Hebb Student Awards

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Karim Abouelnaga (University of Guelph)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Pelin Tanberg (University of Waterloo)

BEST POSTER

• Kale Scatterty (MacEwan University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Jackie Chau (McMaster University)

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Alyssa Smith (University of Waterloo)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Megan Kelly (University of Waterloo)

BEST POSTER

• Caitlin Reintjes (McMaster University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Megan Kelly (University of Waterloo)

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Ryan Yeung (University of Waterloo)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Brady Roberts (University of Waterloo)

BEST POSTER

• Samantha Ayers-Glassey (University of Waterloo)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Bryan Hong (University of Toronto)

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Ethan Meyers (University of Waterloo)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Effie Pereira (McGill University)

BEST POSTER

• Brett Cochrane (McMaster University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Grace Gabriel (University of Toronto)

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Melissa Meade (University of Waterloo)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Alex Walker (University of Waterloo)

BEST POSTER

• Brett Cochrane (McMaster University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Leanna Lewis (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Melissa Meade (University of Waterloo)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Ali Hashemi (McMaster University)

BEST POSTER

• Alison Heard (University of Calgary)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Caroline Dupont (Université de Montréal)

Award Committee:

Katherine Arbuthnott, Campion College at University of Regina

Geneviève Desmarais, Mount Allison University

Adam Dubé, McGill University

Darcy Hallett, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Gord Pennycook, Yale University

Tom Phenix, Campion College at University of Regina

Evan Risko, University of Waterloo

Steve Smith, University of Winnipeg

Biljana Stevanovski, University of New Brunswick

Deb Titone, McGill University

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• David Michael Sidhu (University of Calgary)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Fernanda Perez Gay (McGill University and Université du Québec à Montréal)

BEST POSTER

• Brett Cochrane (McMaster University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Talia Losier (Université de Montréal)

Award Committee:

Idu Azogu
Eric Kuebler
Mark Coates
John Lewis
Myriam Beaudry
Cynthia Wan
Jenna Boulanger
Patricia Brosseau-Liard
Isabelle BoutetNancy Bahl
Chantal Lemieux
Phillipe Vincent-Lamarre
Kenneth Campbell
Alexandria Béland
Christopher Fennell
Odilia Yim
Patrick Davidson
Kristel Thomassin
Catherine Plowright

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• David De Vito (University of Guelph)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Jordynne Robat (Western University)

BEST POSTER

• Jeffrey Wammes (Waterloo University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Paul Seli (University of Waterloo)

Award Committee:

Not specified in conference report

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Jenni Karl (University of Lethbridge)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Kylee Ramdeen (University of Ottawa)

BEST POSTER

• Sabrina Lemire-Rodger (York University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Galina Goren (York University)

Evaluators:

Todd Girard
Aimée Surprenant
Frank Russo
Douglas Cheyne
Debra Titone
Erin Austen
Biljana Stevanovski
Geneviève Desmarais
Mike Masson
Bill Hockley
Chris Oriet
Matthew Brown

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Victoria Holec (University of Lethbridge)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• David M. Sidhu (University of Calgary)

BEST POSTER

• Sara N. Gallant (Ryerson University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Jeff Wammes (University of Waterloo)

Evaluators:

Glen Bodner
To Come

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Blair C. Armstrong (Carnegie Mellon University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Tanya Jonker (University of Waterloo)

BEST POSTER

• Brian Mathias (McGill University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Kevin R. Barton (University of Waterloo)

Evaluators:

Glen Bodner
Jody Culham
Myra Fernandes
Ingrid Johnsrude
Penny MacDonald
Janet Menard
Doug Mewhort
Ken McRae
Chris Oriet
Debra Titone
Daryl Wilson

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Eric Legge (University of Alberta)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Tanya Jonker (University of Waterloo)

BEST POSTER

• Paul Seli (University of Waterloo)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Dana Hayward (McGill University)

Decisions Decisions about the 2011 Hebb Graduate Student Awards were based on the assessment of a panel of judges. Students who were interested in having their presentation considered for an award submitted an extended abstract (maximum of 400 words). Based on the abstracts, nominees were evaluated at the conference by the panel on the basis of scientific impact and presentation quality.

This year's prize for best paper or poster is an award of $500.00, an engraved plaque and a 1-year membership in BBCS. The prize for honorable mention is a 1-year membership in BBCS.

The 2011 Hebb Graduate Student Award Committee consisted of the following: Harinder Aujla, Glen Bodner, Hans Dringenberg, Melanie Glenwright, Tammy Ivanco, Jo-Anne Lefevre, Mike Masson & John Vokey.

