People

I'm the person who is officially responsible for the lab.  By training, I'm an industrial engineer who later studied cognitive psychology in graduate school.  The topics in psychology that I gravitate toward are cognitive ones, particularly memory and attention -  I see those as involving processes that fundamentally shape how we interpret and respond to the world.  However, my lab students usually drag me into other topics. :-/

Since 1994, I've been teaching at post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and Alberta.  I have previously taught cognitive psychology and the history of psychology, but my current teaching load focusses on introductory psychology, research methods, and statistical analysis.

Examples of projects I've initiated:

• Mechanisms of retrieval inhibition in memory

• Impact of exposure to nature stimuli on attention capacity

• Effect of contextual reinstatement on estimation of time

Date Joined: January 2025, in the second term of her first year.

Area(s) Of Interest: Counselling Psychology, Child Psychology.

Projects as Lead Investigator:

• Behaviour and Emotion Related to the Future

Projects As RA: 

• Cognitive and Emotional Processes Related to Images and Representations of the Body

• EEG Lab Development

• Memory for Repeated Presentations

Date Joined: January 2025, in the second term of her first year.

Area(s) Of Interest: Child/Adolescent Psychology.

Projects as Lead Investigator:

• Childhood Experiences and Social Connection

Projects As RA: 

• Cognitive and Emotional Processes Related to Images and Representations of the Body

• Dissatisfaction with Body Dissatisfaction

• Memory for Repeated Presentations

Date Joined: January 2026, in the second term of her first year.

Area(s) Of Interest: Clinical psychology; Health psychology; Cognitive psychology.

Projects As RA: 

• PsychoPy programming for EEG-related lab demonstrations

• Memory for Repeatedly-Presented Stimuli

Date Joined: September 2026, in the first term of her third year.

Area(s) Of Interest: Psychopathology, Developmental Psychology, Addictions.

Projects As RA: 

• Memory for Repeatedly-Presented Stimuli