Principal investigator

Randy Jamieson is a cognitive scientist who uses experimental and computational methods to investigate how people and other animals learn, remember, think, and know. He is particularly interested in the problems of implicit learning, associative learning, memory, knowledge representation, and translating discoveries in those domains to the design of cognitive technologies. Dr. Jamieson teaches courses in cognitive science and quantitative/computational methods. He has been recognized several times for his teaching including a Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Jamieson is current Acting Chair in the Department of Psychology, Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, and a member of the Discovery Grant Evaluation Panel for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. ​He has previously served as President of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, President of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Chair of the Brain and Cognitive Science Section of the Canadian Psychological Association, Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Acting Associate Head (Graduate) in the Department of Psychology.

Current lab members

Matt Cook is a PhD student interested in natural language processing and cognitive computing. His work applies large-scale semantic modelling to big data problems in both clinical and social psychology. ​His work is funded by NSERC.
Brad Smith is a PhD student interested in instance-based accounts of associative learning and knowledge representation in animals and machines  His work is funded by NSERC.
Jackie Spear is a Masters student interested in recognition memory, mental representation, and distinctiveness.

Lab alumni

Essence Perera is an undergraduate student who helped to collect experimental data on contingency learning.

Matt Slusky is an undergraduate student who helped to collect experimental data on a number of projects.
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Anna Polyvyanna is an undergraduate student in psychology who helped to collect experimental data related to recognition memory.
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Lisa Tarnowski completed her Honours on semantic modelling and language classification related to depression and anxiety.

​Chelsea Matsumoto completed her Honours on embodiment, robotics, and cognition.

​Evan Curtis completed his PhD in 2017 on selective memory impairment in amnesia. He is now an Assistant Professor at Booth University College

Chrissy Chubala completed her PhD in 2017 on group function learning.  She went on as a postdoctoral researcher at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and is now a Defense Scientist in Maritime Decision Support.

Mikayla Preete completed her honours thesis in 2017 on developing a model for visual semantics. She went on to complete a postgraduate degree computer science at the University of British Columbia and is now a Interaction Designer/Developer for Farm Credit Canada.

Mitch Cunningham is a philosophy student who won an Undergraduate Student Research Award to work on knowledge representation in humans and machines

Adam Hawkeye completed his honours thesis in 2015 on modality effects in artificial grammar learning.  He is now pursuing a graduate career in accounting.

Rory Waisman completed his honours thesis in 2017 that compared the quality of data collected using on-line versus in-lab procedures. He is now in the business program at the University of Alberta

Brian Hauri completed an Undergraduate Student Research Award award in 2009, his honours thesis in 2010 on unconscious decision making, and his MA in 2013 on symmetry and pattern processing

​Andrew Gabel completed his honours thesis in 2015 on the list-length effect in recognition memory. 

Alexa Yakubovich completed an Undergraduate Student Research Award and her honours thesis in 2013, both on the illusion of truth. Her thesis won the Ten Have Award for Best Thesis in Psychology. She is now a Rhodes Scholar pursuing a PhD at the University of Oxford

Thomas Toles completed an Undergraduate Student Research Award and his honours thesis in 2013, both on the illusion of truth. His thesis won a CPA Certificate of Excellence. He won a Rhodes Scholarship and is now participating in theatre.

Nigel Daly completed his honours thesis in 2012 on decision making in relation to climate change

Chris Cadonic completed his honours thesis in 2012 on implicit learning. He went on to pursue a graduate degree in Biological Engineering and is now a Machine Learner for BOLDCommerce.com 

Scott Bridgeman completed his honours thesis in 2010 on serial recall

Julianna Hurley completed her honours thesis in 2010 on decision making and gambling. She went on to pursue a career in social work

Uliana Nevzorova completed an Undergraduate Student Research Award and her honours thesis in 2010, both on artificial grammar learning. Her thesis won a CPA Award of Excellence. She is now a practicing clinical psychologist

Courtney O'Brien completed her honours thesis in 2009 on the relationship between classification and recognition

Signy Holmes completed her honours thesis in 2009 on implicit learning and amnesia. Her thesis won a CPA Award of Excellence and the Ten Have Award for Best Thesis in Psychology. Signy went on to pursue a degree in medicine and is now a neuroradiologist

Anthony Pranata completed his honours thesis in 2008 on the relationship between classification and recognition. His thesis won a CPA Award of Excellence. He is now practicing law in Calgary

Our collaborators

Harinder Aujla (University of Winnipeg)
Glen Bodner (Flinders University)
Matt Crump (Brooklyn College)
Peter Graf (University of British Columbia)
Sam Hannah (Capilano University)
Bill Hockley (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Brendan Johns (SUNY Buffalo)
Mike Jones (Indiana University)
Bruce Milliken (McMaster University)
Jason Tangen (University of Queensland)
Debra Titone (McGill University)
John Vokey (University of Lethbridge)