Our graduate program introduces students to the issues and questions in the field of experimental psychology. We train students on the theoretical basis and research approaches used to study psychological questions.
As of 2025, the Research and Clinical Training (RCT) stream is no longer accepting applications. This change is permanent—we will not be accepting students into this stream in future.
At the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour (PNB), we offer students strong and diverse research programs and our Research and Clinical Training stream. The breadth of our research areas provides a rich academic environment and hand-ons research opportunities for our trainees.
PNB Graduate Studies introduces students to the issues and questions in the field of experimental psychology, and trains them on the theoretical basis and research approaches used to study psychological questions. We have 30 core faculty, several associate faculty members from across campus and over 100 graduate students. Our graduate program is strongly research-oriented and provides flexibility to optimize your program around your research interests. Our strong collegial environment supports scientific interactions among faculty and students, and fosters interdisciplinary work, with students often undertaking research projects with more than one faculty member.
Prospective, incoming and current graduate students will find the PNB Graduate Student Handbook a useful collection of information about Hamilton, McMaster and the PNB graduate program. It includes the facts about application procedures, program requirements, courses and much more. If you’d like to learn more about the program, explore our site and don’t hesitate to contact us with your questions.
Associate Chair, Graduate Studies | Professor
Areas: Cognitive Sciences, Memory & Attention, Perception
Cognition / Perception
Students interested in doing an honours thesis in my lab must have taken Psych 2H03 or 2XA3, at a minimum. It’s helpful if they’ve also taken Psych 3VV3, and ideal if they’ve also taken the lab course I offer in Human Memory and Cognition (Psych 3V03).
I’ll want to look at a transcript, and it helps to have students e-mail me with a brief description of their research interests and long-term goals.
E-mail contact is preferred, after which we may set up an individual appointment to talk further.
Attention and visual perception
Attention, memory, and cognitive control are the focus of research conducted in our lab. We look at how selection of visual information in the world around us is controlled in part by the goals and intentions of observers, but also implicitly by memories of past experiences. This theoretical issue plays itself out across a wide range of selective attention and visual search tasks used in our studies.
Graduate Administrative Assistant
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