LOVE 2013 Programme with Abstracts (PDF) - Judith M Shedden ...

Lake Ontario Visionary EstablishmentpresentsFeb 7th and 8th, 2013Niagara Falls Crowne Plaza Fallsview Hotel

SCHEDULETHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 201311:00 am - 12:30 pm Registration12.30 pm - 1:30 pm Morgan Barense: The interface ofmemory and perception:Where parts become whole1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Coffee break and posters2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Elizabeth Hampson: Modulation ofworking memory by estrogen levelsin women3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Coffee break and posters4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Peter Pfordresher: “I can talk, whycan’t I sing?” Mechanisms and(possible) domain-specific constraintsfor poor-pitch singing5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Dinner break8:00 pm - 10:00 pm L.O.V.E. Affair: Suite 30110:00 pm - onward

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 201310:00 am - 11:00 am Rajeev Raizada: Neural populationcodes: Representations, regularitiesand behaviour11:00 am - 11:30 am Coffee break and Posters11:30 am - 12:30 pm Isabelle Peretz: The nature of music:Evidence from congenital amusia12.30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Wil Cunningham: Motivationalsalience: Amygdala tuning from traits,needs, values, and goals1

SPEAKERSMORGAN BARENSEThe interface of memory andperception: Where parts becomewholeAbstract: Memory and perception have long been considered separatecognitive processes, and amnesia resulting from medial temporal lobe(MTL) damage is thought to reflect damage to a dedicated memorysystem. Recent work has questioned these views, suggesting that amnesiacan result from impoverished perceptual representations in theMTL, causing an increased susceptibility to interference. These findingshave suggested that one MTL structure in particular, the perirhinalcortex (PRC), may be considered an extension of the representationalhierarchy in the ventral visual stream: an object’s low-level features arerepresented in early posterior regions, whereas conjunctions of featuresare represented in more anterior regions, with the most complex featureconjunctions – perhaps at the level of the whole object – being representedin PRC. Using multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) of fMRI data,I will present evidence to support this view. I will then present findingsfrom two tasks (a perceptual matching task for which fMRI implicated thePRC and a recognition memory task dependent on the PRC in rats) toshow that memory-impaired individuals were vulnerable to object-basedperceptual interference. Importantly, when we controlled such interference,their performance recovered to normal levels. These findingschallenge prevailing conceptions of amnesia, suggesting that effectsof damage to specific MTL regions are better understood not in termsof damage to a dedicated declarative memory system, but in terms ofimpoverished representations of the stimuli those regions maintain.2

ELIZABETH HAMPSONModulation of working memoryby estrogen levels in womenAbstract: Elizabeth Hampson is a professor at the University of WesternOntario, and holds appointments in both Psychology and Psychiatry.She is also a member of the interdisciplinary program in Neuroscience.A clinical neuropsychologist by training, she studies the effects ofandrogens and estrogens in the human brain. A large body of work inlaboratory animals over the past few decades has revealed that estrogenis a potent neuromodulator in several regions of the central nervoussystem. Much less is known about the sites or actions of this hormonein humans, or its effects at the functional level in terms of its effects onmemory and cognition, motivational processes, and effects on affectivestates or mood. This L.O.V.E. presentation will discuss the hypothesisthat sites in the prefrontal cortex may be among the significant sites ofestrogen activity in the human brain. Using data from our lab and otherlabs, I will describe the effects of menopause, hormone replacementtherapy, the menstrual cycle, and pregnancy/postpartum changes incirculating estrogen levels on a prototypical frontal lobe function,working memory.3

SPEAKERSPETER PFORDRESHER“I can talk, why can’t I sing?”Mechanisms and (possible)domain-specific constraints forpoor-pitch singingAbstract: In contrast to the large amount of research concerning theimitation of gestures that are transmitted through vision, less is knownabout vocal imitation of auditory patterns in humans. I will discuss recentresearch concerning the vocal imitation of pitch. This research focusesboth on individual differences in the ability to imitate both sung andspoken pitch patterns (including the basis of “tone deaf” singers). Thecontrol of vocal pitch is critical to communication via music and language.At the same time, the role of pitch and constraints on acceptablepitch content differs considerably across these domains, causing someto propose that music and language comprise functionally independentsystems. Results across several studies argue for the use of a commoninternal model of the audio-vocal system during vocal imitation, as opposedto the use of domain-specific modules. At the same time, differencesin the salience of pitch information within music and languagelead to domain-specific differences that may not accord with modelsthat propose either complete integration or independence.4

