Randy participates in a Café Scientifique on animal cognition with Dr. Debbie Kelly and Dr. Jim Hare
Nick has a paper accepted
Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2022). A computational model of item-based directed forgetting. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Randy presents a colloquium in Carleton University's Department of Cognitive Science
Dominic Guitard join the lab to develop a computational model of recall
February
Our review paper on instance theory appears in Nature Reviews Psychology [Link]
2021
November
Paper accepted at Nature Reviews Psychology
Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., Vokey, J. R., & Jones, M. N. (accepted). Instance theory as a domain-general framework for cognitive psychology. Nature Reviews Psychology
Presentations at Psychonomics
Smith, B., Spear, J., & Jamieson, R. K. (2021, November). Improving subjective interpretation of visually presented data. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LO, USA. [Online Conference]
Reid, N., & Katz, A. (2021, November). Automatic processing of feature-listing data. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LO, USA. [Online Conference]
Jamieson, R. K., & Crump, M. J. C. (2021, November). An instance-based theory of associative inference. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LO, USA. [Online Conference]
September
Welcome to the new crew for 2021/2022
Dr. Nick Reid is joining the lab as a Postdoc who will work on computational modelling of complex language expressions
Dr. Dominic Guitard will visit the lab for three months to work on computational modelling of human memory
Abe Elzayadi is an Honours student who will work on computational modelling of associative learning and memory
Nathan Mathews is a third-year psychology student who is going to hang around and help with research to learn more about cognitive psychology
July
Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., Taler, V., & Jones, M. N. (in press). The importance of formal modelling for the development of cognitive theory. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
June
Lab presentations at the meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS)
Smith, B., Spear, J., Davies, K., & Jamieson, R. K. (2021, June). Eliminating cognitive illusions from visual data. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Jamieson, R. K., & Crump, M. J. C. (2021, June). An instance-based theory of implicit inference. Paperdelivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Montreal, QC, Canada.
April
Katie and Stefaniia finish their Honours theses
Davies, K. (2021). Perception and judgement of visual presented data in university students (Honours dissertation). University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Martsynkevych, S. (2021). Cognitive consequences of depression (Honours dissertation). University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
February
Matt starts his new job as a Data Scientist for the Government of Manitoba
2020
December
Jackie completed her Master thesis and is continuing on to the PhD
Spear, J. (2020). A computational and experimental analysis of semantic distinctiveness in human memory (Masters dissertation). University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
September
Welcome to Katie Davies and Stefaniia Martsynkevych who have joined the lab to complete their Honours theses
August
Presentation at the Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Crump, M. J. C., Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2020, August). Controlling the retrieval of general vs specific semantic knowledge in the instance theory of semantic memory. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON, Canada. (Online Conference)
July
Paper accepted that presents a computational model of serial structure in language
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (in press). Production without rules: Using an instance memory model to exploit structure in natural language. Journal of Memory and Language
Paper accepted that presents a computational model of the repetition decrement effect in recognition memory
Collins, R. N., Milliken, B., & Jamieson, R. K. (in press). MINERVA-DE: An instance model of the deficient processing theory. Journal of Memory and Language
May
Proceedings paper accepted to the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Chrissy Chubala, former PhD in the lab, was awarded Best Paper of 2019 in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
February
Chrissy Chubala, former PhD in the lab and now a Research Scientist for Defence Canada in Halifax, is featured in the CPA newsletter on how training in psychology prepares people for cool positions outside of academics: https://cpa.ca/psychologymonth/#Chubala
2019
November
Matt won third place in the NEXUS Data Science Program’s data challenge
October
Welcome and bon voyage to Matt Crump who spent a month with the lab to do some thinking about and turning over of ideas
Welcome also to John Vokey and Sam Hannah who visited for a week to push the month past fun discussion into intellectual detonation
Johns, B. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (in press). The influence of time and place on lexical behavior: A distributional analysis. Behavior Research Methods
June
Presentations at CSBBCS 2019 in 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.
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 Sciencethat 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
June was a busy month with lab members presenting work at meetings of the
Congratulations to Matt and Chrissy for publishing a new paper in Behavior Research Methods titled AGSuite: Software to conduct feature analysis of artificial grammar learning performance
May
Congratulations to Mikayla who will pursue graduate studies in the Computer Science program at University of British Columbia
Congratulations to Rory for winning the Faculty of Arts Students' Teacher Recognition Reception Award for outstanding course and community work over the course of his undergraduate career
February
Congratulations to Rory who has accepted an offer to attend business school at University of Alberta
January
A big congratulations to Dr. Evan T. Curtis for successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Reinterpreting selective impairments in memory: Computational and empirical simulations of dissociations in amnesia"
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
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
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
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.
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
September, 2014: Congratulations to Rory Waisman for winning a PURE Undergraduate Research Awardto continue his work on false memory
September, 2014: Welcome to Andrew Gabel and Adam Hawkeye, both of whom will complete their honours theses in the lab this year
July, 2014: Evan Curtis, Chrissy Chubala, and Michelle Crease presented work at the Toronto meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science. Evan presented simulations related to amnesia. Chrissy presented a technique for studying distributed cognition. Michelle presented data on the interplay between prospective and retrospective memory.
June, 2014: We presented data on order effects in implicit learning at the CPA Annual Convention
May, 2014: We presented new data at the APS annual meeting to provide evidence for a strength account of the production effect in recognition memory: Abstract
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
December 2012: Congratulations to Chrissy Chubala for winning a Duff Roblin Fellowship
