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B.A., University of Lethbridge, 1991
M.Sc., University of Western, 1993
Ph.D., University of Western, 1996

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Research Interests

Sleep; sleep functions; synaptic plasticity during sleep and waking; sleep and memory consolidation; EEG.

I became interested in Behavioral Neuroscience after taking a course on “Brain and Behavior” taught by Ian Whishaw at the University of Lethbridge. I started to work with Ian and, in 1991, received a B.A. (Psychology) from the U of L. Subsequently, I went to the University of Western Ontario to work with Case Vanderwolf. I received a M.Sc. in Neuroscience in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1996. From 1996-1997, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Physiological Psychology, University of Duesseldorf, Germany, working with J. P. Huston. In 1998, I took up my current position in the Department of Psychology at ���ϳԹ���Դ.

Research in the Sleep and Neuroplasticity Lab is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The project title is: "How special is sleep for human memory consolidation?"

Selected Publications

Books

Dringenberg, H.C. (Editor). (2019) Handbook of Sleep Research. Vol. 30, Handbook of Behavioural Neuroscience. Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego, pp. 1-738.

BOOK CHAPTERS:
Dringenberg, H.C. (2019) Sleep and memory consolidation: conceptual and methodological challenges. In: Dringenberg, H.C. (ed.). Handbook of Sleep Research. Academic Press/Elsevier, pp. 489-501.

Dringenberg, H.C., and Kuo, M.-C. (2006) Cholinergic, histaminergic, and noradrenergic regulation of LTP stability and induction threshold: cognitive implications. In: Levin, E.D., Butcher, L, and Decker, M. (eds.). Neurotransmitter Interactions and Cognitive Function. Birkhäuser, Boston, pp. 165-183.

Journal Publications

Dringenberg, H.C. (2020) The history of long-term potentiation as a memory mechanism: controversies, confirmation, and some important lessons to remember. Hippocampus, 30, 987-1012.

Lo, E.B.L., Laferriere, L.J.C., Stewart, M.R., Milanovic, M., Kinney, M., Bowie, C.R., and Dringenberg, H.C. (2021) Does napping enhance the consolidation of clinically relevant information? A comparison of individuals with low and elevated depressive symptoms. Nature and Science of Sleep, 2021:13 141-152.

Dastgheib, M., Kulanayagam, A., and Dringenberg, H.C. (2022) Is the role of sleep in memory consolidation overrated? Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 140:104799.

B.A., University of British Columbia, 1985
M.A., York University, 1989
Ph.D., York University, 1993

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Name Pronunciation Guide:
"WENdee Creg"

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Research Interests

My research program focuses on bullying, victimization, healthy relationships, and knowledge mobilization – moving research into practise and practise into research. Over the past 30 years, I have examined bullying and victimization from a developmental psychopathology perspective. I argue that this type of aggressive behaviour merits attention because it underlies many problems related to interpersonal violence. From a developmental perspective, the lessons learned in bullying within peer relationships generalize to other developmentally significant relationships, such as romantic and familial relationships. My current research projects include: understanding the biological, psychological, and social correlates of cyberbullying, peer victimization, peer defending and teen dating violence; investigating the role of shame in bullying and the associated mental health consequences; and evaluating knowledge mobilization of bullying research and its impact. More information on my knowledge mobilization work can be found at (Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network).

My secondary area of research is on teen dating violence. Students, parents, teachers, school administrators and community agencies have a shared responsibility to promote positive relationships, prevent dating violence, and create healthy school climates. Educators are faced with challenging situations involving unhealthy relationships, such as dating violence. Currently, there is a lack of research on what is the content of the training that preservice teachers and practicing teachers require; on how preservice educators implement this training when they gain employment; on what is the most effective way to provide this training to teachers; and how best to get these much needed resources to educators. I am examining how to enhance preservice and service educators’ capacity and competencies to prevent dating violence and promote healthy relationships through a gender-based lens by providing new training, new resources, and new methods of disseminating the training. Through PREVNet, we lead a Community of Practise of 21 intervention projects addressing teen dating violence.

