03/17/2015
Ready to participate and make MONEY? We have posted a new experiment that is now open!!! Head on over to Reservax and sign up TODAY!!!!!!
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The Social Attention Research Group (S.A.R.G) examines social attention and perception mechanisms in typical and atypical development. The director, Dr. Elina Birmingham, is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. In collaboration with researchers at SFU (Grace Iarocci, Maureen Hoskyn), UBC (Alan Kingstone), UVic (Jim Tanaka), McGill (Jelena Ristic), and Calt
03/17/2015
Ready to participate and make MONEY? We have posted a new experiment that is now open!!! Head on over to Reservax and sign up TODAY!!!!!!
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07/22/2014
Ready to participate and make MONEY? We have posted a new experiment that is now open!!! Head on over to Reservax and sign up TODAY!!!!!!
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05/22/2014
SARG just returned from 2014 IMFAR (International Meeting for Autism Research) in Atlanta, GA. We had a wonderful time and presented our most recent research "Exploring Attentional Strategies for Emotion Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders".
01/15/2014
New app helps kids tell multilingual stories - THE CANADIAN Kelleen Toohey’s and Diane Dagenais’ creation of ScribJab, a combined website and iPad application for language learners
Happy 2014! SARG is pleased to announce that we have many new projects in the works. Stay tuned for new research and a chance to get involved and participate in our 2014 studies!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!
Social Attention Research Group (SARG)
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12/04/2013
GREAT NEWS!!!!! We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a 2-year SSHRC Insight Development Grant for a program of research entitled “Exploring the face for emotion recognition in adolescence”. We will be examining the developmental links between emotion recognition and social competence in adolescence.
We have moved! During renovations to the Education building, SARG has relocated to a new space for the Centre for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECHE), in the Diamond Alumni Centre. We are located on the lower level, room 007
SARG is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a 5-year NSERC Discovery Grant for a program of research entitled “Mechanisms of Social Attention”. This research will examine the attentional processes involved in selecting and following the gaze of other people.
11/07/2013
SARG has just returned from the Vision Science Society (VSS) conference in Naples, FL. We presented a poster entitled: “Exploring the left-eye bias for faces”. This research examined the tendency for observers to explore the eye in the left visual field more than the eye in the right visual field, during emotion recognition