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SUMMARY
Registration will begin on Saturday, June  12th, 2004, at 2 p.m. at the Health Sciences Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland. There will be a poster session from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. and an Invited Address in the evening. On Sunday morning there will be poster and paper presentations. On Sunday afternoon and evening there will be invited symposia and the Hebb lecture. There will be poster and paper presentations through Monday morning and afternoon. The last event, the Business Meeting will end at 5 p.m. More details of the program follow:

Program of Events for the BBCS/SCCC 14th Annual Meeting at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, June 12-14, 2004

DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM -- All event take place in the Health Sciences Centre, Memorial Univeristy of Newfoundland.

SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2004
2:00 - 6:00 p.m. Registration

4:00 - 5:30 p.m. POSTER SESSION 1
1. Authors: Lattanzio, Sherry.
Title: A Sex Difference in Spatial Memory Favours Females in the Brood-Parasitic Brown-Headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater).
2. Authors: Storey, Walsh, Wilhelm.
Title: Evolution of Parental Motivation in Common Murres.
3. Authors: Beaton, deCantanzaro.
Title: Sex Steroid Dynamics in Male Mice in Contact with Females and Rival Males.
4. Authors: Byers, Ellard.
Title: The Influence of the Behaviour of Conspecifics on Responses to Threat in the Mongolian Gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus).
5. Authors: St-Laurent, Blum, Petrides, Sziklas.
Title: The Role of the Cingulate Cortex in Spatial-Visual Conditional Associative Learning.
6. Authors: Walsh, Skinner, Martin.
Title: Location Serves as a Conditional Cue when Harp Seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) Solve Object Discrimination Reversal Problems.
7. Authors: Krachun, Plowright.
Title: Seeing is Retrieving: A Test of Pigeons’ Ability to Solve a Visible Displacement Task.
8. Authors: LeBlanc, Dumas.
Title: Random Selection and Invisibility of the Targets in a Progressive Elimination Task in Cats.
9. Authors: Mercier, Vachon.
Title: Contrast and Confidence in Causality Judgements.
10. Author: Oddson.
Title: Decision Timed Random Walk Models.
11. Authors: Tiede, Lee, Leboe, Leboe.
Title: Why all the Pessimism? Investigations into the Underconfidence-with-Practice Effect on Judgments of Learning.
12. Authors: Blais, Besner.
Title: On the Joint Effects of Repetition and Stimulus Quality: Transfer Appropriate Processing Revisited.
13. Authors: Hessels, Jacoby.
Title: Age Differences in the Avoidance of Bias Effects.
14. Author: Jhangiani.
Title: From Concept to Percept: Priming the Perception of Ambiguous Figures.
15. Authors: Skye, Brooks.
Title: Generalizing from Instances of People’s Atypical Behavior: When Sweet Aunt Sally Buys a Harley.
16. Authors: Leth-Steensen, Blouin.
Title: Verbal and Visuospatial Abilities in Linear Syllogistic Reasoning.
18. Author:  Jamieson.
Title: An Instance Based Model of Structural Learning.
19. Authors: Zotov, Mewhort.
Title: Judging the Relative Magnitude of Digits and Lines: Why You Can’t Use a Mental Line Metaphor for Numeric Comparison.
20. Authors: Shaki, Petrusic.
Title: Comparisons with Positive and Negative Numbers: Context Dependent SNARC Effects.
21. Authors: Robinson, Arbuthnott, Rose, McCarron, Globa, Phonexay.
Title: The Development of Simple Division Strategies.
22. Authors: Corbett, Oriet.
Title: The Effects of Divided Attention on the Rapid Extraction of Numeric Meaning.
23. Author: Tweedie.
Title: What is Seen is What is Meant: Visual Attention and Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics.
24. Authors: Robitaille, Jolicoeur, Leblanc.
Title: Predictability of Spatial Location Eliminates the Negative Attentional Blink.
25. Author: Kawahara.
Title: Mere Presence of Distractors: Another Determining Factor for the Attentional Blink.
26. Authors: Vachon, Tremblay.
Title: The Effects of Masking in the Attentional Blink: A Comparison Between Vision and Audition.
27. Authors: Dukewich, Klein.
Title: What You Do after Finding the Target Can Affect Finding It.
28. Authors: Weber, Olds.
Title: Negative Priming and Object-Substitution Masking.
29. Authors: Reynolds, Mulatti, Besner.
Title:  Spying on Your Neighbours: Orthographic and Phonological Contributions to Nonword Naming.
30. Authors: Walker, Phillips
Title: Development of Auditory and Visual Temporal Processing Tasks Relating to Language and Literacy.
31. Authors: Yoshida, Werker.
Title: Shallow vs. Deep: Learning to Swim in a Second Language.
32. Authors: Schweizer, Dixon.
Title: The Importance of Non-visual Attributes of Objects in Visual Object Identification
33. Author: McMullen
Title: Manipulability and Living/Non-Living Category Effects on Object Identification.
34. Authors: Anderson, Paterson.
Title: Productive Use of Imagery by Children.
35. Authors: Byrne, Becker, Burgess.
Title: A Computational Model of Hippocampal-Parietal Interactions in the Generation and Manipulation of Mental Imagery for Spatial Reasoning.
36. Authors: Parsons, Harley.
Title: Intraventricular Orexin, c-Fos Activation, and Odor Learning in the Adult Rat.
37. Authors: Lipscombe, Lehmann, Mumby.
Title: Hippocampal Damage and Anterograde Object-Recognition in Rats after Long Retention Intervals.
38. Authors: Stewart, Kunaseharan, Cortese, Shedden.
Title: Cortical Source Analysis for a Visual Short-Term Memory Task: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study.
39. Authors: Cuttler, Graf.
Title: Don’t Forget: Individual Differences in Prospective Memory.
40. Authors: Kronlund, Whittlesea.
Title: The Perception of Discrepancy: Effects on Later Remembering

