Departmental Brown Bag Series

In-House Research Presentations

Come out and participate in the Department’s Brown Bag Meetings.

The presentations consist of work in progress, or practice talks for conferences. All faculty
and department trainees (including post docs, graduate students and undergraduates working in our
labs) are encouraged to attend.)

Upcoming Presentations

Monday March 18, 2013: 12:00 - 2:00pm - DV Faculty Club

Bonnie Le (PhD Student): When holding back helps: Suppressing negative emotions during sacrifice feels authentic and is beneficial for the highly interdependent

Karen Gordon (Scientist, Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto): Defing and treating hearing loss in children


For information about our Brown Bag Series
contact Susan Allison (susan.allison@utoronto.ca)

Previous Presentations

February 25, 2013

Hyun Ji Kim (Ph.D. Student) - Schimmack Lab
Evidence for the influence of positive evaluative biases on cultural difference in well-being

Ella Daniel (Post-Doctoral Fellow) - Malti Lab
Children's moral emotions, moral reasoning and social justice values


January 21, 2013

Huiwen Goy: Ph.D. student (Pichora-Fuller/VanLieshout Labs)
Perceptual quality of speech processed by hearing aids

Samantha Mahabir: Ph.D. student (Gerlai Lab)
The biological and behavioral  effects of embryonic alcohol exposure in two zebra fish (Danio rerio) strains


October 22, 2012

Kathleen Wonch, Ph.D. Student (Fleming Lab)
Responsiveness to infant cues in postpartum depressed and non-depressed mothers: Functional neural correlates and their relation to behavior

Cris Rabaglia, Post Doc (Daneman/Schneider Labs)
Individual differences in adult language production and comprehension


September 24, 2012

Heather Sheridan, Ph.D. Student (Reingold Lab)
On the time course of lexical influences in reading: Evidence from eye movements

Michael Weiss, Ph.D. Student (Trehub Lab)
Evedence that the voice enhances memory for melodies


March 19, 2012

Skyler Mooney, Ph.D. Student (Holmes Lab)
Oxytocin and social status in the naked mole-rat

Katie Corrigall, Postdoctoral Researcher (Schellenberg Lab)
Enculturation to musical pitch structure in young children


February 27, 2012

Ashlyn Swift-Gallant, Ph.D. Student (Monks Lab)
Where does testosterone act to mediate sex differences in the nervous system?

Judith Plantinga, Postdoctoral Researcher (Trehub Lab)
Exploring multimodal aspects of maternal speech and singing


January 23, 2012

Marieke van Heugten, Ph.D. Student (Johnson Lab)
Adaptation in Infancy: Is Lexical Access Necessary?

Aleksandr Kogan, Postdoctoral Researcher (Impett Lab)
From Virtue to Vice: The Vagus Nerve's Non-Linear Relationship with Prosociality


November 28, 2011

Laura Girz, Ph.D. Student (Polivy Lab)
The Effects of Calorie Information on Food Selection and Intake

Stephanie Stalinski, Ph.D. Student (Schellenberg Lab)
Liking and Memory for Music 


October 24, 2011

David Chen, Postdoctoral Researcher (Daneman Lab)
The Dual Properties of Visual Working Memory: Slot Capacity and Resource Capacity

Christine Buske, Ph.D. Student (Gerlai Lab)
Fishy Behavior: What Zebrafish are Teaching us about the Effects of Embryonic Alcohol Exposure


September 26, 2011

Amy Muise, Postdoctoral Researcher (Impett Lab)
Relationships on Facebook - It's Complicated

Viara Mileva, Ph.D. Student (Fleming Lab)
Genes, Environment and Mothering