Selected Publications

Theresa A McIver, Rachael L Bosma, Sarah Goegan, Aislinn Sandre, Janell Klassen, Julian Chiarella, Linda Booij, Wendy Craig. (in press). Functional Connectivity Across Social Inclusion and Exclusion is Related to Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms in Young Adults. Journal of Affective Disorders

Elgar, Frank, Gariepy. Genevieve, Dirks, Melanie, Walsh, Sophie, Molcho, Michal, Cosma, Alina, Malinowska-Cieslik, Marta, & Craig, Wendy. (2019). Early-life exposure to income inequality and bullying in adolescence: panel study in 40 countries, Journal of American Medical Association Pediatrics, e191181-e191181

Lambe, L.J., Craig, W.M., & Hollenstein, T. (2019). Blunted physiological stress reactivity among youth with a history of bullying and victimization: links to depressive symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1-13.

Lambe, L. J., Della Cioppa, V., Hong, I. K., & Craig, W. M. (2019). Standing up to bullying: a social ecological review of peer defending in offline and online contexts. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 45, 55-71.

Irwin, A., Li, J., Craig, W.M., & Hollenstein, T. (2019). The role of shame in peer victimization and mental health outcomes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 156-181

Hodgins, Zoe, Kelley, Elizabeth Kloosterman, Patricia, Hall, Layla, Hudson, Chloe, Furlano, Rosaria & Craig, Wendy. (2018). Brief Report: Do You See What I See? The Perception of Bullying in Male Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 10.1007/s10803-018-3739-y

Hong, Irene, Wang, Weijun, Craig, Wendy M., & Pepler, Debra J. (2018). Peer victimization though a trauma lens: Identifying who is at risk for negative outcomes. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. .

McIver,T. Bosma, R., Sandre, A., Goegan, S., Klassen, J., Chiarella, J. & Craig, W. (2018). Peer Victimization Is Associated With Neural Response to Social Exclusion. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 64 (1), 135-161. Retrieved from

Michaelson V, Donnelly P, Morrow W, King N, Craig W, Pickett W. (2018). Violence, adolescence, and Canadian religious communities. J Interpers Violence. 2018 May 1:886260518775160. doi: 10.1177/0886260518775160. [Epub ahead of print]

10. Lambe, L., Hudson, C., & Craig, W. (2017). Does defending come with a cost? Examining the psychosocial correlates of defending behaviour among bystanders of bullying in a Canadian sample. Child Abuse and Neglect, 65:112-123. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.01.012.

B.A., (Hons), University of Alberta, 1992
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 1999

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Research Interests

Fear is highly adaptive in that it serves to protect us from harm in threatening situations. However, when fear is extreme or when it is inappropriate to the situation, it is no longer adaptive. My research is concerned with the neural circuits responsible for mediating fear as a useful adaptation, as well as with how altered brain function might promote maladaptive levels of fear. We use animal models of anxiety (rats being our animal of choice) to study how fear is regulated in the brain (e.g., what brain structures, neurochemicals and receptor types are involved?). We also explore how these neural systems and the defensive behaviors they regulate are modified by prior experience (e.g., maternal neglect in early life and/or chronic stress in adulthood). Our experimental approach involves behavioral testing, maternal care paradigms, intra-cerebral and peripheral drug administration, neuroanatomical lesions and immunohistochemistry.

Selected Publications

Chee S-S A, Menard JL, Dringenberg H (2014) Behavioural anxiolysis without reduction of hippocampal theta frequency after histamine application in the lateral septum of rats. Hippocampus, 24:615-627.

Chee S-S A, Menard JL. (2013) The histaminergic H1, H2, and H¬3 receptors of the lateral septum differentially mediate the anxiolytic-like effects of histamine on rats’ defensive behaviors in the elevated plus maze and novelty-induced suppression of feeding paradigm. Physiology & Behaviour, 116-117: 66-74.

