À vos agendas: les 7, 8 et 11 avril
Le Bureau de la recherche a une fois de plus le plaisir de vous inviter au Festival de la recherche. Cet événement annuel célèbre les réalisations de notre communauté de chercheuses et chercheurs à Glendon.
TABLES RONDES
Cette année, le Bureau de la recherche organisera deux tables rondes ayant pour thèmes les effets de la COVID 19 sur nos activités de recherche et la recherche en français dans un contexte minoritaire.
Pour explorer ces questions, le Vice-principal à la recherche et aux études supérieures, Colin Coates a invité une série de chercheuses et de chercheurs de l’Université à partager leurs expériences et leurs stratégies.
Chaque table ronde est conçue pour inclure une discussion libre. La première abordera les impacts de la COVID-19 sur nos activités de recherche ? La deuxième explorera l’importance de la collaboration en recherche pour les chercheuses et chercheurs francophones et francophiles travaillant en contexte minoritaire?
JEUDI 7 AVRIL
10 H 00 À 11 H 30
TABLE RONDE #1
LA RECHERCHE AUX TEMPS DE LA COVID-19
Joignez-vous à un groupe dynamique de chercheuses et chercheurs de notre communauté de recherche. Elles/Ils partageront leurs propres expériences sur la manière dont la pandémie a affecté leur productivité en matière de recherche et/ou leur travail, leur famille, les circonstances communautaires et/ou leur santé et leur bien-être, mais aussi des idées pour aller de l’avant. Après avoir entendu nos invités, nous aurons l’occasion d’engager une discussion avec les participants.
Discours d’ouverture:
Jennifer Hyndman
Vice-présidente adjointe à la recherche, Recherche et Innovation
Modérateur:
Francis Garon
Directeur aux études supérieures. École d’Affaires publiques et internationales de Glendon (L’ÉAPI)
Panélistes
Ellen Gutterman
Professeure agrégée/directrice
Département des sciences politiques, Collège Glendon
Shirin Shahrokni
Professeure agrégée
Département de sociologie, Collège Glendon
Buddhika Bellana
Professeur adjoint
Département de psychologie, Colllège Glendon
JEUDI 7 AVRIL
13 H 00 À 14 H 30
TABLE RONDE #2
LA RECHERCHE EN FRANÇAIS: L’IMPORTANCE DE LA COLLABORATION DANS UN CONTEXTE LINGUISTIQUE MINORITAIRE
Les collaborations institutionnelles en matière de recherche sont-elles devenues plus importantes dans un contexte minoritaire ? Comment les domaines de la recherche ont-ils évolué ?
Événement en français
Modératrice
Marie Elaine Lebel
Professeure agrégée
Formation linguistique pour les études en français
Panélistes
Elaine Coburn
Professeure agrégée – Études internationales
Directrice – Centre recherche féministe (CFR)
Geneviève Quintin
Directrice adjointe – Centre de santé cognitive de Glendon
co-coordonnatrice – CNFS
Gertrude Mianda
Professeure titulaire – Études des femmes de genre et de sexualité
Directrice de L’Institut Harriet Tubman
Muriel Péguret
Professeure agrégée– Études françaises
Co-chercheure – Camerise
Centre de recherche sur les langues et les cultures en contact
Amelie Barras
Professeure adjointe -Département des sciences sociales
LA&PS – Université York
VENDREDI 8 AVRIL
9 H 30 À 12 H 30
CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SUR LE CONTACT DES LANGUES ET DES CULTURES
Le CRLCC célèbre la recherche de ses membres avec la publication de deux ouvrages
9 h 30 – 11 h 00
Negotiating Linguistic Plurality: Translation and Multilingualism in Canada and Beyond dirigé par María Constanza Guzmán et Sehnaz Tahir Gürçaglar. Cet ouvrage est le produit de plusieurs événements organisés par le Groupe de recherche sur la traduction et le contact Trasnculturel du CRLCC. Il rassemble les travaux de Sanjukta Banerjee, María Sierra Córdoba Serrano, Martin Cyr Hicks, Mark Fettes, Deborah Folaron, María Constanza Guzmán, Susan Ingram et Joshua M. Price.
