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Venues: HNE Rm 035 / HNE Rm 037 = HNE Building · SC Room A/B/C = Second Student Centre
| 10:00–18:00 | Registration & Check-In · Second Student Centre · Lobby & Atrium (registration) |
| 12:30–14:00 | Women in Cognitive Science Canada (WiCSC+) Session York University Student Centre, 2nd Floor Main Hall · Theme: First-Generation Students · Award Presentation · Panel Discussion |
| 14:00–15:00 | WiCSC+ / CSBBCS Joint Welcome Reception · Student Centre First Floor |
| 15:00–15:15 | Transition to Main Conference Venue |
| 15:15–15:45 | Opening Ceremony · Second Student Centre · Rooms A, B & C (combined) |
| 15:45–16:45 |  Di Lollo Early Career AwardDr. Jeffrey Wammes, Queen's University · Second Student Centre · Rooms A, B & C (combined) · Plenary |
| 16:45–18:00 |  D.O. Hebb Award LectureDr. Penny Pexman, Western University · Second Student Centre · Rooms A, B & C (combined) · Plenary |
| 18:00–19:30 | 📋 Poster Session A · Second Student Centre · Atrium · 95 posters |
| 19:30+ | Student Social — Off Campus · Location TBD |
| 08:00–09:00 | Breakfast · Second Student Centre · Lobby & Atrium |
| 08:15–09:00 | NSERC Session (Faculty) · Second Student Centre · Room A · Chair: Geneviève Desmarais · Jelena Ristic · Bruce Milliken · Evan Risko · Caroline Blais NSERC Session (Students) · Second Student Centre · Room B · Chair: Alice Lam |
S1A · HNE Rm 035
Attention – Visual Search & Feature Selection
HNE Building · Room 035
- 09:00–09:15 Arnav Mahajan Using a single item prime method to explore "priming of pop-out search"
- 09:15–09:30 Sevda Montakhaby Learned Attentional Control: Mitigating Capture by Irrelevant Salience While Preserving Capture by Relevant Salience
- 09:30–09:45 Jason Satel Visual search leaves a neural trace: ERP evidence for lingering effects of previously attended locations
- 09:45–10:00 Rachel Pitman Motion Impairs Detection for Spatial but not Non-Spatial Features
S1B · HNE Rm 037
Memory – Encoding, Production & Strategic Processing
HNE Building · Room 037
- 09:00–09:15 Pelin Tanberg Reading words aloud organizes memory retrieval by encoding context: Evidence from part-list cuing
- 09:15–09:30 Patrick Tsapoitis Resilience of the production effect under divided attention: Converging evidence from a spiking neural network
- 09:30–09:45 Justine Yick Offload your information and remember it too: Supplemental images improve memory performance even when individuals offload memory demands
- 09:45–10:00 Donnelle DiMarco Memory Signals Underlying Conjunction Errors: Retrieval Increases Familiarity and Recollection-Based False Recognition
S1C · SC Room B
Cognitive Neuroscience – Visuomotor & Action
Second Student Centre · Room B
- 09:00–09:15 Cristina Rubino Cortical mechanisms of human eye-hand coordination: Beyond summation of saccade and reach networks
- 09:15–09:30 Keanna Rowchan Shared and distinct cortical manifold structure for error- and reinforcement-based motor learning
- 09:30–09:45 Felicia Tassone Apraxia Disrupts the Spatiotemporal Structure of Grasping, Despite Preserved Aperture Scaling
- 09:45–10:00 Avin Sharma Cerebellar Modulation of Motor Preparatory Dynamics Using Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Stimulation
S1D · SC Room C
Perception – Predictive Processing & Audiovisual
Second Student Centre · Room C
- 09:00–09:15 Jaykishan Patel Deep Neural Networks as Models of Human Lightness Perception
- 09:15–09:30 Manda Fischer Dissociating Predictive and Postdictive Audiovisual Inference: A Unified Cue-Weighting Principle
- 09:30–09:45 Hannah Lum Smith Predictive Constraints Shape Object Recognition Across Fixations
- 09:45–10:00 Priya Pandey Evidence for auditory narrative lingering of target attended speech amidst competing distractor speech
Symposium I · SC Room A
Agentic Contributions to Memory and Attention
Org: Chris Fiacconi & Dan Smilek
Second Student Centre · Room A
Second Student Centre · Room A
- 09:00–09:15 Chris Fiacconi
- 09:15–09:30 Anna Kazatchkova
- 09:30–09:45 Skylar Laursen
- 09:45–10:00 Allison Drody
| 10:00–10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15–11:45 | 📋 Poster Session B · Second Student Centre · Atrium · 95 posters |
| 11:45–12:45 | Lunch — On own · Cafeteria & food court on campus |
| 12:45–14:15 | MEL GOODALE CAREER CELEBRATION SYMPOSIUM — Special Plenary · 90 min · Second Student Centre · Rooms A, B & C (combined) Speakers: Jonathan Cant · Matthias Niemeier · Robert Whitwell · Jody Culham · Mel Goodale |
