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Assignment 5

To Do

• Add material on her personal life; marriage and kids
• More information on her articles she wrote.
• Possibly get a picture published on her wiki info box
• Try and find some earlier life like where she graduated college
  

Outline

Doreen Kimura (born Doreen Goebel 1933 in Winnipeg, Manitoba - February 27, 2013) was a Canadian psychologist who was professor at the University of Western Ontario and professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University.[1] She was the founding president of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.

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Career[edit source]
Kimura held a PhD in psychobiology. Her interests included the relationship between sex and cognition (see sex and intelligence) and promoting academic freedom. While some criticized Lawrence Summers' claims that differences in male-female representation in the sciences could be due to innate ability, Kimura supported him.[2] She was a critic of affirmative action, arguing that it is demeaning to women.[3] She also supported the concept of the biological origin of differences in cognitive ability between males and females (see also nature versus nurture). According to the CISG's (Canadian Inter-Organizational Steering Group for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology) 'Canadian Guidelines on Auditory Processing Disorder in Children and Adults: Assessment and Intervention' (December 2012), "In 1961, Doreen Kimura proposed a theory that would attempt to explain dichotic listening abilities in humans. As a testament to her theory, her views on dichotic processing of auditory information recently celebrated a 50th anniversary.

Doreen’s work with aphasia and apraxia and their relationship during the 70’s and 80’s caused neuropsychologists to re-examine views about language and what it represents to the brain and evolutionary origins. Series of experiments in both neurological patients and healthy subjects. She demonstrated a serious link between speech and production of other complicated movements. Doreen published in 1993 published an significant monograph, Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication, this summarized her 20 years of work in this area. By emphasizing the motor aspects of speech in addition to semantics, Doreen helped re-formulate the way in which neuropsychologists think about neural organization of language.

Later in her career, Doreen’s research has focused more so on sex differences in cognition and the origins of neuroendocrine axis. She’s catalogued numerous sex differences in cognition and developed both proximate and evolutionary explanations for many of them. Doreen has also found that individual differences in cognitive abilities associated with sex or sexual orientation are also associated with physiological markers of early developmental events. Doreen has also argued that at a fundamental level some of these sexual differences in patterns of abilities may have come from ancestral environment, like division of labor between male and female hominids. Doreen’s book from 1999, Sex and Cognition (MIT Press), gives a definitive account of human sex differences in behavior and the brain

Personal life[edit source]

Kimura was the mother of Charlotte Thistle, grandmother of Ella Archer, and sister of Shelagh Derouin and Amber Harvey.

She spent most her childhood in Neudorf, Saskatchewan. As a teenager, Doreen worked for a year as a factory worker for Electrohome. She also spent some time in kitchener Ontario, assembling radio and TV components while she accomplished senior matriculation courses. The following year she took a job as a teacher in a one room schoolhouse in Cowan River, Manitoba. This is when Doreen ventured a response to an ad in a magazine she spotted. This response resulted in a three year all expense paid scholarship at McGill, launching her career in experimental psychology

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Books[edit source]
• Neuromotor mechanisms in human communication (1993), Oxford: OUP ISBN 0-19-505492-X & Sex and Cognition (2000), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press ISBN 0-262-61164-322

B. We will talk about who should contribute to what part of the editing next time we see each other in class.

References</ref> KatinaMarie (talk) 21:03, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Dr. Council's comments on Assignment 5

Lead Section

Doreen Kimura (1933 – Febrary 27, 2013) was a female, Canadian psychologist who focused largely on gender differences in intelligence and human communication skills. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba along with her two sisters (Shelagh and Amber), Doreen spent several years at McGill University where she eventually earned her PhD in psychobiology. Afterward, she went on to teach at both Simon Fraser University and the University of Western Ontario.

Doreen conducted several studies on the differences in intellectual abilities and cognition among men and women as well as studies on dichotic listening and communication. Her research led her to receive numerous awards and prizes throughout the years.

Later in her life, Doreen married her husband and they had a daughter, now Charlotte Thistle. Charlotte also had a daughter, Ella, making Doreen a grandmother. On February 27^th of 2013, Doreen passed away while she was living in Vancouver, British Colombia.

KelseaC (talk) 05:46, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

I like your lead section, it's well organized and well thought out. I hope we can possibly find her husbands name before the end of this assignment. Overall I enjoyed reading your sections. KatinaMarie (talk) 14:57, 28 March 2018 (UTC)