RAJEEV RAIZADANeural population codes:Representations, regularities andbehaviourAbstract: In seeking to understand how the human brain represents theworld, neuroimaging faces a serious problem: brain images do not revealmental representations. Recent work in neural decoding has shownthat classifier algorithms can recover information from individual subjects’fMRI data about the tasks and stimuli that evoked that activation.However, that decoding does not in itself tell us whether the classifiersextract information that is actually used by the brain. Nor does it tell ushow the brain represents that information. Addressing the first of thosequestions, I will present evidence from speech perception showing thatpeople’s multivoxel fMRI patterns can predict individual differences inbehavioural performance. Addressing the second, I will show how thestructure of mental representations can be related to the structure ofsimilarity relations between neural activation patterns. Moreover, theseneural similarity structures reveal how different people’s representationsare alike, and can cast new light on how the brain represents linguisticmeaning. Finally, I will discuss some of the challenges and newquestions raised by this research.5

SPEAKERSISABELLE PERETZThe nature of music: Evidencefrom congenital amusiaAbstract: Dr. Peretz is a cognitive neuropsychologist and a professorof Psychology at the University of Montreal. Dr. Peretz was born andeducated in Brussels, Belgium. She earned her Ph.D. in experimentalpsychology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles under José Morais in1984. Shortly thereafter she took on a faculty position at Universitéde Montréal where she has remained ever since. Dr. Peretz’s researchfocuses on the musical potential of ordinary people, its neural correlates,its heritability and its specificity relative to language. She haspublished over 150 scientific papers on a variety of topics, from perception,memory, and emotions to performance. Dr Peretz is renowned forher work on congenital and acquired musical disorders (amusia) and onthe biological foundations of music processing in general. Her researchhas received continued support from the Canadian Natural Science andEngineering Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Researchsince 1986. In 2004, the Université de Montréal earned her an endowedCasavant chair in neurocognition of music and in 2007, a Canada ResearchChair in neurocognition of music. In 2005, Dr. Peretz became thefounding co-director of the international laboratory for Brain, Music, andSound research (BRAMS). She was awarded several prices including theprestigious IPSEN award in 2011. Dr. Peretz is a fellow of the Royal Societyof Canada and of the American Psychological Association. In 2010,She became the founding Editor-in-chief of the new open access journalFrontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.6

WIL CUNNINGHAMMotivational salience: Amygdalatuning from traits, needs,values, and goalsAbstract: Based on a basic emotions perspective, a dominant view inpsychology is that the primary function of the amygdala is to govern theemotion of fear. In this view, the amygdala is necessary for a person tofeel afraid, and when amygdala activity is detected, one can infer that aperson is feeling afraid or threatened. I will review current research onamygdala function that calls into question this threat-specific view andpropose a more general view of amygdala functioning based on appraisaltheory and psychological constructivism. Specifically, I will examinethe hypothesis that the amygdala is involved in processing stimulusrelevance for the goals and motivations of the perceiver. Thus, althoughthreatening stimuli are almost always considered a relevant stimulus,novel, ambiguous, and extremely positive stimuli can also be relevantfor different people in different situations. Once deemed relevant, theamygdala guides processing to orchestrate an appropriate response.7

POSTER PRESENTATIONS81. The effect of enhancing prototype salience on the accuracy ofcategorizing sexual orientation from faces. Konstantin O. Tskhay,Nicholas O. Rule & Adam K. Anderson University of Toronto2. Imagined movements and electroencephalography: Toward theoptimization of a motor imagery-based brain-computer interface.Raechelle Gibson, Srivas Chennu, Adrian M. Owen & Damian Cruse 11) Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario; 2) Department of ClinicalNeurosciences, University of Cambridge3. Mind wandering while reading aloud. David R. Thompson, DerekBesner & Daniel Smilek University of Waterloo4. Delayed recovery of auditory stream segregation: cognitive andacoustic disruptions are additive. Graham K. Raynor, Julia J. Huyck,Miriam A. Heavensrich & Ingrid S. Johnsrude Queen’s University5. Searching for single or multiple exemplars and categories: Electrophysiologicalmarkers of category-based attentional guidance. RachelWu 1 , Rebecca Nako 2 , Gaia Scerif 3 & Martin Eimer 2 1) University of Rochester;2) University of London; 3) University of Oxford6. Spontaneous confabulation present with relatively preservedepisodic memory: A case study. Vanessa Ghosh 1,2 , Morris Moscovitch 1,2& Asaf Gilboa 1,2,3 1) University of Toronto; 2) Rotman Research Institute at BaycrestHospital; 3) Centre for Stroke Recovery7. The Effects of Schematic Support and Unitization on the AssociativeDeficit in Older Adults. Fahad Ahmad 1 , Myra Fernandes 2 & WilliamHockley 1 1) Wilfrid Laurier University; 2) University of Waterloo8. The Influence of speech encoding on the use of auditory feedbackduring speech production. Laura Beamish & David Purcell University ofWestern Ontario9. Walking in and out of view: Direction of animate motion revealssocial orienting of attention. Nicole White, Adam Anderson, Jay PrattUniversity of Toronto

