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DOORFall

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mailroomCelebrating 70 Years

March 9 | Hebb LectureTopic: Neural mechanisms of age-dependent memory loss: Depends on where you look.Presnter: Dr. Carol Barnes (University of Arizona Tucson)

March 10 | Hebb Workshop Topic: Using Hebb’s Ideas to Plan for the Future of our Discipline

May 8-9 | Science Atlantic - UG Psychology Conference

July 1-3 | History of Psychology & Neuroscience Symposium

August 9 | 1st Peter Jusczyk Memorial Lecture Presenter: by Dr. Janet Werker.

Note: This will take place the night before the Maritime

Developmental Psychology Conference (Aug. 17)

September 28 | Terry Anders Memorial LecturePresenter: Richard Brown

October | Undergraduate Awards Day LecturePresenter: Heather Schellinck

SAVE THE DATE!70th signature events in 2018

In 2018, Dalhousie University celebrates 200 years. This year also marks 70 years of research excellence, innovative discoveries, and alumni successes within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Throughout the time period of January 2017 – December 2018, the department will capitalize on Dalhousie’s 200th anniversary celebrations to promote and align our 70th anniversary milestone.

We envision our milestone event as an opportunity to communicate with our internal audiences, and optimistically garnish enough excitement among our team to accomplish the common goal of holding a successful series of events in 2018.

We recognize that our current faculty have significant and long-lasting relationships with our past and current graduates – we see value in learning more about these relationships and profiling them during 2018 planning and throughout the event celebrations.

At this stage in planning we are focused on establishing the dates and plans for our five celebratory milestone events, and aligning these with Dalhousie’s 200th themed events. Stay tuned!

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message from the chairDr. Tara Perrot

Welcome to another academic year! It was a busy summer as a number of our graduate students defended and have moved on to other positions. I want to welcome our 16 (8 clinical, 4 neuroscience, 4 experimental) new graduate students. This is one of our biggest classes and we are excited to have you with us. As well, as all of you know, Alicia Eakins has taken over the position held by Nancy Gibbons for many years. We were sad to say goodbye to Nancy, but Alicia is settling in very nicely. If you haven’t done so already, stop by and introduce yourself.

Following on from the half-day discussion session we held in May, I have worked with a number of individuals in the department to refine a new vision for our department. I will present a draft at the next staff meeting on September 19. Also, at this staff meeting, the Dean will present a new strategic vision for the Faculty of Science. I know that the Dean’s office is excited about sharing this initiative and getting feedback from us, so I hope to see many faculty members at the meeting.

We have started working on the unit review. The self-study is due November 1 and Suzanne will be in touch about what we need from each of you. The self-study presents the opportunity for us to not only put together pertinent departmental statistics, but also to reflect upon this information. As we move forward with a new vision for the department that will instruct hiring priorities, this exercise will no doubt prove useful.

Preparations for Dalhousie’s 200th and Psychology & Neuroscience’s 70th anniversary celebrations are well under way with Ray Klein at the helm. Details about planned events will be released soon.

Don’t forget that the former student study centre on the 4th floor is now a faculty/staff break room so feel free to use it as such. We are waiting on furniture for the new study centre, but it is open for students at this time.

As always, we have a number of reasons to celebrate as a department and I encourage you to browse this issue of the Mailroom Door to read more about them. I look forward to all of us having a productive term.

Cheers,Tara

KUDOSWelcome our new 2017-2018 graduate students

STUDENT

T-Jay AndersonElizabeth ArmstrongJasmine AzizYvonne BrandelliChris DeWolfeRichard DrakeLydia MuyingoElizabeth O’LearyMatthew OrrVictoria PattersonMegan RossiAlexandra RykenFlint SchwartzAaron ShephardJack SolomonToni Spinella

PROGRAM

ClinicalNeuroscienceClinicalClinicalClinicalExperimentalClinicalNeuroscienceExperimentalClinicalClinicalExperimentalClinicalExperimentalNeuroscienceNeuroscience

SUPERVISOR(S)

FisherPerrotEskesChambersStewart/WattEskesStewart/SherryPerrotCorkumUher/PencerRosenDeaconBombay/StewartBarrettBoeBarrett

