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Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo -- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 

bfleming.gif  Barbara Bulman-Fleming

   Associate Professor

   BSc (’68 Biochemistry, Queen's University), PhD (’88  Psychology, University of  Waterloo)

   Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award (’92)

  Phone: 519-888-4567 x33043

 Fax: 519-746-8631

 Office: PAS 4009

 email: bfleming@watarts.uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests

My primary research interests are lateralization of function and interhemispheric communication.  There are rather large individual differences in how our brains are organized.  Are there reliable outward manifestations of these individual differences (handedness, footedness, eyedness)?  Recent work has involved visual perceptual investigations of hemispheric differences in the conscious and unconscious processing of emotional words and differences in the extent to which the two hemispheres can detect visual ‘anomalies’.

Selected Publications

  1. Smith, S.D., & Bulman-Fleming, M.B. (2006). Hemispheric asymmetries for the conscious and unconscious perception of emotional words.  Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain, and Cognition, 11, 304-330.
  2. Smith, S.D., Dixon, M.J., Bulman-Fleming, M.B., Birch, C., Laudi, N., & Wagar, B. (2005). Experience with a category alters hemispheric asymmetries for the detection of anomalies, Neuropsychologia, 43, 1911-1915.
  3. Smith, S.D., Dixon, M.J., Tays, W.J, and Bulman-Fleming, M.B. (2004). Anomaly detection in the right hemisphere: The influence of visuospatial factors. Brain and Cognition, 55, 458-462.
  4. Bulman-Fleming, M.B., Bryden, M.P., & Rogers, T.T. (1997). Mouse paw preference: Effects of variations in testing protocol. Behavioural Brain Research, 86, 79-87.
  5. Bryden, M.P., McManus, I.C., & Bulman-Fleming, M.B. (1994). Evaluating the empirical support for the Geschwind-Behan-Galaburda model of cerebral lateralization. Brain and Cognition, 26, 103-167.
  6. Bulman-Fleming, M.B., & Bryden, M.P. (1994). Simultaneous verbal and affective laterality effects. Neuropsychologia, 32, 787-797.

Other Information

  • Schedule for Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars, Fall 2005
  • Course outline for Psych. 677A (Fundamentals of Behavioural Neuroscience)

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