I received my PhD in cognitive psychology from McMaster University in 2009. Since then, I have worked at Mount Allison University, Nipissing University, Acadia University, and Thompson Rivers University. In 2013, I was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching from Nipissing University for my teaching of undergraduate statistics. In 2015, I obtained a permanent position at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Presently I teach Statistics, Cognition, Motivation and Emotion, Personality, and Introductory Psychology. In the past I have taught Sensation and Perception, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology of Motivation and Emotion, Psychopharmacology, Drugs and Behaviour, Research Methods, and Abnormal Psychology.
Currently my research interests lie at the intersection of emotion and perception. The experiments that I conduct are designed to reveal how exposure to emotional stimuli (e.g., facial expressions, arousing scenes, taboo words) affects the quality of our subsequent visual and auditory perception.
My research has been published in the peer-reviewed journals: Cognition & Emotion, Visual Cognition, and Experimental Brain Research, and I have also published an invited chapter on the topic of Spatial Attention for the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Presently I teach Statistics, Cognition, Motivation and Emotion, Personality, and Introductory Psychology. In the past I have taught Sensation and Perception, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology of Motivation and Emotion, Psychopharmacology, Drugs and Behaviour, Research Methods, and Abnormal Psychology.
Currently my research interests lie at the intersection of emotion and perception. The experiments that I conduct are designed to reveal how exposure to emotional stimuli (e.g., facial expressions, arousing scenes, taboo words) affects the quality of our subsequent visual and auditory perception.
My research has been published in the peer-reviewed journals: Cognition & Emotion, Visual Cognition, and Experimental Brain Research, and I have also published an invited chapter on the topic of Spatial Attention for the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience.