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- 2Hammer, Petra
- 1Archer, Cameron Geoffrey.
- 1Armenian, Atken.
- 1Armstrong, Graeme A B
- 1Arzt, Jessica
- 1Carter, Barbara
- 32Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
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- 7Department of Psychology
- 5Department of Secondary Education
- 4Department of Educational Psychology
- 4Department of Elementary Education
- 4Department of Linguistics
- 3Centre for Neuroscience
- 1Blair, Heather (Department of Elementary Education)
- 1Dick, Bruce (Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine)
- 1Dr. Louise Ladouceur (Études théâtrales, Campus Saint-Jean) - co-supervisor
- 1Dr. Sathya Rao (Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies) - supervisor
- 1Gorassini, Monica (Biomedical Engineering)
- 1Järvikivi, Juhani (Linguistics)
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EEG in the wild: Using real-world tasks to measure changes in EEG rhythms related to human Attention.
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Understanding attentional processes in everyday environments is an important step to further understanding the EEG rhythms that, for decades, have been studied in isolated indoor chambers. The present dissertation aimed to investigate the dynamics of EEG oscillations using mobile settings. The...
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2022-10-29
SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Existing cultural psychology literature suggests variations in psychological processes between East Asians and North Americans under the rubric of independent vs. interdependent social orientation. However, scholars have called for the necessity of globalizing research...
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Connecting Visual Perception, Attention, and Probabilistic Models of Task Performance with EEG Measured Brain Activity
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The neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and attention continue to elude researchers despite decades of research. Developing novel methodology and improved analytical techniques may provide key insights into these processes that traditional approaches have been unable to reveal. In this...
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Fall 2021
Due to the growing penetration of renewable energy sources, accurate energy forecasts are required to support their effective integration. In this field, deep learning methods are currently demonstrating successful results, but there is still a room for improvement that may eventually lead to...
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Language and literacy skills of English Language Learners in middle school (grades 7-9): How do they compare to their monolingual peers?
Download2019-11-01
Paradis, Johanne, Marinova-Todd, Stefka, Soto-Corominas, Adriana, Zhang, Xuan, Rusk, Brian, Day, Kayla
Language and literacy skills in English are essential for academic success for English Language Learners (ELLs) but very little research exists on second language oral and literacy skills of ELLs in middle school. For this research report, the oral language and literacy skills of 227 students -...
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Fall 2017
Demands on directed attention can result in attentional fatigue, inhibiting our ability to voluntarily direct attention to important features of our surroundings. Inherently fascinating environments, such as nature, have been shown to promote recovery of attention. Environments that do not...
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A STUDY ON THE AUDIENCE RECEPTION OF THEATRE SURTITLES: Surtitling in a Francophone Minority Context in Canada and the Language Learning Potentials of Theatre Surtitles
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This mixed-methods study focuses on the audience reception of theatre surtitles in a Francophone minority theatre context in Western Canada at L’UniThéâtre in Edmonton, Alberta. The main objective of this multifaceted research was to measure the perceptions of and reactions to English surtitles...
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Brain and behavioural reflections of distracted driving associated with emotion processing and social factors
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Driving is a complex task that requires a high level of attention for the safe operation of a motor vehicle. However, the human attention system is limited in capacity, and distraction arises when there is a competition for attention from non-driving related activities. When insufficient...
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Fall 2016
Chronic pain (CP) is a debilitating disorder that has a multitude of potential etiologies as well as numerous effects on the central and peripheral nervous systems. Even though CP is highly prevalent, these etiologies and effects are often misunderstood, which has led to a lack of adequate...
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Graded effects of first and second language orthography on pronunciation during second language acquisition
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This study aims to assess how frequency-based and probabilistic measure describing the orthography-phonology relationship influence the accuracy of second language (L2) pronunciation in a phonological decoding task for native English learners of German, and a control group with no formal...