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.
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| Alma mater | Dalhousie University, University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo |
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| Academic advisors | Peter W. Jusczyk |
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| Institutions | University of Otago |
Early life and education
editMurray 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
editMurray 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]
Selected works
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- J E Murray; E Yong; Gillian Rhodes (1 November 2000). "Revisiting the perception of upside-down faces". Psychological Science. 11 (6): 492–496. doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00294. ISSN 0956-7976. PMID 11202495. Wikidata Q52139846.
- Ted Ruffman; Janice Murray; Jamin Halberstadt; Tina Vater (4 April 2011). "Age-related differences in deception". Psychology and Aging. 27 (3): 543–549. doi:10.1037/A0023380. ISSN 0882-7974. PMID 21463058. Wikidata Q50635124.
- J E Murray; P Jolicoeur; P A McMullen; M Ingleton (1 September 1993). "Orientation-invariant transfer of training in the identification of rotated natural objects". Memory and Cognition. 21 (5): 604–610. doi:10.3758/BF03197192. ISSN 0090-502X. PMID 8412712. Wikidata Q52033439.
- Anna Campbell; Ted Ruffman; Janice E Murray; Paul Glue (26 April 2014). "Oxytocin improves emotion recognition for older males". Neurobiology of Aging. 35 (10): 2246–2248. doi:10.1016/J.NEUROBIOLAGING.2014.04.021. ISSN 0197-4580. PMID 24856057. Wikidata Q47872276.
- Ted Ruffman; Jamin Halberstadt; Janice Murray (5 October 2009). "Recognition of facial, auditory, and bodily emotions in older adults". Journal of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 64 (6): 696–703. doi:10.1093/GERONB/GBP072. ISSN 1079-5014. PMID 19805486. Wikidata Q50726661.
- Jamin Halberstadt; Ted Ruffman; Janice Murray; Mele Taumoepeau; Melissa Ryan (1 March 2011). "Emotion perception explains age-related differences in the perception of social gaffes". Psychology and Aging. 26 (1): 133–136. doi:10.1037/A0021366. ISSN 0882-7974. PMID 21280951. Wikidata Q83329982.
- J E Murray (1 January 1997). "Flipping and spinning: spatial transformation procedures in the identification of rotated natural objects". Memory and Cognition. 25 (1): 96–105. doi:10.3758/BF03197287. ISSN 0090-502X. PMID 9046872. Wikidata Q52197572.
References
edit- ^ Murray, Janice Elizabeth (1987). The role of spatial separability and attention in dichotic listening (PhD thesis). University of Waterloo. ISBN 0315296933.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b 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
edit- From go to whoa: Perceiving the world. Inaugural professorial lecture by Janice Murray, 20 July 2021, via YouTube