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Adrian Bartlett
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Neuronal oscillations, eye movements, attention, time series analysis
Laura Pynn
- Department: Psychology
Sheng H. Wang
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: MEG, electrophysiology, neuroprosthetics
Benjamin Cassidy
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Hippocampal electrophysiology, neural network dynamics, oscillations, neurophysiology of learning and memory formation/consolidation
Holly Clayton
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Proprioception, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, sensorimotor integration and motor control
Kevin DeSimone
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: fMRI brain imaging of visual system
Paula Di Noto
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Multimodal integration (vision and touch), referred sensation, neural plasticity
Rachel Ganaden
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Brain plasticity and the effects that brain damage has on human behavior
Timothy Leonard
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Perception, plasticity, memory, learning, familiarity
Kyle Nash
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
Janet Roberts
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Memory formation, fMRI, ERP, distinctiveness effect
Leiko Tanaka
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: TMS, MRI, Transsaccadic integration
Audrey Wong Kee You
(MA Candidate)
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Development of selective attention abilities in infants
Khushbu Patel
- Department: Psychology
George Tomou
- Department: Psychology
Chad Vachon
- Department: Psychology
Jen Ruttle
- Department: Psychology
Weipeng Jih
- Department: Psychology
Devin Kehoe
- Department: Psychology
Naail Khan
- Department: Psychology
Iqra Ashfaq
- Department: Kinesiology
Gregory Giovannini
- Department: Psychology
Maria Ayala
- Department: Psychology
Saam Azargive
- Department: Kinesiology
Lily Solomon-Harris
- Department: Psychology
Kira Bucca
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Neuronal oscillations, eye movements, attention, time series analysis
David Cappadocia
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Saccade selection, TMS of parietal cortex, interactions between perception and action
Kara-Lynn Hawkins
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Neurophysiology, reaching, visuomotor transformation, single unit electrophysiology
Sarah Jones
- Department: Biology
Shannon Lozinsky
- Department: Kinesiology
Javaneh Tamiji
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Autism, environment, brain development, misoprostol, neuronal cells, molecular pathways, cell morphology
Jeffrey Brown
(MSc Candidate)
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: cognitive-motor integration, mild cognitive, impairment, concussion, athletics
Jeevaka Kiriella
(MSc Candidate)
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Mechanoreceptors, balance, recovery, knee replacement
Micheal Lubinsky
(MSc Candidate)
- Department: Biology
- Research Interests: Ovarian hormone and plasticity
Pankhuri Malik
(MSc Candidate)
- Department: Biology
- Research Interests: Role of visual cortex in transsaccadic integration
Carolyn J Perry
(MSc candidate)
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Motion processing, attentional modulation
Cora Sin
(MSc Candidate)
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Autism, brain development, microarray analysis
Chen Shen
(MSc Candidate)
- Department: Biology
Christine Wong
(MSc Candidate)
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Autism, brain development, microarray analysis
Dan Gheorghiu
- Department: Biology
Denis Adigamov
- Department: Kinesiology
Sharmini Atputharaj
- Department: Kinesiology
Sohrab Salimian
- Department: Biology
Isabelle Bestard
- Department: Biology
Sarah Wheeler
- Department: Kinesiology
Leah Henderson
- Department: Kinesiology
Cecelia Power
- Department: Kinesiology
Andrea Cavaliere
- Department: Kinesiology
Jena Velji-Ibrahim
- Department: Biology
Alica Rogojin
- Department: Kinesiology
Holly Echlinn
- Department: Kinesiology
Shanaathanan Modchalingam
- Department: Kinesiology
Alanna Pierias
- Department: Kinesiology
Vincenzo Di Bacco
- Department: Kinesiology
Mehran Taherzadeh
- Department: Kinesiology
Shawn Blizzard
- Department: Kinesiology
Rona El-Bakri
- Department: Kinesiology
Eizaaz Ahmad
- Department: Biology
Benjamina Voloh
- Department: Biology
Jennilee Davidson
- Department: Biology
Paige Whyte Fagundes
- Department: Biology
Anahit Grigorian
- Department: Biology
Reza Rahimzadeh
- Department: Kine
Bianca Baltaretu
- Department: Psychology
Sara Pardisnia
- Department: Kinesiology
Michelle Dragan
- Department: Biology
David Albines
- Department: Kinesiology
Elnaz Moghimi
- Department: Kinesiology
Josh Granek
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Optic ataxia, non-standard visually-guided reaching, eye-hand coordination
Krista Kelley
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Visual deprivation enucleation, motion processing, middle temporal Area (area MT), neuroimaging
Blake Martin
- Department: Kinesiology
Caitlin Mullin
- Department: Psychology
Debi Stransky
- Department: Psychology
Inna Tsirlin
- Department: Psychology
Noura Al-Omawi
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Neural mechanisms of action initiation and monitoring; neuropathologies of agency and self-awareness
Matt Balcarras
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Neural mechanisms of action initiation and monitoring; neuropathologies of agency and self-awareness
Ravneet Bhogal
- Department: Biology
- Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurodevelopment
Ashley Curtis
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Attention, visuospatial memory, multisensory cueing, aging, cognitive rehabilitation
Mehdi Daemi
- Department: Biology
- Research Interests: gaze control, eye-head coordination, visuomotor transformations, computational algorithms, neural network modeling
Stephanie Hornyak
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Hippocampus, remote, declarative, spatial memory, fMRI, amnesia
Ashley Miles
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Schizophrenia; Neurocognitive abilities; Functional outcome
Danielle Salomonczyk
- Department: Psychology
- Research Interests: Sensorimotor integration, vision, proprioception, motor control
Amirsaman Sajad
- Department: Biology
- Research Interests: Role of Frontal Eye Fields in eye-head coordinated gaze control
Patricia Sayegh
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Eye-hand coordination, neurophysiology, visuomotor transformations, local field potentials
Martin Vergara
- Department: Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Postural control & balance, sensory integration, musculoskeletal systems and rehabilitation
Dmitry Verniba
- Department: Kinesiology
- Biomechanics, balance recovery, sensory reweighting
Ashley Curtis
- Department: Psychology
Mariann Oemisch
- Department: Biology
Sara Rafique
- Department: Psychology
Stefania Moro
- Department: Psychology
Johanna Hurtubise
- Department: Psychology
Nimo Bokore
- Department: Social Work
Johanna Hurtubise
- Department: Kinesiology
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