HOMETOWN

MSVU - Nova ScotiaUNB - New BrunswickUofA - AlbertaUofC - AlbertaUNB - New BrunswickSMU - Nova ScotiaUofO - OntarioDal - Nova ScotiaSMU - Nova ScotiaSMU - Nova ScotiaUofT - OntarioHuron Coll - OntarioUofM - ManitobaUNB - New BrunswickDal - Nova ScotiaCarleton - Ontario

CONGRATULATIONSKudos to our current and incoming graduate stdents who have received new scholarships for 2017-2018:

CIHR Masters | Richard DrakeDoctoral | Christiane Whitehouse

NSERCDoctoral | RJ Redden Kiera O’Neil Jill King

Killam-1Richard Drake Jasmine Aziz T-Jay Anderson

Killam-2Sara BartelRJ Redden

SSHRCDoctoral | Kathleen Merwin

NSHRFVictoria PattersonMeghan RossiChris DeWolfe

NSGSMasters:Toni SpinellaJasmine AzizVictoria PattersonMeghan RossiElizabeth ArmstrongElizabeth O’LearyT-Jay AndersonChris DeWolfeDoctoral:Sara BartelErin DempseyElizabeth MackayColin PridyJason IsaacsJustin DubéJack SolomonKiera O’Neil

Dr. Mabel E. Goudge Scholarship in PsychologyAlexandra Ryken

Maritime Spor Support Unit ScholarshipYvonne BrandelliMaria GlowackaLoriann WilliamsJason IsaacsErin Dempsey

Arthritis Society ScholarshipYvonne Brandelli

IWK Graduate ScholarshipLoriann Williams

CPA Certificate of Academic Excellence Recipients

GraduateRalph ReddenRoxane SterniczukKatelynn BoernerHera Schlagintweit UndergradColin McCormickNicole WoodlandCassondra Ray

Science Atlantic WinnersKaren Nicholson

Neuropsychology Award Charlotte Cowan

Science Atlantic Communication Award

Laura Bennett

2017 Undergraduate Award Winners

Dr. WK Honig Prize: Mariam Elgendi, Lola Leving, Madelaine Robertson, Jalyssa Shadbolt Lilyan E. White Prize in Psychology: Adam Pomeroy Lilyan E. White Prize in Neuroscience: Shawna Dexter

Brimer Scholarship: Co-winners Nikita Crowell and Hannah MacNeil

Frances L. Stewart Prize: Sana Rehan

David and Ruth Hubel Undergraduate Neuroscience Award: Maddie Fawley

3-Minute Thesis Competition

Hera Schlagintweit was a finalist, winning the first heat of the ten heats, from March 1st FGS

CIHR Project GrantKevin Duffy, Donald Mitchell, & Nathan Crowder

“Investigation of a new approach for treatment of deprivation-induced vision impairment”

This grant was one of only 13 CIHR Project grants awarded in Atlantic Canada!

• Perri Tutelman was awarded the Colleen Elliot Award for Excellence in Cancer Research by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation in February of 2017. Perri won the 2017 Brian Dufton Memorial prize Awarded by the Association of Psychologists of Nova Scotia for outstanding graduate achievement in psychology.

• PhD student, Yvonne Brandelli, was awarded an Arthritis Society PhD Salary Award and an Award from the Maritime SPOR Support Unit. Kristen Higgins was also awarded a salary award from the MSSU (which will start in the spring)

• Meghan Schinkel was awarded the International Symposium on Pediatric Pain Trainee Poster Prize (2017)

• Ralph Redden received: NSERC Alexander Graham Bell CAN Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral) Killam Predoctoral Scholarship (Level 2) Certificate of Academic Excellence: Master’s Thesis Award - CPA Certificate of Teaching Excellence - Council of Canadian Departments of Psychology Graduate Student Presentation Award - International Meeting of Psychonomic Society

• Colin McCormick won a Certificate of Academic Excellence: Honour’s Thesis Award from the CPA.

• Austin Hurst won a Frank Sobey Undergraduate Scholarship from King’s

• Tamara Sorenson Duncan, PDF, co-supervised with Isabel Smith, receives an IWK Postdoctoral Award.

