The elusive term "Executive Function (EF)" has remained controversial in neuropsychology, and sounded theoretical models that attempt to define it have failed during their validation efforts.  As an exception, parsimonious statistical approaches using latent variables have prevailed and succeeded to considerable extent. Dr. Garcia-Barrera proposed INTERACT, an extension of Miyake et al's (2000) three-component approach to examine EFs, in which the interactions between five specific executive systems permit the emergence of executive control. Therefore, EFs are defined theoretically not only as a series of unitary byproducts of these interactions, but also in terms of a diversity of distinguishable functional systems: problem representation, updating working memory, and attentional-, emotional- and inhibitory control. This presentation aims to introduce you to the derivation of such theory and to share the results of Jeff Frazer’s dissertation, a doctoral candidate in Psychology who examined INTERACT’s validity as a viable model of EF.

UVSS Students: $5.60

SPECIAL FOR UVSS STUDENTS - 9pm shows (or later): $2.75

Seniors (65 & over), Children (12 & under): $5.60

Other Students: $6.50

Cinemagic Members: $6.50

Uvic Alumni, Faculty, Staff & their guests (1 only): $6.50

Non-members: $7.75

MATINEES (all seats): $4.75

Dark, wet, Vancouver Island nights receive a painterly treatment in Mark Laver’s intimate Night Paintings and ambitious Rural Disasters. Be it urban parks after midnight, trailer park fires, nocturnal car crashes or rural highways, the exhibit reveals a battle between the psychological and narrative power of nocturnal imagery and the allure of oil paint itself. Smeared, swirled, glazed and dripped, the luscious materiality of paint is as much the subject of these paintings as the landscape Laver calls home.