LORI BUCHANAN

Psychology Department

University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B 3P4

519-253-3000 extension 2246, buchanan@uwindsor.ca

 

     

 

       Citizenship:  Canadian

                                                                                                                                   

Education

Year

Degree

Discipline

Institution

1995

Ph.D

Psychology

University of Waterloo

1992

M.A.

Psychology

University of Waterloo

1990

B.A. with distinction

Psychology/ Philosophy

Wilfrid Laurier University

 

Ph.D. title: Phonological Selection Impairment in Deep Dyslexia. Supervised by G.E. MacKinnon.

 

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Dates

Rank/Position

Department

Institution

2002-

Associate professor

Psychology

University of Windsor

2001-2002

Assistant professor

Psychology

University of Windsor

2000-

Adjunct  professor

Linguistics

University of Alberta

1997-01

Assistant professor

Psychology

University of Alberta

1995-97

Postdoctoral fellow

Psychology

Sick Children's Hospital, Toronto

Honours and Awards

o      Canada Research Chair in Psycholinguistics

o      University of Alberta Graduate Student Association Mentoring Award, 2001

o      Alberta Foundation for Medical Research Scholar Award, 1998-2001

o      Guest Editor for upcoming Special Issue of Brain and Cognition, 2001

o      University of Alberta Psychology Department Teaching Honour Roll, 2000

 

COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate:              Neuropsychology of Aging, Cognitive Basis of Behaviour, History of Psychology.

Undergraduate:    Introductory and advanced courses in perception and cognitive neuroscience,

                               

                                                                                                           


Supervision of students and postdoctoral fellows

 

University of Alberta Supervision

Student Name

Level

Nature of supervision / Title of Thesis, etc.

Ana Adelstein

Postdoctoral 1998-99

Novel statistical analyses of word recognition. Completed

Christopher Westbury

Postdoctoral 1998-01

Normal and impaired word recognition. Completed

Now assistant professor, U of Alberta

Gregg Shanks

M.Sc. 2001

Working memory in epilepsy. Completed

Walter Foddis

B.Sc.  1998

Self-esteem questionnaire. Completed

Paul Siakaluk

Ph.D. 2002

Semantic neighbourhood effects in word recognition. Completed Assistant Professor University of Southern Mississippi

Shannon McEwen

Ph.D.

Semantic processing in aphasia patients. In progress

 

University of Windsor Supervision (all in progress )

Annette Colangelo

M.A.

Phonological impairment in aphasia and Alzheimer disease

Noah Silverberg

M.A.

Verbal working memory in aphasia

Darren Schmidt

Qual.

Proper noun production in aphasia

Geri Brousseau

Ph..D

Emotional contribution to word finding deficits in  Alzheimer disease

Jin Lee

Ph.D.

Psychophysical assessment of hearing deficits in healthy elderly adults

Tara McHugh

Ph.D.

Implicit versus explicit false memories

Chris hope

Ph.D.

Age related cognitive impairment

Jon Casey 

M.Sc. (math)

Semantic networks

Darren Schmidt

Qualifying

Proper noun production in aphasia

Honours Students, University of Windsor (2002-03)

Sara Henderson

B.Sc.

Olfaction and memory

Laurie Montcalm

B.Sc.

Depth of processing in word recognition

Meoshi Nottage

B.Sc.

Emotion and naming RTs

Ufuk Yildiz

B.Sc.

Relaxation and memory

Gillian Macdonald

B.A.

Context effects in false memories

Rita Sousa

B.A.

Bilingual lexicon arrangement

Elisabeth Haramic

B.A.