• Kyle Levesque, in his new role as PDF. Congratulations on a successful PhD defense.

• Alex Ryken, Masters in Experimental Psychology. Congratulations on receiving the Dr. Mabel E. Goudge scholarship.

• Richard Drake, Elizabeth Armstrong, Jasmine Aziz and T-Jay Anderso on receiving the D.O. Hebb Memorial Prize.

• Rebecca Tucker for receiving an award from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Concordia to participate in “the Projected Futures: Experimental Science Journalism Studies Summer School”, part of Con cordia’s 2017 International Graduate Summer and Field Schools.

• A belated congratulations to our NSERC USRAs -thank you for all your hard work over the summer months: Nikita Crowell, Abby How-ard-Gosse, and Sana Rehan. Also to Emma Cameron who received an Atlantic Innovation Fund summer studentship.

2017 CAPHC Award for Individual Leadership: Dr. Christine Chambers Christine was recognized at their annual conference on October 24, 2017 in Montreal

NSERC’s Discovery GrantsDr. Tamara FranklinDr. Aaron NewmanDr. Tracy Taylor-HelmickKiera O’NeilRalph ReddenChristopher Friesen

CPA Junior Career Scientist Award for the Health Psychology Section: Natalie Rosen

KUDOSStudent/Postdoc Achievements

Faculty Achievements

IN THE NEWSParents, Clinicians have Limited Options to Alleviate Pain of Needles for BabiesThe Globe and Mail

Dr. Christine Chambers, a clinical psychologist with The Centre for Pediatric Pain Research in Halifax, says that pain fron needles can cause trauma that shapes a child’s perception of health care in the future.

Children’s pain has, for too long, not been taken seriously and that even minor “routine” pain such as that of needles should not be taken for granted because it causes trauma that shapes kids’ perception of health care for their whole lives.

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#ItDoesn’tHavetoHurt CIHR Celebrating Health Research StorybookDr. Christine Chambers is featured in CIHR’s Celebrating Health Research storybook. The campaign highlights life-changing research happening in Canada – presented by researchers and patients in their own words.

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Thoughts on Flu Vaccinnation The Globe and Mail | Opinions 1. Some protection from the flu is better than none at all

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2. Now, more than ever, we need a national vaccination plan

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What Sea Squirts Can Tell Us About the BrainDal News Dal postdoc Kerrianne Ryan is conducting research at the forefront of the emerging and controversial field of connectomics, which aims to map the briain’s “wiring.”

“We were mapping a brain, at a very detailed level and in a comprehensive way, to gain insight into how brains work and might have evolved,” says Dr. Ryan, currently studying in the Laboratory of Invertebrate Neurobiology headed by Ian Meinertzhagen in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. “It’s a new way to look at the central nervous system.”

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Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

news & events

1Dalhousie Psychologist Warns of Strain Felt by Perfecionist Students

Dr. Simon Sherry, who has done extensive research on perfectinism, weighs in

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3Talking About Sex & Well-Being

Sexual Health Researcher, Dr. Natalie Rosen is featured on CIHR’s Canada 150

Storybook initiative.

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4Celebrate the Next Generation of Scientists

Profiling exceptional students who represent a small portion of this year’s

amazing Science grads.

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5Marking a Milestone

Nancy Gibbons is one of just two recipients this year who served 45 years

of service at Dalhousie.

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2NSERC Discovery Awards Support Psych/Neuro Visionaries

