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Office: PC 408 krh AT mcmaster DOT ca 905-525-9140 905-529-6225 (fax) |
Dr. Karin Humphreys My research in the Cognitive Science Laboratory looks at the psycholinguistics of language production. Our ability to rapidly and effortlessly transform thoughts into a sequence of meaningful sounds is a remarkable feat, given the incredible complexity of this task. My lab studies the cognitive processes and architectures that underlie this ability. Of particular interest are cases in which speech goes somehow awry - either in normal speech errors, (slips of the tongue) made on occasion by all speakers (and that can also be experimentally elicited in the laboratory), or in more severe cases of pathological language, such as stuttering. By looking at cases in which language production has gone wrong, we hope to understand how the system works normally. |
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Office: PC 408 watter AT mcmaster DOT ca 905-525-9140 905-529-6225 (fax) |
Dr. Scott Watter My research program combines behavioural and electrophysiological methods to investigate the functional and neurological framework underlying central information processing and cognitive control in humans. My research focuses on three interrelated issues: central processing limitations in multiple task performance; executive control in working memory; and examining component processes involved in task switching. I am also involved with several secondary lines of research, where extensions of my primary work in divided attention and cognitive control are being usefully applied to questions in other areas, including visual perception, language production and medical reasoning and decision making. |
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Peter Jansen (Masters,
3rd year PhD) Supervisor(s): Dr. S. Watter & Dr. K. Humphreys |
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Molly Pottruff (Masters, 2nd year PhD) I'm interested in which cognitive and perceptual factors influence our assumptions about shared knowledge in written and spoken communication. Supervisor(s): Dr. Karin Humphreys |
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April Lee, M.Sc. (graduated Aug 2009)
Supervisor(s): Dr. Scott Watter |
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Sandra Thomson (Masters,
2nd year PhD) My research interests are divided attention and response selection. Supervisor(s): Dr. Scott Watter |
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Johanna Lake (Masters,
3rd year PhD) My research interests include speech errors and learning, language acquisition and production in individuals with autism and the relationship between language and aggression in toddlers. Supervisor(s): Dr. Karin Humphreys |
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Maria D'Angelo (Masters, 1st
year PhD) I'm interested in the interaction between unconscious and conscious cognitive processes, for example how these interactions play out in learning and generalizing knowledge, particularly in the domain of medicine. Supervisor(s): Dr. S. Watter and Dr. K. Eva |
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Juliana Loureiro-Kent (1st year Masters) Supervisor(s): Dr. Scott Watter |
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Melena Vinski (1st year Masters) Supervisor(s): Dr. Scott Watter |
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Ian Horbatiuk (1st year Masters) Supervisor(s): Dr. Scott Watter |
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THESIS STUDENTS 08/09 (past
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| with Scott | Juliana Loureiro-Kent (BioPsych) | |
| Becky McDermott (BioPsych) | ||
| Anna Finkelshteign (BioPsych) | ||
| with Karin | Justin Losier (Health Sciences) | |
| Hillary Kaine (Health Sciences) | ||
| Meghan Louch (Health Sciences) | ||
| LAB COORDINATOR(S) / RESEARCH ASSISTANT(S) | ||
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Amy Beth Warriner
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Esther Manoian esther AT mcmaster DOT ca |
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Office: PC 406 shedden AT mcmaster DOT ca 905-525-9140
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Judith Shedden Research Interests: Electrophysological research concerning selective attention. Current research focuses on attentional mechanisms of face processing, people learning, error monitoring, visual and spatial memory, and video game playing. |
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Office: TSH 322 sevigny AT mcmaster DOT ca 905-525-9140
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