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- María Constanza Guzmán est professeure agrégée de traduction et d’études hispaniques au Collège Glendon de l’Université York et auteure de Mapping Spaces of Translation in Twentieth-Century Latin American Print Culture
- Sehnaz Tahir Gürçaglar est professeure auxiliaire en traductologie et enseigne au Campus Glendon de l’Université York.
11 h 15 – 12 h 30
Translation, Semiotics, and Feminism: Selected Writings of Barbara Godard, dirigé par Eva C. Karpinski et Elena Basile, rassemble seize des essais les plus importants de Barbara Godard en ce qui a trait à ses réflexions sur la traduction et le féminisme des années 1980 aux années 2000.
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- Eva C. Karpinski est professeure agrégée à l’Université York à Toronto. Elle est l’auteur de Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation (2012) et co-éditrice de Life Writing Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas (Routledge, 2020). Elle est rédactrice en chef pour a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
- Elena Basile enseigne à l’Université York et à l’Université de Toronto. Elle est l’auteur de A Scene of Intimate Entanglements or, reckoning with the ‘Fuck’ of Translation, » in Queering Translation, Translating the Queer (Routledge, 2017) et co-traductrice avec Michela Baldo de Lorenzo Bernini’s Queer Theories: An Introduction (Routledge, 2020).
Pour les nouvelles professeures et nouveaux professeurs de Glendon
Pour les membres du corps professoral embauchés entre 2019 et 2021 cet événement est conçu pour vous présenter les nombreuses ressources disponibles à Glendon et vous donner l’occasion de créer des liens avec vos nouveaux collègues, et de discuter de questions de recherche avec le Vice-principal à la recherche et aux études supérieures et son équipe.
Grâce à cette session en petits groupes, nous souhaitons vous donner l’opportunité de développer vos plans de recherche actuels et futurs.
Écrivez-nous à research@glendon.yorku.ca pour confirmer votre participation
VENDREDI, 8 AVRIL
12 H 00 À 13 H 30
RENCONTRE DES NOUVEAUX PROFESSEUR.E.S
VENDREDI, 8 AVRIL
14 H 00 À 15 H 00
PRIX D’EXCELLENCE DU PRINCIPAL
Les Prix de la recherche du Principal sont décernés chaque année pour honorer les chercheuses et chercheurs de Glendon qui ont apporté une contribution marquante à la recherche au cours des cinq dernières années. Le but de ces prix est de reconnaitre et de promouvoir l’excellence en recherche dans notre faculté, à l’Université et dans la communauté.
La période de mise en candidature est terminée
11 avril 2022
Vitrine de la recherche étudiantes est notre événement annuel pour mettre en lumière la recherche et de création des étudiants de Glendon des divers programmes offerts chez nous. Traditionnellement, les étudiants et étudiantes participent leur travaux de recherche en personne mais, face à la pandémie, cette année, nous avons déplacé la vitrine en ligne. La galerie d’affiches de recherche sera exposée dans l’atrium du Centre d’excellence à partir du 11 avril. Les affiches seront également présentées virtuellement sur notre site Web. Cela permettra d’améliorer la visibilité des travaux de recherche et de poursuivre la tradition de mise en valeur des réalisations de nos étudiants.
Cliquez ici pour vous inscrire à l’événement
Vitrine de la recherche étudiantes
9 h 30 à 11 h 00
9 h 30 – 9 h 40
Mots d’ouverture:
Dr. Colin Coates. Vice-principal à la recherche et études superieures
Modératrice
Ana Kraljević
4e année – Études Canadienne
9 h 40 to 9 h 50
Anmol Kaur
Research Apprenticeship Program / G21
International Studies – 4th year
Bill 21: A Legal Analysis
My research project focuses on a legal analysis of Quebec’s Bill 21. Through this project, I wanted to learn about how Bill 21 can be analyzed from a legal perspective. As such, I explore how the Bill has been examined by legal scholars and judges, and what its implications have been within Québécois and Canadian society. As an aspiring lawyer, I wanted this project to prepare me for law school, legal research, and legal writing. Accordingly, I aimed to research the perspectives of the Bill’s supporters and opponents alike.
Biography |Biographie
Anmol is a fourth-year student in International Studies. Having been a RAP student for the past three years, her research focused largely on examining national and international law, and how legislation can be used to address social problems. Aside from the RAP, she also conducted research for two Toronto-based nonprofit organizations, and for the Research at York (RAY) program. Some of her favourite courses as an ILST student have been ILST 3505 (Research in International Studies), and ILST 4275 (Global Environmental Challenges). After graduation, she will be pursuing my BCL/JD at McGill University’s Faculty of Law.
