Dr. Kristie Dukewich
B.Sc. (U of A), M.Sc. (Dalhousie), PhD (Dalhousie)
I grew up in Northern Alberta in a town called Slave Lake. After completing my undergraduate in Edmonton I spent a year in Taiwan teaching English, studying Mandarin, and traveling around Southeast Asia. I have had the opportunity to live in various Canadian cities, including graduate studies in Halifax, a post-doc in Vancouver, and a faculty position in Toronto. But Vancouver has been my hometown from the moment I arrived in 2009, and I am thrilled to be back!
Courses taught
- PSYC 1100: Introduction to Psychology: Basic Processes
- PSYC 1200: Introduction to Psychology: Areas and Applications
- PSYC 2375: Perception
- PSYC 2385: Cognition
- PSYC 3800: Evolutionary Psychology
- PSYC 3950: Cognitive Ergonomics
- Past courses: Sensation & Perception; Introduction to Statistics; Human Memory; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Neuroscience
Areas of Interest
My discipline-specific work focuses on visuospatial processing, memory, and attention. I have published one of the leading theories of an attentional effect called inhibition of return (IOR; Dukewich, 2009), and I recently published a critique of the state of IOR research using a survey of experts in the field to illustrate the lack of consensus in defining and identifying the effect (Dukewich & Klein, 2015).
I am also involved in a variety of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects. I have presented and written on low-stakes writing assignments, peer assessments and ethical dilemmas in teaching. I have also starting a program of research that bridges my discipline-specific and pedagogical interests, using cognitive research in visuospatial processing, memory, attention and learning to inform the best practices for slide design in higher education.
Scholarly Work
- Dukewich, K. R., & Wood, S. C. (under review). “Can I have a grade bump?” The contextual variables and ethical ideologies that inform everyday dilemmas in teaching.
- Dukewich, K. R., & Klein, R. M. (2015). Inhibition of return: a phenomenon in search of a definition and a theoretical framework. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-12.
- Dukewich, K. R., & Vossen, D. P. (2015). Toward Accuracy, Depth and Insight: How Reflective Writing Assignments Can Be Used to Address Multiple Learning Objectives in Small and Large Courses. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 8, 97-110.
- Dukewich, K. R. (2015). Effective use of slideware to help students create mental models. Workshop presented at Opportunities & New Directions (OND) 2015 Conference, “Making teaching and learning visible: Clarifying and communicating teaching and learning processes”. Centre for Teaching Excellence (University of Waterloo). Waterloo, ON, April 30th, 2015.
- Klein, R. M., Wang, Y., Dukewich, K. R., He, S., & Hu, K. (2015). On the costs and benefits of repeating a nonspatial feature in an exogenous spatial cuing paradigm. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77(7), 2293-2304.
- Dukewich, K. R. & Chica, A. B. (2013). Inhibition of Return. In H. Pashler (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Mind. Washington, D.C.: SAGE Publications, Inc.
- Dukewich, K. R., Eskes, G., Lawrence, M. A., Phillips, S. J., Dove, M. B. & Klein, R. M. (2012). Speed impairs responding on the left: comparing attentional asymmetries for neglect patients in speeded and unspeeded cueing tasks. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 6(232).
- Dukewich, K. R. (2009). Reconceptualizing inhibition of return as habituation of the orienting response. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 16(2), 238-251.
- Dukewich, K. R & Klein, R. M. (2009). Finding the target in search tasks using detection, localization, and identification responses. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 83(1), 1-7.
- Dukewich, K. R. & Boehnke, S. (2008). Cue repetition increases inhibition of return. Neuroscience Letters. 448(3), 231-235.
- Dukewich, K. R., Klein, R. M., & Christie, J. (2008). The effect of gaze on gaze direction while looking at art. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 15(6), 1141-1147.
- Klein, R. M., & Dukewich, K. R. (2006). Does the inspector have a memory? Visual Cognition. 14, 648-667.
- Dukewich, K. R. & Klein, R. M. (2005). Implications of search accuracy for serial self-terminating models of search. Visual Cognition, 12, 1386-1403.