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Reception: Cash Bar (Wine, Beer, soft drinks) and Complimentary Finger Foods

The BBCS Distinguished Leadership Award will be given to Richard Tees at 6 p.m. in the Auditorium.

HEBBfest
INVITED ADDRESS BY TIM BLISS
Auditorium -- 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Author: Tim Bliss
Title: From Cell A to Cell B: A Physiological View of the Hebb Synapse.

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2004
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. TALK SESSIONS

41. SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL COGNITION
Auditorium – 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Authors: Robinson, Ninowski, Gray.
Title: Children's Conceptual Knowledge of the Inversion Problem: Are All Inversion Problems the Same?
Authors: Penner-Wilger, Campbell.
Title: Response Time Distributions for Simple Addition: An Investigation of Format Effects.
Authors: Kalaman, LeFevre.
Title: Working Memory Demands of Exact and Approximate Addition .
Authors: Smith-Chant, Barnes, Landry, Ley, Lane, Wilkinson.
Title: A profile of Math Disability among Children with Spina Bifida: A Multi-dimensional Approach.

NEURAL AND BEHAVIOURAL PLASTICITY
Lecture Theatre E 2956
8:30 a.m.
42. Authors: Williams, Gharbawie, Kolb, Klein.
Title: Rehabilitative Therapies in Adulthood Stimulate Functional Recovery in Rats with Perinatal Frontal Cortex Lesions.
8:45 a.m.
43. Authors: O’Brien, Lecluse, Yamin, Mumby.
Title: Hippocampal Damage and Contextual Memory.
9:00 a.m.
44. Authors: Werk, Chapman.
Title: The Threshold for Neocortical Spindle Waves is Lowered Following Long-Term Potentiation.
9:15 a.m.
45. Authors: Schimanksi, Nguyen.
Title: Reduced Hippocampal LTP in Area CA1, but not in the Medial Pathway, in Memory-Impaired Inbred Mouse Strains.
9:30 a.m.
46. Authors: Young, Nguyen.
Title: Homo- and Hetero-Synaptic Inhibition of Late Phase-LTP by Prior Synaptic Activity: Metaplastic Effects on Synaptic Capture in Mouse Hippocampus CA1.
9:45 a.m.
47. Authors: Kuo, Hamze, Wilson, Dringenberg.
Title: Enhancement of Thalamocortical Long-Term Potentiation by the Cortical Activators Acetylcholine and Histamine.