Trent NL*, Menard JL. (2013) Lateral septal infusions of the Neuropeptide Y Y2 receptor agonist, NPY13-36 differentially affect different defensive behaviors in male, Long Evans rats. Physiology & Behaviour, 110-111: 20-29.

Wilkin MM*, Waters P, McCormick, CM & Menard, JL. (2012). Intermittent physical stress during early- and mid-adolescence differentially alters rats’ anxiety- and depression-like behaviours in adulthood. Behavioral Neuroscience.

Trent NL*, Menard JL. (2011) Infusions of neuropeptide Y into the lateral septum reduce anxiety-related behaviors in the rat. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 99: 580-590.

Che S-SA*, Menard JL (2011) Lesions of the dorsal lateral septum do not affect neophagia in the novelty induce suppression of feeding paradigm but reduce defensive behaviours in the elevated plus maze and shock probe burying tests. Behavioural Brain Research, 220: 362-366.

Trent NL*, Menard JL. (2010) The ventral hippocampus and the lateral septum work in tandem to regulate rats' open-arm exploration in the elevated plus-maze. Physiology & Behavior (101): 141-152.

Simpson SM, Menard JL, Reynolds RN, Beninger RJ (2010) Post-weaning social isolation increases activity in a novel environment but decreases defensive burying and subchronic mk-801 enhances the activity but not the burying effect in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior (95): 72-79.

Hakvoort Schwerdtfeger RM*, Menard JL (2008) The lateral hypothalamus and anterior hypothalamic nucleus differentially contribute to rats’ defensive responses in the elevated plus-maze and shock-probe burying tests. Physiology & Behavior, 93: 697-705.

Dringenberg HC, Levine Y*, Menard JL (2008) Electrical stimulation of dorsal, but not ventral hippocampus reduces behavioral defense in the elevated plus maze and shock-probe burying test in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 143-147.

Menard JL, Hakvoort RM* (2007) Variations of maternal care alter offspring levels of behavioral defensiveness in adulthood: evidence for a threshold model. Behavioural Brain Research, 176: 302-313.

Pohl J, Olmstead MC, Wynne-Edwards KE, Harkness K, Menard JL. (2007) Repeated exposure to stress across the childhood-adolescent period alters rats' anxiety- and depression-like behaviours in adulthood: The importance of stressor type and gender. Behavioural Neuroscience, 121: 462-274.

Hancock S, Menard JL, Olmstead C (2005) Variations of maternal care influence vulnerability to stress-induced binge eating in adolescent female rats. Physiology & Behavior, 85: 430-439.

Menard JL, Champagne D, Meaney MJ (2004) Variations of maternal care differentially influence 'fear' reactivity and regional patterns of C-Fos immunoreactivity in response to the shock-probe burying test. Neuroscience, 129: 297-308.

Menard J, Treit D (2001) The anxiolytic effects of intra-hippocampal midazolam are antagonized by intra-septal L-glutamate. Brain Research, 888: 163-166.

Menard J, Treit D (2000) Intra-septal infusions of excitatory amino acid receptor antagonists have differential effects in two animal models of anxiety. Behavioral Pharmacology, 11(2): 99-108.

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B.A. (Hon.), McGill University, 2011
Ph.D., McGill University, 2017

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Name Pronunciation Guide:
"mih-SHELL more-ning-star"

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Research Interests

My research focuses on the development of emotional communication and social cognition from childhood to adulthood. I am particularly interested in the ways in which we learn to express and perceive emotional states through nonverbal cues, such as tone of voice. I use a variety of methods, including speech analysis and functional neuroimaging, to determine how these basic emotional skills contribute to our social functioning and psychological well-being across development.

Publications

For a full list of publications, please see my page.

B.Sc. (Hons), Western University, 2005
M.A., University of Toronto, 2007
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2011

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Research Interests

What happens when we remember? Most saliently, we experience a record of our past, but we also change the memories we retrieve: for example, leading questions alter eyewitness memories, inducing possible miscarriages of justice. Furthermore, retrieved memories help us to form new ones: recollecting details from course prerequisites helps with retention of new lecture material.