57 Total Dalhousie researchers are recipients of $8 Million in funding from the NSERC

Discovery Grants

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PUBLICATIONSChambers Lab

Tutelman, PR. Chambers, C.T., Stinson, J., Parker, J.A., Fernandez, C., Witteman, H., Nathan, P., Barwick, M., Campbell, F., Jibb, L., & Irwin, K. (accepted). Pain in children with cancer: Prevalence, characteristics, and parent management. Clinical Journal of Pain. Birnie, K., Chambers, C.T., & Spellman, C. (2017) Mechanisms of distraction in acute pain perception and modulation. Pain Pic-tured, 158(6), 1012-13. Boerner, K., Chambers, C.T., McGrath, P., LoLordo, V., & Uher, R. (2017). The impact of parental modeling on child pain responses: The role of parent and child sex. Journal of Pain, 18(6):702-715.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2017.01.007 Boerner, K.E., Eccleston, C., Chambers, C.T., Keogh, E. (2017). Sex differences in the efficacy of psychological therapies for the man-agement of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adoles-cents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Pain, 158(4), 569-82. Schinkel, M., Chambers, C.T., Moon, E.C., & Caes, L. (2017). Com-parison of maternal versus paternal nonverbal behaviour during child pain. Pain Practice. 17(1), 41-51. Birnie, K.A., Chambers, C.T., Chorney, J., Fernandez, C.V., & Mc-Grath, P.J. (2016). A multi-informant multi-method investigation of family functioning and parent-child coping during children’s acute pain. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 41(7), 1-12. Paper received an Honorable Mention for the Student Research Award from Soci-ety of Pediatric Psychology. Birnie, K.A., Chambers, C.T., Chorney, J., Fernandez, C.V., & McGrath, P.J. (2016). Dyadic analysis of child and parent trait and state pain catastrophizing in the process of children’s pain com-munication. Pain, 157(4), 938-48. [CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction Brain Star Award 2016] Caes, L., Boerner, K.E., Chambers, C.T., Campbell-Yeo, M., Stin-son, J., Birnie, K., Parker, J.A., Huguet, A., Jordan, A., Chorney, J., Schinkel, M., & Dol, J. (2016). A comprehensive categorical and bibliometric analysis of published research articles on pediatric pain from 1975-2010. Pain, 157(2): 302-13. Birnie, K.A., Parker, J.A., & Chambers, C.T. (2016). Relevance of water temperature, apparatus, and age to children’s pain during the cold pressor task.Pain Practice, 16(1), 46-56. Higgins, K. S., & Chambers, C. T. (March/April, 2017). Needle fear and insulin self-injection. Canadian Nurse, 113, p. 38. https://canadian-nurse.com/en/articles/issues/2017/march-april-2017/needle-fear-and-insulin-self-injection Book Chapter:Chambers, C.T. & Tutelman, P. (2017). Pediatric psychology. In.

Deacon Lab

Deacon, S. H., & Kieffer, M. (in press). Under-standing how syntactic awareness contributes to reading comprehension: Evidence from mediation and longitudinal models. Journal of Educational Psychology.

Koh, P. W., Shakory, S., Chen, X., & Deacon, S. H. (in press). Morphology and spelling in French: A comparison of children with reading difficulties and typically developing children. Dyslexia. doi: 10.1002/dys.1565

Mota, M. M. P. E., Freitas Junior, P. V., & Dea-con, S. H. (in press).Morphological awareness, word reading and reading comprehension in Portuguese. Applied Psycholinguistics.

Quémart, P., Gonnerman, L., Downing, J., & Deacon, S. H. (in press). The development of morphological representations in young read-ers: A cross-modal priming study. Developmen-tal Science.

Deacon, S. H., & Francis, K. (2017). How children become sensitive to the morpho-logical structure of the words that they read. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01469

Deacon, S. H., Tucker, R., Bergey, B., Laroche, A., & Parrila, R. (2017). Personalized outreach to university students with a history of reading difficulties: Early screening and outreach to support academically at-risk students. Journal of College Student Development, 58(3), 432-450. doi: 10.1353/csd.2017.0032

Levesque, K., Kieffer, M., & Deacon, S. H. (2017). Morphological awareness and reading comprehension: Examining mediating factors.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 160, 1-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.02.015

Mackay, E., Levesque, K. & Deacon, S. H. (2017). Unexpected poor comprehenders: An inves-tigation of multiple aspects of morphological awareness. Journal of Research in Reading, 40(2), 125-138. doi:10.1111/1467-9817.12108

PUBLICATIONSKlein Lab

Hilchey, M. D., Rajsic, J., Huffman, G., Klein, R. M. & Pratt, J. (in press) Dissociating orienting biases from integration effects with eye movements. Psychological Science. Klein, R. M. & Redden, R S. (in press) How “Inhibition of return” biases orienting. To appear in T. Hubbard (Ed.) Spatial Biases in Cognition, Cambridge University Press.