DEVELOPMENT
Lecture Theatre F 2908
8:30 a.m.
48. Authors: Rees, Parada, Steiner, Fleming.
Title: Early Maternal Separation: Effects on Behavioral and HPA Axis Response to a Novel Environment in the Juvenile Female Rat.
8:45 a.m.
49. Authors: Honey, Galef.  
Title: Long-Lasting Effects of Exposure to an Ethanol-Consuming Demonstrator.
9:00 a.m.
50. Authors: Hancock, Menard, Olmstead.
Title: The Effects of Maternal Care on Stress-Induced Binge Eating in Female Rats.
9:15 a.m.
51. Authors: Betts, Taylor, Sekuler, Bennett.
Title: Evidence for Reduced Inhibition in the Aging Visual System Revealed by a Motion Discrimination Task.
9:30 a.m.
52. Authors: Pearson, Schaefer, McLachlan.
Title: Younger isn’t Always Better – Change Blindness in Older and Younger Adults.
9:45 a.m.
53. Author: Trick.  
Title: Age Differences in Multiple-Object Tracking.


10:00 - 11:30 p.m. POSTER SESSION 2
17. Authors: Leboe, Palmer, Illsley.
Title: Flexibility in the Use of Remembering Heuristics.
54. Author: Obhi
Title: The Effects of Perceptual and Motor Demands on Bimanual Actions
55. Authors: Planetta, Servos, Meegan.
Title: Perceptually Induced Motor Learning: An fMRI Study.
56. Authors: Króliczak, Goodale.
Title: Differential Effects of Semantics on Grasping and Naming.
57. Authors: Stevanowski, Jolicoeur.
Title: Verbal and Visual Contributions to Visual Encoding?
58. Authors: Roberts, Besner.
Title: What is the Relation between Spatial Attention and Visual Word Recognition?
59. Authors: Squires, Dyck, Penney, Rose,
Title:  A Recognition Task for Deletion of the Initial Consonant in a Two-Consonant Onset: A Comparison of Good and Poor Readers.
60. Authors: Bourassa, Reader, Murphy.
Title: Children’s Spelling: The Role of Linguistic Factors and Individual Differences.
61. Authors: Brown, Besner.
Title: Dissociative Effects of Stimulus Quality on Semantic and Morphological Contexts in Visual Word Recognition.
62. Authors: Carroll, Nicholson.
Title: The Relationship between Audiovisual Speech Perception and Cognitive Empathy.
63. Authors: Weikum, Werker.
Title: Can Infants Discriminate Languages Using Only Visual Speech Information?
64. Authors: Azarbehi, Piercey, Joordens.
Title: Homo and Hetero Effects on Lexical Decision Performance.
65. Authors: Ferguson, Besner.
Title: When a Rowz is not a Rose: Lexical Access from Print without Phonological Assistance.
66. Authors: Lochner, Stolz.
Title: Cross-Modal Target Identification and Visual Search (part 1).
67. Authors: Whittlesea, Hughes, Leboe.
Title: Disjunction Dysfunction: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Awareness.
68. Authors: Klages, Klein.
Title: The Effect of Context and Scene Removal upon Inhibition of Return.
69. Authors: Tombu, Tsotsos.
Title: Exploring Attentional Inhibitory Surrounds in Feature Space.
70. Authors: Vavassis, Panagopoulos, von Grünau, Galera.
Title: Intrusive Background Processing and Location Cue Usefulness are Contingent upon Visual Search Task Complexity.
71. Authors: Brisson, Jolicouer.
Title: Are Central Attention and Visual Spatial Attention Independent? Human Electrophysiology and the Psychological Refractory Period.
72. Authors: Risko, Stolz, Besner.
Title: Stroop Search: Is Visual Word Recognition Obligatory?
73. Authors: Sparkes, Klein.
Title: The Influence of Experimental Context on the Components of Attention in Children.
74. Authors: Rutherford, Sekuler, Moldes, Richards.
Title: Evidence of Divided Attention Advantage in Autism.
75. Authors: Mallet, Vigneau.
Title: Attention Deficit: The (Absence of) Relation between Performance and Self-Report Measures.
76. Authors: Besner, Ansari.
Title: Automatic Processing: What the Mind Doesn’t Do While Deciding What It Should Do.
77. Authors: Daza, Ortells, Milliken.
Title: Influence of Spatial Attention on Conscious vs. Unconscious Semantic Processing of Masked Words.
78. Authors: Talmi, Musto, Anderson.
Title: Emotional Value and Prior Exposure Enhances Subjective Vividness: A Noise Magnitude Estimation Study.
79. Authors: Boland, Nicholson.
Title: The Effect of a Noisy Environment on the Production of Speech-Related Hand Gestures.
80. Authors: Lam, Goel.
Title:  The Rewarding Nature of Perceived Facial Attractiveness.
81. Authors: Kronlund, Bernstein.
The Revelation Effect: Memory and Preference of Brand Names.
82. Authors: Graf, Turner.
Title: A Promise is a Promise, or is It?
83. Author: Houlihan.
Title: Lie Detection using ERPs in a Language Based Task.
84. Authors: Vokey, Tangen, Boychuck.
Title: On the Identification of Latent Fingerprints.
85. Authors: Poirier, Wilson.
Title: Radial Frequency Pattern Perception Modeled using Curvature Detectors.
86. Author: Grant.
Title: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Applications for the Assessment of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
87. Authors: Landry, Perreault, Plowright.
Title: Use of Visual Cues in Artificial Flower Choice by Hummingbirds: Colour or Shape?
88. Authors: Brodbeck, Humber.
Title: Memory for Space/Colour Compound Stimuli in Pine Siskins: A Field Experiment.
89. Authors: Yamin, O’Brien, Lecluse, Mumby.
Title: The Effects of Environmental-Context Change on Object Recognition, and the Role of the Hippocampus.
90. Author: Perrot-Sinal.
Title: Differential Hypothalamic Activation Following Cat Odour Exposure in Male and Female Long Evans Rats.
91. Authors: Swain, Beninger.
Title: Temporary Lesions of the Basolateral Nucleus of the Amygdala (BLA) Disrupt Fear Conditioning Measured with Conditioned Suppression in Rats.
92. Authors: Stickland, Dalzell, Penner, Saari.
Title: Fear Conditioning under Isoflurane Anesthesia: No Effect of Housing Manipulation.

