News

2025
  • February
    • New paper on the eCFM
      • ​Guitard, D., Cowan, N., Saint-Aubin, J., Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (in press). Toward a comprehensive account of verbal memory: An embedded computational model across representational domains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
  • December
    • ​Our new BioSemi ActiveThree system has arrived and we're looking forward to folding EEG and ERP data into our work
  • November
    • ​Thanks to Sébastien for visiting the lab. We'll miss having him around but look forward to hearing about his model at CSBBCS this summer
  • October
    • ​Chelsea presents her work at this year's Undergraduate Research Showcase
      • ​Capellàn, C. & Jamieson, R. K. (2025). Hemispheric lateralization and auditory processing. Undergraduate Research Showcase, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
    • A big congratulations to Angus for passing his Masters defense!
      • Ball, A. (2025). Locating tip-of-the-tongue in lexical retrieval (Master’s dissertation). University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • September
    • New paper on word recognition (and misrecognition) based on what words look like, sound like, and mean
      • Reid, J. N., Guitard, D., & Jamieson, R. K. (in press). MINERVA OPS: A computational framework for the representation and recognition of orthographic, phonological, and semantic associates. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
    • A big congratulations to Dr. Jackie Spear who passed her PhD oral defense!
    • Welcome to Sébastien Gionet who is visiting the lab from Université de Moncton
    • ​Welcome to Chloe Walker and Hana Kukhar, both of whom will complete their Honours theses in the lab this year
    • Congratulations to Chelsea who had a successful URA summer investigating dichotic listening and memory
    • Presentation at the Biannual Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology
      • ​Jamieson, R. K., Reid, J. N., & Guitard, D. (2025, September). Episodic and semantic memory: A tale of two solitudes. Paper delivered at the Biannual Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sheffield, UK.
  • July
    • Presentations at the 2025 Joint Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) and the UK Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
      • Ball, A., & Jamieson, R. K. (2025, July). Modelling lexical retrieval: An experimental and computational investigation using tip-of-the-tongue. Poster delivered at the Joint Meeting of the CSBBCS and EPS, Dundee, UK.
      • Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2025, July). An episodic model of semantic memory. Paper delivered at the Joint Meeting of the CSBBCS and EPS, Dundee, UK.​
  • May
    • New paper on instance theory and associative inference
      • Jamieson, R. K., & Crump, M. J. C. (accepted). An instance model of associative inference. American Journal of Psychology
  • April
    • New paper on instance theory and language
      • ​​​Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., & Jones, M. N. (accepted). Instance memory models as a general computational framework for exploring language processing: Bringing the lexicon to life. Linguistics Vanguard.
  • March
  • February
    • New paper on semantic similarity and recall
      • Guitard, D., Saint-Aubin, J., Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (accepted). An embedded computational framework of memory: The critical role of representations in veridical and false recall predictions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review​
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​2024
  • December
    • New paper on semantic similarity and recall
      • Sonier, R-P., Melanson, E., Guitard, D., Jamieson, R. K. & Saint-Aubin, J. (accepted). Semantic similarity is not emotional: No effect of similarity defined by valence, arousal and dominance on short-term ordered recall. Memory & Cognition.
  • November
    • Congratulations to Angus on passing the Oral Proposal Exam for his Master's Thesis titled, "Locating tip-of-the-tongue in lexical retrieval"
    • Presentations at the 2024 Annual Meetings of both the Psychonomic Society and Society for Computation in Psychology
      • Ball, A., & Jamieson, R. K. (2024, November). A computational model of implicit knowledge and tip-of-the-tongue. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Psychology, NYC, USA.
      • Reid, J. N., Jamieson, R. K., & Mak, M. H. (2024, November). Sentence recognition in MINERVA 2: Integrating semantic and episodic memory models. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Psychology, NYC, USA.
      • Guitard, D., Cowan, N., Reid, J. N., Saint-Aubin, J., & Jamieson, R. K. (2024, November). Integrating models of semantic and episodic memory to predict extralist intrusions in serial recall. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, NYC, USA.​
      • Dollois, M. A., Jamieson, R. K., & Fiacconi, C. M. (2024, November). The lingering past: Using computational modelling to investigate mechanisms of sequential dependencies in recognition decisions. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, NYC, USA.
  • October
    • New paper on the production effect
      • Spear, J., Reid, J. N., Guitard, D., & Jamieson, R. K. (accepted). Directed forgetting and the production effect: Assessing strength and distinctiveness. Experimental Psychology.
  • September
    • New paper on semantic similarity and recall
      • ​Guitard, D., Saint-Aubin, J., Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (accepted). An embedded computational framework of memory: Accounting for the influence of semantic information in verbal short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language
  • June
    • Presentations at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science
      • Ball, A. & Jamieson, R. K. (2024, June). Tip-of-the-tongue in episodic memory: An experimental examination and a computational model. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Edmonton, AB.​​
      • Spear, J., Reid, J. N., Guitard, D., & Jamieson, R. K. (2024, June). The production and directed forgetting effects: Unifying strength and distinctiveness accounts in MINERVA 2. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Edmonton, AB.
      • Reid, J. N., Guitard, D., & Jamieson, R. K. (2024, June). Modelling the interaction of word representations and remembering in the directed forgetting task. Symposium paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Edmonton, AB.
      • Dollois, M., Jamieson, R. K., Fenske, M., & Fiacconi, C. M. (2024, June). Investigating underlying mechanisms for sequential dependencies in recognition memory with computational modelling. Talk delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Edmonton, AB.
  • January

