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January 2010
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Daphne Maurer is elected President-Elect of the International Society on Infant Studies
November 2009
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Vickie Armstrong publishes an article in Vision Research on the development of sensitivity to motion from age three through adulthood.
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Simon Jeon publishes a paper in a special issue of Journal of Vision on the efficiency of visual processing.
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Lisa Betts gives a talk at the University of Glasgow on her research on the effect of aging on sensitivity to motion.
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Laura Gibson gives a Cognition-Perception Seminar at McMaster about her research on the linking of space to ordinal sequences.
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Ashna Patel passes her M.Sc. oral.
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.
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