Our Team

Principal Investigator

Dr. Signy Sheldon

assistant 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

SARAH PETERS

Ph.D student in Clinical Psychology

sarah.peters[at]mail.mcgill.ca

I am currently looking at the neuropsychological factors contributing to how individuals solve problems in the real world. I am particularly interested in how hippocampus-dependent memory processes relate to problem solving ability in normal aging and aging-related memory disorders.

LAURI GURGURYAN

Ph.D Student in Experimental Psychology

lauri.gurguryan[at]mail.mcgill.ca

I am currently looking at the cognitive and neural mechanisms that support different ways of remembering, focusing on the structures in the medial temporal lobe. I am also interested in how spatial information can alter the way we perceive and remember.

CAN FENERCI

M.Sc. Student in Experimental Psychology

can.fenerci[at]mail.mcgill.ca

I am interested in studying how autobiographical memories can be generalized across situations and how aging changes the way we learn information. Science, here i come!

AZARA LALLA

M.Sc. Student in Experimental Psychology

azara.lalla[at]mail.mcgill.ca

I am currently looking at whether interference promotes the forgetting of certain types of memory details and how this influences memory generalization. I am also interested more generally in how memory processes are reflected by eye movements and on the interplay between memory and decision-making.

JONAS NITSCHKE

PhD Student collaborator (Supervised by Dr. Jennifer Bartz and Dr. Jens Pruessner).

jonas.nitschke[at]mail.mcgill.ca

I am interested in the effects of stress on empathic and mentalizing abilities, as well as on prosocial helping behaviours. In addition, I study the effect of various hormones such as testosterone and oxytocin on our ability to foster and maintain social relationships. In collaboration with Dr. Sheldon I study the effects of acute psychosocial stress on cognition. I am particularly interested in how stress impacts cognitive process such as memory updating, separation of information, and autobiographical memories.

REBECCA SCHEURICH

Ph.D. Student Collaborator (supervised by dr. caroline palmer)

rebecca.scheurich[at]mail.mcgill.ca

I am currently collaborating on a project with Dr. Signy Sheldon and Dr. Caroline Palmer that investigates how individual differences influence sensory details recalled from complex events. Specifically, we are interested in how the types of sensory details recalled change with changes in imagery ability and musical training.

KEVIN DA SILVA CASTANHEIRA

PhD Student collaborator (Supervised by Dr. Ross Otto)

kevin.dasilvacastanheira[at]mail.mcgill.ca

I am currently collaborating on a project with Dr. Signy Sheldon and Dr. Ross Otto that investigates how episodic memory helps support economic decision-making. Specifically, we are interested in how computations of value depend upon episodic memory processes.

GRETA MELEGA

Visiting researcher (previously supervised by dr. Elisa ciaramelli)

greta.melega[at]studio.unibo.it

I recently graduated with a Master's Degree in Neuroscience from University of Bologna and I'm currently doing a research internship at Sheldon Memory Lab. I’m interested in the functions of remembering and forgetting. I’m currently looking at the benefits and drawbacks of recollecting details from learned events for concept generalization.

undergraduate students

elizabeth dutemple

I am a recently graduated Honours Psychology Undergraduate student interested in the ways in which we remember. My first Honours project investigated contextual boundaries and how they affect retrieval. I am currently finishing my second Honours project in Dr. Sheldon's lab, which is looking at the effects of retrieval mode on recall.

Caterina Agostino

I am a fourth year Honours undergraduate student interested in studying the influence of positive and negative affect on emotional memory formation and subsequent memory recall. Previously, I have focused on how this relationship may be reflected in eye movements. Currently, I am specifically interested in age-related influences on emotional memory processes.

kelly cool

I am in my final year of my undergraduate degree in Psychology. My primary interests focus on how pain modulates memory generalization. I am currently working on a collaborative research project with Dr. Signy Sheldon and Dr. Mathieu Roy investigating how the predictability of pain in one experience will determine how that experience generalizes to other memories.

Kayla Williams

I’m a fourth year undergraduate psychology student interested in learning about how mood states relate to autobiographical memory. This year I’ll be working on a project that will investigate some of the ways in which depression affects autobiographical memory recall.

sophia harman-heath

I am completing my B.Sc. in Psychology at McGill. I am interested in looking at false memories and how our memories can be affected by the world around us! I am currently working on a project involving priming perceptual states for retrieval of memories.

Jennifer bilbul

I am a Second year student majoring in Cognitive Science and minoring in Gender Studies (GSFS). Although my primary interests involve investigating the sex differences in memory performance across the adult lifespan, I am currently working on the flexibility of episodic processes in solving well and ill-defined problems, and the second using eye-tracking to resolve the effects that interference and decay have in forgetting episodic memories.

MATT MILTON

I am a third year student in Cognitive Science. I will be working on a VR project that aims to understand if people remember information when presented in a real versus virtual environment. The results will direct new research on how virtual environments affect memory.

VÉRONIQUE LEBLANC

I am a fourth year undergraduate student at McGill interested in the intersection of memory and psychopathology, particularly in the context of my work in crisis intervention at Suicide Action Montreal. Accordingly, I am working on a research project with the Sheldon Memory lab that looks at the parameters of the relationship between mood and memory processes.

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COLLABORATORS

alumni

Frédérik Crépeau-Hubert (MScA OT)
Idil Uner (MA in Global Thought)
Willem LeDuc (MA Clinical Psychology)
Dorothee Schoemaker (Post-Doc at Harvard)
Batu Kaya
Miles LoParco
Lisa-Marie Giorgio (MA School/Applied Psych)
Stephanie Simpson (MA Psychology)
Yass Salehi (MA OT)
Brenna Hello
Gabrielle Pochiet
Oliwia Zaborowska
Clara Dutton-Kneaves
Lia Huo
Judy Fung
Sonja Chu (MA Clinical Psychology)
Carina Fan (MA Clinical Psychology)
Shannon Riley
Jennifer Panitz
Sharif Ahmed
Nadim El-Asmar
Alexa Ruel
Julia Donahue
Kiran Arif
Ariella Lenton-Brym
Janice Kim
Eden Ohayon
Miranda Renda