Toronto Area Memory Group
5th Spring Meeting
May 14, 2019
Program Draft: April 10, 2019
5th Spring Meeting
May 14, 2019
Program Draft: April 10, 2019
Registration |
8:30-8:55 AM |
Opening Remarks: Brian Levine |
8:55-9:00 AM |
Session 1 |
Chair: Morgan Barense |
9:00-10:00 AM |
From tea cakes to trauma: Bridging gaps between involuntary memory and mental health |
Ryan Yeung (Fernandes Lab) |
Differential contributions of the number of encoding opportunities and encoded visual working memory representations for visual long-term memory encoding |
Caitlin Tozios (Fukuda Lab) |
Comparing competing accounts of storage and processing in working memory |
Stephen Rhodes (Buchsbaum & Hasher Labs) |
The extracellular matrix regulates hippocampal memory development |
Adam Ramsaran (Frankland Lab) |
Data Blitz 1 |
Chair: Shayna Rosenbaum |
10:00-10:45 AM |
Memory schemas and details...as time goes by |
Samantha Audrain (McAndrews Lab) |
Schema inhibition deficits in patients with vmPFC damage and older adults |
Prateek Dhamija (Gilboa Lab) |
Stereotype threat and the stress response in older adults |
A. Dawn Ryan (Campbell Lab) |
Age differences in value directed learning & memory |
Sayed Sodouri (Yang Lab) |
Examining the effects of aerobic exercise on mood, cognition, and neural networks |
Yarden Levy (Becker & McKinnon Labs) |
Redifferentiating the aging brain: A combined network-based fMRI/TMS approach |
Katherine Newman (Stevens Lab) |
Feeling-of-knowing experiences predict information seeking behaviour |
Gregory Brooks (Kohler Lab) |
The subjective normalcy inventory- a memory intervention measure |
Erica Tatham (Rich Lab) |
Been down so long it looks like up to me: Low trait autobiographical memory protects against age-related decreases in everyday functioning |
Carina Fan (Levine Lab) |
Break |
10:45-11:15 AM |
Session 2 |
Chair: Mary Pat McAndrews |
11:15-12:30 PM |
Digital
memory augmentation in older adults promotes distinctive hippocampal coding
of autobiographical memory |
Chris Martin (Barense Lab) |
Do older adults remember more task-irrelevant information than younger adults when visual attention is controlled? |
Shireen Parimoo (Olsen Lab) |
Loss of estrogens affects memory, brain and sleep |
Nicole Gervais (Einstein Lab) |
Does pattern separation operate across modality, representation, and/or cognitive process? |
Steven Baker (Rosenbaum Lab) |
Automatic categorical abstraction during statistical learning in adults and children |
Yaelan Jung (Finn Lab) |
Lunch |
12:30-1:30 PM |
Data Blitz 2 |
Chair: Morgan Barense |
1:30-2:10 PM |
Temporal self-appraisal in developmental amnesia |
Julia Halilova (Rosenbaum Lab) |
How do we optimize learning of complex episodes? |
Rachel Newsome (Barense Lab) |
Attention to different statistical structures changes over the course of learning |
Tess Forest (Finn Lab) |
An fMRI investigation of personal semantics |
Annick Tanguay (Addis Lab) |
Pattern separation in the ventral visual pathway |
Kayla Ferko (Kohler Lab) |
Overlapping representations of fear and reward in the rodent amygdala |
Alex Jacob (Josselyn Lab) |
Investigating the role of thalamic subregions in memory encoding and retrieval |
Kirk Geier (Olsen Lab) |
Looking
where you look: No age difference in eye movement synchronization during naturalistic viewing |
Emily Davis (Campbell Lab) |
Session 3 |
Chair: Brian Levine |
2:10-3:25 PM |
Medial
temporal lobe contributions to learned, object-based approach-avoidance conflict processing |
Sonja Chu (Lee Lab) |
Does everyday auditory experience facilitate memory-guided attention? |
Manda Fischer (Moscovitch Lab) |
Synchronous and desynchronous oscillatory activity underlying schema instantiation |
Ariana Giuliano (Gilboa & Moscovitch Labs) |
Socioemotional
navigation: Empathy differentially relates to egocentric and
allocentric spatial strategy use |
Shanny Foo (Girard Lab) |
The neural underpinnings of mental attention capacity |
Mylann Guevara (Stevens Lab) |
Break |
3:25-3:50 PM |
Keynote and Event Theme: Science Communication |
Keynote: 3:50-4:30 PM |
Paula Croxson, "Why me, why now? Why science communication matters" |
Free Style Social: 4:30- 5:00 PM |
Anthony Morgan and Science Everywhere |
2019 Award Recipients
Ebbinghaus Award for most outstanding talk: Manda Fischer
Barlett Award for most outstanding data blitz: Rachel Newsome
Moscovitch Award for outstanding contributions to discussion: Natalia Ladyka
Special Thanks
Awards: Jeni Pathman & Bruce Milliken
Photography: Saurabh Shaw
Administrative Support: Laryssa Levesque
Awards: Jeni Pathman & Bruce Milliken
Photography: Saurabh Shaw
Administrative Support: Laryssa Levesque