Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science

Société Canadienne des Sciences du Cerveau, du Comportement et de la Cognition

REASONING, INSTRUCTION, AND ENCODING (1-4; Steve Joordens)

Room 107, Drake Centre

Friday, June 20, 9:00-10:20 AM

1. Strategy Selection in Causal Reasoning: When Beliefs and Covariation Collide, 9:00-9:15 - Jonathan A. Fugelsang & Valerie A. Thompson, University of Saskatchewan

2. Children's Number Production Abilities During the School Years, 9:20-9:35 - Sheri-Lynn Skwarchuk & Jeremy M. Anglin, University of Waterloo

3. Teaching High School Students How to Read, 9:40-9:55 - Catherine G. Penney & Barbara A. Hopkins, Memorial University

4. Facilitation from Imagine or Generate Study Processing may Reflect Greater Attention to Meaning, 10:00-10:15 - C. A. G. Hayman & R. Dew, Lakehead University

SYMPOSIUM--BASIC PROCESSES IN READING (5-9; Chris Herdman)

Room 122, Drake Centre

Friday, June 20, 9:30-11:30 AM

5. Naming cAsE-aLtErNaTeD Words: Evidence Supporting a Multilevel Model of Word Processing Chris M. Herdman, Carleton University, & Dennis Norris, Cambridge

6. Lexical Decisions: A Random-Walk on the Wild Side? - Steve Joordens & C. Darren Piercey, University of Toronto at Scarborough

7. Visual Word Recognition in French/English Bilinguals: Interference from Competing Language Systems - John Logan & Adrien Pitrat, Carleton University

8. The Locus of Word Length Effects: Here, There, or Everywhere? - Frederick M. Lichacz & Chris M. Herdman, Carleton University

9. Computerized vs. Manual Methods of Measuring Reading Performance: Implications for Studying Basic Reading Processes Outside the Laboratory - Ron Borowsky, University of Saskatchewan, Patricia McDougall & Shelley Hymel, University of British Columbia, & G. E. MacKinnon, University of Waterloo

PERCEPTION AND ATTENTION (10-15; Raymond M. Klein)

Room 105, Drake Centre

Friday, June 20, 9:30-11:50 AM

10. The Detection of Change in the ON and OFF Visual Pathways, 9:30-9:45 - David I. Shore, Dalhousie University

11. Linear Separability Effects in Visual Search: The General Case, 9:50-10:05 - Ben Bauer, Pierre Jolicoeur, & Wm. Cowan, University of Waterloo

12. Does Attention Follow the Motion in the "Shooting Line" Illusion?, 10:10-10:25 - Raymond M. Klein & Jeff P. Hamm, Dalhousie University

13. The Episodic Retrieval Theory of Negative Priming: Is the Response-Incongruency Assumption Critical?, 10:30-10:45 - Thomas M. Spalek & Steve Joordens, University of Toronto at Scarborough

14. Divided Attention Costs of Category and Letter Fluency in Normal Aging, 10:50-11:05 - Maria V. Kozak & Margaret Crossley, University of Saskatchewan

15. Evidence for the Greater Role of Perceptual Speed vs. Attentional Capacity in Cognitive Aging, 11:10-11:25 - Terry J. Levitt & Jonathan A. Fugelsang, University of Saskatchewan

15b. On the (Ethereal, Ephemeral) Nature of Negative Priming, 11:30-11:45 - John J. Christie, Dalhousie University

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (16-19; Bruce Bolster)

Room 107, Drake Centre

Friday, June 20, 10:30-11:50 AM

16. Spatial Ability and Lateralization Using a Haptic Task, 10:30-10:45 - Carole H. Ernest, Trent University

17. Transient and Steady-State Mapping of Somatosensory and Auditory Cortical Representations in Humans, 10:50-11:05 - L. E. Roberts, D. Bosnyak, & W. Gaetz, McMaster University, D. Cheyne, Simon Fraser University, C. Pantev, University of Muenster (Germany), C. Nahmias, & N. Christoforou, McMaster University, & H. Weinberg, Simon Fraser University

18. fMRI of Potential Stroke Recovery Mechanisms, 11:10-11:25 - Uta Frankenstein & Michael McIntyre, Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada

19. Imaging Hemispheric Interaction - Complementarity or Dominance, 11:30-11:45 - Michael McIntyre & Uta Frankenstein, Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada

