Lab News

Impromptu hyper-scanning jam session!

Jonathan Drucker from ANT Neuro was in town & hung out with us in the lab - we had a blast & it was so cool to see fNIRS changes to playing music in real time! Thanks Jonathan for bringing the EEG setup (which Tyler is wearing) and helping us set up a hyper-scanning experiment with our fNIRS!

Leah and Jonathan help prep Tyler's EEG cap

The two maestros getting prepped 

The jam session begins!

Brain activity!

Carleton Cognitive Science Annual Conference

Imola telling people about how hearing loss impacts the hippocampus

... and more of her poster

Tyler discussing how bilingualism contributes to brain-system segregation and cognitive reserve

Mitch discussing brain network changes in synaesthesia 

Kareen describing her drift-diffusion model of anxiety and working memory

Emma describing how bilingualism modifies brain and behaviour

Josh discussing the relationship of breathing metrics to working memory and emotion

Veronica giving her talk on using propensity score matching to help deal with noise in MRI analysis

John and colleagues on the panel about what makes Cognitive Science well poised to answer the big questions

CNS 2024 in Toronto

PhD Student Imola MacPhee presents her work on language experience alters gray matter microstructure 

Arthur Hamilton presents his method-rotation work on white matter hyperintensities and cognitive reserve 

Lab affiliate & collaborator  Kristina Munelith-Souksanh presents her work on how breast cancer affects memory and brain activation

Media:

Healthy Cities: Aging in the Cities Talk 

(January 18th 2022)

If you missed the Aging in the City panel organized by Dean Carol Payne, please feel free to watch it here. I talked about cognitive reserve and bilingualism, Dr. Kathleen Van Benthem talked about expertise in pilots and drivers, and Dr. Bruce Wallace talked about using smart home technology to support patients and caregivers with dementia. The event was moderated by Dr. Chris Herdman who provided a wonderful overall introduction and helped the entire event run smoothly.

Lab Meetings: Fridays at 1:00 PM

Incoming Students (Welcome!)

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Awards/Achievements/New Papers

Bilingualism contributes to reserve and working memory efficiency: Evidence from structural and functional neuroimaging

Published in Neuropsycholgia. 7, and here for access to the full paper.

Coordinate-Based Network Mapping of Brain Structure in Major Depressive Disorder in Younger and Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Click here for a tweet summary and here for a link to the article.

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