019

4 min read

How the social hormone vasopressin might help autistic people

A drug that mimics the hormone vasopressin improves social skills in autistic people — but so does one that blocks vasopressin’s effects. How can seemingly opposing manipulations produce similar results?

Spectrum

How the social hormone vasopressin might help autistic people

By Elizabeth Hammock

9 July 2019 | 4 min read

Explore more from The Transmitter

Frameshift

By Katie Moisse

14 October 2026

7 min read

Creating community through grant support

Fiona Sanderson, a senior program manager at the Brain Canada Foundation, shares how she got into grant administration and how she helps connect researchers with funding and one another.

Frameshift

Creating community through grant support

Fiona Sanderson, a senior program manager at the Brain Canada Foundation, shares how she got into grant administration and how she helps connect researchers with funding and one another.

By Katie Moisse

14 October 2026 | 7 min read

This paper changed my life

By Earl K. Miller

14 October 2026

3 min read

Illustration of the brain processing different shapes.

This paper changed my life: A first glimpse into the ‘middle’ of brain processing

Work by Jeffrey Moran and Robert Desimone showed that monkeys could focus their attention on different stimuli in their visual field without shifting their gaze. Their work marked a key milestone in the emergence of cognitive neuroscience.

This paper changed my life