Spring 2021
Spring 2021

Spring 2021

In April this year, Psychology Undergraduate Honours Students Anna Romero, Chloe King, Azra Panjwani, and Rutuja Kadam, along with Graduate Student Selen Küçüktaş presented at the Royce-Harder Conference. Chloe, Anna, and Rutuja presented posters and Azra was nominated to present a talk at the Brian Harder Honours Symposium. Selen also presented a talk about her recent work looking at visual perspective and cognitive reappraisal when retrieving negatively emotional autobiographical memories. 

Anna presenting her honours thesis on the influence shifting visual perspective has on creativity and episodic details.
Chloe presenting her honours thesis on how shifting visual perspective influences both episodic and semantic content of autobiographical memories.
Rutuja presenting her honours thesis on how familiar and unfamiliar events influence visual perspective.
Azra presenting her honours thesis on how visual perspective can be influenced by photographs of events.
Selen presenting her research examining at visual perspective and cognitive reappraisal when retrieving negatively emotional autobiographical memories

We recently published a new paper in Scientific Reports examining the formation of third-person memories using virtual reality, and a new paper in The Journal of Cognitive Psychology examining how viewing photographs from either first-person or third-person perspective influences perspective in subsequent remembering.

Figure from recent paper in Scientific Reports demonstrating the virtual environments from study two.

Congratulations to all of our graduating students from the ME Lab including, psychology honours students Chloe, Azra, and Rutuja, as well as volunteer Bryton Wong! Chloe will be returning to the lab as our new lab manager starting in September, Azra will be starting a MSc in Public Health at the University of Alberta, and Bryton has been accepted to medical school also at the University of Alberta.