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| Overview
Our research focuses on human memory, the cognitive processes by which we remember things and how these are implemented in the brain. Our research methods include behavioural experimental psychology, neuroimaging/ electroencephalography and computational cognitive modeling. Our goal is to combine these approaches to develop more sophisticated models of human memory that can explain both complex behaviour and rich patterns of brain activity.
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A large amount of cognitive neuroscience research has come up with lists of brain activity phenomena that are associated with memory tasks. However, much of this activity could be tangential to the memory processes we find interesting from a behavioural modeling perspective. |
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What
we need at this stage is to figure out which specific patterns of brain
activity correspond to specific processes (e.g., encoding strengths, attention,
strategies, etc.) in the cognitive process models of memory. At that point
we will be able to construct models of how brains remember that are true
to both behaviour and neurophysiology |
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| By asking new kinds of questions about the brain-behaviour relationship, and by developing novel ways to analyse our data, we are already beginning to learn new things about memory behaviour, memory-related brain activity and even the relationship between the two. |
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The lab is part of the Alberta Cognitive Neuroscience Group and the Centre for Neuroscience.
Our EEG equipment is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and we receive operating funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Alberta Gambling Research Institute. |
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