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. TALK SESSIONS

93. SYMPOSIUM ON TASTE REACTIVITY: A TOOL FOR EVALUATING TASTE HEDONICS AND TASTE AVERSIONS
Auditorium – 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Author: Berridge.
Title: Limbic Liking Systems.
Authors: Lolordo, Forestell, Boudreau.
Title:  Conditioning of Preference, Avoidance, and Palatability Shifts.
Authors: Ossenkopp, Cross-Mellor, Kavaliers.
Title: Comparing Immune Activation and Toxin-induced Gustatory Conditioning.
Authors: Parker, Limebeer.
Title: Conditioned Gaping as a Rat Model of Nausea.

HUMAN BRAIN IMAGING
Lecture Theatre E 2956
11:30 a.m.
94. Authors: Tisserand, Stanisz, Lobaugh, Gibson, Li, Black, Levine.
Title: Regional White Matter Changes in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging  Study.
11:45 a.m.
95. Authors: Ferber, Humphrey, Vilis.
Title:  Sensory Short-Term Memory Processes in Early Visual Areas.
12:00 p.m.
96. Authors: Fugelsang, Dunbar.
Title:  Brain-Based Mechanisms Underlying Complex Causal Thinking.
12:15 p.m.
97. Authors: Large, Aldcroft, Kuchinad,Vilis.
Title:  Maintaining the Integration of Local Features into Global Shapes in the Human Visual Cortex.
12:30 p.m.
98. Author: Mauro.
Title: Using Music to Decode the Neural Architecture
12:45 p.m.
99. Author: Sohrabi, Smith, Logan.
Title: The Study of Executive Functions in Gambling-like Decision Making Using a New Neuropsychological task and fMRI.

