Michael Chan-Reynolds
Associate Professor

B.Sc. (Trent University)
M.A., Ph.D. (University of Waterloo)

Office: DNA C119
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7534   
Email: michaelchanreynolds@trentu.ca

Research interests:

Generally speaking, I am interested in how people utilize information in their environment during everyday situations.  I examine this issue using three complementary approaches; (1) standard laboratory tasks and (2) observing and describing behaviours during everyday tasks for data collection and (3) computational modeling as a form of theory construction.  I am presently conducting research in two different areas (1) how people read and (2) how things in our environment capture (or fail to capture) our attention.

Teaching

PSYC 2400H-B FA PTBO: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology  

PSYC 4170H-A FA PTBO: History of Psychology  

PSYC 3450H-A WI PTBO: Reading Processes

PSYC 4170H-A WI PTBO: History of Psychology

Selected publications

Malcolmson, K. A., Reynolds, M. G., & Smilek., D. (2007).  Collaboration during visual search.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, accepted for publication October 10, 2006.

Smilek, D., Eastwood, J. D., Reynolds, M. G., & Kingstone, A. (2006).  Metacognitive errors in change detection: Missing the gap between lab and life.  Consciousness and Cognition, in press.

Reynolds, M, & Besner, D. (2005).  Contextual control of lexical and sublexical routines when reading English aloud.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 113 - 118.