Computational Memory Lab

Our Team

		
	        Tamari Shalamberidze, PhD student,
		Fall 2019 - present

		"Hi, my name is Tamari and I am a PhD Student at the 
		Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute. I use 
		electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate brain rhythms 
		related to anxiety and memory processes. Despite the 
		fact that anxiety and memory are typically studied separately, 
		they share an EEG correlate, called Frontal Midline Theta 
		(FMT) oscillation. My goal is to discover the neural 
		relationship between anxiety, memory, and FMT."
		
		Contact: shalambe@ualberta.ca


		
		Amir Shafaghat, Volunteer Research Assistant,
		Winter 2020 - present

		"When given a list of items to study and remember later, most 
		people find it easier to divide the list into groups (chunks) 
		of smaller sizes. Research has shown that such grouping strategies
		are, indeed, effective in improving memory for lists of items, when
		the order of those items is important. My research involves studying
		the effects of different chunking (grouping) approaches on memory
		mechanisms used to store and retrieve lists of complex stimuli."
		
		Contact: shafagha@ualberta.ca


		
		Sergio Barra, Masters Student,
		Fall 2021 - present

		"My research is about how memory for a given word is affected by its
 		different meanings and the context that activates such meanings (if
 		one studies RIVER-BANK, BANK is harder to recognize when you think
 		about MONEY). My focus is on testing the predictions given by our 
		mathematical models regarding this effect, and see how they may
 		generalize to other memory phenomena."
		
		Contact: sbarraro@ualberta.ca


		
		Ayaan Jutt, Computer Science Undergraduate,
		Winter 2023 - present

		"My name is Ayaan Jutt, an I am currently researching whether or 
		not sleep can retroactively fix the issues of associative interference"
		
		Contact: ajutt@ualberta.ca


		
		Muhammad Bilal Khan, Psychology Undergraduate,
		Winter 2023 - present

		"My name is Bilal and I am currently researching 
		how people judge the relative order
		of two items in a list, and the potential
		influences of item similarity on the task"
		
		Contact: mbkhan@ualberta.ca


		
		Madhvi Sharma, Psychology Undergraduate,
		Fall 2023 - present

		"Hi I’m Madhvi! I’m currently working on creating a 
		replication of the Schvaneveldt lexical ambiguity experiment.
		This is to test whether there is a difference in 
		reaction times when dominant vs non-dominant meanings 
		are presented after an ambiguous word."
		
		Contact: madhvi@ualberta.ca


		
		Kieran Pawluk, Psychology Undergraduate,
		Winter 2024 - present

		"I'm working on improving the BOSC method, which is used to 
		distinguish between oscillatory vs non-oscillatory activity in EEG."
		
		Contact: kpawluk@ualberta.ca


		
		Gaurav Bansal, Psychology Undergraduate,
		Fall 2023 - present

		"My name is Gaurav and I am researching how effectively
		people are able to estimate their recall ability in both
		the forward and backward directions when asked to recall
		a list of consonants."
		
		Contact: gbansal@ualberta.ca



		
		
		Aditi Roy, Psychology Undergraduate,
		Winter 2024 - present

		"My name is Aditi Roy. I'm in my second year of university
		and in the BSc Specialization in Psychology program. My research is 
		centered around word recognition of inverted text and Kolers' 
		proceduralist theory."
		
		Contact: asroy1@ualberta.ca


						


		
				







				Alumni








					
					    
		
		Jeremy Thomas, Masters student,
		Spring/Summer 2018 - Spring/Summer 2023
		
		Contact: jjthomas@ualberta.ca
		CV: PDF
					
					
						


						









						
						
		
		Shikang Peng, Psychology Undergraduate, volunteer research assistant,
		Winter 2022 - Winter 2023

		
		
		Contact: shikang@ualberta.ca


						










						
						
		
		Naomi Robinson, Psychology Undergraduate,
		Winter 2022 - Summer/Spring 2023
		
		Contact: nrobinso@ualberta.ca


						


    












					
							
		Felicitas Kluger, PhD student,
		Spring/Summer 2018 - 2022
 
		
		Contact: kluger@ualberta.ca


						
