10. Context-dependent memory: the effects of musical mood andarousal on memory performance. Tram Nguyen & Jessica A. GrahnBrain and Mind Institute, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario11. Predicting duration of music training: The role of demographic,cognitive and personality variables. Kathleen A. Corrigall &E. Glenn Schellenberg University of Toronto Mississauga12. Young Children’s Beliefs About Permission. Julia Van de Vondervoort& Ori Friedman University of Waterloo13. Interpersonal synchrony as a social cue during infancy: Do babiesprefer others after bouncing to music with them? Laura Cirelli,Sarah Lade & Laurel Trainor McMaster University14. Interference affects formation of conjuncitve representations:Evidence from eyetracking. Alina Guna 1 , R. Newsome 1 ,M. Barense 1,2 1) Department of Psychology, University of Toronto; 2) Rotman ResearchInstitute15. Activation of non-native lanugage during native languageprocessing: evidence from ERP. Olesya Zhuravlev & Stephen LupkerUniversity of Western Ontario16. The relationship between possessions and the self for long-term andtransient ownership. Nicole LeBarr & J.M. Shedden McMaster University17. What’s Next? Implicit Anticipation during Statistical LearningInterferes with Task Performance. Lauren L. Emberson 1 , ElisabethA. Karuza 1 , Nicholas B. Turk-Browne 2 & Richard N. Aslin 1 1) University ofRochester; 2) Princeton University18. Age Difference in Distraction Processing. Tarek Amer, Lynn Hasher& Cheryl L. Grady University of Toronto19. Do age of acquisition and proficiency independently modulatebrain activation in second language speakers? Emily Nichols &Marc Joanisse Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario9

POSTER PRESENTATIONS20. The organization of the human auditory cortex: responses tofrequency modulated sounds. Diedre De Souza & Marc JoanisseBrain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario21. Representation of word parts and wholes in occipitotemporalcortex. Alexandra Coros, L. Strother & T. Vilis University of WesternOntario22. Expanding the Beat Alignment Task (BAT): Adults’ beatprocessing abilities and the effect of metric structure. KathleenM. Einarson & Laurel J. Trainor McMaster University23. Effects of auditory feedback on tapping and timing perception.Fiona Manning & Michael Schutz McMaster University24. Understanding the interrelatedness of the cognitive correlates ofmathematical ability. Jordan Rozaro 1,2 , Daniel Ansari 1 & JonathanFugelsang 2 1) University of Western Ontario; 2) University of Waterloo25. Exploring the production effect on young children. MerrickLevene, Ori Friedman & Colin MacLeod University of Waterloo26. Age differences in semantic interference resolution. K.W. JoanNgo 1 , M. Karl Healey 2 & Lynn Hasher 3 1) University of Toronto; 2) University ofPennsylvania; 3) Rotman Research Institute27. Distinct familiarity-based response patterns for faces andbuildings in perirhinal and parahippocampal cortex. Chris B.Martin 1 , David A. McLean 1 , Edward B. O’Neil 1 & Stefan Köhler 1,21) Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario; 2) Rotman Research Institute28. Counterbalancing the effects of continuous motion in audiovisualintegration. Jonathan Vaisberg & Michael Schutz McMaster Institute forMusic and the Mind10

29. Person recognition impairments in patients with Capgras syndrome.Victoria Barkley 1 , Chris Fiacconi 2 , Stefan Kohler 2,3 , Shayna Rosenbaum1,3 , Asaf Gilboa 3 & Elizabeth Finger 4 1) Department of Psychology, YorkUniversity; 2) Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario; 3) Rotman ResearchInstitute; 4) Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario30. Undisclosed audition: a survey of the temporal structure of soundsused in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. Jessica Gillard &Michael Schutz McMaster University31. Colour-Emotion Associations in Drawings and Colouring Books.Monica Rivas & Diane Humphrey King’s University College, University of WesternOntario32. Perceived duration of emotional events: evidence for a positivityeffect in older adults. Jeffrey R. Nicol, Jessica Tanner & Kelly ClarkeNipissing University33. Investigating representations in the perirhinal cortex via parametricmodulation of object similarity. Danielle Douglas 1 , Hilary Watson 1 &Andy Lee 1,2 1) Department of Psychology, University of Toronto; 2) Rotman Research Institute34. Producing explanations impacts future judgements. Shaylene E.Nancekivelli & Ori Friedman University of Waterloo35. A p300 based cognitive assessment battery for severely motorim-paired and overtly non-responsive patients. Aaron Kirschner,Adrian Owen & Adam Hampshire Brain and Mind Institute, University of WesternOntario36. Who likes it? Who owns it? Children’s differential stereotypes.Madison Pesowski, Shaylene Nancekivelli & Ori Friedman University ofWaterloo37. Beyond fear: Exposure to angry and surprised faces enhance earlyvisual perception. Steve Perrotta1, Sabina Calicuri 1 , Mark Wachowiak 2& Jeffrey R. Nicol 1 1) Department of Psychology, Nipissing University; 2) Department ofMathematics, Nipissing University11