S2A · HNE Rm 035
Attention – Eye Movements, Gaze & Dynamic Scenes
HNE Building · Room 035
- 14:30–14:45 Luowei Yan Eye movement patterns underlying the search advantage for facing social groups
- 14:45–15:00 Rachel Eng Gaze Behaviour in Multiple Object Tracking with Heterogeneous and Identical Items
- 15:00–15:15 Ido Zivli Saccadic Remapping in Dynamic Natural Scenes: Evidence From Road Videos
- 15:15–15:30 Victor Kuperman Eye Movements Across Languages: Universals in Temporal and Spatial Patterns during Reading
S2B · HNE Rm 037
Memory – Recognition, Familiarity & Computational Models
HNE Building · Room 037
- 14:30–14:45 Brendan Johns Collective Memory Modeling: Using Individualized Representations to Drive Processing Models
- 14:45–15:00 Ricky Chow Dissociation of Neural and Behavioural Perceptual Discrimination Following Lesions to Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus
- 15:00–15:15 Cole Buchhaupt Knowing What We Don't: What drives the mirror effect in recognition memory?
- 15:15–15:30 Katherine R. Churey Reminding improves discrimination of similar items by promoting recollection rejection
S2C · SC Room B
Social Cognition – AI, Technology & Trust
Second Student Centre · Room B
- 14:30–14:45 Jackie Heitzner Mind Attribution in Synthetic Media: An Extension of the Medusa Effect
- 14:45–15:00 Caroline Simpson Trusting the machine: How anthropomorphism impacts epistemic trust in generative AI
- 15:00–15:15 Neil Wegenschimmel Suspicion and Shared Trauma: Asymmetric Drivers of Post-Election Extremism in the American Electorate
- 15:15–15:30 Jordan Sheen Long-term attitude change from AI dialogue using political in-group disagreement and out-group agreement
S2D · SC Room C
Development – Statistical Learning, Infants & Children
Second Student Centre · Room C
- 14:30–14:45 Frida Printzlau Behavioural and computational evidence that category learning benefits from delayed exceptions in adults, but not children
- 14:45–15:00 Carie Guan A Unified Statistical Learning Account of Early Face Representation in Infancy
- 15:00–15:15 Renee Guerville The impact of sensory environment on sensorimotor integration in Autism and ADHD across development
- 15:15–15:30 Wei Fang The influence of emotional consistency on toddlers' social behaviors
Symposium II · SC Room A
Sensory Processing in Autism
Org: Bat-Sheva Hadad
Second Student Centre · Room A
Second Student Centre · Room A
- 14:30–14:45 Ryan Stevenson
- 14:45–15:00 Bat-Sheva Hadad
- 15:00–15:15 Zoha Ahmad
- 15:15–15:30 Jake Burack
| 15:30–15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45–17:15 | 📋 Poster Session C · Second Student Centre · Atrium · 94 posters |
| 17:15–18:15 |  Mid-Career AwardDr. Frank Russo, Toronto Metropolitan University · Second Student Centre · Rooms A, B & C (combined) · Plenary |
| 18:15–18:30 | Free time / travel to dinner venue |
| 18:30–21:00 | 🍽️ Ticketed Banquet · Schulich School of Business Dining Hall Ticket required · Separate registration · |
| 08:15–09:00 | Breakfast · Second Student Centre · Lobby & Atrium |
S3A · HNE Rm 035
Attention – Reading, Letters & Conscious Awareness
HNE Building · Room 035
- 09:00–09:15 Mickenzie Galan Measuring Conscious Perception Interferes with the Allocation of Attention to Distractors
- 09:15–09:30 Madeline Bloomberg The Surprise Signal: Attentional Reallocation During Category Rule Violations
- 09:30–09:45 Emily Heffernan Typo detection as a window into interactions between visual search and readability
- 09:45–10:00 Sébastien Gionet The revised attentional disengagement model of the missing-letter effect
S3B · HNE Rm 037
Memory – Episodic, Emotional & Autobiographical
HNE Building · Room 037
- 09:00–09:15 Madison LaSaga From Scary Movies to Haunted Houses: Validating the Severity of Horror Media-induced Intrusive Memories (SHMIM) Scale
- 09:15–09:30 Jonathan Fawcett Controlling Unwanted Memories: A Multisite Registered Replication of the Think/No-Think Effect
- 09:30–09:45 Ryan Yeung Oculomotor and neural mechanisms of vividness in autobiographical memories
- 09:45–10:00 Karen Campbell Event Tagging: A Novel Intervention to Remediate Age Differences in Episodic Memory
S3C · SC Room B
Perception – Face, Identity & Ensemble Processing
Second Student Centre · Room B
- 09:00–09:15 Francis Gingras Cultural Variations in the Visual Information Supporting Face Recognition
- 09:15–09:30 Yaren Koca How do we organize facial identity in memory?
