News

2019
  • June
    • ​​Brad and Jackie present their recent efforts on probability learning and recognition memory at the CSBBCS 2019 meeting at the University of Waterloo​
      • Smith, B., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). What colour is under? Modelling the ebb and flow of associative learning. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
      • Spear, J., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). Defining distinctiveness: A computational and experimental analysis. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
  • May
  • April
    • ​​Congratulations to Brad for earning NSERC funding to pursue his PhD
  • February
    • ​Matt teaches another R/RStudio workshop for the department
  • January
    • ​Welcome to Matt Slusky and Anna Polyvyanna who joined the lab as research assistants
2018
  • November
    • ​Randy gives a talk on the instance theory of semantics at the satellite meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology
  • October
    • ​Welcome to Professor John Vokey who will visit the lab this month to work on problems related to learning and structure
  • September
    • ​​Welcome to Jackie Spear who joins the lab as a Masters student in the lab
    • Also welcome to Lisa Tarnowski and Chelsea Matsumoto who will both pursue their Honours degree in the lab
  • August
    • ​Not from our lab, but check out the materials from the Open Science Workshop held at CSBBCS 2018 in Newfoundland: https://osf.io/ghz48/ 
  • July
    • Congratulations to Matt for successfully defending his MA thesis titled "The mathematics of clinical diagnosis: Cognitively-inspired computational psychiatry"
    • ​Matt will be featured on a Winnipeg airport pillar
  • June
    • New paper published on an instance model of semantics in the journal Computational Brain and Behaviour
    • Matt wins the Peter Graf Award for best poster from the Brain and Cognitive Science section of the Canadian Psychological Association for the work on his language classification system
    • ​Matt is featured in UMToday again for his work developing a semantic classification technique for identifying mental health from free-form written essays
  • April
    • Congratulations to Brad for winning an NSERC Masters scholarship
    • Congratulations to Matt for winning an NSERC Doctoral scholarship
    • Paper accepted to the Cognitive Science Society meeting this year in Madison, Wisconsin
  • March
    • Matt makes it into the finals for the three minute thesis competition (link)
    • Randy presents the cognitive search engine at the 2018 Philadelphia meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association

2017
  • December
    • Our course, Thinking (PSYC3390), was named a UM Cool Course in the 2016 MacLean's rankings
  • November
    • A paper accepted for publication at Animal Cognition with John Vokey, Jason Tangen, Rachel Searston, and Scott Allen. The paper re-presents a visual familiarity account of evidence for orthographic processing in baboons in relation to new work with pigeons.
    • Congratulations to Matt for winning the John Castellan Award for Best Student Paper based on his work on language classification and computational psychiatry at this year's meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology
    • Congratulations to Brad for presenting two posters at the Society for Computers in Psychology meeting. One poster documented type 1 error inflation associated with use of a median-split statistical analysis. The other presented a robot that he built that learns using MINERVA AL as the underlying engine
    • Brendan Johns and Randy got a paper accepted for publication at Cognitive Science that uses computational models of language to examine consistency and difference in language use in a large database of novels. The work was presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting as one of the 10 Member Select-Speaker Awards
  • September
    • Welcome to Brad Smith, a new Masters student in the lab, who will be working on the MINERVA AL theory of associative learning
    • Robert Collins from McMaster presented work on a computational account of recognition memory that has emerged from our interactions in the the multi-university international student training network
      • Collins, R. N., Milliken, B., Jamieson, R. K. (2017, September). An associative learning model of the spacing effect in recognition. Poster delivered at the European Society of Cognitive Psychology, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
  • August
    • Congratulations to Chrissy for being part of a team (lead by Doug Williams) at University of Winnipeg to win the 2017 Best Paper Award for their contribution titled "Intertrial unconditioned stimuli differentially impact trace conditioning" in the journal Learning and Behavior
    • Congratulations to Dr. Chrissy M. Chubala for defending her PhD thesis titled "Scaling function learning from individuals to groups"
  • July
    • A paper by Brendan Johns and Randy entitled “A Large Scale Analysis of Individual Variability in Written Language” has been selected for a 2017 Psychonomic Society Select-Speaker Award.
    • Congratulations to Matt for publishing A Psychologically Inspired Search Engine to appear as a chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: High Performance Computing Systems and Applications
  • June
  • May
    • Congratulations to Mikayla who will pursue graduate studies in the Computer Science program at University of British Columbia
    • Congratulations to Mikayla for winning a Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Excellence for her Honour's thesis titled Latent Semantic Analysis: A theory of visual knowledge?
  • April
  • March
  • February
    • Congratulations to Rory who has accepted an offer to attend business school at University of Alberta
  • January
2016
  • December 2016: Robert Collins visits from the Milliken laboratory at McMaster University to begin work on a computational analysis of data on memory costs following on attentional processing of a twice presented stimulus
  • December 2016: Mikayla is featured in the UM Today
  • November 2016: Matt presents a paper at the Society for Computers in Psychology meeting and Chrissy presents a poster at the Psychonomic Society Meeting
  • October 2016: Welcome to Mitchell Cunningham who will be involved in collecting data on questions about artificial grammar learning
  • August 2016: Paper presented at the Cognitive Science Society meeting that details simulations of natural language learning with an exemplar-based model of memory
  • June 2016: Congratulations to Evan for winning yet another Teaching Assistant Award of Excellence from the Canadian Council of Departments of Psychology
  • June 2016: Chrissy presents her data on group level function learning at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science in Ottawa, ON
  • May 2016: Alexa had an article published in The Conversation about her work on psycho-economic factors underlying asthma and health
  • April 2016: Congratulations to Michelle who has her 8 lb 6 oz neural network fully up and running
  • April 2016: Congratulations to Matt for winning an NSERC CGS-M award to pursue a Master's degree in cognitive science
  • March 2016: Chrissy has a paper accepted on timing and associative learning. The work was conducted with Doug Williams at University of Winnipeg. Congratulations Chrissy
  • March, 2016: Congratulations to Mikayla who has been selected as one of 24 students to attend the York University Centre for Vision Research visual cognition summer school
  • February, 2016: Evan has a paper accepted using eye-tracking to measure and assess mental arithmetic. The work was conducted with Jo-anne LeFevre at Carleton University in Ottawa.
  • February, 2016: Evan has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Booth University College. Congratulations Evan!
  • January, 2016: Another paper (this one empirical) on the production effect accepted at the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. Congratulations to David Cormack in particular who helped on the project

