Curriculum Vitae

 

Name: Michael John Dixon

 

Department:  Psychology

 

Degrees:

¥ Ph. D. (Experimental Psychology)                           Concordia University, 1990

¥ M. A. (Experimental Psychology)                           Concordia University, 1986

¥ B. Sc. (Honours Psychology)                                   Trent University, 1983

¥ B. A. (English and Psychology)                               Trent University, 1981

 

Dissertation Title:  Hypnotic Susceptibility Differences in the Automaticity of Verbal Information Processing.

 

Post Ph.D. Employment (other than at the University of Waterloo):

Sep, 1995 - July 1997             Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University.

Sep, 1993 - Sep, 1995             Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University/Montreal Neurological Institute (Funded by Alzheimer Society of Canada).

Sep, 1992 - Sep, 1993             Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University/Douglas Hospital Research Centre.

Sep, 1991-  Sep, 1992             Research Associate, Concordia University (Laboratory of Campbell Perry and Jean-Roch Laurence.

Aug, 1991 - Sep, 1991            Statistical Consultant Montreal Neurological Institute.

Oct, 1990 - July, 1991            Independent Scholar.

           

Employment at University of Waterloo:

July, 2006-present                  Professor

July, 2005-2007                      Chair of Department of Psychology

July, 2004-July 2005              Chair of Behavioural Neuroscience Division

July, 2001- 2006                     Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

July, 2001- July 2003             Deputy Chair, Department of Psychology

July, 1997- 2001                     Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, (probationary-term appointment, full-time).

 

Awards and Scholarships

 

¥Outstanding Performance Award – University of Waterloo (2005, 2008)

¥Premier's Research Excellence Award (2001-2006)

¥Chercheur Boursier Fonds de la Recherche en SantŽ du QuŽbec (1997-2001)         

            Young Investigator Salary Support Award (declined)

¥Nelson Butters Award (1995)

            (best postdoctoral submission at the International Neuropsychological Society).

¥ Alzheimer Society of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (1993-1995)

¥ Finalist for the Academy of Great Montrealer's Prix D'excellence (1990/91)

            (Runner up for the best doctoral thesis among MontrŽal's four universities)

¥ Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Ph. D.  (1988/89)

¥ Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche (1988/89,  declined)

¥ Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, M.A..  (1985/86)

¥ Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1985, declined)

¥ Trent University Honours Psychology Award (1983)

¥ Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Undergraduate (1982)  

¥ Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Undergraduate (1981)

 

Grants

 

Dixon, M.J. (PI), Harrigan, K., Collins, K., and Fugelsang, J.A.  Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre.  Psychophysical, and psychological responses to the sights, sounds, and payback percentages of slot machines. (January 1, 2010 – Dec 31, 2010) $196,502.00

 

Dixon, M.J. (PI), & Harrigan, K. Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre.  Level III grant: Effectiveness of a Brief Educational Intervention and ATM-relocation in Reducing Erroneous Cognitions and Over-Expenditure during Slot Machine Play in a Sample of Problem, At Risk, and Non-Problem Gamblers (July 1, 2009 – June 29, 2010) $99,933  (P.I. on contracted research)

 

Harrigan, K (PI), Dixon, M.J. (co-PI) Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre.  Increasing correct knowledge and beliefs about slot machine structural characteristics (January 1, 2010 – Dec 31-2010)  $211,768 (co P.I. on contracted research)

 

Dixon, M.J. (PI) & Harrigan, K.  Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre.  Psychophysical Investigations of Wins, Losses and Near Misses in Problem Gambling (January 1, 2009 – Dec 31, 2010) $135,506.00 p.a.

 

Harrigan, K (PI)., Dixon, M.J. , Stillar, G., Bringelson, L., Goodwin, D., Tomasson-Goodwin, J. Ontario Problem Gambling Research Center.  Emerging Team Grant: Multi-disciplinary Perspective on Forms of Bias in Gambling Environments as Indirect Risk Factors for Problem Gambling  (January 1, 2008 – Dec 31, 2013) $100,000.00 p.a. 

 

Roy, E. (PI), Black S., & Dixon, M.J. , Danckert, J., Park, N., Hebert, D., Adams, S., Staines, R., Buxbaum, L. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.  Limb Apraxia: Neuropsychological Profiles and Neuroanatomical Correlates - Renewal.  (April 1, 2007 - April 1, 2012) $70,000.00 p.a. 

 

Dixon, M.J. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.  The Influence of Meaning on Attention and Memory.  (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2011). $30,000.00 p.a. RGPIN203130-06

 

Dixon, M.J. Premier's Research Excellence Award.  A novel approach to the early detection of Alzheimer's Disease.  (April 1, 2001 - March 31, 2006). $150,000.00  PREA- 00/5-0814

 

Dixon, M.J. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.  The Influence of Meaning on Perception and Memory.  (April 1, 2002 - March 31, 2006). $30,000.00 p.a. RGPIN203130-02

 

Roy, E.(PI), Black S., & Dixon, M.J. & Hebert, D., & Square, P. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Neuropsychological Profiles of Apraxia- Renewal.  (April 1, 2001 - April 1, 2004) $47,000.00 p.a. 

 

Roy, E., Black S., & Dixon, M.J. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Neuropsychological Profiles of Apraxia.  (April 1, 1999 - April 1, 2001) $47,000.00 p.a.

 

Dixon, M.J. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.  Semantic and Visual Determinants of Confusions in Memory.  (April 1, 1998 - March 31, 2002). $21,000.00 p.a. RGPIN203130-98

 

Dixon, M.J. R.A. Support Program for New Faculty.  Ramifications of Object Form on Object Confusions in Memory. (May 1, 1998 - Jan 1, 1999). $6750.00

 

Dixon, M.J. UW Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Colour Agnosia, Pure Alexia and the Continuum of Automaticity,  (January 1, 1998 - Aug 1, 1998). $4,962.96

 

Salary Support: Dixon, M.J. Fonds de la Recherche en SantŽ du QuŽbec  Chercheur-boursier (July 1, 1997 -  June, 30, 2001) Salary support for independent investigators, $46,348 per annum.  (declined:  untenable outside of QuŽbec)

 

Dixon, M.J. (principal investigator).  Object recognition deficits in early AlzheimerÕs disease.   (April 1, 1996 – Mar 31,1997).  Awarded by the Alzheimer Society of Canada. [received the 2nd highest ranking among the 40 applications submitted to the psychosocial division of the Alzheimer Society of Canada]  $21,000 per annum.

 

Dixon, M.J. (principal investigator), King, S., Stip, E., & Cormier, H. A Psychophysical Construct Validation of Expressed Emotion. (April 1, 1994 – Mar 1, 1996)  Awarded by the FRSQ-CQRS joint initiative for multidisciplinary studies.  $62,000 per annum.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Chapters in Books (Students Underlined)

Dixon, M., & Smilek, D. (2009).  Synesthesia.  In T. Bayne, Axel Cleermans, Patrick Wilken (Eds). The Oxford Companion to Consciousness,  (pp. 620-623).  Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., & Merikle, P.M. (2005). Binding of Graphemes and Synaesthetic Colors in Color-Graphemic Synaesthesia. In Lynn Robertson and Noam Sagiv (eds.), Synesthesia: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 74-89). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

 

Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D, Wagar, B.M., & Merikle, P.M. (2004). Grapheme-Colour Synaesthesia:  When 7 is Yellow and D is Blue. In Charles Spence, Gemma Calvert and Barry Stein (eds.), The Handbook of Multisensory Processes (pp. 837-849). MIT Press. Cambridge, Mass.

 

Arguin, M., Dudek, G., Dixon, M., & Bub, D. (1997). Coding simple shapes and the human integration of shape descriptors. In M Jenkin and L Harris (eds.) Computational And Psychophysical Mechanisms Of Visual Coding (pp. 44-60). Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK.

 

King, S., & Dixon,  M.J.  (1996). The influence of expressed emotion, family dynamics, and symptom type on the social adjustment of schizophrenic young adults selected for reprint in R.O. Pihl, (ed.) Compendium of Readings in Abnormal Psychology (pp. 333-339). PS Press, Montreal, PQ.

 

Dixon, M., & Laurence, J.-R. (1992).  Two hundred years of hypnosis research:  questions resolved and questions unanswered!  In E. Fromm and M. Nash (eds.) Contemporary Hypnosis Research. (pp. 34-66). Guilford Press, New York,.

 

Dixon, M., & Brussell, E. M., (1986).  A quantifiable metric for assessing visual loss with multi-flash campimetry.  In A. Fiorentini, D.L. Guyton, and I.M. Siegel (Eds.), Advances in Diagnostic Visual Optics. (pp. 126-131). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

 

Faubert, J., Brussell, E. M., Overbury, O., Balazsi, G., & Dixon, M. (1986).  Spatial VS temporal information in suspected and confirmed chronic open angle glaucoma.  In G. C. Woo (Ed.), Low Vision: Principles and Applications. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

 

Articles in Refereed Journals (Students Underlined)

 

Published Articles in Refereed Journals

 

Dixon, M.J., Harrigan, K.A., Sandhu, R., Collins, K., Fugelsang, J.A. (2010 in press).  Losses disguised as wins in multiline video slot machinesAddiction

 

Harrigan, K.A., & Dixon, M.J. (2009 in press).  Government sanctioned ÒtightÓ and ÒlooseÓ slot machines:  How having multiple versions of the same slot machine game may impact problem gambling.  Journal of Gambling Studies

 

Jarick, M., Dixon, M.J., Maxwell E.C., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Smilek, D. (2009). The ups, and downs (and lefts and rights) of synaesthetic number forms: Validation from spatial cueing and SNARC-type tasks. Cortex,  45, 1190-1199.