AWARENESS AND ATTENTION
Lecture Theatre F 2908
11:30 a.m.
100. Authors: Skye, MacLellan, Milliken.
Title: Qualitative Differences in Awareness and Performance: Findings from a Novel Context.
11:45 a.m.
101. Authors: Pare, Joordens, vanDuijn.
Title: Can Conscious Perception be Primed?
12:00 p.m.
102. Authors: Schneider, Logan.
Title: A Priming Account of Task Switching Performance in the Explicit Task-Cuing Procedure.
12:15 p.m.
103. Authors: Oriet, Kawahara, Di Lollo.
Title: Why Do We Blink? Dissociating the Contributions of Task Switching and Feature Switching in the Attentional Blink.
12:30 p.m.
104. Authors: Nicol, Lisowska-Blomberg, Mimnagh, Shore.
Title: Reduced Attentional Blink for Taboo Words.
12:45 p.m.
105. Authors: Ghorashi, Smilek, Di Lollo.
Title: Visual Search and the Attentional Blink Draw upon Different Resources.  

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH

106. INVITED SYMPOSIUM IN HONOUR OF KEITH HUMPHREY
Auditorium – 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Authors: Goodale, Humphrey.
Title: The Neural Substrates of Stuff vs. Things
Authors: Jolicoeur, Sessa, Dell'Acqua.
Title: Interactions between Central Attentional Load and the Deployment of Visual Spatial Attention: Evidence from Human Electrophysiology.
Author: Gurnsey.
Title: Studies of the Pinna-Brelstaff Illusion.
Authors: Vilis, Humphrey, Ferber, Niemeier, Large, Aldcroft.
Title: What does the Lateral Occipital Area really do in Object Perception?

DONALD O. HEBB AWARD PRESENTATION TO VINCENT DI LOLLO: THE HEBB LECTURE
Auditorium – 4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
Author: Di Lollo.
Title: Two-way Pathways in the Brain: What are they for?

HEBBfest
107. INVITED SYMPOSIUM FOR DONALD HEBB’S 100TH BIRTHDAY
Auditorium – 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Author: Brown.
Title: The Life and Work of Donald Hebb.
Author: Bruce.
Title: Hebb and Lashley.
Author: Klein.
Title: Hebb and the cognitive (r)evolution.
Author: Harley.
Title: Changing Cell Assemblies.

MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2004

8:30 – 10:00 a.m. TALK SESSIONS

VISION: DEVELOPMENT AND PERCEPTION
Auditorium
8:30 a.m.
108.  Author: Duffy.  
Title: Transient Loss of Neurofilament Labeling in the Primary Visual Cortex of Monocularly Deprived Monkeys.
8:45 a.m.
109. Authors: Richards, DeMiglio, Sekuler, Bennett.
Title: Object Perception and Aging: The Time Course of Amodal Completion.
9:00 a.m.
110. Authors: Habak, Wilkinson, Wilson.
Title:  Influence of Temporal Context on Perceived Shape.
9:15 a.m.
111. Authors: Wilson, Anderson.  
Title: Nonlinear Response Functions to Geometry in Face Space.
9:30 a.m.
112. Authors: Hussain, Bennet, Sekular.
Title: Specificity of Rapid Visual Learning: Faces Versus Textures.
9:45 a.m.
113. Authors: Dukewich, Klein, Christie.
Title: The Effect of Gaze Direction on Gaze Direction When Looking at Art.

LEARNING
Lecture Theatre E 2956
8:30 a.m.
114. Author: Cole.
Title: How Do You Get There from Here? Place vs. Response vs. Direction Learning in Rats in an Open Field Setting.
8:45 a.m.
115. Authors: Olthof, Stiles.
Title: The Development of Landmark Use in Preschool-Aged Children.
9:00 a.m.
116. Authors: Kelly, Bischof.
Title: Influence of Environmental Characteristics on Orienting in Humans.
9:15 a.m.
117. Authors:  De Rosa, Murray, Spadoni, Pfefferbaum, Sullivan.
Title: Age Enhanced Interference from Past Learning on the Present.
9:30 a.m.
118. Authors: Mehta, Williams.
Title: Rule-Based Instruction Facilitates Acquisition, but not Generalization, of Configural Processing.
9:45 a.m.
119. Author:  Jamieson.
Title: Indirect Access to Global Structure through the Organisation of Local Structure.

