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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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