- 09:30–09:45 Arijit De Reconstructing the Self-Face: Appearance and Belief in Perceptual and Memory Representations
- 09:45–10:00 Marco Sama The obligatory mean: Default ensemble encoding under uncertain task demands
S3D · SC Room C
Decision Making – Judgment, Moral Cognition & Bias
Second Student Centre · Room C
- 09:00–09:15 Suren Krikorian Crime and Punishment: Heuristic Retribution Supports Rational Deterrence
- 09:15–09:30 Zuleika Gasimova Who Should Get Help? Moral Norms for Partiality are Influenced by Relationship Expectations
- 09:30–09:45 Daniel Nikitin Fooled or Enlightened by Frequency: When Frequency Tricks Decision-Making
- 09:45–10:00 Steve Lindsay Truthiness Effects: Looking Under the Hood
Symposium III · SC Room A
Signaling Function of Social Gaze
Org: Manlu Liu & Veronica Dudarev
Second Student Centre · Room A
Second Student Centre · Room A
- 09:00–09:15 Carter Smith
- 09:15–09:30 Florence Mayrand
- 09:30–09:45 Manlu Liu
- 09:45–10:00 Alan Kingstone
| 10:00–10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15–11:35 | 📋 Poster Session D · Second Student Centre · Atrium · 94 posters |
| 11:35–12:35 | Lunch — On own · Cafeteria & food court on campus |
S4A · HNE Rm 035
Attention – Social, Sustained & Clinical
HNE Building · Room 035
- 12:35–12:50 Ralph Redden Weapons, Faces, and Attention: Understanding the Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Weapons Focus Effect
- 12:50–13:05 Ruien Wang Why Some Minds Read Minds Better: Gradient Reconfigurations Reveal Individual and Age Differences in Mentalizing
- 13:05–13:20 Adrian Safati The Effects of Prescription Stimulants on Mind-Wandering in Individuals with ADHD
- 13:20–13:35 Rhiannon Ueberholz The Effect of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Negative Affect and Sustained Attention
S4B · HNE Rm 037
Memory, Metamemory & Health
HNE Building · Room 037
- 12:35–12:50 Melanie Sekeres Cancer Treatment and Memory in Breast Cancer Survivors: Differential Effects on Detailed Episodic and Gist-Like Memory Recall Over Time
- 12:50–13:05 Jessica Zaffino The Impact of Mental Health on Relational Memory Performance
- 13:05–13:20 Astrid Coleman Examining Temporal and Spatial Components of Episodic Metamemory
- 13:20–13:35 Zuleika Gasimova Metacognitive Effort Regulation in Problem-Solving
S4C · SC Room B
Social Cognition – Face, Gaze & Social Interaction
Second Student Centre · Room B
- 12:35–12:50 Mario Costantino You Move Like Me: Stable Motor Compatibility Between Partners Persists Across Social Contexts
- 12:50–13:05 Nicholas Logan Multimodal dyadic communication behaviour: a database
- 13:05–13:20 Florence Mayrand Perspective taking in real life
- 13:20–13:35 Hoang Anh Tran Motor-related beta oscillations predict people's sense of joint agency when they coordinate with others
S4D · SC Room C
Learning – Category Abstraction & Cognitive Mechanisms
Second Student Centre · Room C
- 12:35–12:50 Hala Rahman Gist-first Learning Facilitates Category Abstraction Across GAN-generated Scene Space
- 12:50–13:05 Skylar J. Laursen Category-exemplar learning: Dissociations in memory and metamemory
- 13:05–13:20 Silvia S. Zhou Event Segmentation During Lecture Videos and Its Relation to Learning and Thought Content
- 13:20–13:35 Jordan Webb Evidence of allocentric learning in male rats with large lesions of the hippocampus
Symposium IV · SC Room A
Using Task-Optimized ANNs to Understand Brain & Behaviour
Org: Harrison Ritz
Second Student Centre · Room A
Second Student Centre · Room A
- 12:35–12:50 Sabine Muzellec
- 12:50–13:05 Chelsea Kim
- 13:05–13:20 Harrison Ritz
- 13:20–13:35 Jonathan Michaels
| 13:35–13:45 | Short Break |
S5A · HNE Rm 035
