Record of Student Supervision, Jill B. Rich, PhD
Graduate Supervision (Primary)
(cumulative: 15):
09/06-present Jennifer Hilborn,
PhD degree in progress.
09/06-present Melanie Wiegand, MA degree in progress.
Research practicum entitled “Long-term Cognitive Sequelae
of SARS”
03/05-present Beverley Bouffard,
PhD degree in progress. Working title “Memory Functioning and Major
Depressive Disorder”
09/03-6/23/05
09/03-6/10/05 Anna Vandenberg, completed MA in
Interdisciplinary Studies, thesis entitled “Communication, Ethics, Learning: The Lost Contexts of Memory Arts”
09/01-08/07 Stella Karantzoulis, completed MA 11/17/03. Research practicum
entitled: “New Fact Learning in Amnesia.” Master’s Thesis entitled “Verbal
Encoding vs. Enactment and Semantic Integration vs. Interference Effects on
Memory in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment”
Dissertation
defended 12/6/06, entitled “The Relation of Frontal Lobe Function to Source
Memory and Prospective Memory in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment”
09/01-8/2/07 Tobi Lubinsky, completed
MA 12/4/03. Research practicum entitled: “Functional Neuroanatomy of Purposeful
Action.” Master’s Thesis entitled “The Generation Effect and Errorless
Learning: A Beneficial Effect for Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment?”
completed PhD, dissertation entitled: “The Combined Effects
of Errorless Learning and the Generation Effect on Item Memory and Source
Monitoring: Evidence from Healthy Aging and Individuals with Mild Cognitive
Impairment”
06/01-1/24/05 Irina Valentin,
completed PhD, dissertation entitled “Self-Regulated Executive Functions
in Academic Achievement”
Note:
became primary supervisor in Oct, 2004, after death of H. Mandel
12/00-8/30/02 Sheryl Green, completed MA, thesis entitled:
“Moderators of Verbal Cueing Effects on Novel Naturalistic Action Performance
among Stroke Patients”
4/99-3/27/02 Caroline Roncadin, completed
PhD, dissertation entitled: “Working Memory and Inhibition in Typically
Developing Children and Children with Closed Head Injury,” nominated for
university-level dissertation award
9/97-present Martyn Thomas, PhD degree in
progress, dissertation entitled: “Physiological, Cognitive, and Affective
Responses to Experimental Psychological Stress in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A
Controlled Study of Vigilance and Sense of Effort”
8/97-1/17/00 Sharon Guger, completed PhD, dissertation entitled: “Implicit and
Explicit Memory in Children with Moderate Head Injury“
4/96-6/5/00 Brian Richards, completed PhD, dissertation
entitled: “The Effects of Aging and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on
Neuropsychological Performance”
3/96-8/4/04 Marc Levi, completed PhD, dissertation entitled:
“Aggression Subtypes: The Role of Neuropsychological Functioning and
Personality”
Graduate Supervision (Committee
Member) (cumulative: 13):
10/06-8/26/07 Anne-Marie DePape, completed MA, thesis entitled “Musical Expertise, Bilingualism, and Executive Functioning” (primary: E. Bialystok)
09/05-9/05/06 Corey Gerritsen, completed MA, thesis entitled “Visual
Search for Emotional Faces Is Not Blind to Emotion” (primary: J.
Eastwood)
10/03-present Catherine McDermott, PhD degree in
progress, dissertation entitled “Disengagement of Attention in High Functioning
Adolescents with Autism” (primary: D. Pepler)
09/03-4/21/05 Stephanie McDermid-Vaz, completed PhD,
dissertation entitled “Organizing the Heterogeneity in Schizophrenia: Evidence
of Memory-Based Subtypes” (primary: W. Heinrichs)
06/02-6/28/04 Lila Elkhadem,
completed MA, thesis entitled: “Explicit and Implicit Memory in Children with
Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Effects of Metabolic Control and Time of
Day” (primary: M. Desrocher)
07/01-9/25/03 Vicki Rombough, completed PhD, dissertation entitled “Attention Deficits
in Autism: Is the World Viewed Through a Narrow Attentional Spotlight? (primary: M. Desrocher)
12/00-2/6/02 Lili Senman, completed MA, thesis entitled: “Cognitive
Processes in Theory of Mind Tasks: Inhibition of Attention and Symbolic
Representation in Young Children” (primary:
9/99-9/11/00 Joanne Taylor, completed MA, thesis
