Associate Professor (Retired)
Department of Psychology
B.A.H., University of New Brunswick, 1967
M.A., University of Waterloo, 1969
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1973
Interested in cognitive processes underlying perception and memory, especially the role of attention in perception and word recognition and the comprehension of text.
Associate Professor (Retired)
Department of Psychology
B.A., Memorial University, 1971
M.Sc., Memorial University, 1973
Ph.D., McGill University, 1978
Past research focused with humans centered on obesity, eating disorders, body image, substance abuse, cigarette addiction and fetal alcohol syndrome.
Earlier research with animals involved: exploration of factors which influence voluntary alcoholic intake, tolerance and withdrawal; the development of an animal analogue of alcoholism; investigation of the neuropharmacological basis of addiction; the effects of centrally acting drugs on voluntary alcohol intake.
Puhl, R.M. and Boland, F.J. (2001). Predicting female physical attractiveness: Waist-to-hip-ratio versus thinners. Psychology Evolution and Gender.
Curran, M.C., and Boland, F.J. (2000). Are physical therapy students at an increased risk of developing the symptomatology associated with eating disorders? Physiotherapy Canada, 52, 10-16.
Boland, F.J., Duwyn, M., and Serin, R. (2000). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Understanding its impact. Forum on Corrections Research, 12, 16-18.
Stewart, S.H., Angelopoulos, M., Baker, J.M., and Boland, F.J. (2000). Relations between dietary restraint and patterns of alcohol use in young adult women. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 14, 77-82.
Lalierte, M., Boland, F.J., and Leichner, P. (1999). Family Climates: Family factors specific to disturbed eating and bulimia nervosa. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 55, 1021-1040.
Boland, F.J. (1999). E ating disorders. In W. Marshall and P. Firestone (Eds.). Abnormal Psychology. Prentice Hall, Toronto. (203-229).
Boland, F.J., Henderson, K., and Baker, J. (1998). Case need domain: Substance abuse assessment review. Forum on Corrections Research, 10, 32-34.
Boland, F.J. (1996). Eating disorders and substance abuse. In S. Harrison and V. Carver (Eds.). Alcohol and drug problems: A practical guide for counsellors. ARF publications, Toronto (473-483).
Lightfoot, L.O. and Boland, F.J. (1991, revised 1992). "CHOICES": A community correctional brief treatment, relapse prevention and maintenance program. (1-158). Available from Correctional Service Canada.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
M.A., University of Aberdeen, 1965
M.A., Â鶹ÍøÕ¾, 1967
Ph.D., Â鶹ÍøÕ¾, 1969
The principal focus of my present research is the understanding of how sleep loss and sleepiness affects skilled performance such as driving. Our current investigations are using a small driving simulator and subjective, behavioural and physiological assessments of sleepiness to gain a greater theoretical understanding of the relationship between sleepiness and performance which we hope will lead to improvements in our capacity to predict and detect deterioration under real-life conditions.
Williams, L.R., Davies, D.R., Thiele, K., Davidson, J.R., MacLean, A.W. Young drivers' perceptions of culpability of sleep-deprived versus drinking drivers. Journal of Safety Research 2012; 43: 115-122..
Arnedt, J.T., Geddes, M.A.C., MacLean, A.W. Comparative sensitivity of a simulated driving task to subjective, physiological and other performance measures during prolonged wakefulness. Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine 2005; 58: 61-71.
MacLean, A.W., Davies, R.T. and Thiele, K. Sleepiness and driving. Sleep Medicine Reviews 2003; 7: 507-521.
Fitzpatrick, M.F., Alloway, C.E.D., Wakeford, T.M., MacLean, A.W., Munt, P.W. and Day, A.G. Can patients with obstructive sleep apnea titrate their own continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)? American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2003; 167: 716-722.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
1970 Ph.D. Biopsychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1969 M.Sc. Biopsychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1966 B.Sc. Psychology, University of North Dakota at Grand Forks
Prediction, modification, and management of antisocial and violent behavior, applied decision making, program development and evaluation, sexual preference assessment, sex offenders, forensic/correctional psychology, evolutionary influence on sexual and aggressive behaviors.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
B.A., University of Western Ontario, 1973
M.A., McGill University, 1974
Ph.D., McGill University, 1977
Associate Professor, Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning), Retired
Department of Psychology
B. Mus., Â鶹ÍøÕ¾, 1983
B.A.H., Â鶹ÍøÕ¾, 1986
M.A.Sc., University of Waterloo, 1988
Ph.D., Â鶹ÍøÕ¾, 1998
I have conducted research on the assessment and treatment of female offenders, but am currently interested in applying aspects of cognitive psychology (how humans process and store information) to the design of effective learning environments.
Atkinson, J.L (2018). Correctional Assessment and Treatment: Toward Community Reintegration, Chapter 6 in J. Barker and D.S. Tavcer (Eds.). Women and the Criminal Justice System: A Canadian Perspective. 2nd ed. Toronto, ON: Edmond Montgomery.
Folsom, J. and Atkinson, J.L. (2007) The Generalizability of the LSI-R and the CAT to the Prediction of Recidivism in Female Offenders. Criminal Justice and Behaviour, 34(8), 1044-1056.