SYMPOSIUM--CONSTRUCTIVE COGNITION: INFERENTIAL BASES OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE - (20-24; Bruce Whittlesea)

Room 122, Drake Centre

Friday, June 20, 1:30-3:30 PM

20. Remembering What I Thought I Was Unable to Remember: My Amnesia's Doing Much Better Now, Thank You - J. Don Read, University of Lethbridge

21. Analyzing and Understanding Post-Recognition Responses - Wayne Donaldson, UNB

22. Sir Frederic Bartlett Meets Abstractionism: Reconstruction Versus Tokenization as Accounts of Episodic Recollection - Michael E. J. Masson, Carrie L. Hicks, & Judy I. Caldwell, University of Victoria

23. The Effect of Test-Time Heuristics on Classification Decisions in an Implicit Learning Paradigm - Philip A. Higham, UNBC

24. I'm Surprised to Remember You: Constructing the Feeling of Familiarity - Lisa D. Williams & Bruce W. A. Whittlesea, Simon Fraser University

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR AND BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE (25-29; J. Roger

Wilson)

Room 105, Drake Centre

Friday, June 20, 1:30-3:10 PM

25. Structural Stability Within the Lateral Cerebellar Nucleus Following Complex Motor Learning in the Rat, 1:30-1:45 - J.A. Kleim, M. A. Pipitone, J. Kelly, J. Drew, C. M. Czerlanis, & W.T. Greenough, University of Illinois

26. The Role of Conditional Responding in Tolerance to the Ataxic Effect of Ethanol, 1:50-2:05 - Susan J. Larson & Shepard Siegel, McMaster University

27. Male Parental Behaviour Facilitates Pup Survival and Increases Female Reproductive Success in the Monogamous California Mouse, Peromyscus californicus, 2:10-2:25 - Richard E. Brown, Debora Cantoni, & Anna W. Lee, Dalhousie University

28. Contribution of Nonthermal Contextual Cues to Cold Acclimation in Rats, 2:30-2:45 - J. R. Wilson, T. R. Harrigan, N. J. Popeski, L. Harrison, P. Esperanzante, & R. W. Tait, University of Manitoba

29. A Novel Nematode Chemotaxis Assay Allows Rapid Screening for EMS- and Transposon-Induced Genetic Mutations that Disrupt Chemotaxis to Soluble Compounds, 2:50-3:05 - Stephen R. Wicks & Ronald H. A. Plasterk, Netherlands Cancer Institute

SYMPOSIUM--ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING (30-34; Douglas A. Williams)

Room 107, Drake Centre

Friday, June 20, 1:30-3:30 PM

30. Associative Processes Underlying Implicit Serial Learning - Gilbert Remillard, University of Manitoba, & James M. Clark, University of Winnipeg

31. Pitfalls in Odour and Taste Preference Conditioning - C. A. Forestell & V. M. LoLordo, Dalhousie University

32. Role of the Context in the Development of Excitatory and Inhibitory Associative Chains - J. E. Giftakis, M. E. Saladin, & R. W. Tait, University of Manitoba

33. Is the Immediate Shock Freezing Deficit (ISD) an Associative or Performance Deficit? - Jake Klassen & Douglas A. Williams, University of Winnipeg

34. Some Targets are More Inhibitable than Others - Ruth-Ann M. Soodeen and Douglas A. Williams, University of Winnipeg.

POSTER SESSION (35-63)

Great Hall, University College

Friday, June 20, 5:15-7:15 PM

35. An Examination of the Relationship Between Cortico-Cortical Evoked Potentials and Spatial Training in the Water Maze - J. Beiko & D.P. Cain, University of Western Ontario

36. Is NMDA Receptor-Dependent LTP Required for Learning the General Strategies of the Water Maze Task? - T. Hoh, S. Weiss, J. Beiko, & D. P. Cain, The University of Western Ontario

37. Hippocampal Lesions Do Not Cause Retrograde Amnesia for Object Discriminations - Hugo Lehmann & Dave G. Mumby, Concordia University

38. Differential Recovery of Physiological Responses in the Hippocampus Following Brief Subconvulsant After Discharge - Eric L. Hargreaves, Matthew L. Shapiro, McGill University

39. Effects of Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus (PPTg) Lesions on Sucrose Consumption, Choice and Contrast Tests - M. C. Olmstead, W. L. Inglis, C. P. Bourdeaux, E. J. Clarke, N. P. Wallum, B. J. Everitt, & T. W. Robbins, University of Cambridge magnitude.