 

Jarick, M., Dixon, M.J., Stewart, M.T., Maxwell, E.C., & Smilek, D. (2009). A different outlook on time: Visual and auditory month names elicit different mental vantage points for a time-space synaesthete. Cortex, 45, 1217-1228

 

Mann, H.E. Korzenko, J.M.L., Carrier, J.S.A. & Dixon, M.J. (2009) Time-Space Synaesthesia – a cognitive advantage?  Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 619-627.

 

Harrigan, K. A., & Dixon, M.J. (2009).  PAR Sheets, probabilities, and slot machine play: Implications for problem and non-problem gambling.  Journal of Gambling Issues, 23, 81-110.

 

Carriere JSA, Eaton D, Reynolds MG, Dixon, MJ, and Smilek, D. (2009). Grapheme-color synesthesia influences overt visual attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 246-248.

 

Desmarais, G., Pensa, C.M. & Dixon, M.J., Roy, E.A. (2007). The importance of object similarity in the production and identification of actions associated with object.  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13, 1021-1034.

 

Desmarais, G. & Dixon, M.J. (2007). A role for action knowledge in visual object identification.  Memory & Cognition, 35, 1712-1723.

 

Smilek, D., Callejas, A., Dixon, M.J., & Merikle, P.M. (2007).  Ovals of time: Time-space relations in synaesthesia.  Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 507-519.

Smilek, D., Carriere, J. S. A., Dixon, M. J., & Merikle, P. M. (2007).  Grapheme frequency and color luminance in grapheme-color synaesthesia.  Psychological Science, 18, 793-795.

 

Wagar, B. M. and Dixon, M.J. (2006). Affective guidance in the Iowa gambling task. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 277-290.

 

Schweizer, T.A. & Dixon, M.J.  (2006) The influence of visual and non-visual attributes in visual object identification.  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 176-183.

 

Risko, E.F., Dixon, M.J.  Besner, D. & Ferber, S.  (2006). The ties that keep us bound:  Top-down influences on the persistence of shape-from-motion.  Consciousness and Cognition, 15,  475-483.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., & Merikle, P.M. (2006). Revisiting the category effect: The influence of meaning and search strategy on the efficiency of visual search.  Brain Research, 1080, 73-90.

 

Desmarais, G. & Dixon, M.J. (2005). Understanding the structural determinants of object confusion in memory: an assessment of psychophysical approaches to estimating visual similarity.  Perception and Psychophysics, 67, 980-996.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., & Merikle, P.M.  (2005) Synaesthesia: Discordant Male Monozygotic Twins, Neurocase 11, 363-370.

 

Smith, S.D., Dixon, M.J., Bulman-Fleming, M.B., Birch, C., Laudi, N., Wagar, B.M. (2005).  Experience with a category alters hemispheric asymmetries for the detection of anomalies.  Neuropsychologia, 43, 1911-1915.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Vogel-Sprott, M., Dixon, M.J. & Jolicoeur, P. (2005).  The stage-specific effect of alcohol on human information processing.  Psychopharmacology, 178, 52-57.

 

Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D., & Merikle, P.M.  (2004).  Not all synaesthetes are created equal:  Projector versus associator synaesthetes.  Cognitive,  Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience,  4, 335-343. 

 

Schweizer, T.A., Jolicoeur, P., Vogel-Sprott, M. & Dixon, M.J. (2004).  Fast, but error prone responses, during acute alcohol intoxication:  Effects of stimulus-response mapping complexity.  Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research,  28(4), 643-649.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., Cudahy, C.,  & Merikle, P.M. (2002). Synaesthetic color experiences influence memory.  Psychological Science, 13, 548-552.

 

Dixon, M.J., Desmarais, G., Gojmerac, C., Schweizer, T.A., Bub, D.N. (2002). The role of premorbid expertise on object identification in category-specific visual agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 19, 401-420.

 

Smilek, D., Moffatt, B.A., Pasternak, J., White, BN., Dixon, M.J., Merikle, P.M. (2002).  Synaesthesia:  A case study of discordant monozygotic twins.  Neurocase, 8, 338-342.

 

Joober, R, Rouleau, G.A., Lal, S., Dixon, M., O'Driscoll, G., Palmour, R., Annable, L., Bloom , D., Lalonde, P., Labelle, A., Benkelfat, C. (2002). Neuropsychological impairments in neuroleptic-responder vs. - nonresponder schizophrenic patients and healthy volunteers. Schizophrenia Research, 53, 229-238.

 

Smilek, D. & Dixon, M.J.  (2002). Towards a synergistic understanding of synaesthesia: Combining current experimental findings with synaesthetesÕ subjective descriptions. Psyche, 08, http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v8/psyche-8-01-smilek.html

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P.M. (2001).  Synaesthetic photisms influence  visual perception.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13(7), 930-936.

 

Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P.  (2000).  Five plus two equals yellow. Nature, 406, 365.

 

Dixon, M.J., King, S., Stip, E., & Cormier, H.  (2000).  Continuous performance test differences among schizophrenic outpatients living in high and low expressed emotion environments.  Psychological Medicine, 30, 1141- 1153.

 

Fillmore, M.T., Dixon, M.J., & Schweizer, T.A. (2000). Differential effects of alcohol on responses to negatively and positively primed stimuli.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61, 872-880.

 

Fillmore, M.T., Dixon, M.J., & Schweizer, T.A. (2000). Alcohol affects processing of ignored stimuli in a negative priming paradigm.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61, 571-578.

 

Dixon, M.J., Bub, D.N., Chertkow, H., & Arguin, M. (1999). Object recognition deficits in dementia of the AlzheimerÕs type: Combined effects of semantic and visual proximity. Journal of the International Neuropsychology Society, 5, 330-345.

 

Woodward, T.S., Dixon, M.J., Bub, D.N., Mullen, K.T., & Christensen, K.M. (1999). Analysis of errors in color agnosia:  A single-case study.  Neurocase, 5, 95-108.

 

King, S., & Dixon, M.J. (1999). Expressed emotion and relapse in young schizophrenia outpatients. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 25, 377-386.

 

Dixon, M.J., King, S., & Steiger, H. (1998).  The contribution of depression and denial towards the unawareness of symptoms in schizophrenic outpatients.  British Journal of Medical Psychology, 71, 85-97.

 

Dixon, M.J., Bub, D.N., & Arguin, M. (1998). Semantic and visual determinants of face recognition in a prosopagnosic patient. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(3), 362-376.

 

Dixon, M., Bub, D.N., & Arguin, M. (1997) The interaction of object form and object meaning in the identification performance of a patient with category specific visual agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 14, 1085-1130.

 

King, S., & Dixon, M.J.  (1996). The influence of expressed emotion, family dynamics, and symptom type on the social adjustment of schizophrenic young adults. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53, 1098-1104.

 

Dixon,  M., Labelle, L., & Laurence, J.-R. (1996). A multivariate approach to the prediction of hypnotic susceptibility.  The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis,

            44, 250-264.

 

Dixon,  M.J., & King S.  (1995). The concordance between symptom information gathered from remitted schizophrenic outpatients and their relatives.  Journal of Psychiatric Research,  29, 447-456.

 

King, S., & Dixon,  M.J. (1995).  Expressed emotion, family dynamics and symptom severity in a predictive model of social adjustment for schizophrenic young adults. Schizophrenia Research, 14, 121-132.

 

Dixon, M., & Laurence, J.-R. (1992). Hypnotic susceptibility and verbal automaticity: automatic and strategic processing differences in the Stroop color-naming task. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101, 344-347.

 

Dixon, M., Brunet, A., & Laurence, J.-R. (1990). Hypnotizability and automaticity: toward a parallel distributed processing model of hypnotic responding. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 99, 336-343.

 

Labelle, L., Dixon, M., & Laurence, J.-R. (1989). Pseudo-memory creation and confidence ratings: a theory still in search of supportive data. British Journal of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis, 6, 163-165.

 

Dixon M., & Brussell, E. M. (1987).  Quantifying the magnitude of visual impairment with multi-flash campimetry. Canadian Journal Of Optometry, 49, 100-104.

 

Brussell, E. M., & Dixon, M. (1986). Raster versus calligraphic display devices for assessing visual performance: the influence of stimulus area and uncertainty. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 18, 347-358.

 

Brussell, E. M., White, C.W., Faubert, J., Dixon, M., Balazsi, G.A., & Overbury, O. (1986). Multi-flash campimetry as an indicator of visual field loss in glaucoma. American Journal of  Optometry & Physiological Optics, 63, 32-40.

