Acadia ALERT - Power Outage - Campus Closed

Due to the ongoing power outage all classes and events scheduled for Monday 17 November 2025 are cancelled. Classes and events will resume as scheduled on Tuesday 18 November 2025 unless otherwise notified.

(Monday November 17, 2025 @ 4:06 pm)

Karmen Bleile, Instructor

Email address: karmen.bleile@acadiau.ca

Telephone: (902) 585-1521

Office location: Horton Hall 305

Classes recently taught: Research Design and Analysis 1, Research Design and Analysis 2, Sensation and Perception (lab), Cognitive Neuroscience (lab), Comparative Psychology

EDUCATION

B.Sc. (Honours), University of Calgary

Ph.D., McMaster University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in the role that attention plays in modulating the contribution that memory retrieval makes to the response selection process. I have used negative priming and inhibition of return tasks to investigate how changing the attentional demands of tasks can influence the extent to which memory retrieval can be a reliable source of information in the response selection process.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Milliken, B., Thomson, D., Bleile, K.R., MacLellan, E., & Giammarco, M. (2012).  Context-specific control and the Stroop negative priming effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 1430-1448. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2012.656851

RECENTLY SUPERVISED STUDENTS

Honours

Karli Cruikshank (2018). Susceptibility to the Ebbinghaus illusion: Sequential presentation of target and context.

AFFILIATIONS

Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences - Member