MEMORY
Lecture Theatre F 2908
8:30 a.m.
120. Authors: Joordens, Pastotter.

Title: It’s Not How Deeply You Process the Items, But What You Do with Them: When Shallow Processing Leads to More Robust Transfer.
8:45 a.m.
121. Authors: Niewiadomski, Joordens, Hockley.  
Title: Explaining Differential Frequency Effect in Recall and Recognition: The Generation Gap.
9:00 a.m.
122. Authors: Ozubko, Joordens, Niewiadomski.
Title: When GRAWK Seems More Familiar than HOUSE: The Role of Semantic Representations on Recognition Decisions.
9:15 a.m.
123. Authors: Petrusic, Shaki, Marley.
Title: Long Term Memory for Auditory Frequency.
9:30 a.m.
124. Authors: Johns, Mewhort.  
Title: Evidence for Differential Processing of Studied Items During Recognition.
9:45 a.m.
125. Author: Hockley.
Title: Strength-Based Mirror Effects for Item and Associative Recognition: Tests of Between and Within-list Criterion Changes.


10:00 - 11:30 a.m. POSTER SESSION 3
126. Author: Ouellette.
Title: Individual Differences in Phoneme Awareness: Articulation and Speech Perception Revisited.
127. Author: Penney.
Title: Levels of Phonological Awareness and the Acquisition of Literacy.
128. Authors: Conrad, Levy.
Title: Establishing Memory Representations of Letter Strings: Good and Poor Readers.
129. Authors: Therrien, Taylor.
Title: Factors Affecting Human Navigation of Virtual 3-D Mazes.
131. Authors: Brown, Harley, Skinner, Martin.
Title: Where You Start From is More Important Than Where You are Going.
132. Author: Anger.
Title: Path Integration in the Mongolian Gerbil: Effect of Bilateral and Unilateral Fimbria-Fornix Lesions on Navigation under Light and Dark Conditions.
133. Authors: O’Leary, Arnold, Brown.
Title: The Importance of Visual Acuity in Determining Strain Differences in Performance on Two Visuo-Spatial Learning Tasks in Mice.
134. Authors: Lecluse, Mumby.
Title: Behavioural Variability in Adult Rats Exposed to a Complex Environment During Development.
135. Authors: Wright, Perrot-Sinal.
Title: Differential Effects of Early Life and Periadolescent Psychological Stress on Adult Behaviour in Male and Female Rats.
136. Authors: Mochinski, Schellinck.
Title: Anxiety Levels in Adult Mice that Experienced Repetitive Acute Pain in Infancy Vary with Treatment and Testing Paradigm.
137. Authors: Wright, Yager, Armstrong, Jahraus, Saucier.
Title: The Effects of Age on Ischemic Brain Injury: Behavior as a Determinant of Brain Plasticity.
138. Authors: deCatanzaro, Beaton, Muir.
Title: Sex Steroids in Female Mice can be Related to Behaviour and Development through Noninvasive Urinary Procedures.
139. Authors: Noseworthy, Delahunty, McKay, Storey.
Title: Hormonal Changes of First-Time Fathers: How Important is Paternal Experience in the Development of Responsiveness to Child Stimuli?
140. Authors: McLeod, Perrot-Sinal.
Title: Brief Exposure to Predatory Odour Soon After Parturition has Long-Term Effects on Maternal Behaviour.
141. Authors: Beaton, Schmidt.
Title: Dysregulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Socially Phobic Young Adults.
142. Author: Chapman.
Title: Reproducibility of Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Results: The Impact of MRI-Related Anxiety.
143. Authors: Gagne, Santi.
Title: Biased Forgetting Effects in the Assessment of Memory for Filled and Empty Intervals: Evidence for the Instructional Failure/Confusion Hypothesis.
144. Authors: Roy, Simard, Drouin, Grondin.
Title: Influence sur la catégorisation d’intervalles temporels de la distance entre les sources sonores.
145. Authors: MacIsaac, Eskes, Klein, Shore, Harrison.
Title: Visual Temporal Order Judgements in Visuo-Spatial Neglect.
146. Authors: Mamolo, Roy, Black, Almeida, Stamenova, Park.
Title: Tactile Information Can Aid Performance in Patients with Mild Apraxia.
147. Authors: Cavina Pratesi, Goodale, Culham.
Title: Does Size Matter to a Grasp-Related Brain Region When No Action is Required?
148. Authors: Polanowski, Stolz.
Title: A Tale of Two Independent Visual Degradation Effects.
149. Authors: Anderson, Wilson.
Title: Exploring the Nature of Face Adaptation Using Synthetic Faces.
150. Authors: Crump, Ansari, MacLellan, Milliken.
Title: How do Symbolic Cues Shift Attention? Investigating the Role of Object Completion in the Visual Cueing Paradigm.
151. Author: Blais, Besner.
Title: When the Visual Format of the Color Carrier Words Affects the Size of the Stroop Effect and When It Does Not.
152. Authors: Blais, Besner.
Title: Two Theories of the Reverse Stroop Effect: Evidence from a Different Kind of Response.
153. Authors: Graf, Yew.
Title: Ageist and Sexist Accounts of Broken Promises.
154. Authors: Heapy, Warrack-Onyskiw, Dodorico.
Title: Why We Like Horror Stories, and Why We Like to Procrastinate: An Opponent Process Perspective.
155. Authors: Shukla, Bors.
Title: Gender Differences on the Mental Rotation Task: Experimental and Psychometric Comparisons.
156. Authors: Caissie, Vigneau.
Title: Eye-Movement Analysis Demonstrates Strategic Influences on Individual Differences in Intelligence.
157. Authors: Hughes, Whittelsea.
Title:  Retrieval-Induced Forgetting: Inhibition or Interference?
158. Authors: Söderlund, Parker, Schwartz, Tulving.
Title: Alcohol and Human Memory: New Findings with a Novel Design.
159. Authors: Peterson, Parsons.
Title: Across the Preverbal to Verbal Memory Gap: Can Former One-Year-Olds Recall Medical Emergencies Five Years Later?
160. Authors: Shahjahan, Wilkinson, Wilson.
Title: Categorical Perception of Fruit Shapes.
161. Author: Hannah, Jankowicz, Lee Brooks.
Title: Modeling the Effects of Feature Familiarity in Categorization.
162. Authors: Lee, Wilson.
Title: The Effects of Viewpoint and Size on Synthetic Face Discrimination.
163. Authors: Brown, Halpert, Goodale.
Title: Perception and Action in the Visual Periphery.
164. Authors: Husk, Sekuler, Bennett.
Title: Specificity of Inversion Effects in Perceptual Learning.


