News and Events – September 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Webb, A., Knott, A., & MacAskill, M. R. (in press). Eye movements during transitive action observation have sequential structure. Acta Psychologica.
CONFERENCES
Richard Jones and Govinda Poudel attended the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’09), September 2-6, 2009 in Minneapolis, USA. The following paper was presented:
Poudel GR, Jones RD, Innes CRH, Watts R, Signal TL, Bones PJ. fMRI correlates of behavioural microsleeps during a continuous visuomotor task. Proceedings of 31st Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2009), Minneapolis, USA. 2009;31:2919-2922.
GRANTS
Michael MacAskill, Tim Anderson, John Dalrymple-Alford, Richard Watts, Tracy Melzer, and Ross Keenan successfully obtained $74,350 funding for the project ‘Can advanced MRI and saccade parameters faithfully measure progression in Parkinson’s disease?’ from the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation. This study will follow people with PD who have been studied previously, looking to examine methods of predicting changes in disease severity, cognitive performance, MR brain imaging, and eye movement measures.
PUBLICITY
Petra Hoggarth’s runner-up prize in the ‘Science and our Society’ category of the McDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year Awards was reported in articles and photos published in the Press and in the University of Canterbury Chronicle.
‘Student develops detection of unsafe drivers’, The Press, Christchurch, September 9, 2009. (www.stuff.co.nz/national/2845763/Student-develops-detection-of-unsafe-drivers)
‘UC researchers recognised in Young Scientist Awards’, Chronicle, Volume 44, No 14, September 4, 2009 p. 2 (www.comsdev.canterbury.ac.nz/chronicle/2009/ChronVol44-14.pdf)