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1 Elina Birmingham 1 Contact Information CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, RCB 5246, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC, Canada V5A 1S6, Canada ebirming@sfu.ca; Phone: (+1) ; Fax: (+1) Education and Training Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology Supervisor: Dr. Ralph Adolphs PhD, Cognitive Psychology, University of British Columbia Supervisor: Dr. Alan Kingstone Dissertation Title: Gaze selection in the real world: finding evidence for a preferential selection of eyes M.A., Psychology, University of Toronto Supervisor: Dr. Jay Pratt Thesis Title: Examining Inhibition of Return with Onset and Offset Cues in the Multiple Cuing Paradigm B.Sc., Psychology, University of British Columbia Supervisor: Dr. Alan Kingstone Current Position 2009-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Simon Fraser University Supervisor: Dr. Grace Iarocci 2009-Present Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology Supervisor: Dr. Ralph Adolphs Fellowships, Scholarships, Awards, and Honors Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), Postdoctoral Fellowship (Provincial) Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Postdoctoral Fellowship (National) Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), Senior Trainee Award (Provincial) 2007 Quinn Exchange Fellowship for Graduate Students (Departmental: Psychology UBC) 2007 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Attendance Award (International)

2 Elina Birmingham Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS-D) (National) Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Graduate Scholarship-Masters (CGS-M) (National) 2003 Vision Science Research Program (VSRP) Award (Provincial) 2003 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (decline by Birmingham) (Provincial) University of Toronto Fellowship (Institutional) 2002 British Columbia Psychology Association Gold Medal for Psychology for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology (Provincial) University of British Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program Scholarship (Institutional) University of British Columbia Outstanding Student Initiative Scholarship (Institutional) British Columbia Government Scholarship (Provincial) Teaching Experience 2009 Guest lecturer, Social Psychology (Psy15), California Institute of Technology, Instructor: Dr. Lynn K. Paul 2008 Teaching Assistant, Cognitive Neuroscience (Psyc265), University of British Columbia, Instructor: Dr. Alan Kingstone 2003 Teaching Assistant, Thinking Clearly About Psychology (Psyc217). University of British Columbia, Instructor: Dr. Linda Scratchley 2003 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Perception (Psy280), University of Toronto, Instructor: Dr. S.J. Hamstra Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (Psy270), University of Toronto, Instructors: Christina Gojmerac and Simay Ikier Student mentor of M.Yanko, Directed studies Other Experience and Training Training in Autism Diagnostic Methods 2009 Research Training for Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (Jan 27 and Feb 3, San Diego, CA) 2008 Two-day Clinical Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Workshop (ADOS: Nov 3-4, San Diego, CA)

3 Elina Birmingham 3 Consulting Referee present Attention, Perception and Psychophysics Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience Psychological Science British Journal of Psychology 2008-present 2007-present Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Memory and Cognition Professional Membership 2010 International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2009 Vision Science Society (VSS) Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) 2004, 2005, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) and 2010 Committee Membership Member, Graduate Student Council, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia 2005 Organized an annual student conference day ( Psychfest ) for the Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia Publications In Press Adolphs, R. & Birmingham, E. Neural substrates of social perception. Chapter in press in Calder, A.J., Rhodes, G., Haxby, J.V., & Johnson, M.H. (Eds.). Handbook of Face Perception, Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. Birmingham, E., Ristic, J., & Kingstone, A. Investigating social attention: A case for increasing stimulus complexity in the laboratory. Chapter in press in Burack, J. A., Enns, J. T., & Fox, N. A. (Eds.). Cognitive neuroscience, development, and psychopathology. Oxford University Press: New York, NY. Dalrymple, K.A., Birmingham, E., Bischof, W., Barton, J.J.S., & Kingstone, A. Opening a window on attention: Documenting and simulating recovery from simultanagnosia, Article in press in Cortex, 29 pages.