Redden, R.S., d’Entremont, G. & Klein, R.M. (2017). Safe or Out: Does the Location of Attention Affect Judgments at First Base in Baseball?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/cep0000118

Redden, R. S., d’Entremont, G., & Klein, R. M. (2017). Further evidence in favor of prior entry from endogenous attention to a location in space. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(4), 1027-1038. doi: 10.3758/s13414-017-1290-0

Redden, R. S., Klages, J., & Klein, R. M. (2017). The effect of scene removal on inhibition of return in a cue-target task. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 79(1), 78-84. doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1228-y

Klein, R. M., Hassan, T., Wilson, G., Ishigami, Y., & Mulle, J. (2017). The AttentionTrip: A game-like tool for measuring the networks of attention. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 289, 99-109.

Saban, W., Sekely, L., Klein, R. M., & Gabay, S. (2017). Endogenous orienting in the archer fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(29), 7577-7581.

Roy-Charland, A., Plamondon, A., Homeniuk, A. S., Flesch, C. A., Klein, R. M., & Stewart, S. H. (2017). Attentional bias toward alco-hol-related stimuli in heavy drinkers: evidence from dynamic eye movement recording. The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse, 43(3), 332-340.

Kavyani, M., Farsi, A., Abdoli, B., & Klein, R. M. (2017). Using the locus-of-slack logic to determine whether inhibition of return in a cue–target paradigm is delaying early or late stages of process-ing. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue cana-dienne de psychologie expérimentale, 71(1), 63.

Redden, R.S., Hilchey, M.D., & Klein, R.M. (2016). Peripheral stimuli generate different forms of inhibition of return when participants make pro- versus anti-saccades to them. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 78(8), 2283-2291. doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1175-7

Salmon, J. P., Dolan, S. M., Drake, R. S., Wilson, G. C., Klein, R. M. & Eskes, G. A. (2017) A survey of video game preferences in adults: Building better games for older adults. Entertainment Computing, 21, 45-64.

Hilchey, M. D., Dohmen, D., Crowder, N. & Klein, R. M. (2016) When is inhibition of return input- or out-put-based: It depends on how you look at it. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(4), 325-334. Jayaraman, S., Klein, R. M., Hilchey, M. D., Patil, G. S. & Mishra, R. K. (2016) Spatial gradients of oculomotor inhi-bition of return in deaf and normal adults, Experimental Brain Research, 234(1), 323-330.

Jones, S. A. H., Butler, B. C., Kintzel, F., Johnson, A., Klein, R. M. and Eskes, G.A. (2016) Measuring the performance of attention networks with the Dalhousie Computerized Attention Battery (DalCAB): Meth Klein, R. M., Christie, J. & Parkvall, M. (2016) Does multi-lingualism affect the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease?: A world-wide analysis by country. Social Science and Medicine: Public Health, 2, 463-67. Klein. R. M. & Saint-Aubin, J. (2016) What a simple letter detection task can tell us about reading. Current Direc-tions in Psychological Science, 25(6) 417–424 odology and reliability in healthy adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:823. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00823 Klein, R. M. (2016) What cognitive processes are likely to be exercised by bilingualism and does this exercise lead to extra-linguistic cognitive benefits?, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6(5), 549-564. Mullane, J. C., Lawrence, M. A., Corkum, P. V., Klein, R. M., & McLaughlin, E. N. (2016). The development of and interaction among alerting, orienting, and executive attention in children. Child Neuropsychology, 22(2), 155-176. Saint-Aubin, J., Klein, R. M., Babineau, M., Christie, J. & Gow, D. (2016) There is a Missing-Phoneme Effect in Au-ral Prose Comprehension, Psychological Science., 27(7), 1017-1026.

Salmon, J. P., Jones, S. A. H., Wright, C., Butler, B., Klein, R. M. & Eskes, G.A. (2017) Methods for validating chronometry of computerized tests. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 39(2), 190-210 Yan, C., He, T., Klein, R. M. & Wang, Z. (2016) Predictive remapping gives rise to environmental inhibition of return. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23(6), 1860-1866.