 

Smith, C., Lapp, L., & Dixon, M. (1984).  Increased REM density following major learning experiences. Sleep Research, 13, 99.

 

Articles in Refereed Journals (Refereed Conference Proceedings)

 

Wagar, B. M., and Dixon, M. J. (2005). Past experience influences object representation in working memory. Proceedings of TENNET 14, Brain and Cognition, 57(3), 248-256.

 

Smith, S.D., Dixon, M.J., Tays, W.J., Bulman-Fleming, M.B. (2004). Anomaly detection in the right hemisphere: The influence of visuospatial Factors. Proceedings of TENNET 13, Brain and Cognition, 55, 458-462.

 

Myles, K.M., Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D., & Merikle, P.M. (2003) Seeing Double: The role of meaning in alphanumeric-colour synaesthesia. Proceedings of the 13th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 13), Brain and Cognition, 53, 342-345.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., & Merikle, P.M. (2003). Synaesthetic photisms guide attention.  Proceedings of the 13th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 13), Brain and Cognition, 53, 364-367.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Dixon, M.J., Desmarais, G. & Smith, S.D. (2002). Not all triads are created equal: Further support for the importance of visual and semantic proximity in object identification.   Proceedings of the 12th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 12), Brain and Cognition, 48, 537-541.

 

Smith, S.D., Tays, W.J., Dixon, M.J., Bulman-Fleming, M.B. (2002). The right hemisphere as an anomaly-detector: Evidence from visual perception. Proceedings of TENNET 12, Brain and Cognition, 48, 574-579.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., Cudahy, C., Merikle, P.M. (2002). Concept-driven colour experiences in digit colour synaesthesia.  Proceedings of the 12th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 12), Brain and Cognition, 48, 570-573.

 

Wagar, B.M., Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D. & Cudahy, C.  (2002) Coloured photisms prevent object-substitution masking in digit colour synaesthesia. Proceedings of the 12th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 12), Brain and Cognition, 48, 606-611.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Dixon, M.J., Westwood, D., & Piskopos, M.  (2001). Contribution of visual and semantic proximity to identification performance in a viral encephalitis patient. Proceedings of the 11th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 11), Brain and Cognition, 46, 260-264.

 

Westwood, D.A., Schweizer, T.A., Heath, M.D., Roy, E.A., Dixon, M.J., & Black, S.E. (2001). Transitive gesture production in apraxia : Visual and non-visual sensory contributions. Proceedings of the 11th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 11), Brain and Cognition, 46, 300-304.

 

Dixon, M.J., Koehler, D., Schweizer, T., & Guylee, M.J.  (2000). Superior single dimension relative to Ôexclusive orÕ categorization performance by a patient with category-specific visual agnosia: empirical data and an alcove simulation. Proceedings of the 11th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 11), Brain and Cognition, 43, 152-158.

 

Dixon, M.J., Piskopos, M., & Schweizer, T.  (2000).  Musical instrument naming impairments:  the crucial exception to the living/nonliving dichotomy in category-specific agnosia. Proceedings of the 11th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 11), Brain and Cognition, 43, 158-164.

 

Dowhaniuk, M., Dixon, M.J., Roy, E., Square, P., & Black, S. (2000). The use of reaction time measures to evaluate non-word reading in primary progressive aphasia Proceedings of the 11th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 11), Brain & Cognition, 43, 168-172.

 

Guylee, M.J., Elias, L.J., Bulman-Fleming, M.B., & Dixon, M.J., (2000). Tactile gap detection and language lateralization. Proceedings of the 11th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 11), Brain and Cognition, 43, 234-238.

 

Dixon, M.J., & Arguin, M. (1999). Shape set dimensionality vs. structural distance effects in a patient with category-specific visual agnosia.  Proceedings of the 10th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 10), Brain & Cognition,

            40, 100-104.

 

Dixon, M. J. (1999).  Tool and bird-exemplar identification in a patient with category specific visual agnosia. Proceedings of the 10th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 10), Brain & Cognition, 40, 97-100.

 

Dowhaniuk, M., Dixon, M.J., Roy, E., Square, P., & Black, S. (1999).  Rhyme judgment failures in a case of primary progressive aphasia:  A precursor to phonological alexia.  Proceedings of the 10th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 10),  Brain & Cognition, 40, 108-112.

 

Dixon, M.J., Mill, D., Chertkow, H., Bub, D., & Arguin, M.  (1997). Visual and semantic determinants of object recognition deficits in early AlzheimerÕs  disease.  Proceedings of the 2nd annual Rotman Research Conference,  Brain and Cognition, 35, 361-364.

 

Arguin, M., Bub, D., Dixon, M.J., Caille, S., & Fontaine, S. (1996). Shape integration and semantic proximity effects in visual agnosia for biological objects: a replication. Proceedings of the 10th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology  (TENNET  7),  Brain and Cognition, 32, 259-261.

 

 

Invited Articles in Refereed Journals

Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D., Duffy, P.L. Zanna, M.P. & Merikle, P.M.  (2006). The role of meaning in grapheme colour synaesthesia, Cortex, 42, 243-252.

 

Dixon, M.J. (2000).  A new paradigm for investigating category-specific agnosia in the new millennium.  Brain and Cognition, 42, 142-145.

 

Roy, E., Black, S.E., Heath, M., Westwood, D., Schweizer, T., Dixon, M.J, Kalbfleisch, L, Barbour, K., & Square, P.  (2000).  Task demands and limb apraxia in stroke.  Brain and Cognition, 44, 253-279.

 

Other Publications

Invited Book Reviews

 

Smilek, D., & Dixon, M. J. (2008).  Two complementary perspectives on synaesthesia.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 364 – 366.

 

Dixon, M.J. (2004).  Review of Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses by Richard Cytowic M.D.  Quarterly Review of Biology, 78, 507-508.

 

Invited Article Preview

Dixon, M.J., & Smilek, D.  (2005). The importance of individual differences in grapheme colour synaesthesia, Neuron, 45, 821-823.

 

 

Other Scholarly Work

 

Keynote Address

Dixon, M.J., (2007, January). Of Blue Twos and the Purple Edges of June:  the colouring of cognition in synaesthesia.  Keynote Address at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Synesthesia Association, University of South Florida, St. Petersburgh, FL.

 

Invited Presentations

Dixon  M.J., (2009, April).  June must be right:  Assessing the automaticity with which month names cue spatial attention in a time-space synaesthete:  Congresso Internacional Sobre Sinestesia Parque des Las Ciencias, Granada, Spain.

 

Jarick, M., Dixon  M.J., (2009, April).  Numbers automatically direct spatial attention in a number-form synaesthete: Congresso Internacional Sobre Sinestesia Parque des Las Ciencias, Granada, Spain.

 

Dixon  M.J., (2008, July).  Roses are Red and Sixes are Blue:  The colouring of Cognition in Synaesthesia. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

 

Dixon  M.J., (2008, July).  Roses are Red and Sixes are Blue:  The colouring of Cognition in Synaesthesia. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

 

Dixon, M.J., (2008, July).  Number lines, number forms, and the shapes of time:  how atypical mental representationts influence spatial attention in synaesthesia.  Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision.  Brisbane, Australia

 

Dixon, M.J., (2006, February). Of Blue Twos and the Purple Edges of June:  the colouring of cognition in synaesthesia.  Invited address, Colloquium, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.

 

Dixon, M.J., (2005, September). Roses are red and sixes are blue:  the colouring of cognition in synaesthesia.  Invited address, Colloquium, Department of Psychology, Trent University Peterborough, Ontario.

 

Dixon, M.J., (2004, May). Roses are red and sixes are blue:  the colourful world of synaesthesia.  Invited address for the Cognitive Seminar Series, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.

 

Dixon, M.J., (2004, April). Roses are red and sixes are blue:  the basics of grapheme-colour synaesthesia.  23rd Annual meeting of Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (BASICS), Banff, Alberta.

 

Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D., & Merikle, P.M.  (2002, April).  Does the meaning of objects influence the efficiency of visual search.  4th meeting of the Perceptual Expertise Network (PEN 4).  Calistoga, California.

 

Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D., Wagar, B.M., & Merikle, P.M.  (2002, February).  Coloured Cognition:  the influence of synaesthetic photisms on perception, conception and memory.  Thirty first annual meeting of the Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment, Niagara Falls, Ontario.

 

Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D., Wagar, B.M., & Merikle, P.M.  (2001, November).  Roses are red and sixes are blue:  the influence of synaesthetic photisms on perception, conception and memory.  Invited address at the Rotman Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario.

 

Dixon, M.J.  (2000, November).  Five plus two equals yellow:  cognitive neuropsychological investigations of digit colour synaesthesia.  Invited address at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

 

Dixon, M.J.  (2000, May).  Five plus two equals yellow:  concept driven photisms in digit colour synaesthesia.  Invited address at the University of Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia.

