Nicole Carson

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Nicole Carson

Ph.D. candidate

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D (in progress), Clinical Psychology, York University

M.A., Clinical Psychology, York University

B.A., Psychology, McGill University

 

CURRENT RESEARCH

 

For my doctoral research, I am investigating self-referential processing as a technique for enhancing memory in healthy aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. I am interested in studying mnemonic deficits associated with healthy and pathological aging, as well as ways in which these difficulties may be improved. My doctoral research is co-supervised by Drs. Shayna Rosenbaum and Kelly Murphy at Baycrest.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Rabin, J.S., Carson, N. Gilboa, A., Stuss, D.T., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2012). Imagining other people’s experiences in a person with impaired episodic memory: The role of personal familiarity. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 588.

Rosenbaum, R.S., Carson, N., Abraham, N., Bowles, B., Kwan, D., Köhler, S., Svoboda, E., Richards, B., & Levine, B. (2011). Impaired event memory and recollection in a case of developmental amnesia. Neurocase, 17, 394–409.

Kwan, D., Carson, N., Addis, D.R., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2010). Deficits in past remembering extend to future imagining in developmental amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3179–3186.

 

PRESENTATIONS

Carson, N., Murphy, K.J., Moscovitch, M., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2013). The self-reference effect enhances memory for narrative information in healthy aging. Poster presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.

Carson, N., Murphy, K.J., Moscovitch, M., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2013). Recollection of narrative information benefits from self-referential encoding in healthy aging. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Toronto.

Fiacconi, C.M., Barkley, V., Finger, E.C., Carson, N., Rosenbaum, R.S., Gilboa, A., & Köhler, S. (2013). Recognizing famous individuals: A deficit in patients with Capgras Syndrome? Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Toronto.

Rabin, J. S., Braverman, A., Carson, N., Stuss, D. T., & Rosenbaum, R. S. (2012). Early development of episodic memory is necessary for theory of mind only under some conditions: Evidence from developmental amnesia. Poster presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago.

Carson, N., Murphy, K.J., Moscovitch, M., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2012). An exploration of the self-reference effect for words and narratives in normal aging. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis.

Kwan, D., Carson, N., Addis, D.R., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2011). Episodic construction versus elaboration: Evidence from developmental amnesia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.

Carson, N., Kwan, D., Addis, D.R., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2010). Deficits in past remembering extend to future imagining in developmental amnesia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal. 

 

RECENT HONOURS & AWARDS

2013–16: Quality of Life Doctoral Award, Alzheimer Society of Canada.

2013: Fellow, Summer Program in Aging, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

2011–12: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

2010–11: CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canadian Graduate Scholarship — Master's Research Award

2010–11: York University Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarship