Donald O. Hebb Graduate Student Award

This award shall be made to the individual who, in the opinion of the committee on this award, has been judged to have presented the best paper or poster at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science. Normally, the awardee would be a Canadian citizen or would have conducted a significant proportion of his/her research, training or disciplinary work within Canada.

BEST PAPER:

Jillian Fecteau, et al. (with Chua, Franks & Enns) Visual awareness and the on-line modification of action. (UBC) (Session I, paper 7).

Honourable mention:

Eric Richards (with Tombu, Jolicoeur and Stoltz) The time course of the detection of visual changes: Feature and object based processing (U of Waterloo) Session VI, paper 3)

Chris Friesen (with Bischof and Kingstone) Reflexive attention to gaze direction and masked gaze cues (U of Alberta) (Session VIII, paper 4)

Michael Jones (with Mewhort) A new approach to letter identification: Learning and deblurring dynamic templates. (Queen's) (Session III, paper 2)

BEST POSTER

Darryl Houghton (with Stanford and Brown) A comparison of HS mice in the Morris water maze and the Barnes maze (Dalhousie) (Poster Session III, poster 12).

Honourable mention:

Biljana Stevanovski (with Oriet and Jolicoeur) Blinded by headlights. (Dalhousie) (Poster Session I, poster 32).

Frederic Gougoux (with Lepore, Lassonde and Guillemot) Interhemispheric transmission of perceptual after-affects. (U de Montreal) (Poster Session II, poster 14).

Robert Sorge (with Parker) Effects of salt deprivation on salt-morphine associations in the taste avoidance paradigm (Wilfrid Laurier U) (Poster Session III, poster 20).

Megan Shram (with Hellemans and Olmstead) Dissociable effects of opiates and stimulants on cue and place learning. (Queen's) (Poster Session II, poster 28).

F. Cortese (with Fernandez and Shedden) Single features vs. whole objects in visual short-term memory: An event-related brain potential study. (McMaster) (Poster Session IV, paper 9).

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)

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