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The Department of Psychology is a large and dynamic department, offering both a major and a minor in psychology in both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, and a honours degree option. Our 23 tenured and tenure-track faculty members are engaged in research in all areas of psychology, and, in addition to offering a high caliber of classroom instruction, students are encouraged to take advantage of opportunities such as honours and independent studies to add further depth to their educational experience. Field placements in clinical psychology, at a variety of community organizations, is also made available to eligible students.
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Recent projects
Zebrafish pharmacology and behavioural neuroscience phase 2
This project will involve examination of pharmacological compounds on the behaviorual response of zebrafish. Compounds will be applied both acutely and repeatedly to examine a potential differential impact. Students will be involved in the experiment, data collection, analysis, and the drafting of the results.
Attention and motor control research assistant: Winter 2024
I have a position available for 1 student for 80 hours to learn how to collect and statistically analyze data from participants who will complete attention and visuomotor tasks using touch screens. These data will help us better understand the relationship between attention and visuomotor control. The student will gain hands-on experience with data collection and develop their data analysis skills. The student will be asked to prepare a brief final report summarizing their findings.
Creating a flexible and immersive virtual reality system for psychology research
Creating immersive virtual reality (VR) systems and environments, as well as flexible software development toolkits, for research. This flexible system will be used to further the research objectives of various faculty members in Psychology looking to study cognition using virtual reality systems.
Zebrafish pharmacology and behavioural neuroscience
This project will involve examination of pharmacological compounds on the behaviorual response of zebrafish. Compounds will be applied both acutely and repeatedly to examine a potential differential impact. Students will be involved in the experiment, data collection, analysis, and the drafting of the results.
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