9 h 50 to 10 h 00
Tom Daric
4e année – Sciences Politiques
Programme d’apprentis-chercheurs / G21
Superviseure de recherche : Dr. Emily Laxer
GL POLS 4100 Travail Individuel.
La construction du “problème musulman” en France
Aujourd’hui, en France, un simple examen des débats politiques et chaînes d’informations télévisées permet de comprendre que « l’Islam pose problème ». Les discours participant à l’amalgame entre présence musulmane et insécurité sont devenus constant, et sont parvenus à faire ancrer au sein du débat public qu’il n’est plus l’heure de débattre sur l’existence ou non d’un « problème musulman » en France, ce dernier étant aujourd’hui admis de manière quasi-consensuelle. Ainsi, les partis politiques français, de gauche comme de droite, se distinguent aujourd’hui par la solution qu’ils comptent apporter au « problème musulman », sans ne plus jamais contester, pour la plupart, son existence.
Biography |Biographie
Tom est un étudiant en 4ème année d’un B.A en Sciences Politiques, avec un intérêt pour la sociologie politique, et un domaine de recherche se concentrant sur l’Islamophobie en France.
10 h 00 – 10 h 10
Claire Koch
French studies- 4th year
Research Apprenticeship Program / G21
Supervisor: Marc Audette
The Role of Public Art in Sustainable Cities and Communities
The Role of Public Art in Sustainable Cities and Communities
My research project focuses on the United Nations’ sustainability goal number 11, “Sustainable Cities and Communities”. This project examines how sustainably created and minded art, especially public art, can benefit communities on multiple levels of sustainability. These levels are environmental, social and cultural. Sustainability is a complex goal which does not involve purely environmental concerns, but also must consider the ability for present and future communities to thrive and grow at the same time. Complex problems require creative solutions, and the strong potential for impact that public art possesses should not be forgotten as part of this solution.
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Claire Koch is a 4th year of the French studies program, set to start her Bachelor of Education in the fall. This is also her 4th year in the research apprenticeship program. In the past she has done research projects within her area of study, however this year she wanted to step out of her comfort zone and try something new. In her free time she loves spending time exploring rural and urban landscapes, as well as creating and admiring art, all of which she wanted to incorporate into this research project for RAP year 4. Her research project focuses on the United Nations’ sustainability goal number 11, “Sustainable Cities and Communities”. This project examines how sustainably created and minded art, especially public art, can benefit communities on multiple levels of sustainability. These levels are environmental, social and cultural. Sustainability is a complex goal which does not involve purely environmental concerns, but also must consider the ability for present and future communities to thrive and grow at the same time. Complex problems require creative solutions, and the strong potential for impact that public art possesses should not be forgotten as part of this solution.
10 h 10 to 10 h 20
Sara Youssef
French Studies – 4th year
Programme d’apprentis-chercheurs / G21
Superviseure de recherche: Madame Marie-Hélène Larochelle
Comment définir l’idéal de beauté?
Mon projet de recherche examine les trois idées principales suivants : comment définit la beauté, quels sont les critères et qui définit cette beauté. Le déroulement du projet tente de formuler une sorte de synthèse à la fin qui donne de l’espoir au lecteur ou au spectateur de la radicalisation de la représentation de l’idéal de beauté.
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Sara is in her final year at the concurrent education program. She did her undergraduate degree in French Studies as a major. Therefore, her research interests are on the literature stream for French Studies. Her favorite academic courses are about feminism and women in the Francophone culture. She is a student in the RAP program currently doing research on the theme of beauty in literature.
10 h 20 – 10 h 30
Lavaniya Thanagnjayan
Communications program- 1styear
Research Apprenticeship Program / G21
Supervisor: Philippe Theophanidis
Colorism in Tamil Media
This project is about colorism in Tamil media, specifically when it comes to women. As a result of the British colonisation of India, they have an unfair bias towards fair skin. This resulted in almost all of the actresses in Tamil cinema to be fair skinned. They even cast white women like Amy Jackson to play the role of Tamil women. This has a severe impact on the lives and confidence of Indian women. The project takes a look at what the media is currently like, the history behind colorism, and how it affects people today.