Bilingualism and false friends

 


Research Funding

Year

Source

Type

Amount per year

Purpose

2002-2007

CRC

C

$100,000

Research Chair

2002

CFI/OIT

C

$300,000

Infrastructure

2002-2007

SSHRC (MCRI) *

C

$495,000

Operating Grant

2001-05

NSERC

C

$12,000

Operating Grant

2001

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research  (AHFMR)

F

$5,000

Conference Grant

2001

MRC Tri-Council *

C

$28, 000

Networking/Research

2000

U. of Alberta, Internal SSHRC

C

$4,000

Junior Faculty Grant

2000

CFI *

G

$12, 000, 000

Infrastructure

1998-00

AHFMR

F

$55, 000/yr

Establishment Grant

1996-97

Eli Lilly

O

$10, 000

Research

1995

Hospital for Sick Children RESTRACOM

F

$32,000

Post Doctoral

 

Type: C-granting councils; G b Government; F-Foundations; O-Other

* Co-Applicant

 

REVIEWER  

MIT Press, Brain and Language, Brain and Cognition, Memory & Cognition,

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology,

Granting Agencies: MRC, CIHR, NSERC, CRC, NSF, FCAR, BSF


SERVICE ACTIVITY:

Chair/Co-chair:

o      Steering Committee, Annual Alberta Neuroscience Research Meeting, 2000

o      University of Alberta Neuroscience Division Seminar Series, 2000-01

o      Conference of Clinical and Theoretical Issues in Reading Research, Toronto, 1996

o      Judging Committee, Hospital for Sick Children Undergraduate Research Conference, 1996

o      Publications Chair, Great Lakes Regional Pediatric Psychology Conference, 1996

o      Clinical Psychology Rounds, Hospital for Sick Children, 1995-97

Committee Membership:

o       

o      Search Committee, Associate Dean of Arts and Humanties, University of Windsor 2002-03

o      Scientific Committee, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Trainee Awards, 2000 b01

o      Liaison Committee, University of Alberta Psychology Department and Glenrose Hospital, 2000

o      Psychology Department Research Ethics Board, University of Alberta , 1997-01

o      University of Alberta, Faculty of Science Visiting Committee, 1998

o      Various Psychology Department Job Candidate Search Committees, 1997-01

o      Faculty Association Representative, University of Alberta, 1997-01

o      University of Alberta Science Visit Representative, 1998

o      Student Submissions Committee, Great Lakes Regional Pediatric Psychology Conference, 1996

o      Ethics Review Board Member, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1995-97

 

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PRESS OR PUBLISHED

       * indicates a trainee in my lab.

 

o      Siakaluk, P.*, Buchanan, L. & Westbury, C.* (in press.). Semantic distance in semantic categorization: Do task instructions make the difference? Approx. 15 ms pages. Memory & Cognition

o      Binder, J.R., McKiernan, K.A., Parsons, M.E., Westbury, C.F., Possing, E.T., Kaufman, J.N., & Buchanan, L. (in press,). Neural Systems Underlying Lexical Access During Word Recognition.  approx. 35 ms pages, Cognitive Neuroscience

o      Colangelo, A.,* Stephenson, K.,* Westbury, C. & Buchanan, L. (in press). Word Associations in Deep Dyslexia. Brain and Cognition, approx. 6 ms pages

o      Atchley, R.,  Halderman, L., Kwasny, K. & Buchanan, L. (in press). The processing of pseudohomophones by adults with a history of developmental language disabilities. Brain and Cognition approx 8 ms pages

o      Buchanan, L., McEwen, S.*, Westbury, C.* & Libben, G. (in press). Semantics and semantic errors: Implicit access to semantic information from words and nonwords in deep dyslexia, Brain and Language, approx. 20 ms pages. *

o      Marino, M.A., Buchanan, L. & Van Orden, G.C.  (2002). Variability in aphasic patientsb response times. Brain and Cognition, 48, 469-474. 

o      Westbury, C. * &  Buchanan, L. (2002). The probability of the least likely bigram affects lexical decision RTs. Brain and Language, 81, 66-78.

o      Westbury, C., Buchanan, L. & Brown, N.R. (2002).  Remembering the neighbourhood: The effects of phonological overlap on false memory. The Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 622-651.