I research the consequences of bringing memories to life. To this end, my studies frequently incorporate monitoring of human brain activity with fMRI. Using computational methods, I track neural evidence of memory reactivation within participants’ brains, which I relate to other processes such as memory formation, forgetting, planning for the future, and perception.

In related work, I research neural processes that underlie remembering, focusing on how and why individual differences in our brain anatomy explain differences in our memory ability, especially as they concern the hippocampus. Because of the spatial complexity of neuroanatomy, this work incorporates conceptual and methodological development in the area of neuroanatomical modeling.

Selected Publications

Poppenk, J., McIntosh, A.R., & Moscovitch, M. (in press). fMRI evidence of equivalent neural suppression by repetition and prior knowledge. Neuropsychologia.

Poppenk, J., & Norman, K.A. (2014). Briefly cuing memories leads to suppression of their neural representations. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 8010-8020.

Poppenk, J., Evensmoen, H., Nadel, L., & Moscovitch, M. (2013). Long-axis specialization in the human hippocampus. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17, 230-40.

Poppenk, J., & Moscovitch, M. (2011). A hippocampal marker of recollection memory ability among healthy young adults: contributions of posterior and anterior segments. Neuron, 6, 931-937.

Poppenk, J., Köhler, S., & Moscovitch, M. (2010). Revisiting the novelty effect: When familiarity, not novelty, enhances memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 36, 1321-1330

B.A., McGill University, 1996
Ph.D., McGill University, 2003

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Name Pronunciation Guide:
"KA·ruh·line Poo·KAWL"

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Research Interests

My research focuses on sexual wellbeing. Research streams include genitopelvic dysesthesias, specifically vulvodynia and persistent genital arousal disorder, the development of patient-reported outcome measures in the areas of sexual health and wellbeing, treatment outcome, and sexual psychophysiology. I intentionally adopt an inclusive lens in my research, representing sexually and gender minoritized samples as well as other marginalized groups. Methods of investigation range from self-report (face-to-face, online, survey; quantitative and qualitative) to basic science methodologies including quantitative sensory testing, blood flow imaging, and brain/pelvic imaging, allowing for mixed-methods and multimethod study designs.

Selected Publications

Bohm-Starke N, Pukall CF, Österberg M, Ahlberg M, Jonsson AK, Tranæus S, Kempe S, Hellberg C (2024). Development of a core outcome set for treatment studies for provoked vestibulodynia. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 21, 556-565.

Mooney K, Mulroy M, Poirier É, Pukall CF (2024). Interpersonal experiences with persistent genital arousal: Connections between symptom disclosure, partner responses, and catastrophizing on relationship adjustment and symptom severity. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 50, 182-196. 

Levang S, Pukall CF (2024). An investigation of associations between pain catastrophizing and pain disability in a diverse sample of persons with endometriosis. The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, 46, 102340.

Mulroy M, Jackowich R, Pukall CF (2024). Examining the psychometric properties of the HBI-19 scale in a sample of women with persistent genital arousal symptoms. Journal of Sex Research, 61, 603-613. DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2023.2176423

Henkelman M, Jacobson JA, Pukall CF (2024). Measuring sexual function in gender minority individuals: A critical review. Current Sexual Health Reports, 16, 58-65. 

Warren HJM, Ioachim G, Powers JM, Staud R, Pukall CF, Stroman PW (2024). Using structural equation modeling to investigate the neural basis of altered pain processing in fibromyalgia with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Medical Research Archives, 12, 1-21. 

Jackowich R, Poirier É, Pukall CF (2024). Predictors of psychosocial and functional outcomes in Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder/Genitopelvic Dysesthesia: Application of the Fear Avoidance Model. The Journal of Pain, 25, 238-249.

Mautz T, Mulroy M, Krapf J, Goldstein AT, Pukall CF (2023) Pleasure despite pain: Associations between experiences of vulvar pleasure, pain, and sexual function in patients with chronic vulvar pain conditions. Sexual Medicine, 11, 1-14.