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Lavaniya is a first year in the communications program and she is also the first year representative of the GCSU. She has been a part of the Research Apprenticeship program this year with Professor Philippe Theophanidis. She like researching social topics that she feels passionately about, such as colorism, and how media (including social media) favour some people over others. Her favourite course is Introduction to communications with Professor Evan Light.
10 h 30 to 11 h 00
Sécance de questions-réponses
11 avril 2022
Vitrine de la recherche étudiantes
13 h 00 – 14 h 30
13 h 00 – 13 h 10
Mots d’ouverture:
Dr. Colin Coates. Vice-principal à la recherche et études superieures
Modératrice
Anmol Kaur
4e année. International Studies
13 h 10 – 13 h 20
Fiona Patterson
Doctorat en Études francophones – 2e année
GS/FREN 6101
Superviseur de projet: Janusz Przychodzen
Le français québécois dans l’espace public du réseau Facebook – proposition d’une étude de la variation sociolinguistique
La communication numérique écrite, d’après Michel Marcoccia (2016), est un emploi de la langue qui témoigne d’une conversationnalisation de l’écrit, ou encore d’une hybridité d’éléments écrits et oraux. De plus, étant donné que souvent ces échanges sont de nature informelle, les espaces virtuels des communications médiées par la technologie sont des terrains propices pour étudier la variation langagière (Tremblay, 2020). Maints chercheurs se sont penchés sur cette question, étudiant l’emploi d’une variété de langues dans les SMS, le chat, l’internet, et les réseaux sociaux, dans des contextes privés aussi bien que publics (citons, entre autres, Tagliamonte et Denis, 2008 ; Cougnon, 2010 ; Androutsopoulos et Tereick, 2016 ; Biber, Egbert et Zhang, 2017). Pour le français québécois (FQ), seule la variation sociolinguistique lors des échanges par SMS – conversations qui sont alors privées – a été étudiée (Blondeau et al., 2014, ainsi que Tremblay et al., 2020). L’objet de cette présentation est de proposer que ce questionnement sur la variation du FQ soit élargi et transporté dans le terrain de l’espace public du réseau Facebook. Je tenterai de justifier mes choix, et d’expliquer ma méthodologie envisagée.
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Fiona Patterson est une fière diplômée de Glendon (BA ’07 et MA ’10), présentement en 2e année du doctorat en Études francophones. Depuis 2013 elle est enseignante à l’élémentaire et au secondaire dans des écoles publiques anglophones et francophones. Depuis le début du doctorat en 2020, elle travaille au Centre de rédaction de Glendon, et elle est assistante de recherche pour un projet en linguistique appliquée. Elle s’intéresse à la relation entre le langage et la technologie, à l’intelligence artificielle, mais également à l’évolution et l’histoire de la langue française.
13 h 20 – 13 h 30
Alicia Bakshi
French Studies and English Studies with Concurrent Education – 3rd year
Research Apprenticeship Program / G21
Investigating Accentism in English Within the Glendon Community
Accentism is a form of linguistic bias and discrimination that impacts both English native speakers (L1) and English second language (L2) learners across the globe. This research investigates the existence of accent bias by using theory-based knowledge and observations of those who may have faced accent discrimination. This research investigates the realities of this type of bias and discrimination through other scholarly works and studies that may be applied to Glendon. A portion of this study aligns with the UN’s SDG goals and makes proposals entailing recommendations to address the current situation.
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Alicia is in her third year of double-majoring in French Studies and English Studies with Concurrent Education. She began her research on accent discrimination after learning about it in the Glendon course EN 3606. This led to her researching the implications of accentism within language learning and teaching as well as within our community. As a language learner (like many others), she noticed the bias that most are unfortunately subjected to. This encouraged her to learn more about this topic while connecting it to both her majors.
13 h 30 -13 h 40
Isabel Simpliciano
French Studies and minoring in Psychology – 4th year
Research Apprenticeship Program / G21
Effects of a Visual Aid on the Learning of the Gender of French Nouns
This study focuses on the effects of a visual aid on the learning of the gender of French nouns. In the present study, the type of teaching aid is the independent variable, and the number of correctly gendered French nouns is the dependent variable. One of two teaching aids, either a vocabulary list or a visual aid, will be presented to 100 primary French immersion elementary school students. After studying the given teaching aid, participants will be tested on how well they can differentiate between the gender of the French nouns that were presented to them. This study hypothesizes that the participants using the visual aid will correctly gender more French nouns, than the participants using the vocabulary list.