11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. TALK SESSIONS

165. SYMPOSIUM ON ORIENTING AND INHIBITION OF RETURN BY MONKEY AND MAN
Auditorium -- 11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Author: Klein.
Title: Orienting and Inhibition of Return by Monkey and Man.
Authors: Munoz, Fecteau.
Title: Reconciling the Differences in Previous Trial Effects between Humans and Monkeys.
Authors: Christie, Klein.  
Title: IOR is Sensitive to Eye Movement Vector Independent of Stimulation
Authors: Fecteau, Munoz.
Title: Neural Correlates of the Bottom-up and Top-down Biases in Orienting Attention.
Authors: Boehnke, Fecteau, Munoz.
Title: Behavioural and neural correlates of the spatial reference frames underlying inhibition of return for saccades.

VISION AND MOVEMENT
Lecture Theatre E 2956
11:30 a.m.
166. Author: Rainville.
Title:  Motion-Defined Radial Frequency contours: Tools for Investigating Intermediate Processing Stages in the Perception of Form-from-Motion.
11:45 a.m.
167. Author: Troje.  
Title: Retrieving Information from Biological Motion.
12:00 p.m.
168. Authors: Welsh, Elliott.
Title: The Effects of Response Priming on Selective Reaching
12:15 p.m.
169. Authors: Liu, Enns.
Title: Perception and Action Together: Effects of Visual Identification on a Concurrent Visually Guided Pointing Task
12:30 p.m.
170. Authors: Welsh, McIntosh, Tresilian.
Title: Facilitatory and Inhibitory Effects  in Goal-Directed Responses: Evidence for Multiple Sources of Influence in Precue Paradigms.
12:45 p.m.
171. Authors: Dixon, McAnsh.
Title: Action, Memory, and Interference.