						
						
		
		Debby Olademeji, Neuroscience Undergraduate ,
		Winter 2019 - 2022

		
		
		Contact: doladime@ualberta.ca
						

						
						











						
						
						
		
	    	Kezziah Ayuno, Psychology Undergraduate,
		Spring 2021 - 2022

		
		
		Contact: ayuno@ualberta.ca
    
    

    





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	Sucheta Chakravarty, Doctoral candidate,
	Fall 2015 - 2021
	Recipient of Doctoral recruitment scholarship 2015, University of Alberta.
	Research interests: Neural mechanisms of feedback based value learning in 
	humans, machine learning.
	Contact: sucheta@ualberta.ca
				
	




			
    






	
		
	Yvonne Chen, Phd
	Jan 2011 - April 2017,
	Recipient of Bennet B. Murdock Award for best poster at 
	the 2012 Context in Episodic Memory Symposium.	
	Research interest : The neural mechanisms of human memory 
	from encoding to retrieval
	Contact: yvonne.chen@ualberta.ca

					
					













					
						 
	Christopher Madan, Psychology Phd
	Sept 2009 - 2013.
	Presently posdoctoral research fellow at Boston College
	Recipient of CIHR master’s fellowship, QEII doctoral fellowship, 
	DAAD graduate scholarship for study abroad (Germany), 
	NSERC doctoral fellowship (CGS-D) and 
	two Alberta Gaming Research Institute studentships.
	Thesis title : Influence Of Motivational Salience On Memory
	Contact : http://www.cmadan.com
					
					













					
						
	Leanna Cruikshank, Neuroscience PhD 
	Jan. 2008 – June 2014
	Presently clinical trainee at University of British Columbia
	Recipient of QEII doctoral fellowship and Dissertation Fellowship.
	Thesis title : The electrophysiology of human visuomotor 
	integration during memory guided action.
					
    					
					













					
											
	 
	Yang Liu, Psychology PhD
	Aug 2008 - 2015
	Recipient of NSERC doctoral fellowship and a QEII-D. 
	Earned a MITACS Accelerate internship.
	Thesis title: Human order memory: insights from the 
	relative-order task.
	Contact:ly6@ualberta.ca
    				
					













					
						
	 
	Ulises Rodriguez Dominguez, PhD student

	Sept. 2016 - July 2017
	Research Interest: Memory models
	Contact: ulises@ualberta.ca

					
					













					
						 
	Kenichi Kato, Psychology M.Sc candidate
	Sept. 2013 - Nov. 2017
	Research interest : Mathematical models of memory
	Contact: kkato1@ualberta.ca
					
					
					













					
					
	
	Simranjit Grewal, 1st year Science undergraduate,
	November 2017 
	Research interest: 
	Contact: sgrewal@ualberta.ca
					
					













					
						
	Lin Wang, PhD,
	Summer 2018 - Winter 2019
	Contact: lwang16@ualberta.ca
					
					













					
						
	Isaac Ward, undergraduate,
	Spring/Summer 2018 - Winter 2019
	Contact: iward@ualberta.ca
					
					












					

					
					
						
	Courtney Stolz, 4th year Psychology & Biology undergraduate,
	April 2017 
	Research interest: Effect of value on memory
	Contact: cstolz@ualberta.ca
					
					













					
					
					
						
	Preet Parmar, undergraduate,
	Winter 2018 
	Contact: preet@ualberta.ca
					
					
					













					
					    
	Nicole Dittmann, 3rd year Neuroscience undergraduate,
	Winter 2017 - Winter 2019
	Research interest: 
	Contact: ndittman@ualberta.ca
					
					













					
						
	Nitya Khetarpal, 2nd year Neuroscience undergraduate,
	Winter 2018 - Winter 2019
	Contact: nkhetarp@ualberta.ca
					
					













					
						
	Briana Kroeker, undergraduate,
	Winter 2018 - Winter 2019
	Contact: bkroeker@ualberta.ca
					
					














					
						
