Amy Finn
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Lab Manager
Hello! I am a recent graduate of Psychology at Cardiff University, in the UK. I am excited to further my knowledge of cognitive development throughout the lifespan and to work with this fantastic lab! Previously I have researched whether differences in the accents of experimenters changes children's biases towards same-accented speakers. In my spare time I enjoy photography, meeting new people and exploring new places, so I am very excited to explore more of Toronto this year.
Keela Thomson[email protected]
Post-Doctoral Fellow
I received a joint PhD in Psychology and Social and Decision Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University. I study cognitive psychology with a focus on intelligence and decision-making. At the moment I am attempting to reconcile the notion of the positive manifold - that a single factor 'general g' underlies all individual differences in intelligence - with emerging evidence from dual systems approaches that Type 1 (procedural, implicit) cognition appears uncorrelated with g.
Johnny Dubois
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Graduate Student, Psychology
I graduated from Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, with a BSc (hons) in Psychology, working with Dr. Nicholas Watier on mindfulness and cognition. Prior to grad school I worked as a research assistant at Pine River Institute, a residential treatment center for youth with addiction, near Shelburne, ON. My PhD work focuses on exploring developmental changes in implicit/non-declarative memory, and the neural correlates of these processes.
Erika Wharton-Shukster
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@whartonshumthin
Graduate Student, Psychology
I recently completed my Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Toronto. Previously, I had the pleasure of working as study coordinator in a neuroimaging lab studying functional neurosurgery at the Toronto Western Hospital. As someone who finds children as fascinating as they are entertaining, I’m excited to study their learning! Specifically, I’m hoping to investigate the mechanisms behind how children process and remember information differently than adults and across development. Outside the lab, I play drums in two bands, write music, and compulsively add to my plant collection.
Justine Vorvis
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Graduate Student, Psychology
Hi! I just completed my undergraduate degree in the Psychology Research Specialist and Neuroscience Major programs at U of T, and am excited to begin PhD studies with Dr. Amy Finn and Dr. Donald Mabbott this fall. I am broadly interested in research with the potential to inform educational practice and policy. Recently, I’ve been especially curious as to how prior learning and performance shape subsequent learning, and how cognitive and neural development vary based on contextual factors like income. Outside of the lab, I love to sing, play piano, draw, bake, and spend time biking and running outdoors!
Bailey Agard
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Graduate Student, Psychology
Hi 🙂 My name is Bailey, and I am so excited to be starting my PHD in the LAND lab. I recently graduated from York University with a Specialized Honours BA in Cognitive Science. This past year, I worked as a Summer Research Opportunities Program student, then as a research assistant in the Child Language and Speech Studies lab at the University of Toronto Mississauga. There, I developed a project to look at how a speaker's accent may affect children's memory for what was said. I am eager to explore questions in cognitive development and psycholinguistics. Outside the lab, I can be found reading, making puzzles, playing piano, and laughing at dog videos.
Jaden Dilda
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Graduate Student
Hey! I’m a PhD student supervised by Dr. Donald Mabbott at SickKids and I’m working with the LAND lab to study how socioeconomic status affects both biological and cognitive development. My research typically involves MRI analysis of the impact of socioeconomic status on brain structure and organization, so I’m excited for the opportunity to work with this group to approach the same questions, but from a different angle. In my spare time, I enjoy reading fantasy, cooking, and hiking.
Akshita Srivastava
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Summer UTEA Student, Psychology and Neuroscience
Hi! I’m a fourth-year undergraduate student, double majoring in psychology and neuroscience. Previously, I’ve worked in a variety of roles with children who have learning disabilities, and am therefore very interested in studying the development of memory, language acquisition, and other cognitive skills. In my spare time, I love baking, reading, and painting!
Insiya Samji
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Summer NSERC Student, Mental Health Studies and Neuroscience
Hey! My name is Insiya, and I am a fourth-year undergraduate student doing a double major in Mental health studies and Neuroscience at UofT. Overall, my research interests lie in neuropsychology. Specifically in learning processes, memory, perception, personality, and behaviour across development. Aside from my academic life, I binge read fiction novels, play soccer, and hang out with my family (including my cat Leo) and friends!
Shelby Suhan
Summer NSERC Student, Psychology Research Specialist and Linguistics
Hello! I am a third-year Psychology Research Specialist and Linguistics minor student at the University of Toronto. I am passionate about mental health, learning, and early childhood development. My past research has explored aspects of psycholinguistics such as language acquisition in young children and sentence processing in Tagalog adults. Currently, I am interested in studying neuroplasticity in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and post-traumatic growth for high-performing individuals working in the arts. I have a particular interest in the future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy practices and their effects on learning. I plan to pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology and look forward to researching learning in young children at the LAND Lab this year. Outside of campus, I enjoy crocheting and teaching singing lessons at my vocal studio.
Alyssa (Mengyuan) Li
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Lab Programmer, Computer Science & Psychology
I am a third year undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Psychology in University Of Toronto. I have rich experience working in psychology-related lab driven by my passion for applying professional programming skills to the field of cognition, memory and brain. In my spare time, I love all outdoor activities such as hiking and canoeing, I also enjoy creating healthy recipes in different styles!