T. Hadjistavropoulos (Ed.), Fundamentals of health psy-chology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Mitchell Lab

Fong M-f, Mitchell D.E., Duffy K.R. & Bear M.F. Rapid recovery from the effects of early mon-ocular deprivation is enabled by temporary inactivation of the retinas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113 (49) 14139-14144, 2016.

Holman K. D., Duffy K. R. & Mitchell D. E. Short periods of darkness fail to restore visual or neu-ral plasticity in adult cats. Visual Neuroscience (in press).

Mitchell D.E. & Sengpiel F. Animal models of amblyopia. In Amblyopia: challenges and opportunities. Ed. J. Dowling, The Lasker/IRRF Initiative for Innovation in Vision Science pp. 77-90, March 2017.

PRESENTATIONSTutelman, P.R. (2017, May). Prevalence, Characteristics, and Management of Pain in Children with Cancer. In P. Daeninck (Chair), New Advances in Cancer Pain: Perspectives from Across the Lifespan. Symposium presented at the Canadian Pain Society Annual Meeting, Halifax, N.S. McCormick, C.R., Redden, R.S., Lawrence, M.A, and Klein, R.M. (2017). On the time-course of cued tem-poral attention. Poster presented at 27th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK.

Redden, R.S., Ivanoff, J., Christie, J., and Klein, R.M. (2016). Meta-analysis of inhibition of return: As-sessing discrimination tasks in speed-accuracy space. Poster presented at 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Hassan, T., Christie, J., and Klein, R.M. (2016). Global and Local Activation of the Oculomotor System by Arrays of Uninformative Peripheral Visual Stimuli. Talk given at 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Redden, R.S. and Klein, R.M. (2016). Inhibitions of return: Two orienting biases. Poster presented at the International Meeting of Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain.McCormick, C.R., Redden, R.S. and Klein, R.M. (2016). Exogenous eye movements and inhibition of return: Is environmental context essential for the maintenance of IOR? Talk given at 26th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.And a very productive conference season for the Deacon lab crew with a total of 17 posters and presen-tations at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading conference held in Halifax in July, 2017.

Klein LabHassan, T., Christie, J., & Klein, R. M. (2016, November). Global and local activation of the oculomotor system by arrays of uninformative peripheral visual stimuli. Paper presented at the 57th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Boston, USA) Klein, R. M., d’Entremont, G., Jones, A., and Lawrence, M. A. (2016, November). Exploring the neural signatures of multi¬modal inhibition of return. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, California) Klein, R. M. (2016, September) Invited symposium discussant: The Bilingual Advantage: Evidence, Controversy, and Implications for Translational Practice. International Mind, Brain and Education Society Conference (Toronto, Canada) Klein, R. M. (2016, September) Applying the scientific method to answer questions about drawing ed-ucation. Presented by RM Klein on behalf of the team at the NSCAD University Drawing Laboratory at NSCAD University Research Day (Halifax, Canada) Klein, R. M. (2016, April) Eye movement control and covert attention: Embodied or disembodied cog-nition. A workshop on Oculomotor Readiness and Covert Attention (An EPS-sponsored workshop, Durham, UK) McCormick, C., Redden, R., Lawrence, M., & Klein, R. (2017, June) On the time-course of cued temporal attention. Presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior and Cogni-tive Science (Regina, Canada) Mash, L., Townsend, J., Luo, Q., Klein, R. M., Chukoskie, L. (2016, November) The AttentionTrip: A game-based assessment of attention networks in autism. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, California)

staff spotlightAfter 45 years of exceptional service, we say farewell to past Administrator of the Psychology and Neuroscience department, Nancy Gibbons, and welcome Alicia Eakins.

Administrator—Alicia EakinsAlicia.Eakins@dal.ca(902) 494-6523LSC 3256

Also, we extend a warm welcome to Andrea West, our new Animal Care Technician.

President Richard Florizone with honourees (Nancy Gibbons pictured), at the Milestone Tea receiption. (Nick Pearce photos)

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