	Sophie Trageser, undergraduate,
	Winter 2018 
	Contact: trageser@ualberta.ca
					
					













					
						
	Kaiyuan Xu, undergraduate,
	Winter 2018 - Spring/Summer 2020 
	Contact: kaiyuan@ualberta.ca
					
					













					
					
	 
	Tomi Ann Limcangco, Psychology undergraduate
	Psychology 496, Fall 2015 - Spring 2016
	Undergraduate research initiative, Summer 2016
	Research interest : Item memory and order memory
	Contact: tomiann@ualberta.ca


					
					













					
											
	 
	Hanna Warawa, undergraduate
	2016 - 2017
	Contact:hwarawa@ualberta.ca

					














                       
					  Matthew Danyluik, Neuroscience Undergraduate, Fall 2019 - Fall 2021


					  Zainab Sari, Neuroscience undergraduate, Fall 2015


					  Angela Wan, undergraduate (Psychology 299), Fall 2015


					  Anam Wattoo, undergraduate (Psychology 496), Fall 2014


					  Avik Sharma, undergraduate (Psychology 496) and NSERC USRA, Jan 2014 - 2015


					  Yondu Mori, undergraduate (Psychology Honours), 2013 - 2015


					  Patricia (Ioana) Bacus, undergraduate (Psychology 496/8), Sept 2013 - May 2014


					  Aditi Gupta, undergraduate (Psychology 496), May 2013 - March 2014


					  Isha Ober, undergraduate (Neuroscience Honours, Psychology 496 and NSERC USRA) Jan 2013 - 2015


					  Brittany Hopkins, undergraduate (Psychology 496), Jan 2013 - May 2013


					  Monica Bottomley, undergraduate (Neuroscience Honours), July 2012 - May 2013


					  Ivan Witt, undergraduate (Neuroscience Honours), Feb 2012


					  Shrida Sahadevan, undergarduate (Neuroscience Honours and URI), Nov 2011 - 2015


					  Nathan Ikuta, undergraduate (Psychology 496), Winter 2012


					  Jumjury Hemmerich, undergraduate (Psychology 496), Spring 2010


					  Bevin Cheng, undergraduate (Psychology 299, 496 and 498), Feb 2009 - 2012


					  Jennifer Cole Andrews, undergraduate (Psychology 496 and 498), 2009 -2010


					  Kathy Boulton, undergraduate (Psychology 496) and research assistant, Apr 2007 - 2008


					  Jingjing Song, undergraduate (Psychology 299) and research assistant, Sept 2008 - 2009


					  Enoch Ng, undergraduate (Psychology 496) and research assistant, Jan 2008 - Aug 2009


					  Rachel Burton, undergraduate (Psychology Honours) and research assistant, Mar 2007 - April 2010


					  Michelle Chan, undergraduate (Psychology 496, Canada Summer Jobs 2007, NSERC USRA 2008) and research assistant, Mar 2007 - Aug 2009 
					  and Psychology graduate student on lab rotation, Winter 2011.


					  Adam Hughes, undergraduate research assistant, Oct 2006 - Aug 2009


					  Mayank Rehani, undergraduate (Psychology 496, Canada Summer Jobs 2007) and research assistant, Oct 2006 - Aug 2009


					  Darren Bedwell, research assistant (Summer temporary employment program), Oct 2006 - 2008


					  
				          Isabel Lek, research assistant, May 2010–May 2011.


				          Stan Hrybouski, research assistant, Sept 2010–April 2011
				          and Neuroscience graduate student on lab rotation, Winter 2013.


				          Anton Poon, research assistant, Jan–April, 2010.


				          Bridgette Gerson, research assistant, June 2009–Oct 2009.


				          Mark Hueppelsheuser, research assistant, Jan 2008–Mar 2009.



					 
					 
					 	
					  Andrea Shafer, Neuroscience graduate student on lab rotation, Winter 2009.


					  Tara Whitten, Neuroscience graduate student on lab rotation, Fall 2008.


					  Farhang Nazer, Neuroscience graduate student on lab rotation, Fall 2007.







