Our Team

Principal Investigator

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Dr. Signy Sheldon

associate professor

Department of Psychology, McGill University

Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

2014 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, ON, Canada
2011 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Neurosurgery, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
2011 Ph.D., Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2006 M.A., University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Graduate Students

JAMIE SNYTTEPhD Student in Experimental Psychologyjamie.snytte[at]mail.mcgill.caI am currently interested in how impairments in cognition manifest in clinical disorders such as depression. Specifically, the goal of my research is to characterize the… — JAMIE SNYTTE
PhD Student in Clinical Psychology
jamie.snytte[at]mail.mcgill.ca
I am currently interested in how impairments in cognition manifest in clinical disorders such as depression. Specifically, the goal of my research is to characterize the link between medial temporal lobe structure and function, and autobiographical memory deficits. Under the co-supervision of Dr. Natasha Rajah, my work also focuses aging processes, and how sex contributes to the risk for disorders such as depression and Alzheimer's disease.

CHRISTIANE MARIE CANILLO
MA Student in Experimental Psychology
cm.canillo[at]mail.mcgill.ca
I am interested in the distinct ways it is possible to represent a complex memory and how we remember negative experiences. Building on prior work conducted in the lab, my research program will investigate goal reinstatement effects between memory at encoding and retrieval.

MIKAILA TOMBE
MA Student in Experimental Psychology
mikaila.tombe[at]mail.mcgill.ca
I am interested in the intersection between music and event memories, as well as autobiographical memory. Under the co-supervision of Dr. Caroline Palmer my current research program focuses on how tempo evoked arousal impacts event memories in time and space.

undergraduate students

SARA TOCA
Hi! My name is Sara Toca, and I am a psychology major in my final year of undergraduate studies. This year, I will be completing my honours thesis and finishing up a project on episodic memory processing and aging.

SHAWN CHINIAH
Hello, my name is Shawn, I'm a U3 psychology major with a double minor in behavioral sciences and education. This is my first summer volunteering at the lab. I am assisting Christiane Marie with her study on memory retrieval using Natural Language Processing.

ANNA BOGDAN
Hi! My name is Anna, and I am going into my fourth year of my undergraduate degree majoring in psychology with a minor in interdisciplinary life sciences. This summer, I will be working in the Sheldon Memory Lab as an NSERC USRA Student with Mikaila on two studies investigating the effects of music on temporal memory and memory for artwork.

MAYA SCHMIDT
Hi! My name is Maya and I am about to start my U2 year as a psychology major with a double minor in behavioural science and anthropology. This summer I have joined the lab as a volunteer, and I am helping Christiane Marie with her project on encoding goals.

JADE GORDON
Hello! My name is Jade and I’m a fourth-year psychology student. This year, I’ll be working with Azara on a project that looks into the stability of flashbulb memories regarding the solar eclipse!

DENITSA TOSKOVA
Hi! My name is Denitsa and I am a U2 psychology major with a double minor in behavioral sciences and sociology. This is my first summer volunteering at the lab, and I’m thrilled to be helping Christiane Marie with her project on encoding goals.

ALIX LAUGIER
Hi! My name is Alix, and I am a fourth-year student majoring in psychology with a minor in behavioral science. This year, I am writing my thesis while working with Amy on a study examining how knowledge about a person in a distressing scenario may influence empathetic responses.

LAUREN NORDSTROM
Hi! My name is Lauren Nordstrom and am a U3 psychology major with a double minor in behavioural sciences and sociology. This summer I will be working on a project that looks at the 2024 solar eclipse as a collective memory, and another project looking at the effects of framing of an art piece on appreciation and memory.

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COLLABORATORS

At McGill

Jennifer Bartz
Veronique Bohbot
Caroline Palmer
Lesley Fellows
Ross Otto
Mathieu Roy
Madeleine Sharp
Nathan Spreng
Natasha Rajah

At Other Universities

Brian Levine (UofT)
Morris Moscovitch (UofT)
Mary Pat McAndrews (UofT)
Nicole Anderson (UofT)
Carrie Esopenko (Rutgers)
Daniela Palombo (UBC)
Jens Pruessner (Konstanz)
Shayna Rosenbaum (York University)
Stefan Kohler (Western)
Louis Renoult (East Anglia)

alumni

Graduate Students

Azara Lalla
Charles Ferris
Can Fenerci
Lauri Gurguryan
Rebecca Scheurich
Sarah Peters
Marianne Lévesque (collaborator)
Cherie Strikwerda-Brown (collaborator)
Jonas Nitschke (collaborator)
Greta Melega (collaborator)
Olivia Zaborowska (collaborator)
Dorothee Shoemaker

Undergraduate Students

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