o      Buchanan, L., Westbury, C.* & Burgess, C. (2001). Characterizing the neighbourhood: Semantic neighbourhood effects in lexical decision and naming, Psychonomics Bulletin and Review, 8, 531-544.

o      Atchley, R.A., Story, J. & Buchanan, L. (2001) Exploring the contribution of the cerebral hemispheres to language comprehension deficits in adults with developmental language disorder, Brain and Cognition, 46, 16-21.

o      Leneman, M., Buchanan, L. & Rovet, J. (2001). "Where" and "What" visuospatial processing in adolescents with congenital hypothyroidism. Journal of the International Neuropsychology Society, 7, 556-562.

o      McEwen, S.*, Westbury, C.*, Buchanan, L. & Libben, G. (2001). Semantic information is used by a deep dyslexic to parse compounds. Brain and Cognition, 46, 201-206.

o      Siakaluk, P.* & Buchanan, L. (2001). Stimulus specific neglect in a deep dyslexic, Brain and Cognition, 46, 268-271.

o      Brown, N., Buchanan, L. & Cabeza, R. (2001). Judging frequency of nonpresented items. Psychonomics Bulletin and Review, 7, 684-691.

o      Buchanan, L., McEwen, S.*, Westbury, C.* & Libben, G. (2000). Semantic processing of nonwords by a deep dyslexic. Brain and Language, 74, 379-381.

o      Buchanan, L., Kiss, I. & Burgess, C. (2000). Phonological and semantic processing for words and nonwords in a deep dyslexic patient. Brain and Cognition, 43, 64-68.

o      Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L. (2000). Improving neighbourhood relations: Using genetic programming to uncover non-linear functional dependencies underlying lexical access, Proceedings of NC2000, Berlin Germany, approx. 10 ms pages.

o      Buchanan, L., Brown, N., Cabeza, R. & Maitson, C.* (1999).  False memories and semantic lexicon arrangement. Brain and Language, 68, 72-77.

o      Buchanan, L., Pavlovic, J. & Rovet, J. (1998). Re-examining visuospatial deficits in Turner Syndrome: Contributions of working memory. Developmental Neuropsychology, 14, 341-367.

o      Buchanan, L., Burgess, C. & Lund, K. (1998). Overcrowding in semantic neighbourhoods: A computational analysis of deep dyslexia, Brain and Cognition, 37, 111-115.

o      Buchanan, L., Pavlovic, J. & Rovet, J. (1997). The contribution of visuospatial working memory to impairments in facial processing and arithmetic in Turner syndrome,  Brain and Cognition, 37, 72-75.

o      Buchanan, L., Hildebrandt, N. & MacKinnon, G.E. (1996). Phonological processing of nonwords in deep dyslexia: Typical and independent? The Journal of Neurolinguistics, 9, 113-133.

o      Rovet, J., Walker, W., Bliss, B., Buchanan, L. & Ehrlich, R. (1996). The long term sequlae of hearing impairments in congenital hypothyroidism. Journal of Pediatrics, 128, 776-83.

o      Buchanan, L., Hildebrandt, N. & MacKinnon, G.E. (1994). Phonological processing by a deep dyslexic patient: A rowse is implicitly a rose. The Journal of Neurolinguistics, 8, 163-181.

o      Buchanan, L., Hildebrandt, N. & Mackinnon, G.E. (1994). Implicit phonological processing in deep dyslexia. Brain and Language, 47, 435-437.

o      Buchanan, L. & Besner, D. (1993). Reading aloud: Evidence for the use of a whole word nonsemantic pathway. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 47, 133-152.

o      Buchanan, L., Joordens, S., Fleck, R. & Thagard, P. (1993). Orientation and complexity effects: Implications for computational models of visual analogical reasoning. Proceeding of the 16th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference, 15, 272-276.

