Current Projects
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Participatory Sense-making (PSM) Research Programs
One of our lab’s new research directions is theoretically framed by the notion of Participatory Sensemaking (PSM) as conceived by Hanne De Jaegher and Ezequiel Di Paolo. Traditionally, the investigation of social cognition has primarily focused on processes instantiated wholly within the individual mind/brain. In contrast, PSM focuses on emergence of social cognition out of…
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Translational Research Programs
Our collaborative translational research program aims to use cognitive neuroscience to bridge findings between rodent research and research with patient populations. Our goal is to build on rodent research outlining neural circuitry and neuropharmacology to identify distinct patterns of motivationally and affectively guided brain activation and behaviour that characterize specific aspects of mood disorders/addiction —…
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Functional cognitive disorder: Understanding neurocognitive processes
Concussions are a major cause of injury and disability in Canada. Following concussion, some people develop Functional Cognitive Disorder (FCD), which can make it harder to recover. FCD is a neuropsychiatric consequence of concussion that is characterized by subjective cognitive problems not explained by objective cognitive deficits or brain injury. For example, people often feel…