4 Elina Birmingham 4 Ford, S., Birmingham, E., King, A., Lim, J., & Ansermino, M. At-a-glance monitoring: covert observations of anesthesiologists in the operating room. Article in press in Anesthesia & Analgesia. 23 pages. Published Articles Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2009). Saliency does not account for fixations to eyes within social scenes. Vision Research 49, Birmingham, E. & Kingstone, A. (2009). Human social attention: A new look at past, present and future investigations. The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009, Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2009). Get Real! Resolving the debate about equivalent social stimuli. Visual Cognition, 17(6), Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2008). Social attention and real world scenes: the roles of action, competition, and social content. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(7), Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2008). Gaze selection in complex social scenes. Visual Cognition, 16(2/3), Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2007). Why do we look at eyes? Journal of Eye Movement Research, 1(1):1, 1-6. Birmingham, E., Visser, T.A.W., Snyder, J.J., & Kingstone, A. (2007). Inhibition of Return: Unravelling a Paradox. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(5), Smilek, D*., Birmingham, E*., Cameron, D., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2006). Cognitive ethology and exploring attention in real world scenes. Brain Research, 1080, * SD and EB are co-first authors Birmingham, E., & Pratt, J. (2005). Examining Inhibition of Return with Onset and Offset Cues in the Multiple Cuing Paradigm. Acta Psychologica, 118, Published Chapters Birmingham, E. & Kingstone, A. (2009). Human Social Attention. In: N. Srinivasan (Ed.), Progress in Brain Research, Attention, 176, The Netherlands: Elsevier, 2009, pp Kingstone, A., Smilek, D., Birmingham, E., Cameron, D. & Bischof, W.F. (2005). Cognitive ethology: Giving real life to attention research. In J. Duncan, L. Phillips & P. McLeod (Eds.) Measuring the mind: Speed, control & age. In honour of Patrick Rabbitt.

5 Elina Birmingham 5 Conference Presentations Paper Presentations Kingstone, A., Birmingham, E., & Bischof, W.F. The science of social attention. Paper presented at the 2007 meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Marseille, France (August 2007). Talk given by Birmingham. Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. Using the eyes to encode and recognize social scenes. Paper presented at the 2006 Eye Tracking Research and Applications Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA (March 2006). Poster Presentations Birmingham, E., Cerf, M., & Adolphs, R. Eye tracking to social scenes: comparisons between amygdala lesions and autism. Poster presented at the 2010 meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, PQ, Canada (April 2010). Birmingham, E., Cerf, M., & Adolphs, R. The role of the amygdala in orienting attention to eyes within complex social scenes. Poster presented at the 2009 meeting of the Vision Science Society, Naples, FL, USA (May 2009). Birmingham, E., Ford, S., Lim, J., Ansermino, M.J. How often do anesthesiologists really check their monitors? Poster presented at the 2007 meeting of The Canadian Anesthesiologists Society (CAS), Calgary, AB, Canada (June 2007). Birmingham, E., Yanko, M., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. The role of attention in complex event perception. Poster presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Saskatoon, SK, Canada (June 2006). Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. Using the eyes to encode and recognize social scenes. Poster presented at the 2006 Eye Tracking Research and Applications Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA (March 2006). Birmingham, E., Smilek, D., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. Cognitive ethology and social attention in real world scenes. Poster presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City, NY, USA (April 2005). Birmingham, E., Yanko, M., Smilek, D., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. How does context influence social attention in real world scenes? Poster presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montreal, PQ, Canada (July 2005). Birmingham, E., Yanko, M., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. Context effects on the visual scanning of social scenes. Poster presented at the 13 th European Conference on Eye Movements, Bern, Switzerland (August 14-18, 2005). Presented by Bischof. Bischof, W.F., Birmingham, E., & Kingstone, A. Modelling the influence of top-down mechanisms on fixation behavior. Poster presented at the 13 th European

6 Elina Birmingham 6 Conference on Eye Movements, Bern, Switzerland (August 14-18, 2005). Presented by Bischof. Birmingham, E., Smilek, D., & Kingstone, A. The role of meaning and the individual in attentional selection. Poster presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA (April 2004). Dodd, M., Castel, A., Birmingham, E., & Pratt, J. The role of working memory in IOR at multiple locations. Poster presented at the 2003 Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada (November, 2003). Co-presented by Dodd, Castel, Birmingham. Birmingham, E. & Pratt, J. Examining Inhibition of Return with onset and offset cues in the multiple-cuing paradigm. Poster presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Hamilton, ON, Canada (June 2003). Visser, T.A.W., Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., Snyder, J.S., and Kingstone, A. Inhibition of Return is strategic in nature. Poster presented at the 2001 Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, USA (November 2001). Presented by Visser. Invited Presentations April 2010, ACT s (Autism Training Community) 6th Annual Focus on B.C. Research. September 2007, School of Psychology, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK. September 2007, Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, UK. September 2007, Eye Tracking in Dynamic Scenes workshop, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Elina Birmingham 1 CURRICULUM VITAE

Elina Birmingham 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Contact Information Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, RCB 5246, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC, Canada V5A 1S6, Canada Email: ebirming@sfu.ca; Phone: