Department of Psychology

MARCH 2010

 Dr. Cheryl McCormick has been selected as the Top Reviewer for 2009 for the journal Hormones and Behaviour.

Spring 2010 job postings are now available.  Application deadline is March 26, 2010.  All positions are subject to course enrolment and budgetary approval.  Click here to view the postings.

January 2010

Prof. Stefan Brudzynski is the Editor of the recently published Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization:  An Integrative Neuroscience Approach.  This handbook is a comprehensive reference for researchers, instructors, and graduate students interested in animal and human communication, expression of emotions, and in the control of motor systems in the areas of behavioral neuroscience, affective neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, neuroethology, biopsychology, neurolinguistics, speech pathology, and other related fields. It is an integrated tightly edited book including chapters written by over 70 leading specialists in 13 countries.
Stefan M. Brudzynski (ed.), Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization. An Integrative Neuroscience Approach, Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2010, (C) 2010 Elsevier BV, ISBN # 978-0-12-374593-4, hard cover, pp. 526.

December 2009

The Psychology Department is looking for qualified graduate students for Sept. 2010. Application deadline is Jan. 15 2010. Click here for information about our program.

Prof. Cathy Mondloch of the Infant and Child Development Lab has received a grant from the Leaders Opportunity Fund of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This grant of $170,000 (toward a total budget of $470,000) is for the purchase of state-of-the-art electronic equipment, including cameras and eye-trackers, to be used in Prof. Mondloch's investigations of the development of face perception in young children. For more information, please visit Prof. Mondloch's lab web page by clicking here.

Prof. Jane Dywan and Prof. Sid Segalowitz from the Brock University Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab have received a grant from the Leaders Opportunity Fund of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This grant of $35,965 (toward a total budget of $91,020) is for the purchase of heart rate and blood pressure monitoring systems, which will be used alongside measures of brain electrocortical (EEG) signals in Prof. Dywan and Prof. Segalowitz' studies of developmental change during adolescence and aging.

October 2009
Undergraduate Psychology student, Feather Nixon, received a National Institutes of Health travel award to attend the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Conference in Chicago, Oct. 15-18 to present her research "Social instability stress in adolescent rats leads to a lasting reduction in spatial memory".

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