Position: Instructor
Department: Psychology/Social Science
Faculty: Humanities and Social Sciences
Office: NW N3426
Office Phone: (604) 527-5513
Email: primed@douglascollege.ca
Education and Credentials
- Ph.D, Psychology, University of British Columbia
- M.A., Psychology, University of British Columbia
- B.A.(1st Class Honors), Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Teaching Concentrations
I have experience in teaching introductory psychology, cognition, cognitive neuroscience methods, and statistics.
Courses
- PSYC 1100
- PSYC 2360
- PSYC 3370
Research
I am an expert in applying EEG measures of brain activity to investigate cognitive processes. I have conducted studies on attention, perception, decision making, and working memory. In particular, I have published several studies investigating the attention related phenomenon known as Inhibition of Return (IOR). Recently, I have began investigating the effect of biases on high level decision making and belief formation.
Open to Supervising Honours Students for 2022-23: NO
Selected Refereed Publications:
Gaspar, John M.; Christie, Gregory J.; Prime, David J.; Jolicoeur, Pierre; McDonald, John J. (2016). Inability to suppress salient distractors predicts low visual working memory capacity. PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, 3693-3698, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1523471113.
Prime, David J., Pluchino, Patrik, Dell’Acqua, Roberto, & Jolicoeur, Pierre. (2011). Object-substitution masking modulates spatial attention and the encoding of information in visual short term memory: Insights from occipito-parietal ERP components. Psychophysiology, 48, 687-696.
Prime, David J., & Jolicoeur, Pierre (2010). Mental rotation requires visual short-term memory: Evidence from human electric cortical activity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2437-2446.
Prime, David J., & Jolicoeur, Pierre (2009). On the relationship between occipital cortex activity and inhibition of return. Psychophysiology, 46, 1278-1287.
Prime, David J., & Jolicoeur, Pierre. (2009). Response-selection conflict contributes to inhibition of return. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 991-999.
Prime, David J., McDonald, John J., Green, Jessica, & Ward, Lawrence, M. (2008). When cross-modal attention fails. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 192-197.
Leblanc, Émilie, Prime, David J., & Jolicoeur, Pierre. (2008). Tracking the Location of Visuospatial Attention in a Contingent Capture Paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 657-671.
Prime, David J., Visser, Troy A. W., Ward, Lawrence M. (2006). Reorienting attention and inhibition of return. Perception & Psychophysics, 68(8), 1310-1323.
Prime, David J., & Ward, Lawrence, M. (2006). Cortical expressions of inhibition of return. Brain Research, 1072, 161-174.
Prime, David J., & Ward, Lawrence M. (2004). Inhibition of return from stimulus to response. Psychological Science, 15, 272-276.