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January 2012
- Adélaïde de Heering publishes a paper in Cognitive Development showing that between ages 6 and 12 children become increasingly adept at recognizing uptight faces with little improvement for inverted faces.
November 2011
- Simon Jeon takes up a faculty position in the Department of Vision Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University.
- Bat-sheva Hadad publishes a paper in Developmental Science on the development of children's sensitivity to motion.
- Terri Lewis presents a poster at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on video game training as a treatment for amblyopia.
October 2011
- Daphne Maurer presents a paper at the meeting of the American Synesthesia Association on sound symbolism, and becomes a member of the Board of Directors.
September 2011
- Ana Bracovic joins the lab as a graduate student working on developmental changes in the ability to learn to distinguish monkey faces.
August 2011
- Mohini Patel successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis on the perception of partly occluded objects.
- Vicki Armstrong publishes a paper in i-Perception on the development of sensitivity to motion during infancy.
July 2011
- Adélaïde de Heering wins a 3-year fellowship from the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique.
- Simon Jeon accepts a post as Lecturer in Vision Science at Glasgow Caledonian University.
- Daphne Maurer speaks about sound symbolism in toddlers at the meeting of International Association for the Study of Child Language in Montreal.
- Daphne Maurer is named Associate Investigator of The Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.
June 2011
- Mayu Nishimura publishes a paper in Vision Research showing that identity aftereffects vary with adaptor time in the same way in 8-year-olds and adults.
- At the York University Conference on Plastic Vision, Larissa Vingilis-Jaremko, Adélaïde de Heering, Mohini Patel, Simon Jeon, and Mark Vida present posters, and Daphne Maurer presents a talk about human visual critical periods.
- The BrainCPR network holds its seventh meeting in Montreal.
- Daphne Maurer is named Distinguished University Professor.
May 2011
- Lisa Betts, Simon Jeon, Larissa Vingillis-Jaremko, Mark Vida, and Mohini Patel present posters at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
- Ferrinne Spector publishes a paper in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance on colour associations to letters.
April 2011
- Adélaïde; de Heering presents a poster at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society on adults' ability to learn to distinguish inverted faces after training.
- Xiaoqing Gao publishes a paper in Vision Research on the spatial frequency tuning of sensitivity to facial identity versus facial expressions.
- Rachel Robbins publishes a paper in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology on developmental changes in sensitivity to feature spacing in houses.
- Daphne Maurer presents colloquia at the University of Minnesota on visual plasticity and on synaesthesia.
March 2011
- Mohini Patel wins the prize for the best oral presentation given at the Ontario-wide conference held at McMaster, "Current Research in Engineering, Science, & Technology."
- Adélaïde; de Heering and Mark Vida present posters at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development on the development of sensitivity to facial identity and to eye gaze.
- Daphne Maurer presents talks at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development as part of symposia on Sound Symbolism and on Critical Periods Re-examined.
January 2011
- Daphne Maurer gives a colloquim at Cornell University on how synesthesia can provide clues about the development of perception and even language.
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