Tassone D, Gauvin S, Flores Jr L, Pukall CF (2023). “It happens to everyone” vs. “You’re not a real man”: The relationship between intimate communication and men’s sexual difficulties. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 49, 869-885.

Mulroy M, Pukall CF (2023). Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder/Genitopelvic Dysesthesia: Review of the current state of the treatment literature and future directions in treatment. Current Sexual Health Reports, 15, 231-243. 

Ioachim G, Warren H, Powers J, Staud R, Pukall CF, Stroman P (2023). Distinct neural signaling characteristics between fibromyalgia and provoked vestibulodynia revealed by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging in the brainstem and spinal cord. Frontiers in Pain Research, 4: 1171160. DOI: 

Levang S, Henkelman M, Neish R, Zukerman W, Terrell B, Jackman V, Coyle S, Brahmbhatt J, Pukall CF (2023). “Blue balls” and sexual coercion: A survey study of genitopelvic pain after sexual arousal without orgasm and its implications on sexual advances. Sexual Medicine, 11, 1-8. 

Giovannetti O, Tomalty D, Gilmore S, Pattison A, Komisaruk B, Goldstein S, Hanna J, Goldstein I, Pukall CF, Adams MA (2023). The contribution of the cervix to sexual response: An online survey study. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 20(1), 49-56. doi: 10.1093/jsxmed/qdac010

McInnis MK, Pukall CF (2023). Sexual script flexibility after a prostate cancer diagnosis: Implications for sexual satisfaction. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 41(3), 267-276. DOI: 10.1080/07347332.2022.2102958

Yessick LR, Gauvin S, Salomons TV, Pukall CF (2023). Pain characteristics, sexual script flexibility, and penetration control cognitions in those experiencing anodyspareunia. Psychology & Sexuality, 14, 321-336. DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2022.2118069

Ph.D., Biological & Cognitive Psychology, Simon Fraser University (SFU), 2003 – 2007.
M.A., Behavioural & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Western Ontario (UWO), 2001-2003.
Hons. B.A. with Distinction, Scholars’ Electives & Psychology, UWO, 1997-2001.

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Name Pronunciation Guide:
"SAIRee van ANDers"

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Research Interests

Our research program focuses on gender/sex and sexual diversity, sexuality, feminist/queer science, and social neuroendocrinology. Within gender/sex and sexual diversity, we explore measurement and understandings of these phenomena, including with models we've developed (like sexual configurations theory), and with relevance to trans, nonbinary, queer, and/or other minoritized gender/sex/ual experiences/identities/existences, as well as "majority-situating" approaches with gender/sex/ual majorities. With sexuality, we explore desire, orgasm, pleasure, porn, and other topics, including with theory we've developed (like the heteronormativity theory of low sexual desire in women partnered with men). With social neuroendocrinology, we  explore the impact of social behavioural contexts related to intimacy, gender, sexuality, and power/oppression on hormones like testosterone, using theory we have developed (like our steroid/peptide theory of social bonds). And, with feminist/queer science, we do work on articulating principles for this approach and how it imbues all our other research.

Selected Publications

van Anders SM, Beischel WJ, Schudson ZC, & Chadwick SB, in press. Feminist and queer science: Principles for research with gender, sex, and sexuality in psychology and beyond. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

van Anders SM, 2024. Gender/Sex/ual diversity and biobehavioral research. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 11, 471-487.

Beischel WJ, Schudson ZC, Hoskin RA, & van Anders SM, 2023. The Gender/Sex 3x3: Measuring and categorizing gender/sex beyond binaries. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 10, 355-372.

van Anders SM, Herbenick D, Brotto LA, Chadwick SB, & Harris EA, 2022. The heteronormativity theory of low sexual desire in women partnered with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 391-415. doi: 10.1007/s10508-021-02100-x

Beischel WJ, Schudson ZC, & van Anders SM, 2021. Visualizing gender/sex diversity via sexual configurations theory. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 8, 1-13.

