Alexitch, Louise

Borowsky, Ron

Borowsky, R., & Besner, D. (1993). Visual word recognition: A multistage activation model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19(4), 813. These experiments and model demonstrated the advantages of a stages-of-processing framework over parallel distributed processing for understanding lexical reading processes (examining semantic priming, stimulus quality, and word frequency), and also led to an interesting exchange with Plaut & Booth in Psychological Review over a decade later (Borowsky & Besner, 2006; Besner & Borowsky, 2006). Perhaps most interesting was that they declined the opportunity for a final rebuttal...
Borowsky, R., & Masson, M. E. (1996). Semantic ambiguity effects in word identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22(1), 63. These experiments and neural network simulations were the first to demonstrate how different characteristics of neural networks can simultaneously account for: (1) semantic ambiguity advantages (e.g., in a lexical decision task you identify ambiguous words like 'bat' sooner than unambiguous words like 'bet', which is simulated in the network by a measure of familiarity in the semantic system), (2) disadvantages (e.g., eye-tracking gaze duration is longer for ambiguous words when reading for meaning, which is simulated in the network by the time for the activation pattern to settle in the semantic system), and null effects (no differences in naming reaction time, as phonological processing can proceed without influence from semantics). 
Borowsky, R., Cummine, J., Owen, W. J., Friesen, C. K., Shih, F., & Sarty, G. E. (2006). FMRI of ventral and dorsal processing streams in basic reading processes: insular sensitivity to phonology. Brain topography, 18(4), 233-239.
This fMRI study was the first to compare reading aloud of exception words (e.g., ‘one’, which must be read via lexical memory) and pseudohomophones (e.g., ‘wun’, which must be read via sublexical spelling to sound translation) to examine the cortical visual processing streams as well as the insular cortex, and their relationship to lexical and sublexical reading processes. It was the first to use these optimal stimulus types and show independent fMRI BOLD activation in the ventral- lexical and dorsal-sublexical streams, and further suggested the insular cortex to be sensitive to phonological processing (particularly sublexical spelling-sound translation).

Campbell, Jamie

Campbell, J. I. (1994). Architectures for numerical cognition. Cognition, 53(1), 1-44. Different arithmetic notations recruited distinct calculation processes, 
showing that mental arithmetic is not fundamentally abstract.
Campbell, J. I., & Xue, Q. (2001). Cognitive arithmetic across cultures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130(2), 299-315. Extracurricular cultural activities, rather than differences in formal education, contributed to differences in arithmetic ability between Chinese and North American adults.
Campbell, J. I., & Graham, D. J. (1985). Mental multiplication skill: Structure, process, and acquisition. Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie, 39(2), 338-366.
This article introduced the network-interference theory of learning and memory for basic arithmetic facts, which remains an influential model to this day.

Chirkov, Valery

Cummings, Jorden

Desjardins, Michel

Elias, Lorin

Elias, L. J., Bryden, M. P., & Bulman-Fleming, M. B. (1998). Footedness is a better predictor than is handedness of emotional lateralization. Neuropsychologia, 36(1), 37-43. This paper is widely cited for two reasons.  First, because it demonstrates an association between emotional lateralization and foot preference (as opposed to hand preference). Second, it contains a laterality questionnaire I developed, so some of the citations are from people using my measure.
Saucier, D. M., Green, S. M., Leason, J., MacFadden, A., Bell, S., & Elias, L. J. (2002). Are sex differences in navigation caused by sexually dimorphic strategies or by differences in the ability to use the strategies?. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116(3), 403. This paper used eye-tracking to look for strategy differences between males and females when learning routes.  We found the expected sex differences in the type of navigation, but it wasn't caused by differences in the exploration of the maps.
Elias, L.J., Saucier, D.M. (2005). Neuropsychology: Clinical and Experimental Foundations. New: York: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon.

This 200- or 300-level textbook presented a balance of both the experimental and clinical perspectives in neuropsychology, whereas most texts focus mainly on either experimental or clinical content.

Grant, Peter

Grant, P. R., & Brown, R. (1995). From ethnocentrism to collective protest: Responses to relative deprivation and threats to social identity. Social Psychology Quarterly, 58(3), 195-212. This paper is widely cited because it is one of the few experimental tests of key hypotheses derived from relative deprivation theory.
Grant, P.R., & Nadin, S. (2008). The Credentialing Problems of Foreign Trained Personnel from Asia and Africa Intending to Make their Home in Canada: A Social Psychological Perspective. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 8, 141-162. This study records, in detail, the problems faced by skilled immigrants to Canada from a social psychological perspective using both quantitative and qualitative data. Very few studies use this perspective which is why it is cited frequently.
Grant, P. R., Abrams, D., Robertson, D. W., & Garay, J. (2015). Predicting Protests by Disadvantaged Skilled Immigrants: A Test of an Integrated Social Identity, Relative Deprivation, Collective Efficacy (SIRDE) Model. Social Justice Research, 28(1), 76-101.

This very recent paper describes a test of a new theory (the SIRDE model of social change) which integrates social identity theory, relative deprivation theory and resource mobilization theory. The research program that led to the development of this theory started with the paper by Grant & Brown (1995) which is cited above.

