Featured Research
Consciousness and Cognition
research combines neuroimaging (MRI and EEG), with neuropsychological studies in brain-injured patients and healthy participants. Dr. Owen’s lab also uses web-based tools for the assessment of cognitive function in both health and disease and most recently to better understand the role that sleep plays in cognitive function. Learn More
Understanding how people learn new concepts
’s innovative research works to answer questions about how and why humans organize information into categories and concepts and how the resulting conceptual structure influences thinking and behaviour.
Exploring the Brain's Language Network
and his lab examines the neural underpinnings of first- and second-language learning in children and adults, with a special focus on the interplay between spoken and written language. Learn More
Attention and Speech Processing
Research in the (Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication and Hearing) explores our ability to extract meaning from speech including what types of information we use to aid our understanding of speech and the effects of a listener’s cognitive state on their ability to understand speech. Learn More
Understanding Cognitive Deficits in Parkinson’s Disease and Striatum-mediated Cognition
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common movement disorder characterized tremors, muscle stiffness, and slowness. research aims to understand the nature and causes of cognitive deficits such as learning, memory, and thinking problems that are increasingly recognized in PD patients. Learn More
Sensory Motor Neuroplasticity and Motor Learning
research focuses on how the brain controls voluntary movement, and the relationship between neuroplasticity in sensory and motor brain areas and motor skill learning. Learn More
Hand Actions and the Brain
lab uses cognitive neuroscience approaches to investigate how the human brain uses sensory information to perceive the world and guide hand actions such as reaching, grasping and tool use.
Memory and the Brain
The research taking place in Lab focuses on the organization of memory in the human brain. Learn More
Development of Cognitive Control
examines the challenges young children face organizing their thoughts and actions in the service of achieving long-term goals. Learn More
Neuroscience & Music
A study by found that Parkinson’s disease patients have problems finding the regular, steady pulse that we tap our foot to when we hear a rhythm... Learn More
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
and his colleagues took a first step toward an integration of functional data (fMRI) and cortical white matter pathways (DTI) in the domain of calculation... Learn More
Neuroscience & Emotion
and his colleagues tested the hypothesis that individuals with low levels of trait empathy would show abnormalities in brain regions associated with empathy...
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