entitled: “Internal Generation of the Morphological Priming Effect” (primary:
C. Green)
9/99-1/10/02 Vivien Rekkas,
completed PhD, dissertation entitled: “An Investigation of the Central
Executive in Normal Aging” (primary: S. Murtha)
11/98-12/3/99 Terry Diamond, completed MA, thesis entitled: “The Effects
of PTSD on Cognitive Functioning Among Adult Survivors of Child Maltreatment“ (primary: R. Muller)
6/97-12/13/99 Jessica Bryan, completed PhD, dissertation entitled:
“Inhibitory Control and Disinhibition in Autism/PDD“ (primary: S. Bryson)
2/97-1/12/98 Lesley Ruttan, completed PhD,
dissertation entitled: “Depression and Neuropsychological Functioning in Mild
Traumatic Brain Injury“ (primary: W. Heinrichs)
1/97-7/22/97 Pamela Gomez, completed MA, thesis entitled: “Audio-Visual
Synchrony in the Intermodal Perception of Children
with Autism“ (primary: J. Bebko)
Dean’s Representative on Oral Defense
Examination Committees (cumulative: 8):
01/24/06 Jana Atkins, PhD dissertation: “Media Influences on
Adolescent Aggressive Behaviour, Positive Expectancies, and the Co-Occurrence
of Substance Use”
03/24/05 Erica Barbuto, MA thesis:
“The Effects of Dual-Task Performance on Retrieval of Serially Encoded
Information”
10/08/03 Marie Arsalidou, MA
thesis: “Neural Processes of Visual Problem Solving and Complexity”
08/01/01 Randall Waechter, MA
thesis: “Improving Short-Term Memory: The Effects of Novelty and Emotion on
Memory”
11/16/98 Elaine McKinnon, PhD dissertation:
”Relation of Family Characteristics and Survivor Characteristics to
Outcome after Acquired Brain Injury in Adolescents”
2/13/98 Carey Sturgeon, MA thesis: ”A
Meta-Analytic Review of Information-Processing Deficits in Schizophrenia:
Event-Related Potentials and Eye Movement Indices”
1/13/97 Stacey Baskind, MA
thesis: ”Mental Capacity Testing of Deaf Children”
9/16/95
Examiner from Outside Student’s
Department on Oral Defense Committees (cumulative: 1):
08/25/06 William Tippett, PhD
dissertation: “Analysis of Visually-Guided Reaching Performance in
Neurologically Healthy Young and Elderly Adults and Adults with Alzheimer’s
Disease” supervisor: L. Sergio, Kinesiology
Supervision of Predoctoral Interns
in Neuropsychology at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care (cumulative: 19):
09/07-08/08 Christina Gojmerac,
Andrew
Miki,
09/06-08/07 Genevieve Quintin,
Gregory
Sweitzer,
09/05-08/06 Veronica Lozano,
Maria
Tsiakas,
09/04-08/05 Jana Atkins,
Eva
Svoboda,
09/03-08/04 Karen Chipman,
Jelena
King,
09/02-08/03 Lacey
Amy
Siegenthaler,
09/01-08/02 Leanne Buttross,
Rhonda
Feldman,
09/00-08/01 Maria Armilio,
Corey
Mackenzie, Queen’s University
09/99-08/00 Kimberly Kane,
Gitit
Kave, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Suzanne
Krupa,
Supervision of Undergraduate Honours
Thesis and Independent Studies (cumulative: 41):
FW07 (2) Lisa
Bolshin: Semantic Effects on Temporal Memory
in
Salma Noormohamed:
Semantic Relatedness and Temporal Order Memory
FW06 (1) Meera
Paleja: The Cognitive Sequelae of Mild
Traumatic Brain Injury in Young and Older Adults
FW05 (5) Carly
Bolshin: Errorless Learning and Generation
Effects on Item and Source Memory
Tony DeBono:
The Relation Between Prospective and Source Memory in Healthy Young Adults
Neil Mehdiratta:
Cognitive Processes of Verbal and Nonverbal Fluency in Young Adults
Meera Paleja:
(Independent Study) Cross-Modal Manipulation Effects on Implicit Memory
Karen Zilberberg:
An Analysis of Working Memory and Immediate and Delayed Verbal and Nonverbal
Memory in Healthy Young Men
FW04 (3) Naomi
Gryfe: Memory Improvements for Healthy Young Adults: The Combined
Effects of Errorless Learning and Subject Generation
Vladimir Kushnir: The Effect of Categorization on Free Recall
and Recognition of Object-Action Pairs
Raquel Williams:
The Effects of Categorization and Enactment on Temporal Order Memory
FW03 (3) Jennifer
Hilborn: Interitem Association in Subject-Performed & Verbal Tasks
(Independent Study, fall semester)
Emma Pereira:
Generation Effects and Errorless Learning in Young Adults
Bianca Yau: Subject-Performed Tasks and Cognitive Aging
FW02 (2) Danielle
Savona: Temporal Order Memory of Actions vs. Objects
Azadeh Shahidsaless:
Sequencing vs. Memory of Action-Object Pairs
FW01 (2) Vivian