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Jonathan Fawcett (Dalhousie University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Peter Jansen (McMaster University)

BEST POSTER

• Judy Ann Prasad (McGill University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Jeremy Hogeveen (Wilfrid Laurier University)
• Edward Wilson (McGill University)

Decisions about the 2010 awards were based on the assessment of a panel of judges. Students who were interested in having their presentation considered for an award submitted an extended abstract (maximum of 400 words). Each committee member independently ranked all of the abstracts. Based on these rankings, the three papers and three posters receiving the highest rankings were selected as finalists. Finalists were evaluated at the conference by the panel on the basis of 50% weight for scientific impact and 50% for presentation quality. Just after the Friday morning session the committee met to select the outstanding presentation and an honorable mention in each category.

The prize for best paper or poster is $100, an engraved plaque, and a 1-year membership in the CSBBCS. The prize for honorable mention is a 1-year membership in the CSBBCS.

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Greg Louis West (University of Toronto)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Jason David Ozubko (University of Waterloo)

BEST POSTER

• Gillian Dale (Brock University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Adam K. Dubé (University of Regina)

Decisions about the 2009 awards were based on the assessment of a panel of judges. Students who were interested in having their presentation considered for an award submitted an extended abstract (maximum of 400 words). Each committee member independently ranked all of the abstracts. Based on these rankings, the three papers and three posters receiving the highest rankings were selected as finalists. Finalists were evaluated at the conference by the panel on the basis of 50% weight for scientific impact and 50% for presentation quality. Just after the Friday morning session the committee met to select the outstanding presentation and an honorable mention in each category.

The prize for best paper or poster is $100, an engraved plaque, and a 1-year membership in the CSBBCS. The prize for honorable mention is a 1-year membership in the CSBBCS.

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Nigel Gopie (University of Waterloo)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Audrey Hager (Queen's University)

BEST POSTER

• Edward O’Neil (The University of Western Ontario)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Diala Habib (Queen's University)

Decisions about the 2008 awards were based on the assessment of a panel of judges. Students who were interested in having their presentation considered for an award submitted an extended abstract (maximum of 400 words). Three committee members were assigned to evaluate each abstract. Each committee member independently recommended four or five abstracts from among those they initially reviewed for selection as finalists. Abstracts for all posters and papers recommended by at least one committee member were then circulated to all members. Committee members then independently ranked their top four abstracts in each category (oral and poster). Based on these rankings, the four papers and four posters receiving the highest rankings were to be selected as finalists. There was a tie for fourth place among the paper presentations, so five were selected as finalists. The list of nine finalists (five papers and four posters) was then circulated to the committee members and to the conference organizers so that they could be scheduled relatively early in the program. Just before the Saturday poster session, the committee met to select the outstanding presentation and an honorable mention in each category.

The prize for best paper or poster is $500, an engraved plaque, and a 1-year membership in the CSBBCS. The prize for honorable mention is a 1-year membership in the CSBBCS.

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Andreas Breuer (University of Victoria)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Sari Van Anders (Indiana University Bloomington)

BEST POSTER

• Christopher Warren (University of Victoria)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Simon Spanswick (University of Lethbridge)

Decisions about the 2007 awards were based on the assessment of a panel of judges. Students who were interested in having their presentation considered for an award submitted an extended abstract (maximum of 400 words). Three committee members were assigned to evaluate each abstract. Each committee member independently recommended four or five abstracts from among those they initially reviewed for selection as finalists. Abstracts for all posters and papers recommended by at least one committee member were then circulated to all members. Committee members then independently ranked their top four abstracts in each category (oral and poster). Based on these rankings, the four papers and four posters receiving the highest rankings were to be selected as finalists. There was a tie for fourth place among the paper presentations, so five were selected as finalists. The list of nine finalists (five papers and four posters) was then circulated to the committee members and to the conference organizers so that they could be scheduled relatively early in the program. Just before the Saturday poster session, the committee met to select the outstanding presentation and an honorable mention in each category.

This year's prize for best paper or poster is $100.00, an engraved plaque, a certificate, and a 1-year membership in BBCS. The prize for honorable mention is a 1-year membership in BBCS.

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Laurie Bloomfield ( University of Alberta)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Chris Streimer (University of Waterloo)

BEST POSTER

• Evan Risko (University of Waterloo)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Jacqueline Cummine (University of Saskatchewan)

Decisions about the 2006 awards were based on the assessment of a panel of judges. Students who were interested in having their presentation considered for an award submitted an extended abstract (maximum of 500 words). There were 45 submissions. Three committee members were assigned to evaluate each abstract. Each committee member independently recommended four or five abstracts from among those they initially reviewed for selection as finalists. Abstracts for all posters and papers recommended by at least one committee member were then circulated to all members. Committee members then independently ranked their top four abstracts in each category (oral and poster). Based on these rankings, the four papers and four posters receiving the highest rankings were to be selected as finalists. There was a tie for fourth place among the paper presentations, so five were selected as finalists. The list of nine finalists (five papers and four posters) was then circulated to the committee members and to the conference organizers so that they could be scheduled relatively early in the program. All but one committee member attended the conference and each member attended all or nearly all presentations made by the nine finalists. Just before the Saturday poster session, the committee met to select the outstanding presentation and an honorable mention in each category.

