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September 2009
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Nicole Taylor publishes a paper in Neuropsychologia on the vulnerability of sensitivity to global motion, global form, and biological motion in preterm infants.
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Gill Rhodes publishes a paper in the British Journal of Psychology on the effect of contact with another race on the ability to recognise faces of that race.
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Terri Lewis publishes a review article in a special issue of Optometry and Vision Science dedicated to Velma Dobson.
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Adélaïde de Heering joins the lab as a post-doctoral fellow.
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Daphne Maurer is elected a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science.
August 2009
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Josh Hamid wins an award for a poster at the NSERC Research Poster Competition in Vancouver, "Rising Stars of Research 2009." The poster describes his undergraduate thesis study of single letter and crowded acuity.
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Ashna Patel passes her M.Sc. oral.
July 2009
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Larissa Vingilis-Jaremko wins a prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from NSERC.
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Lisa Betts joins the lab as a post-doctoral fellow.
June 2009
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Mayu Nishimura publishes a paper in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology on children's mental representation of faces.
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The BrainCPR network holds its fifth meeting at the Riken Brain Science Institute in Japan.
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Daphne Maurer presents two talks at universities in Tokyo, one on the effects of experience on the development of face processing and one on the development of cross-modal perception and its relation to synaesthesia.
May 2009
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Vickie Armstrong and Ferrinne Spector successfully defend their Ph.D. theses.
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Ashna Patel, Bat-sheva Hadad, Simon Jeon, and Terri Lewis present posters at the meeting of the Vision Science Society.
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Mark Vida joins the lab as a new graduate student with a prestigious NSERC graduate award.
April 2009
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At the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Ferrinne Spector presents a poster on pre-school children with coloured grapheme synaesthesia, and during the Faces Preconference, Xiaoqing Gao presents a talk on the dimensions underlying the perception of facial expressions in children and adults.
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Kathleen Lee and Jennifer Weeks begin working in the lab under the summer NSERC awards that they won.
March 2009
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Ruben Stone Oller is born to Ferrinne Spector and Jonathan Oller.
February 2009
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Mayu Nishimuru marries Tiger Tanaka in Japan.
January 2009
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Ferrinne Spector publishes a paper in Developmental Psychology on how synesthesia can inform our understanding of the development of crossmodal perception.
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Xiaoqing Gao publishes a paper in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology on developmental changes in sensitivity to subtle facial expressions.
November 2008
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Josh Hamid and Terri Lewis give talks at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on the normal development of visual sensitivity, and Ashna Patel presents a poster on visual development.
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Daphne Maurer leads a BrainCPR workshop on stroke recovery and its implications for understanding developmental changes in brain plasticity. The proceedings will be published by Developmental Psychobiology.
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Daphne Maurer gives a public lecture on understanding the perspectives of research subjects, and she co-facilitates a one-day workshop on research ethics, as part of Encounters in Bioethics 2008-2009, Thunder Bay.
October 2008
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Phil Cooper publishes a paper in Perception on the effect of short-term training in the lab on subsequent judgments of facial attaractiveness.
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Cathy Mondloch publishes a paper in Perception on the effect of orientation on the holistic processing of faces.
September 2008
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Laura Gibson joins the lab as a graduate student studying the development of spatial-frequency channels.
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Daphne Maurer organizes the 7th annual conference of the American Synesthesia Association. She also give an introduction to synaesthesia at a public lecture/performance entitled "A Colourful Appetite for Music: How the Brain Connects Music to Colour and Pleasure"
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