Koval: Paired Associates and the Mere Exposure
Effect
Nadine Richard:
Mere Exposure Effect with Verbal Stimuli (winner of the Templeton Award for
best honours thesis in Psychology)
FW00 (2) Sandra
Kaimer: The Mere Exposure Effect and Implicit
Memory: A Comparison of Words and Nonwords on
Preference Ratings and Word-Stem Completion
Yaniv Morgenstern: Neuropsychological Aspects of
Attention in Dementia
SU00
(2) Lila Elkhadem:
Alzheimer’s Disease and Conceptual Apraxia
(Independent Study)
Clairneige Motzoi: Apraxia
in Alzheimer’s Disease (Independent Study)
FW99 (5) Lila Elkhadem: The Effect
of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Verbal and Nonverbal Memory in Healthy
Postmenopausal Women
Ricardo
Flamenbaum: Sex Hormones and Cognition: A
Review (Indep. Study)
Joe
Roncaioli: The Effect of Hormone Replacement
Therapy on Sexually Dimorphic Abilities in Healthy Postmenopausal Women
Daniella Samuel: The Effect of Hormone Replacement
Therapy on Perceptual and Conceptual Implicit Memory in Healthy Postmenopausal
Women
Daniella Samuel: The Neurobiology of Hormone
Replacement Therapy (Independent Study)
FW98 (2) Yaniv Berliner: Memory
Asymmetry in Alzheimer’s Disease: Relationship to Age
of Onset and Education
Farrah Kassam:
Literature Review: The Activational Influence of
Testosterone on Cognition (Independent Study)
SU98 (1) Jennifer Hamilton: An Analysis of Component
Processes on Executive Function and Memory Tasks in
FW97 (5) Lisa Capo: Cognitive Flexibility and Verbal Fluency
in Healthy Young and Older Adults;
Jennifer Hamilton: Clustering
and Switching on Verbal Fluency and Word List Recall Tasks;
Judith Levy-Bencheton:
Implicit Processing in Unilateral Neglect;
R. Shayna Rosenbaum: Implicit
Memory Performance in Young Women Across the Menstrual
Cycle (honourable mention for the Templeton Award for
best honours thesis in Psychology);
Eva-Maria Svoboda:
Diazepam-induced prospective memory impairment and its relation to
retrospective memory and arousal (Independent Study)
FW96 (4) Aaron Greenberg: The Continuous Performance Test: A
True Test of Vigilance?;
Eleanor Liederman:
Attention and Working Memory in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients;
Amanda Robertson: Prospective
Memory and Aging: A Unitary or Heterogeneous Function?
Eva-Maria Svoboda: Prospective
Memory: Relationship to Age, Retrospective Memory, IQ, and Education
FW95 (2) Faith Malach: The
Relationship Between Social Activity Participation and
Depression Among the Elderly;
Vijitha Navaratnam:
The Role of ApoE in Alzheimer's Disease
(Independent Study)
Supervision of Undergraduate
Students and Volunteer Research Assistants (cumulative: 21):
FW06 (3 new) Maaria Baloch
and Laura Orlando: The Effect of Study-Test Modality Manipulations on
Perceptual and Conceptual Implicit Memory
Jenny Massioukova: The Effects of Enactment and
Meaningfulness on Temporal Order Memory.
Renata Mola:
Memory Performance in Major Depressive Disorder
SU06 (6) Maaria Baloch and Sheetal Mistry: The Effect
of Study-Test Modality Manipulations on Perceptual and Conceptual Implicit
Memory
Angela Badulescu and Gabriela Heymann: Comparison of
Verbal and Design Fluency Performance in Young Adults
Jenny Smith
and Karen Zilberberg: Memory and Genetics in Healthy Young Men
FW05 (1 new) Olivia Chu and Raquel Williams: Memory and Genetics in
Healthy Young Men
SU05 (4) Maya
Berinzon, Janice Dias, and Raquel Williams:
The effect of study-test modality manipulations on perceptual and conceptual
implicit memory
Janice Dias,
Jodi Lubinsky, and Raquel Williams: Memory and Genetics in
Healthy Young Men
FW03 (2) Seema Dar: The Effect of Categorized vs.
Uncategorized Lists on Free Recall Following Subject-Performed and Verbal Tasks
Jennifer Hilborn:
Genetic Variation in Memory Performance among Healthy Men
FW02 (1) Yael
Nitkin: The Relation Between
Mental Status and Visual Perception in Alzheimer’s Disease
SU02 (3) Danielle
Savona: The Mere Exposure Effect: Paired vs. Unpaired Presentations
Azadeh Shahidsaless: The
Mere Exposure Effect: Paired vs. Unpaired Presentations
Kalyani Thurairajah:
Action Sequence Error Coding in Stroke Patients
FW01 (1) Yael
Nitkin: The Mere Exposure Effect with Familiar
and Novel Stimuli