This year's prize for best paper or poster is $100.00, an engraved plaque, a certificate, and a 1-year membership in BBCS. The prize for honorable mention is a 1-year membership in BBCS.

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Douglas Caruana (Concordia University)

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Randall Jamieson (Queen's University)

BEST POSTER

• Louis De Beaumont (University of Montreal)

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Lori-Ann Christie (University of Toronto)

Decisions about the 2005 awards were based on the assessment of a panel of judges. Students who were interested in having their presentation considered for an award submitted an extended abstract (maximum of 500 words). There were 45 submissions. Three committee members were assigned to evaluate each abstract. Each committee member independently recommended four or five abstracts from among those they initially reviewed for selection as finalists. Abstracts for all posters and papers recommended by at least one committee member were then circulated to all members. Committee members then independently ranked their top four abstracts in each category (oral and poster). Based on these rankings, the four papers and four posters receiving the highest rankings were to be selected as finalists. There was a tie for fourth place among the paper presentations, so five were selected as finalists. The list of nine finalists (five papers and four posters) was then circulated to the committee members and to the conference organizers so that they could be scheduled relatively early in the program. All but one committee member attended the conference and each member attended all or nearly all presentations made by the nine finalists. Just before the Saturday poster session, the committee met to select the outstanding presentation and an honorable mention in each category.

This year's prize for best paper or poster is $100, an engraved plaque, a certificate, and a 1-year membership in BBCS. The prize for honorable mention is a 1-year membership in BBCS.

Many thanks to the panel of judges for their careful adjudication of the awards:

• Michael Masson, Chair, University of Victoria
• Alain Desrochers, University of Ottawa
• Lisa Kalynchuk, University of Saskatchewan
• Douglas Mewhort, Queen’s University
• David Mumby, Concordia University
• David Shore, McMaster University
• Christopher Sturdy, University of Alberta
• Valerie Thompson, University of Saskatchewan

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Darryl Schneider (Vanderbilt University)
  A Priming Account of Task Switching Performance in the Explicit Task-Cuing Procedure

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Jennie Young (University of Alberta)
  Homo- and Hetero-Synaptic Inhibition of Late Phase-LTP by Prior Synaptic Activity: Metaplastic Effects on Synaptic Capture in Mouse Hippocampus CA1

BEST POSTER

• Randall Jamieson (Queen's University)
  An Instance Based Model of Structural Learning

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Jennifer Corbett (UBC)
  The Effects of Divided Attention on the Rapid Extraction of Numeric Meaning

Decisions about the 2004 awards were based on the assessment of a panel of judges, the student's lay statement about the importance of the research, the student's 2-3 page synopsis of the research, and a letter from the supervisor about the student's role in the project.

This year's prize for best paper or poster is $100, an engraved plaque, a certificate, and a 1-year membership in BBCS. The prize for honorable mention is a 1-year membership in BBCS.

Many thanks to the panel of judges (Session Chairs) for their careful adjudication of the awards:

• Rita Anderson
• Dale Corbett
• Jamie Drover
• Carolyn Harley
• Carole Peterson
• Mike Rabinowich
• Darlene Skinner (Chair of the Awards Committee)
• Anne Storey
• Carolyn Walsh

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Joanna Gore (Queen's University)
  Preparatory signals in the FEF, SNr and SC correspond to reductions in saccadic reaction time.

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Michael Jones (Queen's University)
  Follow the Floating Representation: Sequence Effects in an Exemplar-Production Category Learning Task

BEST POSTER

• Jessica Phillips-Silver (McMaster University)
  Movement influences the auditory encoding of a rhythm pattern in infants and adults.

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Brett Beston (McMaster University)
  Developmental changes in glutamate receptor expression in human visual cortex.

Decisions about the 2003 award for best paper were based on additional material submitted by the graduate student (a 2-3 page synopsis of the research and a 50-word statement about the importance of the research in lay language), a supporting letter from the supervisor indicating the student's contribution to the project, audience evaluation of the papers, and the assessment of a panel of judges.

Decisions about the 2003 award for best poster were based on the assessment of a panel of judges, the student's lay statement, and a letter from the supervisor about the student's role in the project.

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Erin Falconer (UBC)
  Role of ovarian hormones in predator odour stress-induced changes in neurogenesis and behaviour.

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Christopher T. Fennell (UBC)
  Young word learners' access to fine phonetic detail in word forms

BEST POSTER

• Athena Buckthought (Carleton University)
  Towards a theory and model of human stereoscopic depth perception.