POSTER PRESENTATIONS38. Working memory revisited - are category and process specificmodels orthogonal or mutually exclusive? Jeffrey Wong, AdrianOwen & Adam Hampshire Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario39. Cognitive decline in ‘healthy’ aging: ERP evidence. Rachel N.Newsome 1 , Carson Pun 1,2 , Victoria M. Smith 1 , Susanne Ferber 1,3& Morgan D. Barense 1,3 1) Department of Psychology, University of Toronto;2) Department of Psychology, Ryerson University; 3) Rotman Research Institute40. Simultaneously-evoked Auditory Potentials (SEAP): A novelelectroencephalographic paradigm for measuring activity atsuccessive stages of the auditory neuraxis. Christopher Slugocki,Dan Bosnyak & Laurel Trainor Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMasterUniversity41. Does spatial attention influence lexical/sublexical processingduring reading aloud? Daniel Ehrlich, Stephanie Waechter, JenniferA. Stolz & Derek Besner University of Waterloo42. Neural substrates underlying order effects in statistical learning.Elizabeth A. Karuza 1 , Ping Li 2 , Daniel J. Weiss 2 & Richard N. Aslin 11) Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester; 2) Department ofPsychology and Center for Brain, Behavior and Cognition, Pennsylvania State University43. Levels of representation along the ventral visual stream: a rolefor the medial temporal lobe? Jonathan Erez 1 , Rhodri Cusack 2,3 ,Will Kendall 1 & Morgan Barense 1,4 1) Department of Psychology, University ofToronto; 2) Deparment of Psychology, University of Western Ontario; 3) Brain and MindInstitute, University of Western Ontario; 4)Rotman Research Institute44. Effects of perceptual learning on processing of unattendeddegraded speech. Julia Huyck & Ingrid S. Johnsrude Queen’s University45. False recognition of objects following MTL damage. Lok-KinYeung 1 , Rachel N. Newsome 1 , Gillian Rowe 1,2 , Rosemary A. Cowell 3 ,Jennifer D. Ryan 1,4 & Morgan D. Barense 1,4 1) University of Toronto;2) Baycrest Centre, Toronto, ON; 3) University of California; 4) Rotman Research Institute12

46. Validation of a novel protocol for naturalistic assessment ofhuman memory: the Rotman-Baycrest Mask Fit study. MichaelArmson & Brian Levine Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, RotmanResearch Institute47. The effects of threat-related affective priming on familiaritybasedface recognition. Devin Duke, Paige Ethridge & StefanKohler Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario48. The contribution of movement correlation in perceptual judgementsof affiliation during social interaction. Nida Latif, PaulPlante, Monica S. Castelhano & Kevin G. Munhall Queen’s University49. Electrophysiological correlates of high vs. low self-esteemindividuals. John G. Grundy, Miriam F. F. Benarroch, A. NicoleLebarr & Judith M. Shedden McMaster University50. An Examination of Written vs. Performed Tempo as an EmotionalCue in J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1. Raven Hébert-Lee & Michael Schutz MAPLE Lab, McMaster University51. How metric structure effects detection of volume changes on andoff the beat. Taylor Parrott & Jessica A. Grahn Brain and Mind Institute,Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario52. Stages of Beat Perception and the Influence of Incongruity: AnfMRI Study. Daniel J. Cameron & Jessica A. Grahn Brain and MindInstitute, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario

Feb 7th and 8th, 2013Niagara Falls Crowne Plaza Fallsview HotelSPECIAL THANKSEVENT COMMITTEE:Morgan BarenseUniversity of Torontobarense@psych.utoronto.caIngrid JohnsrudeQueen’s Universityingrid.johnsrude@queensu.caJessica GrahnUniversity of Western Ontariojgrahn@uwo.caVOLUNTEERS:Graham RaynorDora LadowskiRachel WayneLok-Kin YeungRachel NewsomeJonathan ErezDanielle DouglasAlina GunaEva HuangAngela MarcaTram NguyenDaniel CameronTaylor ParrottAaron GibbingsFINANCIAL CONTRIBUTORS:Canadian Society for Brain,Behavior and Cognitive ScienceCanadian Journal ofExperimental Psychology