Welcome to my lab

I'm a cognitive psychologist (I also sometimes do a little bit of child-development research and recently I have dipped my toes into brain science). Most of my research explores human memory. I am especially interested in determinants of the subjective experience of remembering, source monitoring (the inferential processes by which people identify the origins of mental events such as memories), and the application of theories concerning these processes to everyday memory phenomena (e.g., eyewitness evidence). I collaborate with several terrific psychologists, and I have had the great pleasure of working with manywonderful students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

The picture in the banner above is a bit bogus -- that's my colleague Jim Tanaka wearing the electroencephalography cap and me sitting there as though I am conducting an ERP experiment. Jim is expert with ERP, but I am not (although Jim and I have collaborated, and students in my lab are involved in ERP research with Jim). But I like the picture because it shows that we do ERP and that we play well together, and Jim looks pretty funny in that cap.

To the left is a link to the NOWCAM website. NOrthWest Cognition And Memory is an annual, student-oriented conference for those interested in memory and cognition broadly defined. We rotate between UVic, Western Washington University, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and Washington University. Next May's conference is scheduled to be held at SFU hosted by Prof. Deb Connolly.

I am the Coordinator of the Cognition and Brain Sciences Program at UVic. If you are interested in applying to undertake graduate studies at UVic, please check out our web page. UVic just launched a new degree program in Neuroscience (i.e., you can earn a doctorate in neuroscience); see the Neuroscience website.