 

Dixon, M.J. (1999, November). Category specific object identification deficits in temporal lobe stroke, and Alzheimer's disease: the interaction of object form and meaning. Invited address at Concordia University, MontrŽal, QuŽbec.

 

Dixon, M.J. (1999, March).   Object identification deficits in temporal lobe stroke, early AlzheimerÕs disease and Herpes Encephalitis: Pitting the living/nonliving distinction against a psychological distance account.  Invited address at the Ebbinghaus Empire Meeting University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

 

Dixon, M.J. (1999, February).   Category- Specific object identification deficits in temporal lobe stroke, Herpes Encephalitis and AlzheimerÕs disease:  The interaction of object form and object meaning.  Invited address at State University of New York at Buffalo (Cognitive Sciences), Tonawanda, New York.

 

Dixon, M.J. (1998, November).  Object identification deficits in Temporal Lobe Stroke and Early AlzheimerÕs disease.  Invited address at Brock University.  November, St. Catharines, Ontario.

 

Dixon, M.J.  (1998, November).  Object identification deficits in Temporal Lobe Stroke and Early AlzheimerÕs disease.  Invited address at Trent University. Peterborough, Ontario.

 

Dixon, M.J.  (1996, January). Object recognition deficits in early Alzheimer's Disease.  Invited address at the annual meeting of the Alzheimer's Society of Canada. February, Ottawa, Ontario.

 

Dixon, M.J.  (1995, October). The role of semantic proximity on object recognition in category-specific visual agnosia.   Invited address to the Groupe de Recherche Neurolinguistique et Neuropsychologie,  Centre de Recherche Cotes-des-Neiges,  November, MontrŽal, Quebec.

 

Dixon, M.J.  (1995, January). Locating the functional deficit in a prosopagnosic patient.  Invited address to the  Group du Recherche en Neuropsychologie, UniversitŽ de MontrŽal. December, MontrŽal, QuŽbec.

 

Dixon, M.J.  (1995, February). The influence of semantics on object recognition in category specific visual agnosia.  Invited address to the Cognition Group at University of Victoria, February,Victoria British Columbia.

 

Workshops Presented

 

Dixon, M.J., & Smilek, D. (2001, May). Current investigations of synaesthesia: When a 4 just has to be blue.  Workshop presented  at the 5th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC5).  Duke University, Durham NC.

 

Published (Refereed) Abstracts

Stamenova, V, Almeida, Q.A., Black, S.E., Dixon, M., Park, N., Desmarais, G. & Roy, E.A. (2006) Hemispheric Differences in the Production and Recognition of Gesture Errors, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, March, 2006, Toronto, ON

 

Wagar, B. M., and Dixon, M. J.  (2005, April). Automatic prejudice in the amygdala: facial or racial? Proceedings of the the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 12th Annual Meeting, 201.

 

Desmarais, G., Dixon, M.J., Roy, E. A. (2005, April). Looking at, holding, and interacting with objects:  the richness of our experience influences the quality of object representations in memory as indexed by naming performance.  Proceedings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 12th Annual Meeting, 201.

 

Desmarais, G., Dixon, (2004, April). The importance of movement similarity in action (gesture) Proceedings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 11th Annual Meeting, 201.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Vogel-Sprott, M., Jolicoeur, P. & Dixon, M.J.  (2003). Alcohol, and the bottleneck in the information processing stream. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27(5), 138.

 

Merikle, P.M., Smilek, D., Thompson, H. & Dixon, M.J. (2003, March).   Activation of synaesthetic color prior to awareness. Proceedings of the the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Tenth Annual Meeting, 50-51.

 

Merikle, P. M., Smilek, D., Myles, K. M., & Dixon, M. J.  (2002). Individual differences in alphanumeric-colour synaesthesia.  Perception, 31, S39 (Abstract).

 

Dixon, M.J. Smilek, D., Wagar, B.M., Cudahy, C. & Merikle, P.M. (2002).  Five plus two equals yellow:  Perceptual and conceptual aspects of synaesthesia. Proceedings of the 12th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET 12) Symposia Abstracts, Brain and Cognition, 48, 236.

 

Merikle, P.M., Dixon, M.J. & Smilek, D.  (2002).  The role of synaesthetic photisms in perception, conception and memory. Proceedings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Ninth  Annual Meeting, 6-7.

 

Dixon, M.J., Myles, K. M., Smilek, D., Zanna, M.P., Duffy, P.L., & Merikle, P.M. (2002).  Same shape - different colours: both meaning, and form, determine the colours of graphemes in alphanumeric-colour synaesthesia. Proceedings of the the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Ninth  Annual Meeting, 41.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Dixon, M.J., & Piskopos, M. (2002). Psychological distance affects object identification in Herpes encephalitis:  Converging evidence from multiple visual identification tasks. Proceedings of the the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Ninth Annual Meeting, 161.

 

Dixon, M.J., Myles, K. M., Smilek, D., Zanna, M.P. & Merikle, P.M. (2002). Synaesthetic photisms and context.  Proceedings of the 2nd annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society,  Abstract 225, 81-82.

 

Merikle, P.M., Smilek, D. & Dixon, M.J. (2002).  Synaesthetic photisms and memory. Proceedings of the 2nd annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society,  Abstract 268, 97.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Dixon, M.J., & Piskopos, M. (2001). A psychological distance account of category-specific naming impairments. Journal of the International  Neuropsychological Society, 7, 422.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon M., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P.M.  (2000).  Digit-colour synaesthesia: An investigation of extraordinary conscious experiences.  Consciousness and Cognition, 9(2), S53.

 

Fillmore, M.T., Dixon, M.J., & Schweizer, T.A. (2000). Alcohol affects processing of ignored stimuli in a negative priming paradigm. Journal of the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, 10, 136.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon M., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P.M.  (2000).  Digit-colour synaesthesia: An investigation of extraordinary conscious experiences.  Consciousness and Cognition, 9(2), S53.

 

Dixon, M., Bub, D., Lupien, S., Pavate, C., Malette J., &. Nair, N.P.V. (1997). Selective attention for shape in patients with AlzheimerÕs disease.  Proceedings of the 27th annual conference of the International Neuropsychological Society. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 4, 55.

 

Dixon, M., & King, S. (1996).  A psychophysical construct validation of expressed emotion. Proceedings of Schizophrenia 96, Breaking Down the Barriers. 67.

 

King, S., & Dixon, M.  (1995). Questioning the place of expressed emotion in the vulnerability-stress model:  Data from Montreal, proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology,  28.

 

Dixon, M., Bub, D., & Arguin, M. (1995).  The influence of semantics on shape identification in category specific visual agnosia.  Journal of the International Neuropsychology Society, 1, 130. (***Winner of the Nelson Butters Award for best submission by a postdoctoral student).

 

King, S., & Dixon, M. (1995). The longitudinal stability and symptom sensitivity of expressed emotion in mothers and fathers.  Schizophrenia Research, 15 , 218.

 

Joober, R., Rouleau, G., Lal, S., Palmour, R., Bloom, D., Labelle A., Drucker, H., Dixon, M., & Benkelfat, C. (1995). Neuroleptic-resistant schizophrenia: clinical, neuropsychological and family history characterizations.   Psychiatric Genetics , 5 s56. 

 

Lamarche, M.-C., Dixon,  M., & Laurence, J.-R.  (1991). Response to posthypnotic amnesia and aphasia in highly hypnotizable and simulating subjects. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 39,  259. (*Winner of the Harold B. Crasilneck Award for best student submission).

 

Labelle, L., Dixon,  M., & Laurence, J.-R. (1991).  Processing of information and memory creation in hypnosis. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 39, 261.

 

Dixon,  M., Brunet, A., & Laurence, J.-R. (1990).  Hypnotizability differences in automatic and strategic performance in a modified Stroop-type task. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 38, 334.

 

Blatt, T., Dixon,  M., & Laurence, J.-R. (1990).  Differential acquisition of automatic responses among high and low hypnotizable subjects. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 38, 334.

 

Labelle, L., Dixon,  M., & Laurence, J.-R., Nadon, R. (1990). Hypnotizability: a potpourri of this, that and other things.  The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 38(4), 330.

 

Dixon, M., Brunet, A., & Laurence, J.R. (1989).  Hypnotizability and automaticity of verbal information processing. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 37, 361.

 

Published (Non Refereed) Abstracts

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M. J.  Merikle, P. M.  (2002). Meaning influences search efficiency.  Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society (43rd Annual Meeting) Abstract 77, 11.

 

Merikle, P. M., Smilek, D., & Dixon, M. J.  (2002). Synaesthetic color influences the efficiency of visual search. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society (43rd Annual Meeting) Abstract 526, 78.

 

Oral Presentations

Jarick, M. & Dixon, M. (April, 2009). Numbers automatically direct spatial attention in a number-form synaethete. Paper presented at Sinestesia 2009, Granada, Spain.

Dixon, M. & Jarick, M. (April, 2009). June must be right: Assessing the automaticity with which month names cue spatial attention in a time- space synaesthete. Paper presented at Sinestesia 2009, Granada, Spain.