Cognitive Neuroscience – Face, Emotion & Ensemble
HNE Building · Room 035
- 13:45–14:00 Raven Wallace Neural correlates of experience across movie-watching paradigms
- 14:00–14:15 Hamidreza Ramezanpour Deep Brain Ultrasound Augments Human Attention
- 14:15–14:30 Amie Durston Facial expression ERPs are related to perceived valence and arousal
- 14:30–14:45 Moaz Shoura A Neural Investigation of the Other-Race Effect in Ensemble and Single-face Perception
S5B · HNE Rm 037
Visuomotor & Spatial Cognition
HNE Building · Room 037
- 13:45–14:00 Gavin Buckingham Home-Based Immersive VR to Improve Motor Performance in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
- 14:00–14:15 Bianca R. Baltaretu The Influence of Allocentric Cues on Spatial Coding for Memory-guided Actions: An fMRI Study
- 14:15–14:30 Lina Musa TMS Reveals Causal Contributions of Egocentric and Allocentric Connectivity Hubs to Reach Behavior
- 14:30–14:45 Raymond R. MacNeil Active Cognitive Control in Real and Pantomime Grasping
S5C · SC Room B
Lifespan, Health & Individual Differences
Second Student Centre · Room B
- 13:45–14:00 Lorielle Dietze Restricted cortical diffusivity with age and obesity: HCP cohort (N=1,682)
- 14:00–14:15 Diya Kamineni Math Anxiety and Math Performance: The Mediating Role of Intrusive Thoughts Management Strategies
- 14:15–14:30 Tania Alves Childhood Relationships and Cognition in Older Adults
- 14:30–14:45 Emma Dueck Imagery Vividness and Mental Health Through Spontaneous Cognition
S5D · SC Room C
Language – Words, Semantics & Lexical Retrieval
Second Student Centre · Room C
- 13:45–14:00 Michelle Yang Embedding Culture in Language: Investigating Cross-Dialectical Semantic Alignment
- 14:00–14:15 Jiangtian Li Discovering regularity and mechanisms of word sense acquisition in early childhood
- 14:15–14:30 Peggy Liaw Does AI Know Bouba is Rounder than Kiki?
- 14:30–14:45 Angus Ball Exploring guessing behaviour in tip-of-the-tongue states
Symposium V · SC Room A
The Neural Aesthetics of Imagination and Beauty
Org: Dirk Bernhardt-Walther
Second Student Centre · Room A
Second Student Centre · Room A
- 13:45–14:00 Claudia Damiano
- 14:00–14:15 Oshin Vartanian
- 14:15–14:30 Dirk Bernhardt-Walther
- 14:30–14:45 Joan Ongchoco
| 14:45–15:00 | Coffee Break |
S6A · HNE Rm 035
Cognitive Neuroscience – Language, Code & Brain Organisation
HNE Building · Room 035
- 15:00–15:15 Emily E. Davis Successful Language Localization in Two Individuals with Non-Speaking Autism
- 15:15–15:30 Anna Cole Meaning, Action, and the Brain: Evidence from Cerebral Palsy
- 15:30–15:45 Mary Nehmé Brains Decoding Code: Neural Signatures of Syntax and Meaning in Programming and Language
- 15:45–16:00 Keely Rokosh The Role of Individual Differences in Hemispheric Lateralization of Faces and Words in Developmental Dyslexia
S6B · HNE Rm 037
Language, Reading & Communication across the Lifespan
HNE Building · Room 037
- 15:00–15:15 Negar Salehi Conversation Dynamics Among Older Adults with Age-Related Hearing Loss
- 15:15–15:30 Emalie Hendel Not all native readers are the same: How eye movements vary within language groups
- 15:30–15:45 Cameron Hart Redundant Modifiers Enhance Memory Across the Adult Lifespan in Virtual Reality
- 15:45–16:00 Tiana Simovic Referential processing draws on multiple perspective cues in parallel
S6C · SC Room C
Scene Perception, Affect & Social Cognition
Second Student Centre · Room C
- 15:00–15:15 Astrid Coleman Exploring the Influence of Self-Generation during Episodic Simulation on Prosocial Outcomes
- 15:15–15:30 Michel-Pierre Coll Pain as Information: Computational Mechanisms of Learning-Dependent Pain Modulation
- 15:30–15:45 Mojahed Basabrain The forest, the trees, and the whale?