					 
				  
				
			
		
		
		
		
		 
	
	
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Computational Memory Lab

Our Team

Ayaan Jutt, Computer Science Undergraduate, Winter 2023 - present "My name is Ayaan Jutt, an I am currently researching whether or not sleep can retroactively fix the issues of associative interference"

Muhammad Bilal Khan, Psychology Undergraduate, Winter 2023 - present "My name is Bilal and I am currently researching how people judge the relative order of two items in a list, and the potential influences of item similarity on the task"

Kieran Pawluk, Psychology Undergraduate, Winter 2024 - present "I'm working on improving the BOSC method, which is used to distinguish between oscillatory vs non-oscillatory activity in EEG."

Gaurav Bansal, Psychology Undergraduate, Fall 2023 - present "My name is Gaurav and I am researching how effectively people are able to estimate their recall ability in both the forward and backward directions when asked to recall a list of consonants."

Aditi Roy, Psychology Undergraduate, Winter 2024 - present "My name is Aditi Roy. I'm in my second year of university and in the BSc Specialization in Psychology program. My research is centered around word recognition of inverted text and Kolers' proceduralist theory."

Alumni

Jeremy Thomas, Masters student, Spring/Summer 2018 - Spring/Summer 2023

Shikang Peng, Psychology Undergraduate, volunteer research assistant, Winter 2022 - Winter 2023

Naomi Robinson, Psychology Undergraduate, Winter 2022 - Summer/Spring 2023

Felicitas Kluger, PhD student, Spring/Summer 2018 - 2022

Debby Olademeji, Neuroscience Undergraduate , Winter 2019 - 2022

Kezziah Ayuno, Psychology Undergraduate, Spring 2021 - 2022

Sucheta Chakravarty, Doctoral candidate, Fall 2015 - 2021 Recipient of Doctoral recruitment scholarship 2015, University of Alberta. Research interests: Neural mechanisms of feedback based value learning in humans, machine learning.

Yvonne Chen, Phd Jan 2011 - April 2017, Recipient of Bennet B. Murdock Award for best poster at the 2012 Context in Episodic Memory Symposium. Research interest : The neural mechanisms of human memory from encoding to retrieval

Leanna Cruikshank, Neuroscience PhD Jan. 2008 – June 2014 Presently clinical trainee at University of British Columbia Recipient of QEII doctoral fellowship and Dissertation Fellowship. Thesis title : The electrophysiology of human visuomotor integration during memory guided action.

Yang Liu, Psychology PhD Aug 2008 - 2015 Recipient of NSERC doctoral fellowship and a QEII-D. Earned a MITACS Accelerate internship. Thesis title: Human order memory: insights from the relative-order task.

Ulises Rodriguez Dominguez, PhD student Sept. 2016 - July 2017 Research Interest: Memory models

Kenichi Kato, Psychology M.Sc candidate Sept. 2013 - Nov. 2017 Research interest : Mathematical models of memory

Simranjit Grewal, 1st year Science undergraduate, November 2017 Research interest:

Lin Wang, PhD, Summer 2018 - Winter 2019

Isaac Ward, undergraduate, Spring/Summer 2018 - Winter 2019

Courtney Stolz, 4th year Psychology & Biology undergraduate, April 2017 Research interest: Effect of value on memory

Preet Parmar, undergraduate, Winter 2018

Nicole Dittmann, 3rd year Neuroscience undergraduate, Winter 2017 - Winter 2019 Research interest:

Nitya Khetarpal, 2nd year Neuroscience undergraduate, Winter 2018 - Winter 2019

Briana Kroeker, undergraduate, Winter 2018 - Winter 2019

Sophie Trageser, undergraduate, Winter 2018

Kaiyuan Xu, undergraduate, Winter 2018 - Spring/Summer 2020

Tomi Ann Limcangco, Psychology undergraduate Psychology 496, Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 Undergraduate research initiative, Summer 2016 Research interest : Item memory and order memory

Hanna Warawa, undergraduate 2016 - 2017

Ulises Rodriguez Dominguez, PhD student
Sept. 2016 - July 2017 Research Interest: Memory models