Toronto Area Memory Group
7th Spring Meeting
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
7th Spring Meeting
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Registration: 8:30-8:55 AM |
Opening Remarks: 8:55-9:00 AM |
Session 1: 9:00-10:15 AM (Chair: Stephanie Simpson) |
Using desktop VR to investigate age-related changes in multidimensional experience |
Natalia Ladyka-Wojcik (Barense Lab) |
Adult age differences in epistemic curiosity and its impact on memory |
Liyana Swirsky (Spaniol Lab) |
Age-related differences in response inhibition are mediated by frontoparietal white matter but not functional activity |
Shireen Parimoo (Olsen & Grady Labs) |
Is there a special role for the left anterior temporal lobe in retrieving unique semantic entities? |
Nicolas Deom (McAndrews Lab) |
Object memory updating deficits associated with aging can be ameliorated by muscarinic acetylcholine receptor activation |
Kristen Jardine (Winters Lab) |
Data Blitz 1: 10:15-10:45 AM (Chair: Sophia Zhao) |
Quantifying memory transformation with scrambled stories |
William Fisher (Bellana Lab) |
Where is conceptual knowledge in the brain? The search for the neural substrate of conceptual processing |
Naail Khan (Stevens Lab) |
Interpolated testing improves learning in an online setting |
Hymnjyot Gill (Szpunar Lab) |
The influence of emotional valence on recognition of visual art stimuli |
Emma Hoskin (Girard Lab) |
Familiarity deficits in amnestic mild cognitive impairment |
Evi Myftaraj (Anderson Lab) |
Individual differences in imagery and response to trauma |
Ryan Yeung (Levine Lab) |
Break: 10:45-11:15 AM |
Session 2: 11:15-12:30 PM (Chair: Greg Brooks) |
Ready for action: When the brain learns, yet memory-guided behaviour doesn’t follow |
Manda Fischer (Moscovitch Lab) |
Ventral medial prefrontal cortex lesions impair pre-conscious action-intention superiority in prospective memory |
Victoria Liu (Gilboa Lab) |
Input frequency dependent pattern separation in a computational model of the dentate gyrus |
Selena Singh (Becker Lab) |
Measuring changes in cortical and subcortical brain states during visual statistical learning |
Keanna Bamdad Rowchan (Wammes Lab) |
Focal hippocampal lesions impact evidence accumulation underlying approach avoidance conflict decision making |
Willem Le Duc (Lee Lab) |
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM |
Data Blitz 2: 1:30-2:05 PM (Chair: Sabrina Valenzano) |
Effects of agency on memory among younger and older adults |
Riya Trikha (Cyr Lab) |
Prior spatial knowledge differentially impacts learning in children and young adults |
Merron Woodbury (Schlichting Lab) |
Age effects on information seeking triggered by unsuccessful memory recall |
Rachel Sargeson (Kohler Lab) |
Drawing compared to writing in a diary enhances autobiographical memory in younger and older adults |
Sophia Tran (Fernandes Lab) |
Effect of real-world experience on lab-based scene memory |
Maria Orlando (Rosenbaum Lab) |
Women’s brain health: Effects of midlife ovarian removal on the medial temporal lobe |
Alana Brown (Einstein Lab) |
Lifespan differences in visual short-term memory load-modulated functional connectivity |
Selma Lugtmeijer (Campbell Lab) |
Session 3: 2:05-3:20 PM (Chair: Riya Trikha) |
A 10-year longitudinal study: Examining time and space in autobiographical memory narratives across childhood |
Tarnpreet Virk (Pathman Lab) |
Beyond the boundaries: Event model maintenance across development |
Erika Wharton-Shukster (Finn Lab) |
Modelling recognition memory decisions: Investigating mechanisms for sequential dependencies |
Michelle Dollois (Fiacconi Lab) |
Spatial updating processes across modalities |
Anisha Khosla (Ryan & Moscovitch Labs) |
Pandemic stories: How personal and collective narratives about the COVID-19 pandemic integrate over time |
Ziming Cheng (Addis Lab) |
Break: 3:20-3:50 PM |
Keynote: 3:50-4:30 PM |
Balancing threat and curiosity when forming memories of an uncertain world |
Vishnu P. Murty, PhD |
Panel: 4:30-5:00 PM |
Navigating hidden diversity: Mental health, disability, & gender/sexual identity |
Rebecca Pillai Riddell, PhD |
Mel Rutherford, PhD |
Vishnu P. Murty, PhD |
Mary Pat McAndrews, PhD (Chair) |
Reception: 5:00-7:00 PM |
Award Ceremony and Powerpoint Karaoke |
Light Refreshments and Cash Bar |
2023 TAMeG Committee |
Chair: Ariana Youm |
Website: Divya Mistry, Merron Woodbury, Riya Trikha, Ryan Yeung |
Communication: Shadini Dematagoda, Tolu Faromika, Stephanie Simpson, Riya Trikha |
Venue: Katrina Chini, Shadini Dematagoda |
Program: Gregory Brooks, Isaac Kinley, Sophia Zhao |
Registration: Riya Trikha, Sabrina Valenzano |
Swag & Awards: Katrina Chini, Riya Trikha, Sabrina Valenzano |
Faculty Advisors: Brian Levine, Mary Pat McAndrews, Morgan Barense, Shayna Rosenbaum |
2023 Award Recipients
Ebbinghaus Award for most outstanding talk: Ziming Cheng
Bartlett Award for most outstanding data blitz: Merron Woodbury
Moscovitch Award for outstanding contributions to discussion: Caitlin O'Riordan (not pictured)
Ebbinghaus Award for most outstanding talk: Ziming Cheng
Bartlett Award for most outstanding data blitz: Merron Woodbury
Moscovitch Award for outstanding contributions to discussion: Caitlin O'Riordan (not pictured)
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