On October 17, 2024, Prof. Jelena Ristic presented a TEDx talk entitled,听Eyes speak louder than words, at the Amazing Brain Science Talks hosted by Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL), which is an interdisciplinary neuroscience program at McGill. This event brought together leading Canadian brain health experts to showcase some of the latest advances in brain health research. For more information on the event, see . To watch Prof.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2024
Congratulations to PhD candidate Adrienne Mehak and Prof. Racine for their recent publication in the听International Journal of Eating Disorders!听The paper is titled,听A Psychophysiological Investigation of Mechanisms Underlying 鈥淔eeling Fat鈥� in Women With and Without Binge Eating, and more information (including the full article) can be found听. Great work!听
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Published on: 7 Nov 2024
Congratulations to graduate student Florence Mayrand, postdoc Dr. Sarah McCrackin, and听Prof. Ristic for their recent publication in听Nature Communications Psychology!听The paper is titled,听Intentional looks facilitate faster responding in observers, and can be found听. This work represents听one of the first experimental demonstrations that humans can 鈥渞ead鈥� information regarding mental states from others鈥� eyes.听Great work!
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Published on: 4 Nov 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Bagot, her lab, and their co-authors for their recent publication in Nature Neuroscience!听The paper is titled, Sex-biased neural encoding of threat discrimination in nucleus accumbens afferents drives suppression of reward behavior, and can be found . Additional brief information about this paper can be found in . Prof.
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Published on: 11 Sep 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Karim Nader on becoming a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada! Prof. Nader is being honoured as a renowned leader in memory research focusing on fear. More information on this honour can be found .
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Published on: 11 Sep 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Eric Hehman on becoming a William Dawson Scholar! This honour is for researchers who have demonstrated potential to become global leaders in their field. More information on this award can be found here and .
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Published on: 7 Jul 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Caroline Palmer on becoming a听Distinguished James McGill Professor! McGill鈥檚 highest honour is reserved for late-career researchers who have established themselves as international leaders in their field of study.听More information on this award can be found here听补苍诲 .
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Published on: 7 Jul 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Rand Eid, a postdoc in Dr. Rosemary Bagot's lab, on winning the CIHR Research Excellence, Diversity, and Independence (REDI) Early Career Transition Award! The REDI award is a new career transition award that funds researchers through the end of their postdoc and on into starting their own labs. More information on this award can be found . Great job, Dr. Eid!
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Published on: 29 Feb 2024
翱苍听Friday April 5th, 2024,听McGill Psychology Department will host Dr. Vijay Namboodiri, who will deliver a Bindra Lecture of interest to many members of the University
Main Lecture will take place at听3:30pm. Location: 522 McIntyre Medical Building. Free admission.
Reception will follow the lecture. Everyone is welcome!
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Published on: 16 Jan 2024
翱苍听Friday February 23, 2024,听McGill Psychology Department will host Dr. Paul Bloom, who will deliver a Hebb Lecture of interest to many members of the University
Main Lecture will take place at听3:30pm. Location: 522 McIntyre Medical Building. Free admission.
Reception will follow the lecture. Everyone is welcome!
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Published on: 16 Jan 2024
翱苍听Friday January 26, 2024,听McGill Psychology Department will host Dr. Deborah Bandalos, who will deliver a Hebb Lecture of interest to many members of the University
Main Lecture will take place at听3:30pm. Location: 522 McIntyre Medical Building. Free admission.
Reception will follow the lecture. Everyone is welcome!
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Published on: 16 Jan 2024
Sixteen McGill researchers have been included on the听听(HCRs) list, as published by Clarivate. To be included in the prestigious list, researchers must rank in the top 1 per cent worldwide for their fields and publications in the Web of Science index. In being named to this list, these investigators join a cohort of 6,849 individuals around the world who have been recognized for their academic contributions.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2023
Work by former postdoc Dr. Alexander Demos (now Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago) and supervisor Dr. Caroline Palmer was recently published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. The publication is titled, "Social and nonlinear dynamics unite: Musical group synchrony" and can be found for further reading.听
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Published on: 9 Nov 2023
Work by Dr. Ross Otto and colleagues on the concept of "prediction error" was featured in The Washington Post! Check it out , inclusive of links to the relevant journal articles.听
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Published on: 5 Nov 2023
PhD student Wenbo Yi received the Best Poster Award at the 2023 NSERC-CREATE Symposium on Complex Dynamics for his work on the effects of musical tempo and spontaneous rates on pain perception. This work was joint research with Drs. Caroline Palmer and Mathieu Roy. Congratulations, Wenbo!
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Published on: 14 Aug 2023
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