2015
  • December, 2015: Paper on a computational account of the production effect accepted at the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • October, 2015: Congratulations to Chrissy for publishing a paper at Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology on Implicit learning of semantic structure
  • October 2015: New paper accepted at Psychological Research: Implicit learning is order dependent
  • August 2015: Randy gives a short talk on memory at the premiere of a Roddenberry produced movie called White Room: 02B3 at the Manitoba Museum Planetarium.
  • July 2015: Chrissy Chubala and Evan Curtis present some of their recent work at the International Workshop on Learning, Memory, and Attention in Granada Spain.
  • June, 2015: Congratulations to Evan Curtis for winning the 2015 Teaching Assistant Award of Excellence from the Canadian Council of Departments of Psychology
  • June, 2015: Congratulations to Rory Waisman for winning a best student presentation award from the Brain and Cognitive Science Section of the Canadian Psychological Association. His poster was titled "A precise computational account of the availability heuristic: MINERVA-DM Revised"
  • June, 2015: Congratulations to Matt Cook for winning a best undergraduate presentation award from the Social/Personality section of the Canadian Psychological Association for his work with Dr. Katherine Starzyk in the Social Justice Laboratory
  • April, 2015: Congratulations to Andrew Gabel and Adam Hawkeye for completing their Honours theses. Double congratulations to Andrew who will move onto graduate school at Memorial University in Newfoundland

2014 2013
  • November, 2013: Chrissy Chubala presented data on retrospective revaluation at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society
  • October, 2013: New paper in Psychological Science: A visual familiarity account of evidence for orthographic processing in baboons (Papio papio)
  • September, 2013: Congratulations to Jackie Spear for publishing her work on the production effect in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • July, 2013: Evan presented data on false recognition at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science
  • May, 2013: Congratulations to Alexa Yakubovich for winning the University Gold Medal for highest GPA in the Faculty of Arts
  • May, 2013: Congratulations to Brian Hauri for graduating his M.A. degree
  • May, 2013: Congratulations to Evan Curtis for winning a University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship
  • May, 2013: Congratulations to Chrissy Chubala for winning the Canadian Council of Departments of Psychology (CCDP) Awards of Excellence in Teaching Assistance
  • April, 2013: Congratulations to Alexa Yakubovich for winning the Ten Have Award (Best Honours Thesis in Psychology) and to both Alexa and Thomas Toles for winning CPA Thesis Awards
  • April, 2013: Congratulations to Chrissy Chubala for winning NSERC CGS-D doctoral funding
  • March, 2013: Congratulations to Alexa Yakubovich on her admission to the MSc program in evidence based social intervention at Oxford University
  • March, 2013: Congratulations to David Cormack on his admission to the graduate program in school psychology at the University of Manitoba

2012
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Matt's research is featured on a poster at the Winnipeg airport
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Matt giving his award winning talk at the 2017 Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology: "A computational cognitively-inspired technology for clinical diagnosis"
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Cognitive computing group at the 2017 High Performance Computing Symposium in Kingston ON (Clockwise: Blair Armstrong, Geoff Hollis, Chris Westbury Doug Mewhort, Kevin Shabahang, Brendan Johns, Mike Jones, Randy Jamieson; Missing: Matthew Kelly)