Current Members of the Lab
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Sue Becker : Principal Investigator. Research interest: computational models of learning and memory. |
| Nick Dery,
Neuroscience PhD candidate. Investigating the functional role of
hippocampal neurogenesis in the human brain: cognitive and neurobiological correlates.
deryn at live dot ca |
| Kiret Dhindsa,
School of Computational & Engineering Science MSc candidate.
Brain-computer interfaces, VR and fMRi studies of spatial cognition and imagery
kiretd at gmail dot com |
| Aaron Goldstein,
Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour MSc candidate. Effects of early
alcohol bingeing on memory and cognition.
goldsam at mcmaster dot ca |
Past Members of the Lab
Visiting professors, postdocs and research associates
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Dezhong Yao, Ph D(1991), Professor(1995). Visiting Professor between November 2000 and May 2001. He is at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (www.uestc.edu.cn) Chengdu City 610054, China Tel: 86-028-3203139(home)?3202522(office), Fax:86-28-3254131. e-mail: dyao at uestc dot edu dot cn. His main interest is brain functional analysis and modeling. |
| Hwang-Soo Kim, Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea. Visiting Professor in the Neural Networks Lab at McMaster 1996-1997. |
| Muhammed Dur-e-ahmad, Postdoctoral fellow.
Computational modelling of the effects of stress on hippocampal structural remodelling and neurogenesis.
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Andrew Smith:
Post-doctoral fellow. Reinforcement learning; models of dopaminergic control in motivated behaviours.
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| Steve Joordens:
Post-doctoral fellow. Models and empirical studies of human memory.
joordens at psych dot utoronto dot ca. Steve is now a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. |
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Melissa Dominguez, Research Associate; models of auditory cortical dynamics and reorganization after peripheral damage. |
Graduate Students
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Trent Toulouse, PhD, Psychology,
Neuroscience and Behaviour. Modelling dopaminergic control of learning and
action choice
ttoulouse at gmail dot com |
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Jeff Bruce, MSc,
Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour. Psychophysical
and EEG measurements of auditory perception in hearing aid wearers.
jeffbruce at gmail dot com |
| Xue Han:
Psych PhD graduate. Spatial memory and navigation.
hanx3 at mcmaster dt ca |
| Michael Chrostowski:
Neuroscience PhD graduate, co-supervised by Ian Bruce, ECE. Modelling development and treatment of
tinnitus in auditory cortex after hearing loss
chrostm at mcmaster dot ca |
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Brandon Aubie,
Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour PhD graduate, co-supervised by Paul
Faure. Modelling neuronal duration tuning in the auditory
system.
aubiebn at mcmaster dot ca. Current position: Bioinformatics Research Technician, Biointerfaces Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. |
| Malcolm Pilgrim,
Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour MSc graduate. Modelling neuronal duration tuning in the auditory system.
pilgrim at mcmaster dot ca |
| Chris Sevigny:
Psych MSc graduate. Modelling spatial memory and navigation.
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Chris Gilbert:
Psych PhD graduate. Computational modelling and empirical studies
of free recall strategies in human memory.
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Steve R. Howell:
Psych PhD graduate. Thesis topic: Modelling human language
acquisition. Current position: Chair, Psychology Department, Keystone
College, and Co-ordinator of General Education Assessment.
steven dot howell at keystone dot edu. |
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Damian
Jankowicz: Psych PhD graduate.
Models of semantic memory.
jank at psychology dot mcmaster dot ca |
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Patrick Byrne:
Psych PhD graduate. Models of spatial memory.
Current position:
postdoctoral fellow, York University.
byrne at psychology dot mcmaster dot ca | .
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Le Yang, PhD student, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research topic: computational models of cortical reorganization after hearing loss. |
| Arnold Liwanag: Psych MSc candidate. Defected to industry. |
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Jean Lim: Psych
M.Sc. graduate.. Thesis project: Modelling hippocampal-frontal cortex
interaction. Current position: Associate Director, Marketing Research,
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals.
jclim5 at yahoo dot com | .
