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: (+1) 604-671-2469; Fax: (+1) 778-782-3427 Current Position 2009-Present 2009-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Simon Fraser University Supervisor: Dr. Grace Iarocci Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology Supervisor: Dr. Ralph Adolphs Education and Training 2008-2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology Supervisor: Dr. Ralph Adolphs 2003-2008 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. 2002-2003 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 1998-2002 B.Sc., Psychology, University of British Columbia Supervisor: Dr. Alan Kingstone Fellowships, Scholarships, Awards, and Honors 2009-2011 Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), Postdoctoral Fellowship (Provincial) 2009-2011 Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Postdoctoral Fellowship (National) 2006-2008 Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), Senior Trainee Award (Provincial) 2007 Quinn Exchange Fellowship for Graduate Students (Departmental: UBC Psychology) 2007 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Attendance Award (International)
Elina Birmingham 2 2005-2007 Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS-D) (National) 2003-2004 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 (declined by Birmingham) (Provincial) 2002-2003 University of Toronto Fellowship (Institutional) 2002 British Columbia Psychology Association Gold Medal for Psychology for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology (Provincial) 2001-2002 University of British Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program Scholarship (Institutional) 1998-1999 University of British Columbia Outstanding Student Initiative Scholarship (Institutional) 1998-1999 British Columbia Government Scholarship (Provincial) Teaching Experience 2010 Instructor, The Social Psychology of Visual Perception and Attention (Psyc 391), Simon Fraser University. 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. 2003 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (Psy270), University of Toronto, Instructors: Christina Gojmerac and Simay Ikier 2005-2006 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)
Elina Birmingham 3 2008 Two-day Clinical Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Workshop (ADOS: Nov 3-4, San Diego, CA) Consulting Referee 2009- present Attention, Perception and Psychophysics Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2008-present 2007-present Professional Membership Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience Psychological Science British Journal of Psychology Neuropsychologia Journal of Eye Movement Research Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Memory and Cognition 2010 International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2009 Vision Science Society (VSS) 2005,2006, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science and 2010 (CSBBCS) 2004, 2005, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) and 2010 Committee Membership 2004-2008 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.
Elina Birmingham 4 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. Dalrymple, K.A., Birmingham, E., Bischof, W., Barton, J.J.S., & Kingstone, A. Experiencing simultanagnosia through windowed viewing of complex social scenes. Article in press Brain Research, 31 pages. Under Review Birmingham, E., Cerf, M., & Adolphs, R. Comparing social attention in autism and amygdala lesions: effects of stimulus and task condition. Article under review at Social Neuroscience, 32 pages. Published Articles Ford, S., Birmingham, E., King, A., Lim, J., & Ansermino, M. (2010). At-a-glance monitoring: covert observations of anesthesiologists in the operating room. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 111(3), 653-658. Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2009). Saliency does not account for fixations to eyes within social scenes. Vision Research, 49, 2992-3000. 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, 118-140. Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2009). Get Real! Resolving the debate about equivalent social stimuli. Visual Cognition, 17(6), 904-924. 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), 986-998. Birmingham, E., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2008). Gaze selection in complex social scenes. Visual Cognition, 16(2/3), 341-355. 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), 957-963. Smilek, D*., Birmingham, E*., Cameron, D., Bischof, W.F., & Kingstone, A. (2006). Cognitive ethology and exploring attention in real world scenes. Brain Research, 1080, 101-119. * 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, 101-121.
Elina Birmingham 5 Published Chapters Birmingham, E. & Kingstone, A. (2009). Human Social Attention. In: N. Srinivasan (Ed.), Progress in Brain Research, Attention, 176, The Netherlands: Elsevier, pp. 309-320. 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. 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). Presented by Lim. 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
Elina Birmingham 6 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 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 October 2010, Perceptual Expertise Network XXI Workshop, Chicago, IL, USA. April 2010, ACT s (Autism Community Training) 6th Annual Focus on B.C. Research, Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 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.