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW

 

o      Westbury, C., Buchanan, L., Sanderson, M., Rhemtulla, M., & Phillips, L. Using genetic programming to predict nonlinear interactions.

o      Colangelo, A.,* Buchanan, L. &  Westbury, C.  Deep Dyslexia and semantic errors: A test of the failure of inhibition hypothesis using a semantic blocking paradigm.

o      Ratcliff, R., Perea, M., Colangelo, A.,* & Buchanan, L. A diffusion model account of normal and impaired normal readers.

o      Schmidt, D.* & Buchanan, L. Proper noun and date production sparing in aphasia.

     

 

JOURNAL ISSUE EDITED

Special issue on semantics in the journal Brain and Language, 2003. Guest edited with postdoctoral fellow, Chris Westbury.

 

 

Book Chapters

o      Buchanan, L., Hildebrandt, N. & MacKinnon, G.E. (1999). Phonological processing re-examined in acquired deep dyslexia. In Converging Methods for Understanding Reading and Dyslexia. P. Mcmullen & R. Klein (Eds). MIT Press. Pp. 191-219.

o      Rovet, J. & Buchanan, L. (1999). Turner Syndrome: A cognitive neuroscience approach. In Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Contributions to a New Framework From the Cognitive Neurosciences, H. Tager-Flausberg, (Ed). MIT Press. Pp. 223-249.

o      Buchanan, L. & Besner, D. (1995). Reading aloud: Evidence for the use of a whole word nonsemantic pathway. In Reading and Language Processing. J. Henderson (Ed.). Erlbaum. Pp. 5-25.

 

PEER REVIEWED EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

o      Friedman, A., Buchanan, L. & Rickard Liow, S. (1999). More than one way to not name a cat: Category-specific agnosia in patients with deep dyslexia. Brain and Cognition, 40, 18.

o      Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L. (1999). What's in a word?: A sublexical effect in a lexical decision task. Proceedings of the Annual Cognitive Science Society, 325.

 

WEB PUBLICATIONS

Buchanan, L. & Westbury, C.* (2000). Wordmine database: Probablistic values for all four to seven letter words in the English Language. http://www.wordmine.org.

 

TECHNICAL REPORTS

  Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L. & Brown, N.R. (2000). Noys in the 'hood: Phonological lexicon arrangement. Proceedings of the Workshop on Phonology, University of Alberta Linguistic Department.

 

CONFERENCE Proceedings Edited

 Proceedings of the 1996 Great Lakes Regional Pediatric Psychology Conference, Toronto, ON.

 

 

CONFERENCES Organized

o      First Annual Alberta Neurosciences conferences, Canmore, AB. 2000.

o      National Consortium on Pediatric Brain Injury, Edmonton, AB, 2001.

o      Clinical and Theoretical Issues in Reading Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON. 1996.

 

Symposiums Organized

o      The Vision of The University of Alberta: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association Edmonton, AB. 1998.

o      Language Disorders: Advances in Theory and Method, Annual Meeting of the Brain and Behavioural Cognitive Science Society, Edmonton, AB. 1999.

 

Invited TALKs  * indicates a trainee in my lab.

 

o      Buchanan, L., Colangelo, A. & Van Orden, G. (2002). Reaction time variability in neurological language disorders. Language Comprehension Across the Lifespan.

o      Buchanan, L. (1999). Cognitive frameworks in aphasia research, University of California, Riverside.

o      Buchanan, L. (1999). New approaches to the examination of aphasia, University of Alberta Psychoquium Presentation.

o      Buchanan, L. (1999). New approaches to the examination of aphasia, Psychology and Neuroscience Seminars, University of Calgary.

o      Buchanan, L. & Cabeza, R. (1999). The University of Alberta Saturday Sampler.

o      Westbury, C.*, Buchanan, L. & Brown, N.R. (1999). Noise in the 'hood. International Phonological Workshop, Edmonton, AB.

o      Buchanan, L. (1999). Reading disorders in stroke patients. University of Alberta Neuroscience Division Seminar.

o      Westbury, C.*, Buchanan, L. & Brown, N.R. (1999). Phonological effects in False Memory. Phonological Workshop. Edmonton, AB.

o      Buchanan, L. (1996). Toward a new model of deep dyslexia, Ebbinghouse series, University of  Toronto.

