Episode 16 - Eric Legge

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Hey look, it's Eric's Facebook pic!

Eric Legge is a part time instructor at the University of Alberta and at McEwan University, both in Edmonton Alberta.
Look, I've known Eric since he was 17. I taught him intro psych at the Memorial University of Newfoundland's Genfell campus in Corner Brook, and he worked in my lab while there. Indeed, I am pretty sure that was the highlight of his career and everything after that was downhill.
Actually, Eric went on to grad school at the University of Alberta and worked with Marcia Spetch. (I may have written him a letter of recommendation for that, one sec...) Yes I did write him a letter, in that I told the story of Eric carrying around a little notebook called 'research ideas' everywhere. One day in my learning class he and I got into a discussion and we designed three experiments. Then we both realized we had lost the class and I went back to talking about the Rescorla-Wagner model.
We talked about Eric's work on searching for hidden objects in adult humans, his very cool ant navigation stuff and his early stuff on the hierarchical organization of cues in pigeons (I think I was reviewer B on that one...)
Thanks again to Red Arms for letting me mash up their music in the closing theme, buy their music now.
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