 

Jarick, M., Dixon, M., Stewart, M., Maxwell, E., & Smilek, D. (September, 2008). The ups, and downs (and lefts and rights) of synaesthetic number forms. Invited paper presented at the American Synesthesia Association (ASA), Hamilton, Ontario.

 

Jarick, M., Dixon, M., Stewart, M., Maxwell, E., & Smilek, D. Time-space associations in synaesthesia: When input modality matters. (May, 2008). Paper presented at the Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting (VSS), Naples, Florida.

 

Dixon, M., Jarick, M., & Smilek, D. Confirming synaesthetic number forms using spatial cueing and SNARC-type tasks. (March, 2008). Invited paper presented at the Annual General Meeting of the UK Synaesthesia Association (UKSA), Endinburgh, Scotland.

 

Dixon, M., Stewart, M., Jarick, M., Maxwell, E. & Smilek, D. A different outlook on time: Visual and auditory month names elicit different vantage points for a mental calendar in a time-space synaesthete. (March, 2008). Invited paper presented at the Annual General Meeting of the UK Synaesthesia Association (UKSA), Endinburgh, Scotland.

 

Desmarais, G., Dabbagh, A., Roy, E.A., & Dixon, M.J. (2007). The impact of object similarity on action production, the influence of task order.  Oral presentation at the 2007 meeting of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sports Psychology Symposia in Windsor.

 

 

Callejas, A., Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., & Merikle, P.M.  (2004, Nov).  A web-based descriptive study of grapheme – color Synaesthesia. Paper presented at the 4nd Annual Meeting of the American Synesthesia Association.  New York,  New York.

 

Dixon, M.J., Wagar, B.M., Smilek, D., & Merikle, P.M.  (2003, May).  Synaesthetic Photisms both help and hinder performance.  Paper presented at the 3nd Annual Meeting of the American Synesthesia Association.  New York,  New York.

 

Dixon, M.J., Myles, KM., Smilek, D., & Merikle, P.M.  (2002, April).  Not all synaesthetes are created equal:  Distinguishing between projector and associator synaesthetes. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the American Synesthesia Association.  San Diego, California.

 

Merikle, P.M., Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D.  (2002, April) The role of synaesthetic  photisms in perception, conception, and memory in E.M. Hubbard, and N. Sagiv (Organizers) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Synaesthesia.  Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

Merikle, P.M., Smilek, D. & Dixon, M.J. (2002, May). Is there a genetic contribution to the development of synaesthesia?  Paper presented at the 2nd annual meeting of the American Synesthesia Association, San Diego, California.

 

Merikle, P.M., Smilek, D. & Dixon, M.J. (2002, May).  Synaesthetic photisms and memory. Paper presentated at the 2nd annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida.

 

Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D., Wagar, B.M., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P.M.  (2001, June).  Five plus two equals yellow: Perceptual and conceptual aspects of synaesthesia.  In Cognitive Neuropsychological Investigations of Synaesthesia (M.J. Dixon, Symposium Organizer),   Paper presented at TENNET 12, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P.M.  (2000, July).  Five plus two equals yellow:  concept driven photisms in digit-colour synaesthesia.  Paper presented at the Canadian Society for  Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Cambridge, UK.

 

King,S., Dixon, M.J., Cunningham, H., & Champagne F. (1999, April).    A psychophysical construct validation of expressed emotion.  Paper presented at the International Congress of Schizophrenia Research, Sante Fe.

 

King, S., & Dixon M.J. (1997, September).  Expressed emotion & Stress in Schizophrenic & Normal Control Subjects. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Psychological Treatments for Schizophrenia, Oxford, U.K.

 

King, S., & Dixon, M.J. (1997, October).  Expressed Emotion and Stress in Schizophrenic and Normal Control Subjects.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Palm Springs, California.

 

King, S., & Dixon, M.J. (1996, October). Les attitudes familiales de type haut niveau dÕemotions exprimŽes:  Vraiment un stress pour les patients schizophrenes?  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Club de Rechereches Cliniques du QuŽbec, Mont Ste-Anne, QuŽbec.

 

King, S., & Dixon, M.J. (1996, December). Quel est la place des Žmotions ŽxprimŽes dans le modele de vulnerabilitŽ Stress.  Presented at La JournŽe scientifique du rŽseua santŽ mentale FRSQ, Montreal, QuŽbec.

 

King, S., & Dixon, M.J. (1995, October). A model of social adjustment for schizophrenic young adults: the influence of expressed emotion, family dynamics and symptom type.  In Michael J. Goldstein (Chair), Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Coral Gables, Florida. 

 

Dixon, M., & Laurence, J.-R. (1988, May).  Memory creation and processing below awareness.  In J.-R. Laurence (Chair), Errors of memory:  system failures or functional adaptation? Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, MontrŽal, QuŽbec.

 

Posters

 

Stamenova, V, Desmarais, G, Roy, E.A., Park, N., Dixon, M.J., Hebert, D. & Black, S.E. (2008) Limb Apraxia and Functional independence in a Sample of long-Term Care Residents. Abstract submitted for the Annual Meeting of Theoretical & Experimental Neuropsychology. June, 2008, Waterloo, Ontario.

 

Jarick, M., Peterburs, J., & Dixon, M. (June, 2008). Reading between the masks: Synaesthetic colours alleviate masking in a grapheme-colour synaesthete. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), London, Ontario.

 

Desmarais, G., Striemer, C., Roy, E.A., Dixon, M.J. (2007, July).  Using structure to improve memory for visual material: linking encoding approaches to memory deficits for visual information in a patient with a focal lesion to the right frontal lobe.  Poster presented at the 2007 meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in Bilbao, Spain.

 

Korzenko, J., Mann, H., Carriere, J., & Dixon, M. (2007, June). Beware the sides of march.  Poster presented at TENNET 17, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Desmarais, G., Pensa, M.C., Dixon, M.J., Roy, E.A. (2007, June). Adding and omitting components of actions: differences in salience between pulling, twisting, and sliding. Poster presented at TENNET 17, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Striemer, C., Wagar, B., Gingerich, T., Striemer, D., Dixon, M.J. (2007, June).  Covert face recognition is dependent on the prior acquisition of face representations: evidence from a case study of congenital prosopagnosia. Poster presented at TENNET 17, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Desmarais, G., Dixon, M.J., & Roy, E.A. (2007, May). The impact of action similarity on visual object identification.  Poster presented at the meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Sarasota, Florida, USA.

 

Stamenova, V, Black, S.E., Mamolo, C., Desmarais, G., Dixon, M., Park, N., HŽbert, D., Danckert, J., Adams, S., Almeida, Q. &  Roy, E.A. (2007, February). Tactile and Visual cues facilitate performance of transitive gestures in patients with Corticobasal Degeneration.  Poster accepted for presentation at the International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon.

 

Desmarais, G., Pensa, M.C., Dixon, M.J. & Roy, E.A (2006, November). The impact of object misidentification on object use.  Poster presented at the 2006 meeting of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sports Psychology Symposia, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

Clark, A., Roy, E., Desmarais, G., Black, S., Stamenova, V., Almeida, Q., Dixon, M., Park, N., & Danckert, J.  (2006, November) Tool-Related and Communicative Gestures in Apraxia: Evidence for Distinct Routes to Action.  Presentation at the 2006 meeting of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sports Psychology, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

Bradley, N.L., Roy, E.A., Dixon, M.J., Staines, R., & Desmarais, G. (2006, November) WhatÕs in a name?  The role of verbal and action attributes in novel object identification.  Poster presented at the 2006 meeting of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sports Psychology Symposia, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

Desmarais, G., Roy, E.A., Striemer, C.L., Brown, S.G., Bradley, N.L., Clark, A.
Vasquez, B. and Dixon, M.J. (2006, July).  Linking encoding approaches to memory deficits for visual information in a patient with a focal lesion to the right frontal lobe.  Poster presented at the 2006 meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Zurich.

 

Carriere, J. S. A., Smilek, D., Reynolds, M. G., Dixon, M. J., & Merikle, P. M. (2006, May).  The influence of grapheme-colour synaesthesia on eye movements. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M. J., & Merikle, P. M. (2006, April).  Investigations of time-space synaesthesia.  Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.

 

Wagar. B.M. & Dixon, M.J. (2006, April).  Risky feelings:  Auatomatic racial prejudice affects decisions under uncertainty.  Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.

 

Desmarais, G., & Dixon, M.J. (2006, April). What can the visual identification of sparrows and ostriches tell us about object representations in memory? Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.

 

Stamenova, V, Almeida, Q.A., Black, S.E., Dixon, M., Park, N., Desmarais, G. & Roy, E.A. (2006, March). Hemispheric Differences in the Production and Recognition of Gesture Errors, Poster presented at the 16th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, Toronto, ON

 

Risko, E.F., Dixon, M.J., Besner, D., & Ferber, S.  (2005, June).  The glue that binds: The role of meaning in the persistence of shape from motion.  Poster presented at TENNET 16, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Wagar, B. M., Dixon, M. J.  & Bub, D.N. (2005, June). Categorical information and exemplar information differentially influence object identification. Poster presented at TENNET 16, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Wagar, B. M., and Dixon, M. J.  (2005, April). Automatic prejudice in the amygdala: facial or racial? Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.