​2023
  • September
    • ​Welcome to Angus who joins the lab to pursue a Masters in cognitive science
  • August
  • July
    • Presentations at the 2023 Annual Meeting Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science
      • ​Reid, J. N., Guitard, D. Yang, H., & Jamieson, R. K. (2023). A computational framework of orthographic, phonological, and semantic false recognition. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Guelph, ON.
      • Jamieson, R. K., Guitard, D., Reid, J. N., & Saint-Aubin, J. (2023). A computational model of serial recall. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Guelph, ON.
      • Dollois, M., Jamieson, R. K., & Fiacconi, C. M. (2023). Modelling recognition memory decisions: Investigating sequential dependencies using MINERVA 2. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Guelph, ON.
      • Spear, J., Reid, J. N., Guitard, D., & Jamieson, R. K. (2023). Two phenomena in one computational framework: A computational account of directed forgetting and the production effect. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Guelph, ON.​
  • May
    • ​Welcome to Molly MacMillan who is visiting the lab from Memorial University
    • ​Congratulations to Nathan for finishing his Honours Thesis and for deciding to pursue graduate studies at McGill University
  • April
    • New paper on semantic similarity and recall
      • Mah, E. Y., Campbell, A., Tamburri, N., Grannon, K., Jamieson, R. K., & Lindsay, D. S. (accepted). A direct replication and extension of Popp and Serra (2016, Experiment 1): Better free recall and worse cued recall of animal names than object names. Frontiers in Psychological Science.
    • New paper on representation and recognition of words (and nonwords)
      • Reid, J. N., Yang, H., & Jamieson, R. K. (accepted). A computational account of item-based directed forgetting for nonwords: Incorporating orthographic representations in MINERVA 2. Memory and Cognition
    • ​Welcome to Élias Daigle who is visiting the lab from Université de Moncton
    • Matt Cook receives a CPA Certificate of Academic Excellence in recognition of his excellent PhD thesis
  • March
    • Congratulations to Nathan for winning a poster prize at the University Undergraduate Research Poster Competition for work that he did on self compassion with Dan Bailis
    • ​Congratulations to Jackie for passing her PhD Thesis Proposal defense
  • February
    • Nathan presented a poster on work he did with Dan Bailis at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta
  • January
    • ​Nick gave talks at University of Toronto and University of York

