Michael Barnett-Cowan

Associate Professor | Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health

Michael Barnett-Cowan is an Associate Professor in Kinesiology and Health Studies.  Michael is also the Director of the Multisensory Brain and Cognition Lab at the University of Waterloo, which seeks to determine how the brain integrates multisensory information. The lab has a specific interest in the vestibular (balance) system and determining how information about head movement and orientation is combined with the other senses to enable optimal object recognition, decision-making, and coordinated movement in the normal, injured, diseased, and aging brain. 

Michael supervises students completing the following;  

• Research volunteer  
• Undergraduate thesis 
• MSc thesis 
• Coursework interns 
• PhD thesis 
• Postdoctoral Fellowship 
• Research assistant/coordinator 

Selected Publications:

• Bansal, A., Weech, S., & Barnett-Cowan, M. (2019). Movement-Contingent Time Flow in Virtual Reality Causes Temporal Recalibration. Scientific reports, 9(1), 4378. 
• Weech, S., Kenny, S., & Barnett-Cowan, M. (2019). Presence and cybersickness in virtual reality are negatively related: a review. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 158. 
• Sachgau, C., Chung, W., & Barnett-Cowan, M. (2018). Perceived timing of active head movement at different speeds. Neuroscience letters, 687, 253-258.