NOWCAM 2025
May 9-10, 2025. It’s conference season! The Different Minds Lab attended the 27th annual Northwest Cognition & Memory Conference, in Victoria BC. TALKS Bennett King-Nyberg — Seeing Similarity: Predicting Lineup Performance …
ECVP 2024
Aug 25-29, 2024. This week, Johannes had the opportunity to present work from his honours thesis, titled “The speed of learning: Effect on category structure and post-acquisition performance,” at the …
VSS 2024
May 17-22, 2024. The Different Minds Lab attended the annual Vision Sciences Society meeting in St. Pete Beach, Florida. During the conference, they debuted the DML’s recent PsiZ work and …
NOWCAM 2024
May 3-4, 2024. The Different Minds Lab attended the 26th annual Northwest Cognition & Memory Conference, right here on home turf—the University of Victoria! TALK Anna Lawrance — Unveiling categories: …
DML Attends OPAM 2023!
Nov 16, 2023. Eric and Anna attended the 31st annual OPAM held in San Francisco, California this week! At the conference, they both had the opportunity to share some of …
Katelyn Forner awarded the CPA Certificate of Academic Excellence
Jul 17, 2023. The DML is proud to announce that Katelyn’s honours thesis, which explored the integration of whole-person perception, has received well-deserved recognition for its excellence from the Canadian …
VSS 2023
May 18-24, 2023. The Different Minds Lab was present once again at the annual Vision Science Society meeting in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida! Katelyn, Jim, and Amy each presented posters …
NOWCAM 2023
April 21-22, 2023. The Different Minds Lab presented five separate projects at NOrthWest Cognition & Memory 2023, hosted at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond Campus. The lab members received great feedback from their …
Anna Lawrance awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award
Apr 17, 2023. NSERC has granted Anna an Undergraduate Student Research Award, providing her with the funding to hold a research position at the DML this summer. During this time, …
Amy vanWell and Alison Campbell Receive Psychology Graduate Awards
June 30, 2022 Amy has received a Psychology Graduate Award for her 2022 VSS Conference Presentation, and Alison has received an award for her 2022-2023 teaching positions.
DML Attends VSS 2022!
May 13-19, 2022. The Different Minds Lab was finally able to make its way back to Vision Science Society in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida! Alison, Jim, and Amy each presented …
DML Attends NOWCAM 2022 In Person!
April 28-30, 2022. The Different Minds Lab presented five separate projects at NOrthWest Cognition & Memory 2022, hosted at Simon Fraser University, Surrey Campus. As the first in-person conference we’ve …
Alison Campbell wins three graduate awards for research and scholarship
Dec 1, 2021 Alison has won the Norma Wilson Graduate Scholarship, M.A. & D.E. Breckenridge Graduate Awards, and Donald Wagg Graduate Scholarship.
Amy vanWell presents Gazer method at OPAM 2021
Nov 4, 2021. At virtual OPAM 2021, Amy will present a poster titled “Investigating the time course of exogenous attention using a web-based eye-tracking tool”. The poster describes the details …
Campbell & Tanaka (2021)
Campbell, A., & Tanaka, J. W. (2021). When a stranger becomes a friend: Measuring the neural correlates of real-world face familiarisation. Visual Cognition, 29(10), 689-707.
Alison Campbell wins President’s Fellowship for Research-Enriched Teaching
June 1, 2021. Alison has won the President’s Research-Enriched Teaching Fellowship for her proposed reinvention of the upper-level undergraduate class on cognitive psychology. This award helps PhD students and postdoctoral fellows …
V-VSS 2021 Virtual Posters
May 21-23, 2021 Congratulations to our lab members presenting at the 2021 Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Tahirih Altair, James Tanaka, Amy Dawel, & Amy vanWell, Emotion recognition of perceived genuine …
Amy vanWell wins NSERC CGS-M scholarship and President’s Research award
Apr 1, 2021. Amy has been awarded the CGS-M Alexander Graham Bell scholarship, and UVIC’s President Research award, for her proposed graduate-level research. Amy will begin her Master’s in Psychology …
Alison Campbell presents talk at OPAM 2020
November 19, 2020 At Virtual OPAM 2020, Alison will present a series of experiments we conducted to test whether visual masks can be manipulated to disrupt face identity processing at …
Psychopy Workshop
Aug 3 – Aug 14 Amy van Well will be hosting a workshop that will aim to provide participants with the ability to develop vision science experiments using Psychopy. The …
V-VSS 2020 Virtual Posters
June 12, 2020 See Campbell & Tanaka’s Face identification with SOAs of 33ms and 100ms with 4ms of stimulus exposure video poster presented at virtual-VSS 2020.
