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Cognition Seminars

 

 

Cognition Division
Thursdays 2:30 - 4:30
ABC Room (PAS 3026)

Winter 2012 Seminar Schedule

 

Date

Presenter

Topic

Jan 5

Organizational Meeting

Jan 12

Ester Moher

Predictions over time: Changes in efficacy from near to far

Jan 19

Derek Koehler

Bias in self-prediction of future risk tolerance

Jan 26

N/A

N/A

Feb 2

Greta James

Why you should sheet things: The effects of video game play on sustained attention

Feb 9

Nadia Martin

Categorization and representation of statistical problems  as a function of experience and gender

Feb 16

No Seminar

LOVE Conference in Niagara Falls, ON

Feb 23

No Seminar

Reading week

March 1

Olivia Lin

Can inhibition of return at encoding affect later memory?

March 8

Gordon Pennycook

Reasoning style predicts religious and paranormal belief

March 15

Derek Besner

How to get yourself in deep trouble: A case study

March 22

Amanda Wudarzewski

The intention-behavior gap: Exploring the interplay of implicit and explicit measures of behavior

March 29

Daniel Ansari, UWO

The numerate brain: Development, enculturation and individual differences

April 5

Noah Forrin & Colin Macleod

Encoding techniques: Costs and benefits

(Past) Fall 2011 Seminar Schedule

 

Date

Presenter

Topic

Sept 15

Organizational Meeting

Sept 22

Derek Besner

The effect of word frequency and repetition in reading: It’s not who you are, but who you are CONNECTED to

Sept 29

N/A

Cancelled

Oct 6

Nathaniel Barr

In search of a mechanism underlying dissociations among common numerical comparison tasks

Oct 13

N/A

Cancelled

Oct 20

Shannon O’Malley

Can skilled readers stop themselves from reading?

Oct 27

Christie Haskell

Negative stimuli and visual word recognition

Nov 3

N/A

No seminar—Psychonomics Annual Meeting

Nov 10

Jesse Langstaff

Are people like pigeons? Signaling of outcomes in a 2-arm bandit problem

Nov 17

Tanya Jonker

A new approach to retrieval-induced forgetting

Nov 24

Noah Forrin

Widening the boundaries of the production effect

 

 

*for questions, please contact Ester Moher emoher@uwaterloo.ca