Our faculty

Research areas: Animal models of motivation and reward

Research areas: Lifespan Developmental Psychology; Transition to Adulthood; Well_Being and Mental Health; Stress and Coping

Research areas: Peer Relations, Social Development, Origins of Psychopathology, Culture, Economic Inequality, Early Adolescence, Studying Change

Research areas: language acquisition; bilingualism; infancy & childhood; language disorders; development

Research areas: Analysis of synaptic mechanisms of learning and memory using electrophysiological and pharmacological techniques.

Research areas: sleep, plasticity, auditory neuroscience, aging, complex task learning, auditory-motor system, neuroimaging, closed-loop brain stimulation, human performance, portable neuroscience, exploration, spaceflight, misophonia, hearing-in-noise

Research areas: social perception; nonverbal behaviour; anger, assertiveness, and interpersonal warmth

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Research areas: Cognitive science, concepts, verb meaning, metaphors, compositionality, language comprehension, language-vision interface, semantic deficits in Alzheimer's, cognitive neuroscience

Research areas: hearing, cognition, language, development, emotion, auditory prostheses, cochlear implants, stuttering, neurosciences

Research areas: cognitive development, social cognition, comparative cognition, prosocial behaviour, trust, cooperation

Research areas: Neural bases of learning and memory, reward learning, associative learning, animal models of psychiatric disorders, in-vivo electrophysiological recording, optogenetics

Research areas: Stress, depression, insomnia, social support, dyadic coping, health behaviour change, autonomic functioning, psychoneuroendocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology

Research areas: learning and memory, prediction error, extinction and behavioural modification, high-density neuronal recording during behaviour, optogenetics, chemogenetics, fear, reward

Research areas: Vision, Attention, Eye movements, Low vision, Macular degeneration, vision rehabilitation,EEG, dyslexia, Aviation, Pilots, Marketing.

Research areas: Healthy aging, Executive functions, Motor control, Cognitive training, Multi-task performance, Gait and Balance, Hearing loss, Cognitive impairment, Cognitive reserve

Status: I will not be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.

Research areas: child mental health, externalizing behaviours (disruptive behaviours, ADHD), interventions, dissemination & implementation, data science, mental health disparities

Research areas: Substantive methodological synergies, statistics (EFA, CFA, SEM, ESEM, latent profile analyses, mixture models, longitudinal models, growth mixture models), multidimensional self-conceptions, workplace commitment, wellbeing, intellectual disabilities

Research areas: Ethology of the laboratory rat.

Research areas: alcohol misuse, alcohol use disorder, anxiety, personality, cognition, cognitive behaviour therapy, young adult transitions, Indigenous youth well-being and resilience

Research areas: Brain plasticity related to motor learning. Emphasis on musical expertise and development. Structural and functional brain imaging. Auditory-motor integration and timing.

Research areas: Neuropsychology, Cognition, Aging, Dementia, Speech and Language, Sensory function

Status: Full Professor

Research areas: Cognitive Development (categorization, selective trust, theory of mind) Language Development (bilingualism);

Status: NOT considering graduate students for 2026 admission - see laboratory website

Research areas: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Experimental Psychopathology

Status: On sabbatical: July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Research areas: Cultural-Clinical Psychology (acculturation, anxiety, assessment, Brazil, China, culture, depression, emotion, Japan, Korea, language, meaning, personality, psychotherapy, religion, somatization, Russia)

Status: Undergraduate Research Coordinator

Research areas: Applied Linguistics, Assessment, Bilingualism, Cognitive Learning Strategies, Cognitive Psychology, Language Acquisition, Learning Strategies, Memory & Attention in Skill Acquisition

Research areas: Behavioural Neurobiology, Substance Use Disorders (SUD), Relapse

Research areas: Cognitive Psychology, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, Quantitative Synthesis

Research areas: Behavioural Medicine, Behaviour change interventions, Obesity and Bariatric care, Stress, Patient-Oriented Research, Evidence synthesis and systematic reviews

Research areas: Neurophysiology, oscillatory activity, network coherence, connectivity, cerebellum, basal ganglia, motor control

Research areas: Sleep, Sleep Disorders, Insomnia, Hypersomnia, Neuroimaging, Electroencephalography, Cognition, Neurodegeneration, Preventive Health, Dementia, Clinical Trials, Biomarkers

Status: I am in the process of retiring and not taking on new graduate students.