Profiles

Education: BSc candidate (Waterloo)

Program: Honours Thesis - Cognitive Neuroscience

Interests: encoding, emotion, drawing, visualization, individual differences

Recent Directed Study and Co-op Students:

Karen: Motoric contribution to the drawing effect in older adults

Barbara: Using memory to cue autobiographical memories in dementia

Saranka: Boosting memory for words in children

Phil: Enhancing spatial navigation memory: designing virtual reality environments in Unity 

Saad: Benefit of drawing versus writing on memory for scenes

Lauren and Sara: Are emojis processed Visuo-spatially or Verbally? Evidence for dual codes

Recent Research Assistants:

Shaima - Memory and social interactions

Evan - Memory for routes: Driving in virtual reality

Jahnvi - Comparing navigation techniques in virtual reality: Role of aging

Adissa - Learning online versus in-person

Alina - Encoding techniques to aid comprehension

Eric - Using music to cue memories

Kristen - Music cueing enhances autobiographical memory