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Isabel Simpliciano is a fourth-year student majoring in French Studies and minoring in Psychology. She is an aspiring French immersion elementary school teacher, and she is currently working as a French emergency supply for the YCDSB. Given her career aspirations, she has dedicated the past two years of her RAP experience to FSL research, and focused on creating a visual teaching aid to help French immersion students better learn the gender of French nouns.
13 h 40 – 13 h 50
Rosamaria Conenna
Research Apprenticeship Program / G21
Superviseure de recherche: Dr. Christine Besnard
Integrating students with Down Syndrome and/or Dyslexia in the L2 Classroom
This project is intended to provide practical information and strategies to both current and future language teachers on how to better integrate students with Down Syndrome and/or Dyslexia into their classrooms. Much of the information available is useful, but very academic and therefore difficult to understand. The aim of this project, inspired by the United Nations’ goal to promote accessible education and information regarding education, is to create an accessible resource that can be used and understood by anyone, regardless of their academic background.
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Rosamaria is a 4th year French and Hispanic Studies. Her research interests include effects of learning difficulties on second language learning as well as simply researching any curiosity she may have. This is her 4th year in the Research Apprenticeship Program working with Professor Christine Besnard on her Psycholinguistics research. Her favourite academic courses involve language learning, linguistics, psycholinguistics and Social Science courses.
13 h 50 – 14 h 00
Katherine Mazzota
History and French Studies – 4th year
G21 | Programme d’apprentis-chercheurs / G21
L’étau de la France sur l’Indochine : La jeunesse vietnamienne en lutte contre l’oppression des colonisateurs
This project traces the experience of children in Indochina under French occupation. The impact of this colonialism was felt in terms of family life, religiosity, mental well-being, race, and language. These consequences did not disappear upon France’s exit from the region. Rather, the effects were long-lasting and tremendously damaging. This is understood through the examination of a combination of primary and secondary sources.
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Katherine is a fourth year student pursing a double major in History and French Studies. This research project has been a combination of all those interests as it deals with the role of French colonialism and the impact on children which is another area of study that she is passionate about.
13 h 50 to 14 h 00
Sécance de questions-réponses
La galerie d’affiches de recherche sera en exposition au Centre d’excellence du 11 au 15 avril.
Vous pouvez également visiter l’exposition virtuelle à partir du 11 avril.
Ghalia El Hayawan et Dannielle Lebrun
3e année. Psychologie.
Intermediate Experimental Psychology, GL-PSYC 3525,
Professeure Josée S Rivest & Assistant Professor Stephan Bonfield
Biography
My name is Ghalia El Hayawan. I am a second year psychology student at Glendon and a peer support assistant at the Glendon Career and Skills Development Center. My favorite academic courses so far have been my experimental psychology courses ( Introduction to Experimental Psychology and Intermediate Experimental Psychology), which have solidified my research interest in research in psychology, particularly in memory and perception
Auditory Distraction and Bilinguals: How Linguistically Congruent and Incongruent Intelligible Speech Affect Memory and Word Processing
Our current research project focuses on the effect of auditory distraction on memory in word recognition tasks. Specifically, we are interested in knowing if having the words in the task and the distracting speech in a similar or in different languages, if that change, has an effect on the scores of our participants in the recognition task. The participants are fully bilingual in French and English. By doing this research we would like to expand the research on auditory distraction (as this particular experimental design fills a literature gap in the field), and provide evidence on the benefits of bilingualism.
Audrey Li-Chay-Chung
Specialized Honours B.A. in Psychology. Neuropsychology Stream. 4th year.
GL/PSYC 4000 A: Honours Thesis
Course instructor: Andrée-Ann Cyr
Autobiographical Memory & Future Thinking in Older Adults At Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
This study investigates whether deficits in past episodic recall and future event simulation are evident in older adults at risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with the use of the Autobiographical Interview (AI). A cut-off score of 26 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment was used to classify participants as being at risk of MCI (N=16) or as healthy controls (N=15). Across six monthly sessions, participants described four specific personal events (past weeks; past years; future weeks; future years). The results will bridge the gap in our knowledge of the trajectory of cognitive decline from healthy aging to dementia.