Hyde JS, Bigler* RB, Joel* DS, Tate* CC, & van Anders* SM, 2019. The future of sex and gender in psychology: Five challenges to the gender binary. American Psychologist, 74, 171-193. DOI:  “*” indicates alphabetical ordering.

van Anders SM, Schudson ZC, Abed EC, Beischel WJ, Dibble ER, Gunther OD, Kutchko VJ, & Silver ER, 2017. Biological sex, gender, and public policy.

van Anders SM, Steiger J, & Goldey KL, 2015. Gendered behavior modulates testosterone in women and men. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 13805-13810.

van Anders SM, 2015. Beyond sexual orientation: Integrating gender/sex and diverse sexualities in Sexual Configurations Theory. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1177-1213.

van Anders SM, 2013. Invited contribution: Beyond masculinity: Testosterone, gender/sex, and human social behavior in a comparative context. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 34, 198-210.

van Anders SM & Goldey KL, 2012. The Steroid/Peptide Theory of Social Bonds: A reply to Goodson’s letter to the editor. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 37, 445.

MS, Yale University 2011
MPhil, Yale University 2012
PhD, Yale University 2016

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Name Pronunciation Guide:
"VEER-uh VINE"

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Research Interests

My work focuses on biopsychosocial mechanisms in the development of youth emotion dysregulation and related outcomes (e.g., depression, suicide). I am especially interested in understanding the costs, benefits, and foundations--social and biological--of emotion awareness. My work draws on theories of embodied emotion and interoception (upward body-to-brain communication) and integrates multiple methodologies (behavioral, psycholinguistic, biological) to measure emotion experience and the social and biological processes informing it.

Selected Publications

Vine, V., Boyd, R. L., & Pennebaker, J. P. (2020). Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being. Nature Communications, 11, 4525.

Vine, V., Victor, S. E., Mohr, H., Byrd, A. L., & Stepp, S. D. (2020). Adolescent suicide risk and experiences of dissociation in daily life. Psychiatry Research, 287, 112870.

Vine, V., Byrd, A. L., Mohr, H., Scott, L. N., Beeney, J. E., & Stepp, S. D. (2020). The structure of psychopathology in a sample of clinically referred, emotionally dysregulated early adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 48(11), 1379-1393.

Vine, V., Hilt, L. M., Marroquín, B. M., & Gilbert, K. E. (2019). Socially oriented thinking and the biological stress response: Thinking of friends and family predicts trajectories of salivary cortisol decline. Psychophysiology, 56(12), e13461.

Vine, V., Bernstein, E. E., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2019). Less is More? Effects of exhaustive vs. minimal emotion labeling on emotion regulation strategy planning. Cognition & Emotion, 33(4), 855-826.

Vine, V. & Marroquín, B. (2018). Affect intensity moderates the association of emotional clarity with emotion regulation and depressive symptoms in unselected and treatment-seeking samples. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 42(1), 1-15.

Vine, V., & Aldao, A. (2014). Impaired emotional clarity: A transdiagnostic deficit with symptom-specific pathways through emotion regulation. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 33(4), 319-342.

Vine, V., Aldao, A., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2014). Chasing clarity: Rumination as a strategy for making sense of emotions. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 5(3), 229-243.

B.A., University of Western Ontario, 2011
M.A., University of Waterloo, 2014
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 2017

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Name Pronunciation Guide:
"jef WAW-miss"

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Research Interests

My research focuses on understanding how learning and experience can fundamentally reshape the way we represent information in memory, as well as how our representational spaces are actively reorganized to facilitate retrieval from memory. To address these questions, I have studied the costs of divided attention, the benefits of active learning tasks (e.g. drawing, motor enactment), and the changes in patterns of brain activity elicited by regularities in our environment. In other work, I have explored the experience of mind-wandering, a commonly experienced phenomenon where our thoughts drift away from what we are currently doing and toward internal thoughts and concerns. Specifically, I am interested in how episodes of mind wandering impact learning and performance, and how mind wandering might be reduced in educational settings. I use behavioural experiments, computational tools, and functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate these and related questions, and wherever possible, I conduct experiments that relate the laboratory to the real-world (e.g. long-term studies in actual university classrooms).