- 15:45–16:00 Jessica Savoie Visual Occlusion Disrupts Neural Processing of Facial Emotions and Empathy
Symposium VI · SC Room A
Spatial Vision Renaissance
Org: Emma Neto & Anne Peiris
Second Student Centre · Room A
Second Student Centre · Room A
- 15:00–15:15 Alexander Baldwin
- 15:15–15:30 David White
- 15:30–15:45 Patrick Bennett
- 15:45–16:00 Shaiyan Keshvari
Symposium VII · SC Room B
The Empathic Brain
Org: Roxane Itier
Second Student Centre · Room B
Second Student Centre · Room B
- 15:00–15:15 Seth Winward
- 15:15–15:30 Signy Sheldon
- 15:30–15:45 Carl Galang
- 15:45–16:00 Julian Scheffer
| 16:00–16:20 | Hall Transition — All attendees to Second Student Centre for AGM |
| 16:20–17:20 | Annual General Meeting (AGM) · Second Student Centre · Room A · D.O. Hebb Student Awards (best oral + best poster) |
Symposia — Full Overview
Symposium IV · Wednesday, June 3 · 12:35–13:35
Using Task-Optimized ANNs to Understand Brain & Behaviour
Organizer: Harrison Ritz
Second Student Centre · Room A
- Sabine Muzellec
- Chelsea Kim
- Harrison Ritz
- Jonathan Michaels
Symposium II · Tuesday, June 2 · 14:30–15:30
Sensory Processing in Autism
Organizer: Bat-Sheva Hadad
Second Student Centre · Room A
- Ryan Stevenson
- Bat-Sheva Hadad
- Zoha Ahmad
- Jake Burack
Symposium III · Wednesday, June 3 · 09:00–10:00
Signaling Function of Social Gaze
Organizer: Manlu Liu & Veronica Dudarev
Second Student Centre · Room A
- Carter Smith
- Florence Mayrand
- Manlu Liu
- Alan Kingstone
Symposium I · Tuesday, June 2 · 09:00–10:00
Agentic Contributions to Memory and Attention
Organizer: Chris Fiacconi & Dan Smilek
Second Student Centre · Room A
- Chris Fiacconi
- Anna Kazatchkova
- Skylar Laursen
- Allison Drody
Symposium V · Wednesday, June 3 · 13:45–14:45
The Neural Aesthetics of Imagination and Beauty
Organizer: Dirk Bernhardt-Walther
Second Student Centre · Room A
- Claudia Damiano
- Oshin Vartanian
- Dirk Bernhardt-Walther
- Joan Ongchoco
Symposium VI · Wednesday, June 3 · 15:00–16:00
Spatial Vision Renaissance
Organizer: Emma Neto & Anne Peiris
Second Student Centre · Room A
- Alexander Baldwin
- David White
- Patrick Bennett
- Shaiyan Keshvari
Symposium VII · Wednesday, June 3 · 15:00–16:00
The Empathic Brain
Organizer: Roxane Itier
Second Student Centre · Room B
- Seth Winward
- Signy Sheldon
- Carl Galang
- Julian Scheffer
Special Plenary · Tuesday, June 2 · 12:45–14:15
Mel Goodale Career Celebration Symposium
Special Plenary
Second Student Centre · Rooms A, B & C (combined) (no parallel sessions during plenary)
- Jonathan Cant
- Matthias Niemeier
- Robert Whitwell
- Jody Culham
- Mel Goodale
Poster Sessions (378 Posters · A=97, B=97, C=93, D=91)
Poster Session A 97 posters Monday, Jun 1 · 18:00–19:30
Attention (18)
- A01Chloé Lachance-Soulard— Alert, Aware, or Overwhelmed? How Stress Shapes Human Responses to Takeover Requests in Semi-Autonomous Vehicles
- A02Julianne Levesque— An Association Between Mindfulness and Memory Representations in Undergraduate Students
- A03Emily E. Davis— Attentional lapses at encoding have opposite effects on memory in younger and older adults
- A04Simran Rooprai— Beyond Motor Benefits: Longitudinal Cognitive and Sleep Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease Following Six-Years of Community Dance
- A06Janessa Lauzon— High Working Memory Load Reveals Hyper-binding in Young Adults
- A07yuanze huang— Intuitive Theories of Attention Shape Perceptions of Others’ Attentiveness
- A08Nicholas Murray— Investigating Automatic Attentional Biases Underlying PTSD-CUD Co-Occurrence