 

Desmarais, G., Dixon, M.J., & Roy, E.A. (2005, April). Looking at, holding, and interacting with objects: The richness of our experiences influences the quality of object representations in memory as indexed by naming performance.  Poster presented at the 2005 Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York

 

Wagar, B. M., and Dixon, M. J. (2004, June). Past experience influences object representation in working memory. Poster presented at TENNET 15, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Smith, S.D., Schweizer, T.A. Dixon, M.J.,, Bulman-Fleming, M.B. (2004, June). The relation between the right-hemisphere advantage for anomaly detection and global perception. Poster presented at  TENNET 15, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Vogel-Sprott, M., Jolicoeur, P. & Dixon, M.J. ((2004, June). Effects of alcohol on information processing:Perceptual, Cognitive or Motor.   Research Society on Alcoholism.  Vancouver,  British Columbia.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Vogel-Sprott, M., Jolicoeur, P. & Dixon, M.J. (2003, June). Alcohol, and the bottleneck in the information processing stream.   Research Society on Alcoholism.  Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

 

Wagar, B.M. & Dixon, M.J.  (2003, June) Diagnosticity in visual working memory. Poster presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science,  Hamilton, Ontario.

 

Wagar, B.M. & Dixon, M.J.  (2003, June) Active versus passive binding in visual working memory. Poster presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science,  Hamilton, Ontario.

 

Smith, S., Dixon, M.J., Bulman-Fleming, M.B., Birch, C., Laudi, N. and Wagar, B.M.  (2003, June).  The influence of expertise on hemispheric asymmetries for the detection of anomalies. Poster presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science,  Hamilton, Ontario.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., & Merikle, P.M. (2003, May). The influence of meaning and search strategy on the efficiency of visual search.  Poster presented at the 3nd annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota,  Florida.

 

Merikle, P.M., Smilek, D., Thompson, H. & Dixon, M.J. (2003, March).   Activation of synaesthetic color prior to awareness.   Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society,  Tenth Annual Meeting, New York,  New York.

 

Merikle, P.M., Smilek, D., Myles, K.M., & Dixon, M.J. (2002, August).   Individual differences in synaesthesia.  Poster presented at the 25th annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception.  Glasgow, UK.

 

Dixon, M.J., Myles, K. M., Smilek, D., Zanna,  M.P. & Merikle, P.M. (2002, May). Synaesthetic photisms and context.  Poster presented at the 2nd annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida

 

Dixon, M.J., Myles, K. M., Smilek, D., Zanna, M.P., Duffy, P.L., & Merikle, P.M. (2002, April).  Same shape - different colours: both meaning, and form, determine the colours of graphemes in alphanumeric-colour cynaesthesia. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Ninth Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Dixon, M.J., & Piskopos, M. (2002, April). Psychological distance affects object identification in Herpes encephalitis:  Converging evidence from multiple visual identification tasks. Poster presented at the the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Ninth Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Jolicoeur, P., Dixon, M.J., Ingleton, M. & Vogel-Sprott, M. (2001, June). Effects of alcohol on the psychological refractory period: Beyond the bottleneck. Poster presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science. Laval University, Ste-Foy, Quebec.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Dixon, M.J., Desmarais, G. & Smith, S.D. (2001, June). Not all triads are created equal: Further support for the importance of visual and semantic proximity in object identification.   Poster presented at  TENNET 12, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Desmarais, G., Smith, S.D., Wagar, B.M., & Dixon, M.J. (2001, June). Categorical processing differences for object identification in normal participants. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Laval, Quebec

 

Smith, S.D., Tays, W.J., Dixon, M.J., Bulman-Fleming, M.B. (2001, June). The right hemisphere as an anomaly-detector: Evidence from visual perception. Poster presented at  TENNET 12, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M.J., Cudahy, C., Merikle, P.M. (2001, June). Concept-driven colour experiences in digit colour synaesthesia.  Poster presented at  TENNET 12, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Wagar, B.M., Dixon, M.J., Smilek, D. & Cudahy, C.  (2001, June) Coloured photisms prevent object-substitution masking in digit colour synaesthesia. Poster presented at  TENNET  12, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Smilek, D., Dixon, M. J., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P. M. (2000, November). Synaesthetic photisms influence visual awareness. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

 

Schweizer, T.A., Dixon, M.J., Westwood, D., & Piskopos, M.  (2000, June). Contribution of visual and semantic proximity to identification performance in a viral encephalitis patient. Poster presented at  TENNET 11, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Westwood, D.A., Schweizer, T.A., Heath, M.D., Roy, E.A., Dixon, M.J., & Black, S.E. (2000, June). Transitive gesture production in apraxia : Visual and non-visual sensory contributions. Poster presented at  TENNET 11, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Dixon, M.J., Koehler, D., Schweizer, T., & Guylee, M.J.  (2000, June). Superior single dimension relative to Ôexclusive orÕ categorization performance by a patient with category-specific visual agnosia: empirical data and an alcove simulation. Poster presented at  TENNET 11, Montreal, Quebec, 43, 152-158.

 

Dixon, M.J., Piskopos, M., & Schweizer, T.  (2000, June).  Musical instrument naming impairments:  the crucial exception to the living/nonliving dichotomy in category-specific agnosia. Poster presented at  TENNET 11,   Montreal, Quebec, 43, 158-164.

 

Dowhaniuk, M., Dixon, M.J., Roy, E., Square, P., & Black, S. (2000, June). The use of reaction time measures to evaluate non-word reading in primary progressive aphasia Poster presented at  TENNET 11, Brain & Cognition, 43, 168-172.

 

Guylee, M.J., Elias, L.J., Bulman-Fleming, M.B., & Dixon, M.J., (2000, June). Tactile gap detection and language lateralization. Poster presented at  TENNET 11, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Dixon, M.J., & Arguin, M. (1999, June). Shape set dimensionality vs. structural distance effects in a patient with category-specific visual agnosia.  Poster presented at TENNET 10, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Dixon, M. J. (1999, June).  Tool and bird-exemplar identification in a patient with category specific visual agnosia. Poster presented at  TENNET 10, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Dowhaniuk, M., Dixon, M.J., Roy, E., Square, P., & Black, S. (1999, June).  Rhyme judgment failures in a case of primary progressive aphasia:  A precursor to phonological alexia.  Poster presented at  TENNET 10, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Woodward T.,  Dixon, M.J., Bub, D.N., Mullen, T., & Christensen, K.T.  (1998, October). Error analysis in investigation of color agnosia.  Poster presented at the Fifth Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco.

 

Dixon, M.J., Mill, D., Chertkow, H., Bub, D., & Arguin, M.  (1997, March). Visual and semantic determinants of object recognition deficits in early AlzheimerÕs disease.  Poster presented at  the Rotman Research Conference, Montreal, Quebec.

 

King, S., & Dixon, M.J. (1996, December). Quel est la place des Žmotions ŽxprimŽes dans le modele de vulnerabilitŽ Stress.  Paper presented at La JournŽe scientifique du rŽseua santŽ mentale FRSQ, Montreal, QuŽbec.

 

King, S., & Dixon, M.J. (1996, October). Les attitudes familiales de type haut niveau dÕemotions exprimŽes:  Vraiment un stress pour les patients schizophrenes?  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Club de Rechereches Cliniques du QuŽbec, Mont Ste-Anne, QuŽbec.

 

Arguin, M., Bub, D., Dixon, M.J., Caille, S., & Fontaine, S. (1996, June). Shape integration and semantic proximity effects in visual agnosia for biological objects: a replication. Poster presented at  TENNET 8, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Symposia

 

Dixon, M.J. Smilek, D., Merikle, P.M. (2004, January).  Individual differences in grapheme-colour synaesthesia:  Projector and Associator Synaesthetes.  Symposium presented at the 22nd European Workshop On Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy.

           

Merikle, P.M., Dixon, M.J., & Smilek, D. (2004, January).  Binding of Graphemes and Synaesthetic Colors in Grapheme-Color Synaesthesia Symposium to be presented at the 22nd European Workshop On Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy.

 

Merikle, P.M., Dixon, M.J., & Smilek, D.  (2002, April).  The Role Of Synaesthetic Photisms In Perception, Conception, And Memory.  In The Cognitive Neuroscience of Synesthesia (Noam Sagiv & Edward M. Hubbard, Chairs).  Symposium presented at the ninth annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.