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I’m in my 4th year of the Specialized Honours B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in cognitive neuropsychology. My research interests are primarily in aging, memory, and their interactions with psychosocial factors such as personality and culture. I’m currently doing my Honours thesis at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences under the co-supervision of Dr. Donna Rose Addis & Dr. Guy Proulx. I am also the lab manager of Dr. Richard Lalonde’s Cultural Collective Lab and a practicum student in Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell’s OUCH Lab at the Keele campus
Rebecca, Sarchese
Linguistique – 3e année
Programme d’apprentis-chercheurs / G21
Les accommodements des s/Sourds et malentendants dans les cours de langue orale
En réfléchissant à leur expérience en tant que professeure et étudiante, la professeure Catherine Lamaison et Rebecca Sarchese ont collaboré à la conception de conseils qui visent à mieux répondre aux besoins des étudiants s/Sourds et malentendants. Ce guide, qui fournit aux professeurs des idées pour enseigner une seconde langue (orale) dans le contexte de la s/Surdité, emploie également des recherches secondaires pour davantage étayer les recommandations de la Dre. Lamaison et Rebecca.
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Rebecca is a Deaf third-year student of Glendon’s Linguistics and Language Studies program who is passionate about language learning and accessibility. So far, her favourite course at Glendon has been Phonetics. She has worked in the RAP with Dr. Catherine Lamaison since September 2020 on various related topics, such as accommodations for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing students in oral language classes as well as the use of identity- versus person-first language within York University’s Disability community (e.g., “disabled person” and “person with disabilities”, respectively).
Angelica, Drexler
Biology . 3rd year.
Research Apprenticeship Program / G21
Dr. Andrée-Ann Cyr
Moderating factors in the « Bilingual Advantage »
Many studies that examine the bilingual advantage suggest that bilingual individuals perform better in
tasks that involve executive function abilities. However, recently more studies suggest that this
advantage stems from uncontrolled factors, rather than from bilingualism. The goal of my study is to examine the moderating factors such as SES, culture, language experience, and experience doing activities that could improve cognitive function abilities (e.g. playing video games), that create differences in the performance results between
bilinguals and monolinguals.
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I am a third year Biology student at Glendon campus, York University. My research interests include animal behaviour, endocrinology, and as an avid language learner, whether learning languages has any effects on the brain.
William Fisher
B.A. Psychology
GL/PSYC4100, Independent Research Project – Dr. Buddhika Bellana
Analyzing Spontaneous Thought
In this project I seek to quantify and characterize the trajectories of human spontaneous thought. I aim to do this by analyzing previously collected free association data using natural language processing tools (word embeddings), which represent these words (free association data) in semantic space. Using these word embeddings, I will compare cosine similarity of word pairs to determine when a significant semantic shift occurs and then compare these semantic shifts to word input times and subjectively identified boundaries.
Biography
I am in my final year of studies as I complete a Psychology BSc with honours. I am very interested in cognitive neuroscience, particularly in research regarding episodic and autobiographical memory systems. My favourite courses I have taken throughout my degree include: Sensation and Perception I & II, Human Neuropsychology, Neuroscience of Aging and Cognitive Health, and Seminar in Memory and Cognition. Finally, I am currently completing an Independent Research Project with Dr. Buddhika Bellana with a focus on researching how recent experiences affect how we move through spontaneous thought.
Anson Cutler
B.A. Psychology- 4th year
GL/PSYC 4000 Honours Thesis
Course Director Dr. Andrée-Ann Cyr
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I am in my final year of study in the Psychology program at Glendon, with particular interest in cognitive developmental and perceptual psychology research.
Examining the Role of Memory Colour in Visual Attention
In this perceptual psychology lab experiment, I attempt to provide evidence for a sparsely-researched phenomenon known as the memory colour effect using a novel approach that addresses gaps in prior research. The novel approach is to examine how the memory colour effect interacts with the automatic cognitive process of visual attention. Participants completed a series of « spot the difference » visual attention tasks, with some tasks invoking the memory colour effect and other tasks as controls. I compare speed and accuracy on memory colour vs. control trials to assess the impact of memory colour on visual attention.