40. Nootropic (Piracetam) Administration Alters Housing Mediated Behavioural Plasticity - Marcella E. Campbell, S. Rees, K. Grattan, & Matti J. Saari, Nipissing University

41. Sweet Taste Preference in Genetically Obese Mice - Lygia Ramcharan, Yvan Russell, Anthony Dueck, & Linda M. Wilson, University of Manitoba

42. Conditional Palatability Shift of Sucrose Paired With Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in Rats - Anthony Dueck & Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp, University of Western Ontario

43. Heat and Cold Shock Differentialy Affect Long-term Memory Consolidation in Caenorhabditis elegans - Tracy L. Tanchuk & Catharine H. Rankin, University of British Columbia

44. Diazepam Differentially Affects Expression of Place Preferences Induced by Morphine and Amphetamine - Keith B.J. Franklin & F. Leri, McGill University

45. Cue-Induced Reinstatement of a Morphine Conditioned Place Preference - Kevin D. Johnston & Riley E. Hinson, University of Western Ontario

46. Use of a Motivationally-Significant Task to Examine the Time-Dependent Effects of Benzodiazepines on Episodic Memory - S. Buffett-Jerrott, S. H. Stewart, & M. Teehan, Dalhousie University

47. Left Temporal Lobe Mediation of Selective Retrieval of Overlapping and Discrete Categories - Jennifer L. Nishikawa & Bruce Bolster, University of Winnipeg

48. Incidental Learning of a Sequence of Words and Non-Words in Young and Older Adults - S. Gagnon, Universit‚ du Qu‚bec Trois-Rivieres, M. Poirier & J. Turcotte, Universit‚ Laval

49. Conditioned Inhibition in Sensory Preconditioning - Jonathon E. Giftakis & Robert W. Tait, University of Manitoba

50. Molar Versus Molecular Control in Variable Ratio and Variable Interval Schedules - Mark R. Cole & Lisa McDace, University of Western Ontario

51. Search Behavior and Object Representation in Dogs (Canis familiaris) - Claude Dumas, Universit‚ du Qu‚bec

52. Memory for Space/Color Coumpound Stimuli in the Pigeon - David R. Brodbeck, Algoma University, & Michael J. Boisvert, Stephanie Grant, & Steven Vaughn, University of Western Ontario

53. What do Mallard Ducklings Find More Attractive: The Hen or the Brood? - Marta Darczewska & L. James Shapiro, University of Manitoba

54. Attention Shifting in Depth - Stephen J. Arnott & Judith M. Shedden, McMaster University

55. Capacity-Limited Operations Mediate Sensory-Driven Location Cueing Effects - Richard D. Wright, Simon Fraser University, & Christian M. Richard, University of British Columbia

56. Attentional Effects of Gaze Direction - Chris K. Friesen & Alan Kingstone, University of Alberta

57. Motion Detection and Directional Tuning - William Simpson, University of Winnipeg & Aaron Newman, University of Oregon

58. Musical Ability as a Mediator of Text and Song Recall - A. R. Kilgour & L. S. Jakobson, Queen's University

59. Interactions between Naming and Calculation in the Multiplication Performance of Chinese-Speaking Adults - Qingwen Lei & Jo-Anne LeFevre, Carleton University

60. Adults' Subtraction: A Comparison of Self-Report and No-Self-Report Conditions - Karen E. Daley & Jo-Anne LeFevre, Carleton University

61. Homophones, Homographs, and Irregular Words: All Phonological Effects are not Created Equal - P. M. Pexman, S. J. Lupker, & D. Jared, University of Western Ontario, & A. Rouibah, University of Grenoble

62. WITHDRAWN

63. Exposure to Print and Processing Printed Words - Dan Chateau & Debra Jared, University of Western Ontario

SYMPOSIUM--PERSPECTIVES ON WORD RECOGNITION (64-68; Peter Dixon)

Room 122, Drake Centre

Saturday, June 21, 9:30-11:30 AM

64. Transfer Effects Across Linguistic and Contextual Boundaries: Evidence From Developing Readers - Derrick C. Bourassa & Betty Ann Levy, McMaster University

