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Kyle Mathewson, a postdoctoral fellow working with Clay Dickson, is also in the new today regarding his research on how the brain works when it is processing and learning. (more)

According to the 2011 QS rankings of universities, the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta ranked in the top 50 Psychology departments in the world.

Elena Nicoladis recently appeared in the University of Alberta news for her study "Kids Show Cultural Gender Bias". (more)

Connie Varnhagen was recently awarded the 3M National Teaching Fellowship award for teaching excellence and educational leadership. (more)

The 26th Annual Royce conference will be held on Friday, March 2, 2012. Björn Brembs of Freie Universität Berlin will be the keynote speaker. The conference will also feature invited presentations by Marcia Spetch and Anthony Singhal. The submission form is now available.

Sociocultural Group. Feb 17, 1:00pm, BS-P226. "If I was an animal, maybe then I would find you attractive: A terror management explanation for body hair preferences".

Our graduate students are successful in winning major awards (over $10,000). In 2010, the Psychology Department was first across campus in per capita Tri-Council Master's awards (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC). (more)

Elena Nicoladis has published several articles on gesture and language development in bilingual and monolingual children.  Her SSHRC/NSERC funded research challenges views about the symbolic nature of gestures and how bilinguals represent information in language.  Her finding that children assume gestures mean actions rather than objects challenges the view that children treat gestures and words as equally symbolic and may explain why they have difficulty interpreting number gestures. (more)