Atkinson, J.L. (1996). Female sex offenders: A literature review. Forum on Corrections Research, 8(2), 39-42.
Atkinson, J.L. (1995). The Assessment of Female Sex Offenders. Kingston, ON: Correctional Service of Canada, April, 1995.
Atkinson, J.L. and McLean, H. (1994). Women and fraud: Results of a program at the Prison for Women. Forum on Corrections Research, 6(1), 39-41.
Professor Emerita
Department of Psychology
A.M.M., University of Manitoba, 1958
B.A., University of Manitoba, 1959
M.A., University of Toronto, 1961
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1965
Since I am now retired, I regret I am no longer accepting post-doctoral fellows, graduate students or undergraduate students (theses, directed lab, etc.). For further inquiries, please contact me by email.
In our laboratory we are interested in the perceptual, cognitive, and emotional processes involved in music appreciation and understanding. Recent work has focused on individual differences in musical and prosodic skills and sensitivities. We study such topics as absolute pitch, tone deafness, effects of music lessons on nonmusical cognitive skills, musical dyslexia, aging and music, amusia following stroke, and sparing of musical memories in Alzheimer's Disease.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Conversation is one of our most common and highly skilled activities. When we talk with other people, we perceive and produce a remarkable amount of social, emotional and linguistic information. This information is conveyed visually through the movements of our face and body and acoustically through our voice. In my laboratory, we study the perceptual and cognitive activities that make conversation possible. We use a variety of experimental techniques such as eye tracking, motion capture, animation and psychophysics to explore the multisensory processes and brain structures that are involved in face-to-face communication.
Latif, N., Alsius, A., & Munhall, K.G. (2018). Knowing when to respond: the role of visual information in conversational turn exchanges. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80, 27-41.
Alsius, A., Paré, M., & Munhall, K.G. (2018). Forty Years After Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices the McGurk Effect Revisited. Multisensory Research, 31, 111-144.
Mitsuya, T., Munhall, K.G., & Purcell, D.W. (2017). Modulation of auditory-motor learning in response to formant perturbation as a function of delayed auditory feedback. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 2758-2767.
Wilson, A., Alsius, A., Paré, M., & Munhall, K.G. (2016). Spatial frequency requirements and gaze strategy in visual-only and audiovisual speech perception. Journal of Speech, Hearing and Language Research, 59, 601-615.
Latif, N., Barbosa, A.V., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., Castelhano, M.S. and Munhall, K.G. (2014). Movement coordination during conversation. PloS One, 9(8), e105036.
MacDonald, E.N., Johnson, E.K., Forsythe, J., Plante, P., Munhall, K.G. (2012). Children’s development of self-regulation in speech production. Current Biology, 24:22(2), 113-7.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Name Pronunciation Guide:
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B.A.H., Queen’s University, 2008
M.Sc., Â鶹ÍøÕ¾, 2014
Ph.D., McGill University, 2020
My research focuses on understanding the dynamics of attention, which captures how this vital process ebbs and flows and fluctuates over time. Prioritizing attentional dynamics in this manner allows us to (i) account for the rich flexibility we see in attention across our everyday lives, (ii) grasp why patterns of attention can result in behaviour that is both adaptive and maladaptive, and (iii) highlight the unique individual factors that make your attention different from mine. To address these questions, I use behavioural experiments (e.g., attentional tasks, experience sampling, collaborative activities), psychophysiological methods (e.g., eye tracking, EEG, fMRI), and computational approaches (e.g., nonlinear analyses, machine learning) to study attentional dynamics in social situations, across internal thoughts, and within digital environments.
Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E., & Ristic, J. (2022). Social attention as a general mechanism? Demonstrating the influence of stimulus content factors on social attentional biasing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 48(4), 289–311.
Pereira, E. J., Birmingham, E., & Ristic, J. (2019). The eyes do not have it after all? Attention is not automatically biased towards faces and eyes. Psychological Research, 84(5), 1407–1423.
Hayward, D. A.*, Pereira, E. J.*, Otto, A. R., & Ristic, J. (2017). Smile! Social reward drives attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(2), 206–214 (* equal contribution to the manuscript).
Pereira, E. J.*, Ayers-Glassey, S.*, Wammes, J. D., & Smilek, D. (2023). Attention in hindsight: Using stimulated recall to capture dynamic fluctuations in attentional engagement. Behavior Research Methods, 1-32 (* equal contribution to the manuscript).
Pereira, E. J., Gurguryan, L., & Ristic, J. (2020). Trait-level variability in attention modulates mind wandering and academic achievement. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 909.
Drody, A. C.*, Pereira, E. J.*, & Smilek, D. (2023). The importance of accounting for off-task behaviours during data collection. Nature Human Behavior, 7, 1234–1236 (* equal contribution to the manuscript).
Drody, A. C., Pereira, E. J., & Smilek, D. (2023). A desire for distraction: Uncovering the rates of media multitasking during online research studies. Scientific Reports, 13, 781.
Graduate Student
Department of Psychology
Teaching Fellow PSYC 251 (Summer 2026)