 

TEACHING

 

Formal Classroom Teaching

 

Undergraduate Teaching:

Academic Year                  Term                 Course # & Title                     Approx. Enrollment 

2004/05                             Fall            Psy 261 Biological Psych.                             170

2004/05                             Fall            Psy 461 Cognitive Neuro Sem.                     10

2004/05                             Spr            Psy 261 TBiological Psych (Consult)           100

2004/05                             Win           Psy 261T Biological Psych (Consult)           100

2003/04                             Spr            Psy 261T Biological Psych (Consult)       100

2003/04                             Win           Psy 261T Biological Psych (Co-ord)            100

2002/03                             Fall            Psy 461 Cognitive Neuro Sem.                     15

2002/03                             Fall            Psy 261     Biological Psychology                 150

2001/02                             Win           Psy 307    Neuropsychology                        85

2001/02                             Fall            Psy 261     Biological Psychology                 150

2000/01                             Win           Psy 307    Neuropsychology                        41

2000/01                             Fall            Psy 461     Cognitive Neuro Sem.                  19

1998/99                             Spr            Psy 261     Biological Psych                          75

1999/00                             Win           Psy 261     Biological Psych                          97

1999/00                             Win           Psy 307     Neuropsychology                        45

1998/99                             Win           Psy 307     Neuropsychology                        45

1998/99                             Win           Psy 461     Cognitive Neuro Sem.                  12

1997/98                             Win           Psy 307     Neuropsychology                        40

1996/97                             Win           Psy 363     Advanced Cognition                    36

                                                                              (Concordia University)

 

Qualitative Information Concerning Undergraduate Teaching Contribution

 

Course Evaluations:  Summary Table

Course

Year

Term

Score

Fac. Average

# of Students

Psych 392

2010

W

4.69

4.32

18

Psych 461

2009

F

4.60

 

11

Psych 392

2008

S

4.60

 

20

Sabatical

2008

F

 

 

 

Chair

2007

F,W,S

 

 

 

Chair

2006

F,W,S

 

 

 

Psych 261

2005

W

 4.47*

 4.11 (s.d. .359)

183

Psych 461

2004

F

 4.56*

 4.27 (s.d. .393)

11

Psych 461

2002

F

 4.70

 4.03

15

Psych 261

2002

F

 3.73

 4.03

150

Psych 307

2002

W

 4.24

 3.82

85

Psych 307

2001

W

 4.14

 3.92

45

Psych 261

2001

F

 3.78

 3.72

146

Psych 461

2000

F

 4.64

 3.87

19

Psych 261

2000

W

 4.26

 3.91

97

Psych 307

2000

W

 3.99

 3.91

41

 

 

Average =

(4.25)

(3.95)

 

 

 

 

Formal Classroom Graduate Teaching:

 

Academic Year                  Term                 Course # & Title          Approximate Enrollment

2008/2009                         S                779A Cognitive Neuro                             10

2009/2010                         F                677A  Fundamentals                                12

                                                            (took over this course from

                                                            Dan Smilek who went on

                                                            Family Leave)

2004/05                             Fall            779A   Cognitive Neuropsych                10

2002/03                             Win           677A Fundamentals of                            11

                                                                        Behavioural Neuroscience

2001/02                             Win           779A   Cognitive Neuropsych                7

2000/01                             Win           677A   Fundamentals of                          10

                                                                     Behavioural Neuroscience              

1999/00                             Win           779A Cognitive Neuropsych                  8

1997/98                             Fall            779A   Cognitive Neuropsych                10

           

Undergraduate Supervision

           

Major Advisor on Completed  Honours Thesis 

 

Academic Year                                    Student Name

 

2006/2007                                           Michelle Manios

2005/2006                                           Melanie Matthews

2002/2003                                           Norman Farb, Nadine Laudi, Kathleen Myles

2001/2002                                           Brandon Wagar

2001/2002                                           Katherine Murray, Martin Lochner

2000/2001                                           Murray Guylee (Co-supervised with B. Bulman-Fleming)

2000/2001                                           Christina Gojmerac

1999/2000                                           Sara Kim,

1998/1999                                           Shelley Loewen

 

On-going Undergraduate Supervision  

 

Advisor honours thesis           (student name):                       Topic

2009/2010                               Jackey Lee                               What makes a good bluff? Using

                                                                                                poker to investigate deception)

                                                           

Other undergraduate supervision (e.g., directed or independent study, etc.)

            Academic Year                    Student Name                   Topic

2009/2010    Psych 464                  Jordan Anderson               body distortions

2007/2008    (Visiting schol. US     Emily Maxwell                Synaesthesia

                     (Williamette University)

 

2006/2007    Psych 264                  Ada Yeung                       Actions and Objects

2006/2007    Psych 464                  Sarah Beckman                Actions and Objects

2006/2007    (Psych 464)               Mariel Mainville             Action & Asymmetry

2004/2005    (NSERC- coop)         Heather Mann                Research Apprenticeship

 

2003/2004    visiting schol. (ESP) Alicia Callejas Sevilla        Synaesthesia

2002/2003    (Psych 464)               Maria Pensa                    Research

                                                                                                Apprenticeship

2002/2003    (NSERC)                   Lana Pham                       Research

                                                                                                Apprenticeship

2001/2002     (Psych 480)              Dan Chan                       Synaesthesia

2000/2001    (NSERC)                   Katie Myles                    Research

                                                                                                Apprenticeship

2000/2001    (NSERC)                   Lori Thompson               Research

                                                                                                Apprenticeship                             

2000/2001    (Psych 464)               William Tays                   Research

                                                                                                Apprenticeship

2000/2001    (NSERC)                   Marty Lochner                Research

                                                                                                Apprenticeship                             

1999/2000    (NSERC)                   Brandon Wagar                Research

                                                                                                Apprenticeship

           

1998/1999    (psych 480)               Dana Corfield                  Deep Dyslexia

1998/1999    (psych 480)               Brandon Wagar                Computational models of memory

1998/1999    (Psych 464)               Sara Kim                          Research

                                                                                                Apprenticeship

1998/1999     (Psych 464)              Christina Gojmerac         Research

                                                                                                Apprenticeship

 

 

Graduate Supervision

Ongoing Postdoctoral Supervision

2010                                                    Vance Maclaren (problem gambling)

 

 

Completed Graduate Supervision

 

Major Advisor on Completed Ph.D. Thesis

 

Academic Year                                    Student Name

2008/2009                                           Gillian Munro (defended December 10, 2008)

2005/2006                                           Brandon Wagar (defended September 9, 2005)***

                                                            Awarded Governor General's Gold Medal June 17, 2006

2005/2006                                           Genevieve Desmarais (defended September 6, 2005)

 

2003/2004                                           Tom Schweizer (defended  April 20, 2004)

2002/2003                                           Mark Dowhaniuk   (defended April 29, 2003)

2001/2002                                           Daniel Smilek         (defended July 10, 2002)

                                                            (Co-supervised with Phil Merikle)

2000/2001                                           Duncan McKinlay (defended Aug 22, 2001)

                                           

 

 

Major Advisor on Completed MA or MASc Thesis 

 

Academic Year                                                Student Name

2008                                                                Jutta Peterburs (through Ruhr-University Bochum)

2008                                                                Jennifer Aquino (co supervised with C. Purdon)

2007                                                                Jonathan Carriere (co supervised with Dan Smilek)

2003                                                                Brandon Wagar

2001                                                                Genevieve Desmarais

2000                                                                Tom Schweizer

1997                                                                Mark Dowhaniuk

                                                                         (co-supervised with Eric Roy)

 

Committee Member on Completed Ph.D. Thesis

 

Academic Year                                                Student Name

2009                                                                Chris McNorgan (Ext. Examiner U. of Western)

2008                                                                Chris Streimer

2005                                                                Chris White

2005                                                                Mike Reynolds

2005                                                                Jelana King

2004                                                                Stephen Smith

2004                                                                Quincy Almeida (internal examiner – Kin. PhD)

2003                                                                William Gage (internal examiner – Kin. PhD)

2003                                                                Robert Jing Zhu (internal examiner – Phil. PhD)

2003                                                                Chris Oriet

2003                                                                Martha Roberts

2003                                                                Karen Grattan-Miscio

2002                                                                Todd Girard

2002                                                                George Cree (UWO) external examiner

2001                                                                David Westwood                                                   

2001                                                                Mark Fenske                                                         

2001                                                                Adam Dubrowski (internal examiner – Kin. PhD)

2001                                                                Mark Carpenter (internal examiner – Kin. PhD)

2000                                                                Louise Scott                                                               

1999                                                                Heather McNeely

1999                                                                Patty Ross

1997                                                                Marla Bigel

1997                                                                Jacqui Crebolder

1997                                                                Craig Easdon

1996                                                                Marthe Trembley (Concordia U.)

                                                                        external examiner

 

Reader on Completed MA or MASc Thesis 

 

Academic Year                                                Student Name 

2010                                                                Asmaa Dabbagh

2009                                                                Brian Garrison

2009                                                                Grayden Solmon

2006                                                                Nori Bradley (Kin)

2005                                                                Chris Striemer

2003                                                                Rupah Parakh

2002                                                                Chris White

2000                                                                Steve Smith

2000                                                                Chris Oriet

1999                                                                Karen Grattan

1999                                                                Todd Girard                                                           

1999                                                                Dave Westwood

1999                                                                Karen Baker

 

On-going Graduate Supervision 

 

Major Advisor to Ph.D. Thesis for (student name):

            Michelle Jarick

            Jonathan Carriere (co-supervised with Dan Smilek)

            Jennifer Aquino

            Candice Jensen           

 

SERVICE

Professional Service:

 

Associate Editor:  Journal of International Gambling Studies

 

Paper Reviews:  Average of 24 per year.