- A09Emily Mashaal— Investigating the temporal specificity and structure of retrospective reports of engagement following a 0hr versus a 24hr delay
- A10Liam Yeo— Lost in Time: The Role of Time Perception in Mind Wandering
- A11Adrian Torres— Metacognitive Time Investment and Effort Regulation in Adult ADHD: Applying the Diminishing Criterion Model
- A12Maryam Hodaie— Mind Wandering and Social Conformity
- A13Yoseph Lahmany— Personalized Music with Auditory Beat Stimulation Reduces Physiological Markers of Anxiety: Evidence from Cortisol and HRV
- A14Chantal Trudel— State boredom as a physiological stressorNEW
- A15Niyatee Narkar— The Affective Consequences of Oculomotor Selection and Inhibition
- A16Iulia Niculescu— The effect of rumination on monitoring and accuracy during a prospective memory task using eye-tracking
- A17Bailey Stokes— The impact of brief meditation training on divided attention and recognition memory
- A18Layla Hussain— When Attention Turns to You: How Eye Contact Alters the Perception of TimeNEW
- A96Carson Rumble-Tricker— Straining the mind or moving the body? Individual differences in effortful exertion while listening
- A98Casey Aurin— The Temporal Organization of Free Recall in the Real-World: The Temporal Contiguity Effect and Time–Space Interactions
Cognitive Neuroscience (42)
- A19Borbala Dobos— A neurocognitive investigation of affect and syntax
- A20Cedric Le Bouar— Accessing the meaning of a metaphor in real time: The effects of aptness, conventionality, and familiarity on the time course of meaning access
- A21Jiyoon Jeong— Action-Dependent Attention Selects Behaviourally Relevant Object Segments
- A22Katya Tikhostoup— Acute Auditory Degradation Enhances Auditory–Frontal Connectivity During Emotional Speech Perception
- A23Mohammad Soleyman Nejad— Acute Stress Increases in Delta-Beta Coupling Are Partially Moderated by Sympathetic Activity
- A24Shanna Kousaie— Are different bilingualism factors associated with resting-state brain oscillations that underly cognition?
- A25Aaliyah Daruwala— Associations between early life stress and language outcomes; an Event Related Potential (ERP) study investigating phoneme discrimination in 6- and 10-month-old infants
- A26Prabhleen Kaur— Associations Between Joint Attention and Event-Related Potential (ERP) Response During Auditory Statistical Learning
- A27Benjamin Corrigan— Detecting differential modulations during cognitive tasks
- A28Melina Halkias— Do Physical Constraints Shape Feature Integration? Human EEG Validation of a Reinforcement Learning Model in Memory-Guided Reaching
- A29Patrick Curiston— Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Song-Evoked Neural Activity in the Zebra Finch Auditory Forebrain
- A30Sonia Vovan— Effects of Optic Flow Perturbations on Postural Control in Working-Aged Adults Post Concussion
- A31Zahra Wakif— Exploring Whether Polygenic Risk Moderates Associations Between Maternal Wellbeing and Infant Neurodevelopment in a Low-SES Sample
- A32Kiana Masoudi— Eye vs. hand effector-specificity in human parietal and frontal cortices
- A33Lily M. R. Laevens— Face size modulates face perception: Evidence from mass univariate analyses of ERPs in a parametric design
- A34Wanyi Lyu— Factorial Analysis of Ensemble Representation of Attention and Decision-making in Prefrontal Cortex of Macaque Monkeys
- A35Natalia Castro Gonzalez— Fingerprinting The Social Brain: A Recently Developed Mentalizing Signature Tracks Age and Autism-Related Differences.