 

Conference Presentations  * indicates a trainee in my lab.

** indicates that this presentation is accompanied by an abstract published in a national or international journal.

 

Invited Conference Presentations

o      **Adelstein, A. *, Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L.  (1999). Structural equation models of strategic shifts in word recognition, Annual Meeting of Brain and Behavioural Cognitive Science Society, Edmonton, AB.

o      **Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L. (1999). Nonlexical effects in lexical decision. Annual Meeting of Brain and Behavioural Cognitive Science Society, Edmonton, AB.

o      **Buchanan. L. (1999).  Classifications of acquired dyslexia: Scratching the surface, Annual Meeting of Brain and Behavioural Cognitive Science Society, Edmonton, AB.

o      Buchanan, L. (1998). Phonological processing in deep and phonological dyslexia reconsidered, International Workshop on Written Language Processing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

o      **Buchanan, L. (1998).  Strategic shifts in word recognition.  Annual Meeting of Brain and Behavioural Cognitive Science Society, Ottawa, ON.

o      **Buchanan, L. & Rickard Liow, S. (1997).  The application of semantic models in Neuropsychology: Modelling semantic errors. The Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA.

o      **Buchanan, L. Burgess, C. & Lund, K. (1997). Trouble in the neighbourhoods: Naming errors in deep dyslexia. Annual Meeting of Brain and Behavioural Cognitive Science Society, Winnipeg, MA.

                                         

Conference Presentations

o      **Siakaluk, P. *, Buchanan, L. & Westbury, C. (2002). Effects of semantic distance in word naming. Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Kansas City.

o      **Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L. (2002).  Semantics and phonology in false memories. Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Kansas City.

o      Colangelo, A. & Buchanan, L. (2003). Semantic and Phonological Neighbourhood Measures in the Diagnosis of Acquired Reading Disorders, INS conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

o      Brousseau, G. & Buchanan, L. (2003).Semantic Category Effect and Emotional Valence in College-Aged Students. INS conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

o      **Siakaluk, P. *, Buchanan, L. & Westbury, C. (2001). Effects of semantic distance in word recognition. Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

o      **Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L. (2001).  The ON/PN intersection effect in lexical decision. Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

o      ** Binder, J.R., McKiernan, K.A., Parsons, M.W., Buchanan, L., Westbury, C.F. *, & Ward,  B.D. (2001). The neural correlates of semantic processing: An event-related Fmri study. The Human Brain Mapping Conference, Brighton, UK.

o      **Buchanan, L., Westbury, C.* & Burgess, C. (2000). Semantic effects in word recognition, Annual Meeting of The Psychonomics Society, New Orleans, LA.

o      **Siakaluk, P.* Chow, V., Buchanan, L. & Sears, C. (2000). Neighbourhood effects in skilled versus unskilled readers. Annual Meeting of The Psychonomics Society, New Orleans, LA.

o      **Siakaluk, P.* & Buchanan, L. (2000).  Analysis of computational models of lexical decision. Annual Meeting of The Psychonomics Society, New Orleans, LA.

o      Buchanan, L. McEwen, S.* Westbury, C.,* Siakaluk, P.* & Libben, G. (Nov 2000) Morphological structure and semantic representations in two deep dyslexic patients, International Mental Lexicon Conference, Montreal, PQ.

o      Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L. (Nov. 2000). Unbundling the whole word route: Sublexical effects in lexical decision of high-frequency words. International Mental Lexicon Conference, Montreal, PQ.

o      **Chen, E. Possing, K. McKiernan, J., Kaufman, J., Ward, B., Buchanan, L., Westbury, C.* & Binder,  J. (2000), Teasing apart orthography from phonology during implicit processing, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Fransisco, CA.

o      McEwen, S.* Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L. (Nov. 2000). Is there a CAR in CARPET? International Mental Lexicon Conference, Montreal, PQ.