65. Reading Words: A Polemic on Attention, Automaticity, Consciousness, and Connectionist Models - Derek Besner & Jennifer Stolz, University of Waterloo

66. Trouble in the Neighbourhood: Deep Dyslexia Naming Errors - Lori Buchanan, University of Alberta, & Curt Burgess & Kevin Lund, University of California Riverside

67. Why Text Context Reduces Repetition Priming of Individual Words - Michael E. J. Masson, University of Victoria, & Colin M. MacLeod, University of Toronto at Scarborough

68. Context and Homograph Meaning Resolution - Peter Dixon & Leslie C. Twilley, University of Alberta

ANIMAL COGNITION AND LEARNING (69-74; Jeffrey A. Kleim)

Room 105, Drake Centre

Saturday, June 21, 9:30-11:30 AM

69. Tests of the Dual-Mode Model using the Peak Procedure with Pigeons, 9:30-9:45 - William A. Roberts & Michael Boisvert, University of Western Ontario

70. Sex Differences in Group Foraging Behaviour in Rattus Norvegicus: Energy Maximizing vs. Time Minimizing, 9:50-10:05 - Maria T. Phelps & Donald M. Wilkie, University of British Columbia

71. Rats in a Daily Time-Place Learning Task: Evidence of an Ordinal-Timing Based Strategy, 10:10- 10:25 - Jason A. R. Carr & Donald M. Wilkie, University of British Columbia

72. Laboratory Evidence for Conditional Time-Place Learning, 10:30-10:45 - Donald M. Wilkie, Jason A. R. Carr, Jennifer Galloway, Kerry Jo Parker, & Aiko Yamamoto, University of British Columbia

73. The Role of Response Intentions in Delayed Simple Discriminations in Pigeons, 10:50-11:05 - Douglas S. Grant, Ronald Kelly, & Karen M. Steinbring, University of Alberta

74. Can Pigeons Associate Symbols with Numbers of Food items?, 11:10-11:25 - A. Olthof, & W. A. Roberts, University of Western Ontario

MEMORY PROCESSES AND LEARNING PROCESSES (75-80; Ron Borowsky)

Room 107, Drake Centre

Saturday, June 21, 9:30-11:10 AM

75. Short Term Implicit Memory: Auditory and Cross-Modality Priming, 9:30-9:45 - Elinor McKone & Christopher Dennis, Australian National University

76. Withdrawn

77. Problematic Process Dissociation Estimates in the Word-Stem Completion Task Following Conceptual Encoding, 9:50-10:05 - Glen E. Bodner, Judy I. Caldwell, & Michael E. J. Masson, University of Victoria

78. Influences on Positive Transfer, 10:10-10:25

David J. Henfrey, University of Regina

79. Abstract Analogies and Abstracted Grammars, 10:30-10:45 - John R. Vokey & Scott Glover, University of Lethbridge

80. Effects of Regular Physical Exercise on the Cognitive Processing of Older Adults, 10:50-11:05 - Sandra N. Thompson, Karissa B. Adams, & John S. McIntyre, University of Manitoba

81. KEYNOTE ADDRESS--WORKING MEMORY, WORKING BRAIN: MAPPING A THEORY OF COGNITION ONTO fMRI MEASURES OF BRAIN ACTIVATION,

by Marcel A. Just, Carnegie Mellon University

Drake Theatre, Room 343

Saturday, June 21, 1:15-2:45 PM

POSTER SESSION (82-110)

Great Hall, University College

Saturday, June 21, 3:15-5:15 PM

82. Behavioural Effects Of Early Maternal Deprivation in Mature Rats - Julie Chadbourn, S. Rees, C. Paradis, & Matti J. Saari, Nipissing University

83. An Examination of the Relationship Between Sex Differences in Spatial Performance and Plasma Corticosterone Levels in the Rat - J. Beiko, R. Lander, E. Hampson, & D. P. Cain, University of Western Ontario

84. Development of Spatial Strategy Use in Male and Female Rats Following Testosterone Manipulations - Amanda J. Wintink, Katherine J. Schultz, & Michael J. Roberts, University of Winnipeg

85. Environmental Enrichment Effects Rats' use of Hippocampally Mediated Spatial Strategies - Michael J. Roberts, Katherine J. Schultz, & Amanda J. Wintink, University of Winnipeg

86. Withdrawn

87. Evidence for Nonlinear Development of the Brain from Cytochrome Oxidase Staining - Marcella E. Campbell, K. Grattan, C. Westhead, & Matti J. Saari, Nipissing University

88. Enrichment Decreases Cell Density in the Molecular Layer of the Cerebellar Cortex as Measured by Nissl Stain Densitometry. - Marcella E. Campbell, J. Quinn, J. A. Kleim, & Matti J. Saari, Nipissing University

89. A Further Investigation of the Time-Dependent Effects of Benzodiazepines on Implicit and Explicit Memory - S. Buffett-Jerrott, S. H. Stewart, & M. Teehan, Dalhousie University.

