Email janice.murray@otago.ac.nz
Emeritus Professor Janice Murray investigated the mechanisms that allow for successful face processing, including the role that attention plays. She helped lead a collaborative research programme investigating age-related changes in emotion perception and social understanding (the Otago Lifespan Development Research Group). This programme operated within the Department of Psychology. She additionally leaded an Otago-based face perception project in collaboration with Daphne Maurer from McMaster University, Canada.
She has authored over 30 papers, and has given more than 40 research conference and seminar presentations at Otago and abroad. She was a regular reviewer for a number of top international journals and completed her fourth, three-year term as a member of the editorial board of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Janice joined the Department in 1991. She has 23 years of university teaching experience, teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Otago and at Canadian universities.
Janice retired from the department in August 2021.