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Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society 11 May 2013 | 06:38 am
It is VSS time again! This year I came here with two graduate students and two posters. Seamas Weech and Sophie Kenny both present studies relating to some recent discussions of the “facing-the-viewer...
What pigeons think about “direction” 31 Jan 2013 | 06:50 pm
If someone would present you with the display of a person stepping backwards on a treadmill and you were asked “Which way is the person going“ you might ask for more specific instructions: “The person...
Holiday walker 15 Dec 2012 | 02:54 am
Creative coder Nicolas Barradeau just sent me the link to this Christmas calender. The walker might look familiar to you. Click on the image to start the animation. I often get requests from people in...
Sophie Kenny 14 Nov 2012 | 08:26 pm
Time flies by, and with the change of seasons came new lab members. Among them is Sophie Kenny, who joined the Biomotion Laboratory in September. Having previously completed her Master’s degree at Mem...
CSBBCS meeting here @ Queen’s 14 Jun 2012 | 09:07 am
This year’s annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science was held here at Queen’s and here in our Department. It concluded this past Saturday and was a great succe...
New paper: Facing direction without structure 16 Nov 2011 | 09:49 am
A new paper from our lab came out today in the journal Psychological Science. It deals with inversion effects in biological motion perception and the role that motion plays in the recognition of point...
Emma won! 21 Oct 2011 | 08:16 am
Emma made it! She won the “Dance your PhD” competition in the Social Sciences section. The media are all over her already and tonight her contribution will be aired on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet...
Dance your PhD 11 Oct 2011 | 03:39 pm
I just got note from our own Emma Ware. As you know, she was a student in the BML for many years and defended her PhD thesis on courtship behaviour in pigeons earlier this year. You may not know that ...
New BML members 24 Sep 2011 | 09:31 am
The summer is over and the new term sees the BioMotionLab filled with a whole lot of new people. Yaroslav Konar still has to defend his PhD thesis at McMaster University, but we consider him already t...
More PhDs 16 Apr 2011 | 04:06 pm
The good news first: Emma Ware successfully defended her PhD thesis on Friday. Congratulations! Emma had studied the dynamics of pigeon courtship behaviour as a means to understand the role of the par...