90. Effects of Temporal Lobectomy on Processing of Visual Features - R. Bruce Bolster & Tania Conte, University of Winnipeg 91. Involvement of the Parietal Lobe in Processing Time and Space Components of Schematic Information - P. Cloutier, & L. Godbout, Universit‚ du Qu‚bec

92. Something Sinistral Going On? Asymmetry in Arm Movement Frequency - Warren O. Eaton, Daniel B. Rothman, Nancy A. McKeen, & Darren W. Campbell, University of Manitoba

93. Is Infant Motor Activity Level Related to Geomagnetic Fluctuations? - Gen Mitsutake, Warren O. Eaton, & Nancy A. McKeen, University of Manitoba

94. The Relationship between Parent's Ideas on Fostering Development, SES, and Child Outcomes - Diane C. Schmidt & Helen H. Williams, University of Maryland Baltimore County

95. A Cross-Sectional Cutoff Design Study of the Development of Executive Functions in Young Children - S. McCrea & J. Mueller, University of Calgary, & E. Pajurkova, Foothills Hospital

96. Potential Differences in Mood as a Function of Season and Sex - Sheryl Green & Deborah Saucier, University of Regina

97. Emotion Perception of Upright and Inverted Dynamic Facial Displays - B. D'Entremont, S. M. J. Hains, & D. W. Muir, University of Manitoba

98. Interactions between Goal-Driven and Sensory-Driven Location Cueing Effects - Christian M. Richard, University of British Columbia, Richard D. Wright, Simon Fraser University, & Lawrence M. Ward, University of British Columbia

99. Does Inhibition of Return Help Visual Search? - Janice J. Snyder, University of Alberta, Shai Danziger, University of California at Davis, & Alan Kingstone, University of Alberta

100. Repetitions Across Trials Eliminates the Repetition Deficit in Rapid Serial Visual Presentations - Irene T. Armstrong, & D. J. K. Mewhort, Queen's University

101. The timecourse of Pop-Out in Visual Search for Coloured Targets - Elizabeth S. Olds, William B. Cowan, & Pierre Jolicoeur, University of Waterloo

102. The Role of Attention at Encoding in Subsequent Direct versus Indirect Retrieval - Penny A. MacDonald & Colin M. MacLeod, University of Toronto at Scarborough

103. No Sex Difference on Incidental Memory, Despite Better Verbal Memory in Women - Karen Chipman & Doreen Kimura, University of Western Ontario

104. The Effect of Auditory Input on Visual Lexical Decision - Christine Whatmough & Martin Arguin, Universit‚ de Montr‚al, & Daniel Bub, University of Victoria

105. Letter and Word Processing in Letter-by-Letter Reading - St‚phanie Fiset & Martin Arguin, D‚partement de psychologie, Universit‚ de Montr‚al

106. Beyond Task Dissociations: Evidence for Unconscious Processing in Artificial Grammar Learning - Philip A. Higham & Lynne J. Pritchard, University of Northern B.C., & John R. Vokey, University of Lethbridge

107. Conscious and Unconscious Contributions to Sentence Memory - Gilbert Remillard & Murray Singer, University of Manitoba

108. Sex Differences on a Novel Task of Spatial Abilities: A 3-D Navigational Task - P. J. Beattie & D. M. Saucier, University of Regina

109. Withdrawn

110. The Relation Between Brain and Mind - Andrew Bailey, University of Calgary

111. Computing General World Knowledge Without Inferencing Processes - Todd R. Ferretti & Ken McRae, University of Western Ontario

112. Incidental Text Priming: The Role of Data-Driven Processes in Implicit Memory for Words in Text - Michael D. Lee, University of Manitoba, & Jim Clark, University of Winnipeg

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