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News @ Memory Lab
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September 2011 APS Rising Star: Donna has been selected as a “Rising Star” by the Association for Psychological Science. August 2011 While attending ICOM5 in York, Donna was interviewed live on BBC Newsnight in London. Memory for the future: Victoria’s paper on encoding future simulations was published in PNAS. July 2011 Donna named one of New Zealand's 2011 Influencers by Unlimited Magazine from hundreds of nominees. Memory lab students win three prize at INS conference: Peter Bull won the Kevin Walsh award (best abstract submitted by Honours/Masters student); Victoria Martin won the Laird S. Cermak Award (best research on memory), and Valerie van Mulukom won the ASSBI Travel Award (best abstract submitted by a student) November 2010 November 26: Donna wins the The Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize. This prize is awarded to a scientist within 5 years of completing a PhD, carrying out leading-edge science. Donna receives $50,000 of the prize money and is able to use the remaining $150,000 to support her on-going research. November 21: Lecture on Radio NZ. Donna's lecture, "How do I know who I am?" was broadcast on Radio NZ. This is available for download here. November 10: Donna is an inaugural Rutherford Discovery Fellow. Donna has been named a Rutherford Discovery Fellow. This prestigious fellowship is worth $800,000 over 5 years and will let her focus on her research. |
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October 2010 October 13: Katie wins Merit in Poster Comp! Katie won a Merit award in the Psychology Department Honours Poster Competition, for her study on visual and verbal false memory. Well done Katie! October 18: Radio New Zealand lecture in Whanganui. Donna is giving a lecture on self and identity in Whanganui as part of the Radio NZ/Royal Society lecture series on Brain and Behaviour, "Talking Heads". This will be broadcast in November. |
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September 2010 September 9: Victoria wins High Distinction. Victoria entered her poster on Encoding of Future Simulations into the Faculty of Science Post-Graduate poster competition and was awarded a High Distinction (with a cash prize!!) Well done Victoria!! |
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August 2010 August 29 - September 1: Lab attends AWCBR. Our lab attended the Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research in Wanaka, NZ. Valerie was invited to give a talk at this conference and did an excellent job! Donna invited to be an Associate Editor of Memory. Click here to find out more about the journal. |
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July 2010 July/August issue of Scientific American Mind. Donna's imaging work is featured in this issue of Scientific American Mind in an article on "Making connections: The essence of memory is linking one thought to another". |
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June 2010 June 6-10: The lab attends Human Brain Mapping. Victoria, Reece and Donna attended Human Brain Mapping in Barcelona and presented posters of our recent research. Donna also gave an invited talk on "Future Simulation in Older Adults". Click to see Victoria's and Donna's posters. |
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March 2010 Mar 27: Dr. Donna Rose Addis Featured in Science Daily. Read about how older adults may remember their past experiences through a positive lens in Science News. |
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December 2009 Dec 24: Memory Lab Featured on Radio New Zealand National. Listen to how we remember the future on the program Our Changing World. |
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November 2009 Nov 16: Farewell Katie. Dinner to farewell Katie at Vivace, 6pm. Good luck Katie! Nov 1: Welcome Valerie! PhD student Valerie van Mulukom will be joining our lab from The Netherlands. Welcome! |
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May 2009 May 6: Dr. Addis is giving Dept Forum 4PM in the Tea Room May 1: Happy Birthday Victoria! Help her celebrate her first kiwi birthday! |
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February 2009 Feb 20: Welcome Victoria. PhD student Victoria Martin will be joining our lab from Toronto, Canada. Welcome! |
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November 2008 Nov 10: Memory Lab Research Features in Ingenio. UoA's alumni magazine, Ingenio, featured our research in their Spring 2008 edition. |
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October 2008 Oct 10: Memory Lab Research Features in Marsden Update. A brief article on Dr. Addis' Marsden research appeared in the October edition of the Royal Society's Marsden Update. |
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Previous media coverage Discovery (2008). A Life in Memory (Documentary). Broadcast in the USA, Discovery Channel, November 2008. BBC Horizon (2008). How Does Your Memory Work? (Documentary). Broadcast in the U.K. on BBC Two, Tuesday 25th March 2008, 9pm. Thompson, A. (2008). Study: Memory Loss Linked to Loss of Imagination. LiveScience, published online 22 January 2008, . Also appeared on the website of Fox News and MSNBC. Than, K. (2008). Ageing makes the imagination wither. Nature News, Published online 4 January 2008. The News Staff, Science (2007). Breakthrough of the year: The runners-up. Science, 318, 1844-1849. Zimmer, C. (2007). Time in the animal mind. New York Times, 3 April 2007, Section D, p. 1, 6. Published online 3 April 2007. Marshall, J. (2007). Future recall: your mind can slip through time (cover story). New Scientist, 24 March 2007, issue 2596, pp. 36-40. Published online 24 March 2007. Carey, B. (2007). Amnesiacs May Be Cut Off From Past and Future Alike. New York Times, 23 January 2007, Section F, 5. Published online 23 January 2007. Smith, K. (2007). I can't imagine... Brain damage that wipes out the past also takes out the future. Nature, published online 15 January 2007. Miller, G. (2007). Neurobiology: A surprising connection between memory and imagination. Science, 315, 312. Beresford Jarrett, C. (2004). Identity and memory. The Psychologist, 17, 147, published online March 2004. |
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