o      Siakaluk, P.* & Buchanan, L. (Nov. 2000). The effect of reading experience on lexical decision reaction times. International Mental Lexicon Conference, Montreal, PQ.

o      Buchanan, L. McEwen, S.* Westbury, C.,* & Libben, G. (2000).  The PEIR model of deep dyslexia, The Academy of Aphasia Conference, Montreal, PQ.

o      Westbury, C.* & Buchanan, L. (May, 2000). Using evolutionary programming to uncover non-linear functional dependencies underlying language, NC' 2000, Berlin.

o      Buchanan, L. & Rickard Liow, S. (1998).  Deep and phonological dyslexia: Qualitative and quantitative differences. Asia-Pacific Conference on Speech, Language and Hearing, University of Hong Kong.

o      **Brown, N., Buchanan, L.,  & Cabeza, R. (1998).  No you didn't see it several times: Frequency judgements of false memories. Annual Meeting of the Psychological Sciences Association, Washington, DC.

o      **Buchanan, L. (1998). Remembering higher order visual processing. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association Edmonton, AB.

o      Rickard Liow, S. &  Buchanan, L. (1997).  Semantic errors and function words: A special case of deep dyslexia, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA.

o      Buchanan, L., Pavlovic, J. & Rovet, J. (1997). Working memory deficits and mathematics in Turner syndrome. TENNET, Montreal, PQ.  

o      **Buchanan, L., Pavlovic, J. & Rovet, J. (1997). Working memory: A core deficit in Children with Turner Syndrome. Annual International Neuropsychology Society Meeting, Orlando, FL.  

o      **Buchanan, L., Pavlovic, J. & Rovet, J. (1996). Memory deficits in the visuospatial domain in children with Turner syndrome. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. 

o      Buchanan, L., Burgess, C. & Lund, K. (1996). Overcrowding in semantic neighbourhoods: A computational analysis of deep dyslexia, TENNET, Montreal, PQ.  

o      **Buchanan, L., Hildebrandt, N. & MacKinnon, G.E. (1996). Choosing a neighbour: Selection impairments in deep dyslexia, Annual International Neuropsychology Society Meeting, Chicago, IL. 

o      **Leneman, M.,  Buchanan, L. Pavlovic, J. & Rovet, J. (1996). "What", "where" and "how": Visuo-spatial impairments in congenital hypothyroidism. Annual International Neuropsychology Society Meeting, Chicago, IL. 

o      **Walker, W.,  Buchanan, L., Erlich, R. & Rovet, J. (1996). Phonological impairments in hearing Impaired children with congenital hypothyroidism. Annual International Neuropsychology Society Meeting, Chicago, IL.  

o      Buchanan, L., Hildebrandt, N. & MacKinnon, G.E. (1995). Deep dyslexia: Selection impairments in the lexical system, Annual Meeting of the British Psychological Society, Warwick, UK.   

o      **Buchanan, L., Hildebrandt, N. & MacKinnon, G.E. (1995). Neighbourhood effects in deep dyslexia. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.   

o      **Buchanan, L., Hildebrandt, N. & MacKinnon, G.E. (1994). Implicit phonological processing in deep dyslexia. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Boston, MA.   

o      Buchanan, L. (1994). Selection impairments in deep dyslexia. Presented at Southern Ontario Neuropsychology Group Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON.   

o      **Buchanan, L. (1993). Context effects in visual word recognition. Annual Meeting of Brain and Behavioural Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON.   

o      Buchanan, L. (1993). Deep dyslexia: A dual route account. Presented at the S.O.N.G Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.   

o      **Buchanan, L. & Besner, D. (1992). Lexical and nonlexical processes in Japanese word recognition. Annual Meeting of Brain and Behavioural Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, PQ.    

o      Buchanan, L., Joordens, S., Fleck, R. & Thagard, P. (1993). Orientation and complexity effects: Implications for computational models of visual analogical reasoning. 16th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference, Boulder, CO.