- A36Rafaela Platkin— Following the Story: Brain and Behaviour in Children’s Engagement
- A37Jennifer Stevenson— Freezing of Upper Limbs Parkinson's Disease: A Reaching Study
- A38Carmen Dang— Hearing Aids Hinder Speech Emotion Perception in Noise: Inefficient Sensorimotor Integration
- A39McCaley Campbell— How is the BRIEF Used to Assess Executive Function in Pediatric Epilepsy: What is Being Reported?
- A40Alexandra Doiron— How Meaning Becomes Memory: ERP Correlates of Long-Term Recognition for Concrete and Abstract Words
- A41Tavneen Sandhu— Hungry Brains Choose Foods Differently: State-Dependent EEG Microstates Predict Health Evidence Processing
- A42Bernard 't Hart— Investigating spatial consciousness across the visual blind spot
- A43Kareem Mukbil— Is bilingualism a predictor of the brain age gap in older adults?
- A44Leah Durham— Keeping the Mind Moving During Aging
- A45Veronica Nacher— Lateral prefrontal ‘gaze’ signals encode future head and hand motion during visually guided reach.
- A46Megan Kelly— Lower socioeconomic status is associated with accelerated development of memory integration in children
- A47Fraulein Retanal— Math Anxiety Leads to Objective and Perceived Cognitive Interference through the Emotional Impact of Intrusive Thoughts
- A48Ana Badal— Measuring neural mechanisms underlying infant joint attention: live-interaction electroencephalography (EEG) with caregiver-infant dyads.
- A49Nicolas Joyal— Multidimensional Temporal Dynamics of Distraction in the Context of Visuospatial Attention
- A50Ryan Panela— Neural Signatures of Event Segmentation During Narrative Listening in Background Noise
- A51Ralph Redden— No evidence of a general athlete advantage across the networks of attention
- A52Brando Sheldrick— Posterior Intraparietal Sulcus activity during a head unrestrained, memory guided reach task
- A53Athanasios Bourganos— Predicting Human Viewpoint Preference with Deep Neural Network Embeddings
- A54Lauren Nordstrom— Randomly Titled but Better Remembered: How Arbitrary Titles Shapes Art Memorability
- A55Jacqueline Walsh-Snow— Shape Selectivity for Tangible Objects and Images in Ventral and Dorsal Cortex
- A56Mikaila Tombe— Tempo-Evoked Arousal: Distortions of Time Perception in Event Memory
- A57Eva Deligiannis— The effect of size and distance on neural responses to realistic 3D faces
- A58Lina Khayyat— This is your brain on poetry: EEG patterns dissociate across frequency bands during poetry reading
- A59Aditi Ilangovan— Transdiagnostic Examination of Amygdala Structure and Anxiety Across Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Typically Developing Children
- A97Alyssa C. Smith— Oral contraceptives and physical and cognitive effort while listening: An exploratory analysis
Learning (1)
- A60Lindsay Richardson— The Lasagna Model: a layered approach to sustainable teaching methods
Memory (27)
- A61Yaren Koca— Adaptive norm-based encoding of within-person variability
- A62Colin Hoare— Affective and Behavioural Factors that Influence Conversational Memory in a Bilingual Context
- A63Evan Curtis— CBM-DF: Directed forgetting of negative information reduces state levels of depressive symptoms
- A64Brendan Redmond— Choosing to forget emotional words.
- A65Jayden Roberts— Chronotypes and intentional forgetting: Evidence from evening types
- A66Harris Miller— Congruent Interleaved Words Generate Substantial False Memory Effect
- A67Sophie Tielker— Dissociating Valence and Arousal in Autobiographical Memory
- A68Katarina Jovanovic— Drawing in class: Does drawing benefit memory for lecture content?