External Reviewer for Nature Neuroscience

External Reviewer for Psychological Science

External Reviewer for Cognition

External Reviewer for Cognitive Neuropsychology

External Reviewer for Neuropsychologia

External Reviewer for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

External Reviewer for International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

External Reviewer for Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

External Reviewer for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

External Reviewer for Psychological Science

External Reviewer for Cortex

 

Grant Reviews:  Average of 2 per year
External Reviewer for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

External Reviewer for National Institute of Mental Health

External Reviewer for Fonds de la Recherche en SantŽ du QuŽbec

External Reviewer for the Conseil QuŽbecois de la Recherche Sociale

External Reviewer for the Alzheimer Society of Canada

External Review for the PremierÕs Research Excellence Awards

External Review for the The Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom)

External Review for the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)

 

 

Scholarship Reviews

Member of the Review Panel for Ontario Graduate Scholarships 2000

Chair of the Review Panel for Ontario Graduate Scholarships 2001-2002

Chair of the Review Panel for Ontario Graduate Scholarships 2002-2003
 

Textbook Reviews

I reviewed a textbook entitled Biocognition: An Introduction by H.W. Smith

 

Conference Organization

June 2004 – June 2007 Co-Organizer of TENNET an international conference on theoretical and experimental neuropsychology. 

 

Symposium Organization

 

Dixon, M.J. (2001, June). Cognitive Neuropsychological Investigations of Synaesthesia.  Presenters:  Peter Grossenbacher, Mike J. Dixon, Jason B. Mattingley.  12th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology  (TENNET  12), MontrŽal, QuŽbec.

 

Dixon, M.J. (2000, June). Category-Specific Deficits:  Reflections from Cognitive Neuropsychology.  Presenters: Daniel Tranel,  Emer Forde, Alfonso Caramazza.  11th annual meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology  (TENNET 11), MontrŽal, QuŽbec.  

 

 

Tenure and Promotion External Reviews

Mike Nicholls (2010) Promotion to Professor, University of Melbourne (AUS)

Julia Simner (2010) Promotion to Reader at the University of Edinburg (Scotland)

Noam Sagiv (2010) Promotion to Senior Lecturer at the University of Brunel (U.K.)

Christopher Lovelace 2009 (Promotion to Associate Professor, University of Missouri)

Eric Odgaard 2009 (Promotion to Associate Professor, University of South Florida)

Jamie Ward 2008 (Promotion to Reader at the University of Sussex)

Mark T. Stewart 2007 (Full Professor Application - declined because I felt I was not at arm's length)

George Cree 2007 (University of Toronto - tenure assessment)

Bruce Christensen 2006 (University of Toronto - tenure assessment)

 

Post-doctoral Fellowship Establishment

I have been working with the director (Judith Glynn) of the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre to re-establish a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from this organization.  I got Dean Coates to write a letter to the Board of Governors supporting the idea.  The proposal has been approved by the board of governors and the competition will be posted in January. 

 

Scholarship Reviews

Chair of the Review Panel for Ontario Graduate Scholarships 2002-2003

Chair of the Review Panel for Ontario Graduate Scholarships 2001-2002

Member of the Review Panel for Ontario Graduate Scholarships 2000

 

Textbook Reviews

I reviewed a textbook entitled Biocognition: An Introduction by H.W. Smith

 

University Service:

 

Faculty Level Tenure and Promotion Committee (2009-2010)

 

Arts Faculty Council Representative for the Science Faculty Council (2009-2010)

 

Decanal Search Committee for Dean of Arts (2010)

 

Wrote a letter of support for Suzanne Tyas informing the Department of Health Studies and Gerontology of her substantial contributions to psychology (2009).

 

I gave a talk at a site visit for a Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy (2009).                  

            The University was awarded the chair in November (beating out McGill)

 

PhD defense Chair - Douglas Stebila, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. (March 5, 2009)

 

Served as an internal external reviewer for the Undergraduate Program in Health Studies and Gerontology (March, 2006).

 

In October 2006, 2007, and 2008 I gave a talk on Best Practices in Recruiting and Hiring New Faculty for the Chairs in the Faculty of Arts.

 

Member of the Steering committee overseeing the creation of a centralized animal care facility. (2006 – 2008)

 

Department Service:

Department Chair (July 1, 05 - Nov 3rd, 2007)

 

Duties as Chair

           

Hiring:  Since July of 2005 I have hired Myra Fernandes, David Moscovitch, Uzma Rehman, Liz Nilsen and Britt Anderson.  As chair I interviewed and offered positions to Tim Rogers, Willem Kuyken, David Dozois, Hanako Yoshida, Toni Schmader.  We interviewed but did not offer positions to Jacqui Martin, Jennifer Tackett, Patricia Ganea, Craig Neuman, Russell Johnson.

 

Faculty and Student Awards for which I wrote nominations or helped with applications

–      Evan Risko wins Alumni Gold Medal (2006, 2008)

–      Myra Fernandes (wins Early Researcher Award 2008)

–      Dan Smilek wins Early Researcher Award (2007)

–      Erik Woody wins distinguished teacher award  (2006)

–      James Danckert wins Early Researcher Award (2006)

–      Brandon Wagar wins Governor General's Gold Medal (2006)

 

Canada Research Chairs and Canada Foundation for Innovation on which I worked

            Roxane Itier – CRC/CFI (2009)

            James Danckert – CRC (renewal) 2007, CFI awarded 2007

            David Moscovitch – CRC 2006, CFI 2006

            Christine Purdon, Erik Woody and Jonathan Oakman CFI (LOF) 2006

            Grainne Fitzsimons – CRC 2005, CFI 2005

           

           

Renewals for Second Probationary Period

            Jennifer LaGuardia, Daniel Heller, 2005 Dan Smilek 2006, Ori Friedman, Grainne Fitzsimons, Aaron Kay, Jon Fugelsang 2008

 

Tenure Cases

            James Danckert - 2006

 

Promotion to Full Professor

            Jennifer Stolz, Steve Spencer – 2007

            Geoff Fong, Derek Koehler – 2006

           

New Centres and Laboratories

            Centre for Mental Health Research (2006)

            Laboratory for Collaborative Virtual Environments (2006)

             

Service as Department Member

 

Division Head (Behavioural Neuroscience Division, July 1 04 – June 30, 2005)

Deputy Chair (July 1, 2002 – July 1, 2003)

Member of the Executive Committee, 1998/99, 99/00, 00/01 01/02, 02/03, 04/05

Member of the Chair Search Committee 1999/ 00  02/03, 04/05

Member of the Salary, Tenure and Promotion Committee,  May 2002 – June 2003

Chair of the Space committee (July 2002 – June 2003)

 

Department Promotion

Dixon M. (2005, April).  How the brain perceives the world around us.  Lecture given to Wellington Heights High School students, promoting Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience.

 

Dixon M. (2005, April).  Roses are red and Sixes are blue:  The basics of grapheme colour synaesthesia.  Presentation for the Cognitive Science Club, University of Waterloo.

 

UW Promotion/ Knowledge Mobilization

 

Gambling Lab

 

We hosted the following groups in our slots lab for a one-hour tour of the lab and an additional 1-2 hours to discuss research issues:

Counselors from the Homewood Health Centre (November, 2009)

The 27 employees of the YMCAÕs Youth Gambling Awareness Program (YGAP) in Ontario and Nova Scotia.  (September, 2009)

Members of the Waterloo Region Action Group on Gambling Issues (WRAGGI, wraggi.com).  (June, 2009)

7 members of a sorority group doing volunteer work in the community (October, 2009)

We were also able to give a tour of the lab only (i.e. no discussion after) to members from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) and the OPGRC. (November, 2009)

 

Our research on slot machine gambling will be featured on 60 Minutes (airing 2010).  Filming takes place December 16th  2009.

 

Synaesthesia

Our synaesthesia research has received a great deal of press for the University of Waterloo.  Features have appeared in: Time Magazine, The Washington Post (U.S), The Daily Telegraph (U.K.), The National Post (Canada), The Vancouver  Sun, The Toronto Star, as well as other newspapers in Europe and Japan.  Features also appeared in The Economist, the APA Monitor and the Smithsonian Magazine.  Radio Interviews were conducted internationally on BBC radio 1, (UK), and National Public Radio, (U.S.) as well as on more local stations (AM 800 Windsor).  Finally a television interview was conducted for CKCO TV (2001) and a special feature on our work on Synaesthesia was produced for the Discovery Channel.  In 2006, I did a science piece for American T.V. news (Ivanhoe Productions) that appeared in 2007.  I have given invited presentations on synaesthesia all over the world, (e.g., U.K., Australia, Italy, Spain, U.S.)

                 

In 2007 Our work on synaesthesia was numbered among the Top Discoveries at the University of Waterloo.