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Neuroscience students have opportunities to get hands-on research experience with their professors. Learn about some of the neuroscience research taking place at YorkU.

Denise Henriques

Denise Henriques

Point-to-point reaching is a lot more complex than it may seem. Understanding it can help countless people better interact with their world.

Denise Henriques: Accessible Design

Lauren Sergio

Lauren Sergio

For those with concussion or dementia who have difficulty with movement, pinpointing the problem can yield answers.

Lauren Sergio: How the Brain & Body Work Together

Shayna Rosenbaum

Shayna Rosenbaum's work

New insight on the hippocampus, which creates memories, could help patients dealing with neurological diseases.

Shayna Rosenbaum: Remapping a Damaged Mind

Doug Crawford

Doug Crawford with two students

Vision shapes so much of people’s interaction with the world. Doug Crawford is delving into how it all works in a unique way.

Doug Crawford: What Do You See?

Laurence Harris

Laurence Harris

Our vestibular system helps us self-orient relative to gravity. But what can astronauts, living in the absence of gravity, teach us about our spaces?

Laurence Harris: Understanding Space

Jeff Schall

Image of ‘Cutting to the Heart of Free Will and Human Nature’

How do the brain and body intersect to enact decision making? What role does vision play? These questions are driving new frontiers of research.

Jeff Schall: Cutting to the Heart of Free Will and Human Nature

 Lauren Sergio & Robert Allison

 Lauren Sergio

In trying to understand how the brain controls movement, a wide variety of expertise is needed, from neuroscience to virtual reality.

Lauren Sergio & Robert Allison: It Takes a Community to Raise a Cure

Niko Troje

Niko Troje

How do the brain and body intersect to enact decision making? What role does vision play? These questions are driving new frontiers of research.

Niko Troje: We’re Not Seeing Eye to Eye with This New Normal

Laurence Harris

Laurence Harris

When our eyes and balance system in the inner ears send opposing signals to the brain, the mismatch can be disorienting. Roller-coaster’s ‘weird sensations’ starts with just the anticipation of unpleasantness.

Laurence Harris: Roller-coaster’s ‘weird sensations’ perceived differently with age

Dale Stevens

Dale Stevens

Neuroscience techniques help us understand age-related changes in cognition and the brain. Recent advances in neurostimulation and neurofeedback technology now make it possible to not only observe, but manipulate the inner workings of the living human brain.

Dale Stevens: Reversing Age-Related Cognitive Decline

Videos courtesy of Research2Reality and York University’s VISTA program.