Selected Publications

In addition:
Fan, J. E., Wammes, J. D., Gunn, J. B., Yamins, D. L. K., Norman, K. A. & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2020). Relating visual production and recognition of objects in human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 40, 1710-1721

Wammes, J. D., Jonker, T. R., & Fernandes, M. A. (2019). Drawing improves memory: The importance of multimodal encoding context. Cognition, 191, 103955.

Wammes, J. D., Ralph, B. C., Mills, C., Bosch, N., Duncan, T. L., & Smilek, D. (2019). Disengagement during lectures: Media multitasking and mind wandering in university classrooms. Computers & Education, 132, 76-89.

Wammes, J. D., Meade, M. E., & Fernandes, M. A. (2018). Creating a recollection-based memory through drawing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 734-751.

Wammes, J. D., & Fernandes, M. A. (2017). The residual protective effects of enactment. Cognition, 164, 87-101.

Wammes, J. D., & Smilek, D. (2017). Examining the influence of lecture format on degree of mind wandering. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 174-184.

Wammes, J. D., Meade, M. E., & Fernandes, M. A. (2016). The drawing effect: Evidence for reliable and robust memory benefits in free recall. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 1752-1776 .

B.Sc., University of Waterloo, 1995
M.A., Wilfrid Laurier University, 1997
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2003

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Research Interests

To function successfully, we need to be able to select the perceptual information relevant to current task goals, and the responses appropriate given the current task goals. I am interested in the attentional control processes that we use to flexibly control our perceptions, memories, and actions in our attempt to successfully complete tasks. Using a combination of behavioural studies and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies, I examine limitations in attentional control, how attentional control processes shape the world that we perceive, and the cortical mechanisms that underlie attentional control.

Selected Publications

1. Harrison, G. W., Rajsic, J., & Wilson, D. E. (February, 2016). Object-Substitution Masking Degrades the Quality of Conscious Object Representations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(1), 180-186 doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0875-7.

2. Rajsic, J., Wilson, D. E., Pratt, J. (October, 2015). Confirmation bias in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology; Human Perception & Performance, 41(5), 1353-1364, doi: 10.1037/xhp0000090.

3. Furlano, R., Kelley, E., Hall, L., & Wilson, D. (May, 2015). Self-perception of competencies in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Autism Research, 8(6), 761-770, doi: 10.1002/aur.1491.

4. Rajsic, J., & Wilson, D. E. (Oct., 2014). Asymmetrical access to color and location in visual working memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76, 1902-1913. doi: 10.3758/s13414-014-0723-2

5. Rajsic, J., Bi, Y., & Wilson, D. E. (2014). Long-term facilitation of return: A response-retrieval effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 21(2) 418-424. doi: 10.3758/s13423-013-0502-4

6. Wild, C. J., Yusuf, A., Wilson, D. E., Peelle, J. E., Davis, M. H., Johnsrude, I. S. (2012). Effortful Listening: The processing of degraded speech depends critically on attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 14010-14021. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1528-12.2012

7. Wilson, D. E., Muroi, M., & MacLeod, C. M. (2011). Dilution, not load, affects distractor processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 37, 319-335.

8. Greenberg, A., Esterman, M., Wilson, D. E., Serences, J., & Yantis, S. (2010). Control of Spatial and Feature-Based Attention in Frontoparietal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 14330-14339.

9. Joordens, S., Wilson, D. E., Spalek, T. M., & Paré, D. E. (2010). Turning the Process-Dissociation Procedure Inside-Out: A New Technique for Understanding the Relation Between Conscious and Unconscious Influences. Consciousness & Cognition, 19, 270-280.

10. Dodd, M. D., & Wilson, D. E. (2009). Training attention: Interactions between central cues and reflexive attention. Visual Cognition, 17, 736-754.

11. Wilson, D. E., MacLeod, C. M., & Muroi, M. (2008). Practice in visual search produces decreased capacity demands but increased distraction. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 1130-1137.

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