Amanda Chiu
B.A. B.A. Psychology
Honours Thesis (GL/PSYC 4000)
Research Supervisor: Dr. Andrée-Ann Cyr
Effects of Motivation to Explore on Memory in Young Adults
Epistemic curiosity is defined as the desire to acquire new knowledge in order to stimulate gratifying feelings of situational interest or relieve negative feelings of deprived knowledge. Exploring and ascertaining new information can be rewarding as it resolves unpleasant feelings of uncertainty and ignorance. Individual differences in how people experience and express epistemic curiosity are believed to play a critical role in promoting learning in academic settings. The goal of this study is to examine how motivation to explore due to curiosity affects memory in young adults, which could inform educators about how to create a more effective learning environment.
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I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at Glendon and am specializing in Psychology. I am particularly interested in the research field of memory and how it is a fundamental component of our everyday mental experiences. Furthermore, I enjoy exploring how psychology greatly intertwines with other fields such as law, where both are united under the common interest of human behaviour. Currently, I am working on my honours thesis under the supervision of Dr. Andreé-Ann Cyr about how the motivation to explore as a function of curiosity affects memory in young adults.
Estreya Cohen
B.A. in psychology, neuropsychology stream – 4th year
GL/PSYC 4000, Dr. Andrée-Ann Cyr
Change Detection for Shadows and Colours in Artists and Non-Artists
This study aims to examine differences between artists and non-artists on detection of shadow change and colour change. Shadow changes are less noticeable than other changes (e.g.colour) in natural and artificial scenes (e.g. Ehinger, Allen, & Wolfe, 2016). Perdreau and Cavanagh (2013) found that a higher level of artistic skill led to better performance on visual tasks, such as integration of object information. Since artists typically perform better on visual tasks, it is possible that they will perform better overall compared to non-artists. Additionally, artists may be particularly attentive to shadows because they often reproduce them in their art.
Emillie Thuy-Linh, Vu
B.A. Psychology- 4th year
Co authors: Kalin Ying Mo, Joshua T. Rubenstein, Christiane Marie Camillo, and Maggie E. Toplak.
Course Instructor: Andrée Ann Cyr; Supervisor: Maggie Toplak
Actively Open-Minded Thinking: A Predictor of Rational Thinking in Adolescents
The study of rational thinking involves the assessment of how well individuals track truth and seek goals. Extensive research on rational thinking in adults has found that the thinking disposition “actively open-mind thinking” (AOT) is a significant predictor of rational thinking, even after statistically controlling cognitive ability. AOT is a thinking disposition that assesses one’s tendency to consider alternative perspectives, including perspectives that may not be consistent with one’s prior beliefs. Focusing on 183 students in Grades 9 to 12, this study aims to identify whether similar data patterns are found in adolescents on parallel measures of rational thinking.
Biography |Biographie
I am a 4th year student at Glendon, completing my BA in Psychology. I am currently doing my Honours Thesis with Dr. Maggie Toplak. My research interests are developmental and educational psychology, with particular regard to cognitive abilities. My favourite academic courses were those related to my research interests, as well as behavioural psychology and psychometrics!
Riya Trikha
B.A. Psychology. 4th year.
GL/PSYC 4000: Honours Thesis
Dr. Andrée-Ann Cyr
Curiosity Made the Cat Want to Learn: Agency of Choice and Its Effect on Memory Throughout the Lifespan
The freedom to engage in activities of our choice allows us to feel in control of our lives. Autonomy plays a role in learning; literature has shown that providing the opportunity to choose what is being learned enhances curiosity, which consequently aids the learning and retention process of the learned information (i.e., episodic memory). However, these effects have only been studied in younger populations. This begs the question of whether episodic memory enhancements can occur through the effects of agency and curiosity in older populations.
Biography
I’m in my final year of my psychology undergraduate. I’m currently completing my honours thesis under the supervision of Dr. Andrée-Ann Cyr. I’m completing my research practicum in Dr. Donna Rose Addis’ Memory Lab. I’m also a research assistant in Dr. Yvonne Bohr’s Infant and Child Mental Health Lab and Dr. Buddhika Bellana’s Memory and Meaning Lab. Given my research experience, my personal interests lie in development and neuropsychology, which I hope to pursue in graduate school!
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Research Fellow | Adjunct Professor
Department of Psychology
Dr. Mario Roy
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Dr. Gerald Young
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology