M.A., University of Aberdeen, 1965
M.A., Queen's University, 1967
Ph.D., Queen's University, 1969

Research Interests

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.

Selected Publications

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.

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

Personal Website

Official Violence Risk Appraisal Guide-Revised (VRAG-R) Website

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Research Interests

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.

B.A., University of Western Ontario, 1973
M.A., McGill University, 1974
Ph.D., McGill University, 1977

B. Mus., Queen's University, 1983
B.A.H., Queen's University, 1986
M.A.Sc., University of Waterloo, 1988
Ph.D., Queen's University, 1998

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Research Interests

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.

Selected Publications

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.

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

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

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.

Research Interests

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.

Research Interests

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.

Selected Publications

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.

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B.A.H., Queen’s University, 2008
M.Sc., Queen's University, 2014
Ph.D.,  McGill University, 2020

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Follow this link to my current website

Research Interests

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.

Selected Publications

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Attentional Dynamics in Social Situations

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).

Attentional Dynamics across Internal Thoughts

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.

Attentional Dynamics within Digital Environments

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.