STUDYING THE MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR OF INDIVIDUAL BATS: CURRENT TECHNIQUES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Migrating bats are among the most poorly understood of migratory taxa, with relatively little information available on their behavior and ecology during migration compared to other taxa. This arises because of the

The Many Directions of Time

Event duration perception is fundamental to cognitive functioning. Recent research has shown that localized sensory adaptation compresses perceived duration of brief visual events in the adapted location; however, there is disagreement on whether the source of these temporal distortions is cortical or pre-cortical. The current study reveals that spatially localized duration compression can also be direction contingent, in that duration compression is induced when adapting and test stimuli move in the same direction but not when they move in opposite directions. Because of its direction-contingent nature, the induced duration compression reported here is likely to be cortical in origin. A second experiment shows that the adaptation processes driving duration compression can occur at or beyond human cortical area MT+, a specialised motion centre located upstream from primary visual cortex. The direction-specificity of these temporal mechanisms, in conjunction with earlier reports of pre-cortical temporal mechanisms driving duration perception, suggests that our encoding of subsecond event duration is driven by activity at multiple levels of processing.

Pushing the Envelope: Future Directions for Evidence-informed Practice

Chapter explores the complexity of implementing evidence-informed practice within the child welfare system in Ontario, Canada. The paper explores the work of Practice and Research Together (PART; www. partcanada.org)

Promoting Evidence-informed Practice in Child Welfare in Ontario: Progress, Challenges and Future Directions.

Paper explores the findings from a province-wide program evaluation of Practice and Research Together (PART: www. partcanada.org); The paper is a unique evaluation of a knowledge exchange program and provides interesting analysis of how front-line practitioners, supervisors and senior leaders engage, utilize and contribute to evidence-informed practice.