Hunter, Paulette

Hunter, P.V., Antony, M.M. (2009). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of emetophobia: The role of interoceptive exposure. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 16(1), 84-91. At the time I wrote this paper, there was very little published work on the experience of emetophobia. This case study emphasized interoceptive exposure as a potentially useful approach in the treatment of this disorder. Clinical psychology students may also find it useful as an example of one style of case conceptualization. 
Dever Fitzgerald, T., Hunter, P.V., Hadjistavropoulos, T., Koocher, G.P. (2010). Ethical and legal considerations for Internet-based psychotherapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, 39(3), 173-187. This paper relied on the International Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists as a framework to explore ethical issues that can arise in the context of Internet-based psychotherapy. 
Hunter, P.V., Hadjistavropoulos, T., Smythe, W., Malloy, D., Kaasalainen, S., & Williams, J. (2013). The Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (PDQ): Establishing an association between beliefs about personhood and health providers’ approaches to person-centred care. Journal of Aging Studies, 27(3), 276–287

The three studies that formed my dissertation project are all represented in this paper, which shows that beliefs about the moral rights and psychological and social capacities ("i.e., personhood") of people with advanced dementia influence health providers' intended approaches to care. I continue to be interested in ways to improve the care of people with advanced dementia. 

Lawson, Karen

Lawson, K., Wiggins, S., Green, T., Adam, S., Bloch, M., & Hayden, M. R. (1996). Adverse psychological events occurring in the first year after predictive testing for Huntington's disease. The Canadian Collaborative Study Predictive Testing. Journal of Medical Genetics, 33(10), 856-862. I published this paper while working as a Research Scientist at the Department of Genetics at UBC. My work there led me to return to university for my PhD to study the intersection between genetic technologies and societal norms.
Lawson, K. L., & Turriff-Jonasson, S. I. (2006). Maternal serum screening and psychosocial attachment to pregnancy. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 60(4), 371-378.
Although there had been much suggestion that maternal serum screening could negatively impact the maternal fetal bond, this work (co-authored with a graduate student) provided the first quantitative evidence that screening may disrupt the developmental trajectory of the maternal-fetal bond, even after favorable results are known.
Lawson, K. L. (2001). Contemplating selective reproduction: the subjective appraisal of parenting a child with a disability. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 19(1), 73-82.

The first publication stemming from my PhD dissertation, this paper examines normative attitudes towards persons with disabilities that contribute to the use of prenatal diagnostic testing

Loehr, Janeen

MacGregor, Michael

McDougall, Patricia

McMullen, Linda

McWilliams, Lachlan

Mickleborough, Marla

Morrison, Melanie

O'Connell, Megan

Olver, Mark

Wormith, J. S., & Olver, M. E. (2002). Offender treatment attrition and its relationship with risk, responsivity, and recidivism. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 29(4), 447-471. This is an early study examining the prevalence and predictors of attrition from a violent offender treatment program. This study found that actuarially high risk Aboriginal men were particularly vulnerable to attrition, which in turn predicted post-release recidivism.
Olver, M. E., Wong, S. C., Nicholaichuk, T., & Gordon, A. (2007). The validity and reliability of the Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offender version: Assessing sex offender risk and evaluating therapeutic change. Psychological Assessment, 19(3), 318-329. This study examined dynamic sexual violence risk and was one of first to demonstrate linkages between positive treatment change in sexual offenders and decreased recidivism in the community.
Olver, M. E., Stockdale, K. C., & Wormith, J. S. (2011). A meta-analysis of predictors of offender treatment attrition and its relationship with recidivism. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79(1), 6-21.
This is a large scale meta-analysis of 114 offender treatment attrition studies across a range of general and specialized programs (domestic violence, sexual offender). A large number of predictors were identified with implications for client retention to minimize attrition. Failure to complete treatment was associated with a 10-23% increase in recidivism, depending on the program and outcome.

Prime, Steven

Sarty, Gordon

Sarty, Gordon

Chandler, M. J., Lalonde, C. E., & Teucher, U. (2004). Culture, Continuity, and the Limits of Narrativity: A Comparison of the Self-Narratives of Native and Non-Native Youth. In C. Daiute & C. Lightfoot (Eds.), Narrative Analysis: Studying the Development of Individuals in Society (pp. 245-267). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (2004). This chapter provides the narrative scholarly basis to the psychological and epidemiological work by Chandler and Lalonde on Native adolescent suicides and I was glad to contribute to this narrative background. 
Cresswell, J., & Teucher, U. (2011). The body and language: MM Bakhtin on ontogenetic development. New Ideas in Psychology, 29(2), 106-118. This article speaks to recent debates on the phenomenological immediacy of experience; here I was able to add Max Scheler’s influences on Bakhtin’s thinking that now show up in Wertsch and other contemporary psychologists.
Teucher, U. (2003). The therapeutic psychopoetics of cancer metaphors: Challenges in interdisciplinarity. History of Intellectual Culture, 3(1), 1-15. This was my first journal publication of my work on cancer metaphors, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Thompson, Valerie

Thompson, V. A. (1994). Interpretational factors in conditional reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 22(6), 742-758. Relying on beliefs when reasoning logically had long been regarded as an "error" or a "bias".  In this paper, I showed that the reliance on beliefs was not an error, but a systematic incorporation of knowledge.  Consequently, it is possible to predict, with some degree of accuracy, the types of belief-based inferences people will draw on a logical reasoning task
Thompson, V. A. (2009). Dual process theories: A metacognitive perspective. In two minds: dual processes and beyond. In J. Evans & K. Frankish. In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond (pp. 171-295). Oxford, UK: Oxford. Metacognition refers to the processes by which we monitor and control our cognitive processes.  In other words, metacognitive processes alert us to when we have made an error, assess confidence in our performance, signal when the current strategy or plan is not working, etc.  These processes have been well-studied in the context of memory and education, but never before in the context of reasoning.  In these two papers, I introduced a metacognitive theory of reasoning and developed a new paradigm to test that theory.
Thompson, V.A., Turner, J.A.P., Pennycook, G. (2011). Intuition, reason, and metacognition. Cognitive Psychology, 63(3), 107-140.

Wormith, J. Stephen