Jia Gu
Research Assistant, Psychology, Cognitive Science and Computer Science
Hi! I am a third-year undergrad student studying Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science. My research focus is on the mechanisms of change in human cognition, especially learning and networking, and ways to mechanize them with computational and neural network models. I enjoy music, cooking, nail art, and tarot reading in my spare time!
Anusha Ramesh
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Research Assistant, Psychology and Nutritional Sciences
I am an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto doing a double major with Psychology & Nutritional Sciences with a minor in Physiology. I am interested in child development especially in terms of trauma and learning. In particular, how and why are some children so resilient. Additionally, I am excited to gain hands-on experience working in a lab and hope to work up to collaborate with other members of the lab on my own project! Outside the lab, I like to sing and am actively a part of the UofT theatre scene 🙂
Kevin Huynh
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Research Assistant, Psychology and Human Biology
I am a third-year undergraduate with a double major in psychology and human biology at the University of Toronto. What mechanisms help us better learn and retain memories? That is the research question I want to focus on. Some of my hobbies include video editing, playing piano, and photography.
Tracy Thong
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Research Assistant, Psychology and Pharmacology
Hi there! I am a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, double majoring in Psychology and Pharmacology with a minor in Physiology. Currently, my research interests lie in exploring the neuropsychopharmacological mechanisms that underlie memory processing in adults and children affected by trauma and neurological disorders. Outside the lab, I enjoy reading and binge-watching series while psychoanalyzing the characters, playing the piano, and exploring new places on leisurely walks.
Alumni - Post-docs and Students
Yaelan Jung
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Emroy University
Yaelan is a postdoc in the Dilks Lab working with Dr. Daniel Dilks. She previously worked as a postdoc with Dr. Lauren Emberson at Princeton University. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, working with Dr. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther and Dr. Amy Finn. Her research is focused on high-level vision and how top-down factors (e.g., tasks, attention, and learning) interact with visual perception. She also asks how this interaction occurs in the developing brain. She uses fMRI and other behavioral measures to investigate these questions.
Andrew Bauer
Lead Data Scientist, FICO
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Post-Doctoral Fellow Alumni
I received my PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Waterloo, where I found that children and adults use information very differently, and made some interesting discoveries about the emergence of heuristics and biases in decision-making. During my post-doc, I’m examining how the unique ways in which children experience the world (via their limited knowledge, and developing perceptual and cognitive abilities) actually help them conquer many incredible learning feats.
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@tessforest
Graduate Student, Psychology
Hello! I'm Tess, a PhD student in the LAND lab. I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, and completed my undergraduate degree in Cognitive Systems and Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. I also spent some time working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, in the Netherlands. I'm interested in how language learning mechanisms operate, their development over time, and how that contributes to differences in language learning abilities between adults and children. In my free time I like to cook, knit, and spend time outside... either running, backpacking, skiing, or canoeing!
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Visiting Graduate Student, Psychology
Hello! My name is Daniela and I'm a visiting Ph.D. candidate from Brigitte Roeder's Babylab in Hamburg, Germany. I'm broadly interested in learning and memory from a developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective. For my visit in the fall, I am looking forward to finding out more about the development of statistical learning/memory and the development of neural event segmentation. I am very excited to meet all members of the FinnLAND lab! I will be in the lab from September to November 2022.
Alumni - Lab Managers
Marlie Tandoc (2018-2019)
Hannah Cho (2019-2020)
Gloria Rebello (2020-2022)
Michaela Karam (2022)
Alumni - Undergraduate Students
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Victoria Antinucci Megha Banka Andrew Bauer Yifan Bai Gwyneth Campbell Victoria Colaluca Elizabeth Chan Marina Charalampopoulou Heidi Cheng Hannah Cho Kath Choi Audreymoore David Carissa DeMarinis Francesca Di Perna Hailey den Elzen Arshee Faizullah Priscilla Fung Voula Giannoulis Luosha Ha Alyssa Ho Natalie Holtby |
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Ed Ntiri Nika Zahedi Neysiani Emily Onyshko Kay Otsubo Alyssa Payne Theresa Pham Remsha Rana Maryam Refai Alex Sahar Adnan Shahid Chana Sharrington Chuyun Shen Inayat Singh Christa Shi Sabrina Szkolmowski Marlie Tandoc Tiffany Teng Clarissa Wang Ophelia Wang Aria Wills |
Katrina Wugalter Qianwen Xu Yvette Xie Jordan Yang Noel Yuen Harry Zhu Gloria Rebello Jialin Song Maeve Beckwith- Jamieson Lama Alomrani Luis Andres Vazquez Mishel Alexandrovsky Valeria Khudiakova Michaela Karam Wujiamei (Grace) Sun Valerie Nguyen Zahra Abolghasem Denise Arefhaghi Yi Lin (Elaine) Wang
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Collaborating Post-docs and Students
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