Virtual Nerd Night
May 20, 2020 Jim will give a fun talk for Virtual Nerd Nite Victoria on “The neuroscience of the selfie: The search for identity and consciousness.” No entrance fee is …
Different Minds Lab Virtual Conference
April 29, 2020 The Different Minds Lab will host an online virtual conference Wednesday, April 29th, 2 PM to 3:30 PM (PDT). The conference will be an opportunity for us …
Amy vanWell awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award
April 13, 2020 Amy van Well has been granted an NSERC undergraduate research award for a summer research position. The focus of her project will be on the development of …
Campbell, Louw, Michniak, & Tanaka (2020)
Campbell, A., Louw, R., Michniak, E., & Tanaka, J. (2020) Identity-specific neural responses to three categories of face familiarity (own, friend, stranger) using fast periodic visual stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 141
Alison’s Guest Lecture at University of Victoria’s Uni 101 Community Course
February 20, 2020 Alison Campbell will give a talk to students in the Uni-101 program on “Human perception and recognition.” Uni 101 provides introductory academic courses to people whose economic …
Jim speaks at Otterbein University’s George W. ’21 and Mildred K. White Science Lecture Series
February 13, 2020 As part of Otterbein University’s George W. ’21 and Mildred K. White Science Lecture Series, Jim Tanaka presented two talks on the psychology and neuroscience of own-face …
DML students named UVIC’s Rising Stars
February 3, 2020 Jacqueline Carhoun, Xiaoyi Liu and Amy van Well were recognized at the UVic Rising Star Awards Ceremony for exceptional academic and research work.
Jim Tanaka elected to Royal Society of Canada (RSC)
September 10, 2020 Jim Tanaka was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). The RSC is a 137-year old council that recognizes distinguished scholars and leaders …
Tanaka, Heptonstall, & Campbell (2019)
Tanaka, Heptonstall, & Campbell (2019) Part and whole face representations in immediate and long-term memory. Vision Research
Amy Van Well joins as NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant
May 1, 2019 Amy Van Well joins DML as an NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant.
38th Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (BASICS)
May 1, 2020 Jim Tanaka delivered the keynote address at the 38th Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (BASICS) , May 3rd and 4th, Banff, Alberta.
Dwyer, Xu, & Tanaka (2019)
Dwyer, Xu, & Tanaka (2019) Investigating the perception of face identity in adults on the autism spectrum using behavioural and electrophysiological measures. Vision Research.
Hagen & Tanaka (2019)
Hagen & Tanaka (2019) Examining the neural correlates of within-category discrimination in face and non-face expert recognition. Neuropsychologia.
Xu, Roads, Robinson, & Tanaka (2018)
Xu, Roads, Robinson, & Tanaka (2018) The easy-to-hard training advantage with real-world medical images. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.
Chin, Evans, Wolfe, Bowen, & Tanaka (2018)
Chin, Evans, Wolfe, Bowen, & Tanaka (2018) Inversion effects in the expert classification of mammograms and faces. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.
Campbell & Tanaka (2018)
Campbell & Tanaka (2018) Inversion impairs expert budgerigar identity recognition: A face-like effect for a nonface object of expertise. Perception.
Simen Hagen to depart for post-doctoral research position
September 1, 2017 Congratulations to Simen Hagen. Simen will begin a post-doctoral position in the new year with Bruno Rossion at the Central University Hospital (CHRU) in Nancy, France.