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Chris Lesner, CompSci MSc graduate. Thesis work: Image Compression. |
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Gaurav Patel, Elec. Eng. MSc graduate, co-supervised by Simon Haykin. Thesis work: Modelling Non-linear Dynamics by means of Kalman Filter trained Recurrent nets. |
| Ken Seergobin, Psychology M.Sc. graduate. Thesis topic: Modelling visual learning based on temporal coherence. Current position: programmer/analyst, Ian Spence lab in Engineering Psychology. |
Undergraduate Thesis Students
| Melissa Hebscher, Honours Psychology 2012. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Henna Khan, Bachelor's Life Sciences 2012. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Mark Shaw, Honours Psychology 2012. Thesis project: Models of hippocampal learning and memory. |
| Katelyn Muir, Honours Health Sciences, 2012. Thesis project: Psychoacoustical assessment of hearing aids. |
| Aaron Goldstein, Honours Psychology 2012. Thesis project: Memory and alcohol bingeing. |
| Deanna Minnervini, Honours Psychology 2012. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Catherine Lau, Honours Psychology 2012. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Kathryn Crevier, Honours Psychology 2011. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Melanie Cochrane, Honours Psychology 2011. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Ribal Haddad, Honours Psychology 2011. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Snir Seitelbach, Honours Psychology 2011. Thesis project: Memory and alcohol bingeing. |
| Jessica Tran, Honours Psychology 2010. Thesis project: Spatial memory and depression. |
| Oxana Roudenko, Honours Psychology 2010. Thesis project: Spatial memory encoding. |
| Malcolm Pilgrim, Honours Psychology 2010. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Anthony Morgan, Honours Psychology 2010. Thesis project: Memory and alcohol bingeing. |
| Anteneh Kassa, Honours Psychology 2010. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Lara Georgis, Honours Psychology 2010, co-supervised by Larry Roberts and Dan Bosnyak. Thesis project: Tinnitus and residual inhibition. |
| Douna Montazeralghaem, Honours Psychology 2009. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Cindy Narinesingh, Honours Psychology 2009. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Samir Moosa, Honours Psychology 2008. Thesis project: Investigating hippocampal and frontal functions affected by stress and depression. |
| Sivan Rotenberg, Honours Psychology 2008. Thesis project: Memory, stress and depression. |
| Jillian O'Connor, Honours Psychology 2008. Thesis project: VR studies of spatial memory. |
| Danielle Hulan, Honours Psychology 2008. Thesis project: VR studies of spatial memory. |
| Sarah Goodwin, Honours Psychology 2007. Thesis project: A VR study of spatial memory for objects under viewpoint changes. |
| Christine Truong, Honours Psychology 2007. Thesis project: Investigating retroactive and proactive interference effects in memory, and their correlates with stress and depression. |
| Meredith Mackenzie, Honours Psychology 2007. Thesis project: Deficits in hippocampal and frontal cognitive functions associated with stress and depression. |
| Karim Mitha, Honours Psychology 2007. Thesis project: VR studies of viewpoint dependence in memory of navigationally relevant objects and landmarks. |
| Tina Schoenhoffer, Honours Psychology 2007. Thesis project: Computational model of hippocampal coding and neurogenesis using the Restricted Boltzmann Machine. |
| Peter Sheffield, Honours Psychology 2007. Thesis project: Investigating auditory after-effects and tinnitus suppression. |
| Riziq Sayegh, Honours Psychology 2007. Thesis project: Computational model of rhythm extraction in music perception, co-supervised by Laurel Trainor. |
| Matthew Turnock, Honours Neural Computation 2006. Thesis project: Models of hippocampally-mediated contextual modulation of conditioned learning and behaviour. |
| Kathleen Drennan-Scace, Honours Psychology 2006. Thesis project: Models of hippocampally gating of prefrontal cortex. |
| Kamal Malhie, Honours Psychology 2006. Thesis project: VR studies of spatial memory. |
| Sabrina Mohamed, Honours Psychology 2006. Thesis project: Effects of stress and depression on hippocampal-dependent memory functions. |
| Josee Yang, Honours Psychology 2005. Thesis project: Models of ECT, kindling, neurogenesis. |
| Dylan Smith, Honours Neural Computation 2005. Thesis project: Models of reinforcement learning |
| Haemin Han, Honours Psychology 2005. Honours thesis: Computational models of hippocampal neurogenesis. |
| Rohini Kalia, Honours Psychology 2005. Honours thesis: Computational models of contextual gating in conditioning. |
| Kianosh Keyvani, Honours Psychology student. Honours thesis: Computational models of spatial coding of scenes and objects. |
| Lori Giles, Honours Psychology 2005. Honours thesis: Virtual reality studies of human spatial memory. |
| Shilpy Gupta: Honours Neural Computation 2004. Honours thesis: Intelligent hearing aid project. |
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Andrew Chan: Honours Neural Computation
2003.
Honours thesis: Models of neuromodulatory action in learning and memory.
chanman at fixy dot org |
| Jordan Hoath: Graduate, Honours Psychology. 2003 Honours thesis: Empirical studies of strategic memory use. |
| Pat O'Banion: Honours Neural Computation, 2002. Honours thesis: Intelligent hearing aid project. |
| Marcia Cushing: Graduate, Honours Psychology, 1999. Thesis title: Associative multiplication: a neural network model. |
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Adeline Chin: Graduate, Honours Neural Computation, 1999. Thesis topic: models of hippocampal memory system. |
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Ted Meeds: Graduate, Honours Neural Computation, 1998. Thesis topic: models of the hippocampal memory system. |
| Sara Page: Graduate, Honours Psychology, 1997. Thesis title: The impact of temporal coherence on the formation of visual representations. |
| Rick Taylor: Graduate, Honours Psychology, 1996. Thesis title: Filtering and tuning by the neocortex-thalamus complex. |
| Ken Jobity: Graduate, Honours Psychology, 1996. Thesis project: Neural networks for medical image compression. |
| Steve Holik: Graduate, Honours Psychology, 1996. Thesis title: A neural model of episodic memory. |
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