We had a productive summer in the lab this year, with several fMRI studies in the works. Additionally, Anna Cuff, an NSERC URSA student in the lab, developed a new project synthesizing functional neuroimaging research on the multifaceted components of perspective in autobiographical memories. Stay tuned for more …
Huge congratulations to Selen Küçüktaş who passed her PhD candidacy exam this past July. To celebrate, we planned a surprise party in her honor! Over the summer we had someone from the Nordic Neurolab come to help install and test our protocol using the VisualSystem HD here at …
We recently published a paper in the journal Memory examining the effect of shifting visual perspective on both episodic and semantic details during autobiographical memory retrieval. This paper was part of a Psychology Honours thesis on the part of Chloe King and Anna Romero. Check out the paper …
Congratulations to Dr. St. Jacques, who is a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience! The Sloan Fellowship awarded to “outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study.” The Sloan fellowship will provide research funding in the next two years for the …
Our editorial for the special issue on Visual Perspective in Memory and Imagination will be published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology in the next issue. Check it out for some exciting new avenues of research in the area! Congratulations to Anna Romero who recently accepted an offer …
Warm welcome to our new and returning lab members! We have a new masters student, Ayça Özgen, from Turkey where she received her BSc in Psychology from Middle East Technical University (METU). Also joining the lab, we have a new Honours Psychology undergraduate student Alannah Nash, a new …
Huge congratulations to Dr. St. Jacques on being awarded a Canadian Research Chair in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory! Dr. St. Jacques will have dedicated research time to investigate the neural mechanisms by which we form real-world memories and the role of visual perspective. Congratulations to Psychology Undergraduate …
In April this year, Psychology Undergraduate Honours Students Anna Romero, Chloe King, Azra Panjwani, and Rutuja Kadam, along with Graduate Student Selen Küçüktaş presented at the Royce-Harder Conference. Chloe, Anna, and Rutuja presented posters and Azra was nominated to present a talk at the Brian Harder Honours Symposium. …
Selen Küçüktaş presented a poster at the virtual Cognitive Neuroscience Society #CNS2020 examining how creativity influences visual perspective in autobiographical memories. Check out the poster and presentation. Congratulations to Psychology Undergraduate Honours students Anna Romero and Chloe King for their NSERC USRI! This summer, they will be coding …
I will be giving a poster on our research using immersive virtual reality to study visual perspective in memory at the upcoming CIFAR Japanese-Canadian Frontiers of Science Symposium in Banff, Alberta. I recently gave a keynote presentation at the Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM) in Champéry, Switzerland on …