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Brett S. Abrahams (UBC)
  Will human nuclear receptor 2E1 'cure' fierce mice of pathological violence?
• Michael Tombu (University of Waterloo)
  Testing the predictions of the central capacity sharing model

On behalf of BBCS, thanks to the 2002 Hebb Student Awards Committee:

• Richard Brown (Dalhousie)
• Pierre Jolicoeur (Waterloo)
• Jo-Anne LeFevre (Carleton)
• Douglas J. K. Mewhort (Queen's)
• David Mumby (Concordia)
• Murray Singer (Manitoba)

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Jillian Fecteau (UBC)
  Visual awareness and the on-line modification of action.

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Eric Richards (University of Waterloo)
  The time course of the detection of visual changes: Feature and object based processing
• Chris Friesen (University of Alberta)
  Reflexive attention to gaze direction and masked gaze cues
• Michael Jones (Queen's University)
  A new approach to letter identification: Learning and deblurring dynamic templates.

BEST POSTER

• Darryl Houghton (Dalhousie University)
  A comparison of HS mice in the Morris water maze and the Barnes maze

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Biljana Stevanovski (Dalhousie University)
  Blinded by headlights.
• Frederic Gougoux (University of Montreal)
  Interhemispheric transmission of perceptual after-affects.
• Robert Sorge (Wilfrid Laurier University)
  Effects of salt deprivation on salt-morphine associations in the taste avoidance paradigm
• Megan Shram (Queen's University)
  Dissociable effects of opiates and stimulants on cue and place learning.
• F. Cortese (McMaster University)
  Single features vs. whole objects in visual short-term memory: An event-related brain potential study.

On behalf of BBCS, thanks to the 2001 Hebb Student Awards Committee:

• Doug Mewhort (chair) (Queen's)
• Maryse Lassonde (Montreal)
• Jamie Campbell (Saskatoon)
• Katherine Arbuthnott (Regina)
• Rick Gurnsey (Concordia)
• Steve Joordens (Toronto)

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Susan E. Boehnke (Dalhousie University)
  The spatial tuning of human auditory perceptual channels under binaural and monaural conditions.

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Leslie Phillmore (Queen's University)
  Auditory distance perception in black-capped chickadees.

BEST POSTER

• Steven J. Barnes (.)
  Conditioning of interictal behaviors by amygdala kindling.

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Martha Anne Roberts (University of Waterloo)
  When parallel processing in visual word recognition is not enough: New evidence from naming.

On behalf of BBCS Executive, I want to thank Doug Mewhort, who organized and chaired the selection committee, and Ray Klein, Bill Hockley, Bruce Milliken, Simon Grondin, Ron Weisman, Jamie Campbell, and Angelo Santi, who assisted Doug in the difficult job of selecting the winners.

The BBCS executive and the section committee would like to congratulate all the students who presented their work at the Cambridge meeting. We are pleased (and a little overwhelmed) by the sheer number (45) of excellent research projects reported by our students at Cambridge. If this is any indication, we are confident that the next generation of Canadian experimental psychologists is in very good shape.

Pierre Jolicoeur
Past President, BBCS

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Stan B. Floresco (University of British Columbia)
  Hippocampal-Ventral Striatal Interactions and their Modulation by Dopamine: Behavioral, Neurochemical and Electrophysiological Analyses

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Jonathan Fugelsang (University of Saskatchewan)
  What beliefs are made of

BEST POSTER

• Jillian Fecteau (University of British Columbia)
  Visual field effects in search: Specialization or competition?

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Melanie McFadyen (Dalhousie University)
  Effects of methylphenidate hydrochloride (Ritalin) injections during development an locomotion, exploration, fear, and cognitive processes in mice

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

• Chris Sturdy (Queen's University)
  Song note discrimination in zebra finches (taeniopygia guttata).
• Penny MacDonald (University of Toronto at Scarborough)
  One hundred milliseconds of negative priming: Now you see it, now you don't!

HONOURABLE MENTION (ORAL PRESENTATION)

• Glen Bodner (University of Victoria)
  A processing fluency account of masked repetition priming.
• Lianne Stanford (Dalhousie University)
  Strain and sex differences in MHC-congenic mice in learning the Hebb-Williams Maze.

HONOURABLE MENTION (BEST POSTER)

• Vicki LeBlanc (McMaster University)
  Inhibition of return and repetition priming: The role of stimulus-response mapping.
• Bonnie Sonnenschein (Concordia University)
  Duration neglect in brain stimulation reward.

There were an extraordinary number of outstanding student presentations and the committee trying to adjudicate the awards argued that there had to be two awards this year.

The selection committee this year consisted of two teams of two judges:

• Richard Brown and Richard Tees
• Colin MacLeod and Don Read