2022
  • December​
    • Thanks to Michelle Dollois for visiting the lab over the past few months and for sharing her ideas and insights. We'll miss having her in the lab but look forward to seeing her new modelling skills on display at CSBBCS this summer!
    • New paper on instance theory and scalable cognitive modelling
      • Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., & Jones, M. N. (accepted). Scalable cognitive modelling: Putting Simon’s (1969) ant back on the beach. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
    • New paper on representation and recognition of words, sentences, and metaphors
  • November​
    • Nick presents a poster on his instance based model of directed forgetting at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society
      • ​​Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2022, November). An instance-based model of directed forgetting. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, USA.
    • ​​Nick presents a talk his empirical database of metaphor judgements at the meeting of the Society for Computation in Psychology
      • Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2002, November). A metaphor comprehension test database for computer models of metaphor. Annual Conference of the Society for Computation in Psychology, Boston, MA, USA.
  • October
    • ​Nick presents his work on "Bringing the lexicon to life" at the International Meeting of the Mental Lexicon
      • ​Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2022, October). Bringing the lexicon to life: An instance-based model of lexical behaviour and verbal memory. International Conference of the Mental Lexicon, Niagara on the Lake, ON, Canada.
  • September
    • ​​Nick presents his work on a computational account of the conceptual metaphor false memory effect at the Research and Applying Metaphor Conference
      • Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2022, September). A computational account of the conceptual metaphor false memory effect. Paper delivered at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland. ​​
    • Welcome to the new crew for 2022/2023
      • Nathan Mathews will join the lab to complete his Honours thesis
      • ​Michelle Dollois is a PhD student who will visit from University of Guelph to build a computational model of sequential dependencies in recognition memory​
      • Molly MacMillan is a PhD student who will visit from Memorial University to build a recognition memory model to explain the hide-and-seek nature of mirror effects in word recognition
      • Élias Daigle is a PhD student who will visit from Université de Moncton to build a model for sentiment analysis of word meaning in relation to implicit bias
  • July
    • Talks by Nick and Dominic at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science
      • Reid, J. N., & Jamieson, R. K. (2022, July). A computational model of veridical and false recognition of literal and nonliteral multiword expressions. Invited Symposium Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Halifax, NS, Canada.
      • Guitard, D., Saint-Aubin, J., & Jamieson, R. K. (2022, July). Facilitating Hebbian learning via semantic similarity. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Halifax, NS, Canada.
      • Sonier, R-P., Guitard, D., Melanson, E., Jamieson, R. K., & Saint-Aubin, J. (2022, July). Can semantic similarity be better represented by valence, arousal, and dominance. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Halifax, NS, Canada.
  • June
    • Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Cook for defending his PhD thesis titled, "Computational History: Using Semantic Models to Measure Changes in Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs from Language"
    • ​Congratulations to Dominic in his new position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University
    • Randy presents a paper outlining a computational model of clinical intuition at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association​​
      • Jamieson, R. K., Cook, M. T., Titone, D., Aujla, H., Morgan, C. J., Coleman, M., & Levy, D. L. (2022, June). An instance-based memory model of expert intuition in clinical diagnosis. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, AB, Canada.
  • May
    • Thanks to Dominic for visiting the lab over the past few months and sharing his thoughts, ideas, and sense of humour
  • March
    • 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 on instance-based associative inference for 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
  • April
  • March
  • 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
    • Thanks to Matt Crump who spent a month in the lab working on ideas
      • Thanks also to John Vokey and Sam Hannah who visited for a week to ramp up the discussion
    • ​​​Our work is being talked about in the press: MedicalNewsToday.com and NeuroscienceNews.com
  • July​
    • Randy takes on the role of Acting Department Head in Psychology
    • 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.
  • May
    • Paper accepted on the Semantic Librarian project
      • We made a semantic search engine CSBBCS 2019 abstracts
  • 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 Associationb

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
  • 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
    • 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
    • Mikayla is featured in the UM Today
  • November
  • October
    • Welcome to Mitchell Cunningham who will be involved in collecting data on questions about artificial grammar learning
  • August
    • Paper presented at the Cognitive Science Society meeting that details simulations of natural language learning with an exemplar-based model of memory
  • June
  • May
    • Alexa had an article published in The Conversation about her work on psycho-economic factors underlying asthma and health
  • April
    • Congratulations to Michelle who has her 8 lb 6 oz neural network fully up and running
    • Congratulations to Matt for winning an NSERC CGS-M award to pursue a Master's degree in cognitive science
  • March
    • Chrissy has a paper accepted on timing and associative learning. The work was conducted with Doug Williams at University of Winnipeg. Congratulations Chrissy
    • 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
    • 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.
    • Evan has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Booth University College. Congratulations Evan!
  • January
    • 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
    • Paper on a computational account of the production effect accepted at the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • October
    • Congratulations to Chrissy for publishing a paper at Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology on Implicit learning of semantic structure
    • New paper accepted at Psychological Research: Implicit learning is order dependent
  • August
    • 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
  • June
  • April
    • 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

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Angus presenting his MA work on lexical retrieval at CSBBCS 2024 in Edmonton
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Nick and his heroes on the way home from Psychonomics 2022 in Boston