Janice Murray (psychologist)
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Janice Elizabeth Murray is a Canadian–New Zealand academic psychologist, and is professor emerita at the University of Otago. Her research focuses on object and face recognition, and age-related changes in perception.
Early life and education
Murray was born and raised in a small town in Nova Scotia. As an undergraduate at Dalhousie University, Murray studied infant language acquisition and speech perception under Professor Peter Jusczyk. She followed this with a Masters degree and a PhD titled The role of spatial separability and attention in dichotic listening both at the University of Waterloo.[1]
Academic career
Murray spent two years doing postdoctoral research at the University of Auckland. She returned to Canada, but had decided to make New Zealand her home, and accepted a lectureship position at the University of Otago, arriving with a young family in 1991.[2] Murray was appointed associate professor in 2016, and full professor at the beginning of 2021.[3][4] Her inaugural professorial lecture in July of that year coincided with her retirement, and she was subsequently appointed professor emerita.[2] From 2013 Murray was the Associate Dean (Academic), Sciences, and the Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Sciences from 2017. She led the development of the several multidisciplinary degrees at Otago. Murray supervised 40 postgraduate students to completion.[4][2] Murray's research began with infant speech recognition and language acquisition, and progressed to include object and face recognition, and changes in perception due to age. She collaborated on a face perception study with Daphne Maurer of McMaster University.[5] She was part of a team that found older people are less good at recognising emotions in other people, and less good at lying, and at detecting lies by others.[6][7]
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References
- ↑ Murray, Janice Elizabeth (1987). The role of spatial separability and attention in dichotic listening (PhD thesis). University of Waterloo. ISBN 0315296933.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Board, Otago Bulletin (4 August 2021). "Professor Janice Murray retires with a "retrospective reflective" IPL". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ↑ "New university professors announced". Otago Daily Times Online News. 11 December 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Otago, University of (6 November 2015). "Outstanding Otago academics made full professors". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ↑ Psychology, Department of (3 April 2023). "Emeritus Professor Janice Murray". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ↑ "Emotion Breakdown". Otago Daily Times Online News. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ↑ "Older people not good liars - Otago study". Otago Daily Times Online News. 27 May 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
External links
- From go to whoa: Perceiving the world. Inaugural professorial lecture by Janice Murray, 20 July 2021, via YouTube