LANGUAGE PROCESSES
Lecture Theatre F 2908
11:30 a.m.
172. Author: Singer.
Title: Passive Versus Intentional Text Retrieval Processes.
11:45 a.m.
173. Authors: Ferretti, Kutas, McRae.  
Title: Verb Aspect and the Activation of Location Knowledge from Verbs Read in Isolation and in Sentences.
12:00 p.m.
174. Authors: Sabourin, Werker.  
Title: Vowel Perception at 8 months: Behavioral and ERP measures.
12:15 p.m.
175. Authors: Tsang, Trainor.
Title: Timbre Perception and Global Spectral Cues: The Discrimination of Spectral Slope.
12:30 p.m.
176. Authors: Reynolds, Besner.
Title: Mind control (over reading aloud).
12:45 p.m.
177. Author: Techentin.  
Title: Semantic Processing and Attention Control in Dichotic Listening.


1:00 - 2:30 p.m. LUNCH

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. TALK SESSIONS

ATTENTION
Auditorium
2:30 p.m.
178. Authors: Snyder, Chatterjee.  
Title: Protracted Disengage Deficit (Visual Grasp) with Frontal Eye Field Damage.
2:45 p.m.
179. Authors: Milliken, Leboe, Leboe.
Title: Stimulus Control of Attention Capture.
3:00 p.m.
180. Authors: Leboe, Karle, Palmer, Leboe.
Title:  Surprise! Surprise! A Recent Unexpected Event Eliminates Novel Popout.
3:15 p.m.
181. Author: Jarmasz.
Title: Effects of Control and Automation on Visual Attention.
3:30 p.m.
182. Authors: Besner, Risko.
Title: Perception Delayed is Automaticity Denied.
3:45 p.m.
183. Authors: Masson, Bub.  
Title: Suppression of Cognitive Processes Following Resolution of Stroop Interference.

TIME AND NUMBER PROCESSING IN ANIMALS
Lecture Theatre E 2956
2:30 p.m.
184. Authors: McDonald, King, Gallistel.
Title: Sources of Variability and Systematic Error in Mouse Timing Behavior.
2:45 p.m.
185. Authors: Thorpe, Wilkie.
Title: Time-Place Learning When Duration or Sequence Information Varies
3:00 p.m.
186. Authors: Wilkie, Thorpe.
Title: Rats’ Performance on Interval Time-Place Tasks: Increasing Sequence Complexity
3:15 p.m.
187. Authors: Olthof, Santi, Hornyak.
Title: Summation of Symbols Associated with Time Intervals by Pigeons
3:30 p.m.
188. Author: Roberts.
Title: How do Pigeons Represent A Number Scale?
3:45 p.m.
189. Authors: Santi, Lellwitz, Gagne.
Title: Pigeons’ Memory for Sequences of Light Flashes: Evidence for the Role of Temporal Features Rather than Number

NEW IDEAS IN MODELS AND METHODS
Lecture Theatre F 2908
2:30 p.m.
190. Authors: Jones, Mewhort.
Title:  Semantic and Syntactic Coding in a Hyperspace Model.
2:45 p.m.
192. Authors: Shore, Collins.
Title: Bookshelf Search: Implicit Memory in an Ecologically Valid Search.
3:00 p.m.
193. Author: Mewhort.  
Title: Why Randomization Tests are Superior to the F Test.
3:15 p.m.
194. Authors: Allan, Siegel, Tangen.
Title:  Signal Detection Analysis of Contingency Data.
3:30 p.m.
195. Authors: Smith, Duncan, Baranski.
Title: Testing a Signal Detection Account of Response Calibration in Recognition Memory.

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. BUSINESS MEETING in the Auditorium

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