- A69Joseph Merante— Effects of Event Tagging on Memory and Eye-Movements
- A70Tracy Taylor— Emotion modulates directed forgetting but not attentional withdrawal
- A71Millie R. Bhaskara— Episodic Memory at Midlife: The Influence of Perimenopause
- A72Narissa Byers— Executive Functioning and Sleep Quality Across Cognitive Aging Profiles
- A73Nardeen Yalda— Influence of Emotional Episodic Future Thinking on Delay Discounting of Rewards
- A74Anthony Cruz— Playing it Safe: The Role of Judgments of Learning in Prototype Abstraction
- A75Sara Toca— Rewriting the Past: The Role of Plausibility in Updating Self-Beliefs in Social Anxiety
- A76Sara Ahmed— Sex- and Menopause-Specific Hippocampal Subfield Volumes and Memory at Midlife: A Period of Change
- A77Nadya Drury— Sounds of the Past: Music-Cued Autobiographical Recall in Older AdultsNEW
- A78Tara Raessi— The effect of context on speech intelligibility and gist recall when listening to stories amidst competing speakers
- A79Sophie Bhaskara— The effect of video presence on associative and source memory in a virtual socialization event
- A80Dana Murphy— The influence of emotional irrelevant speech on serial order memory
- A81Ella Goldman— The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Lexical-Semantic Processing and Recognition Memory
- A82Alana Brown— The roles of biological sex and cognitive reserve in shaping sleep-memory dynamics
- A83Rebekah L. Corpuz— Uncalibrated: Strategy use, beliefs, and confidence when learning a new face
- A84Karen Nayiga— Unsteady Lines, Unshaken Recall: Why Handedness and Production Quality Does Not Affect the Drawing Benefit
- A85Rotem Paz— When Memory Rescripting updates the mental self-image but not the accompanying self-schema: Results, interpretations, and open questions
- A86Steve Lindsay— A Model-Based Source Monitoring Explanation for Increased Unconscious Plagiarism in Response to Generative Elaboration
Metacognition (2)
- A87Om Patel— Interest and Mind Wandering
- A88Eleni Dubé-Zinatelli— Knowing What You Know and What You Don’t Know: How Online Health Information Shapes Perceived and Objective Knowledge of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Methods (7)
- A89Chris Arrabito— Determining the threshold of curvature in architectural spaces
- A90Abhishek Dedhe— Education outperforms income as a predictor of public-health-related outcomes
- A91Jesse Pazdera— Expressions: Real-time face and head tracking using iPhones and iPads
- A92Issac Pasloski— Eyes-Py Data: A Python-Based Post-Experimental Eye Data Analysis Program
- A93Gabriel (Naiqi) Xiao— iTemplate2: An Open-Source Python Toolbox for Standardized Eye-Movement Analysis of Dynamic Face Stimuli Using Automatic Landmark Detection
- A94Katherine O. Mordi— Sensitivity of infrared optical technologies vary with skin tone
- A95Ian Newman— The Generative Repository of Anagrams and Metrics from SUBTLEX
Poster Session B 97 posters Tuesday, Jun 2 · 10:15–11:45
Decision Making (4)
- B01Avery Bernardin— Anticipated emotions and loss aversion in intertemporal risky choice
- B02Trent N. Cash— Beyond Introspection: Inferring Decision Weights from Others’ Multi-Attribute Choices
- B03Trent N. Cash— How We Think We Know Ourselves: Investigating Meta-meta Knowledge in Decision Making
- B04Mary-Jo Daher— Pain catastrophizing and executive dysfunction: Preliminary findings from a chronic mTBI sample
Development (8)
- B05Michelle Hirsch— Curiosity and prior knowledge shape naturalistic information-seeking
- B06Anthony Chirila— Delineating the impact of early-life adversity on impulsivity
- B07Hiva Bagheri Samghabadi— Developmental Changes in the Symbolic Distance Effect During Double-Digit Comparison in Grade 1 and 2 Students
- B08Hannah Del Gatto— Effects of amnestic mild cognitive impairment on cardiac manipulations of familiarity and interoception
- B09Adrianna Molenaar— I Can’t Look Away: How Attentional Biases Differ Across Neurodiversity and Sensory Environments in Children
- B10Diya Kamineni— Parental Math Self-Efficacy and Child Math Self-Efficacy: The Moderating Role of Homework Behaviors
- B11Nicole Anderson— PRELIMINARY EFFECTIVENESS OF A COMMUNITY-BASED PERSONALIZED MULTIDOMAIN DEMENTIA RISK REDUCTION INTERVENTION ON LIFESTYLE BEHAVIOURS AND COGNITION
- B12Abhishek Dedhe— The Price of Hierarchical Reasoning
Individual Differences (8)
- B13Nathalie Gosselin— A feasibility study evaluating a home-based music intervention for emotional regulation in older adults
- B14Daniel Vinar— Beyond Intelligence: Actively Open-Minded Thinking as a Unique Predictor of Accuracy on Psychological Misconceptions
- B15Felix Ayesu— Beyond Spatial Skills: Spatial Anxiety as a Cross-Domain Predictor of Mathematical Performance
- B16Veronica Bodea— Can more accurate time estimation facilitate problem solving performance?
- B17Carina Baldassarra— Can stress modulation influence motion sickness in virtual reality?
- B18Chelsea Russill— Conspiracy theory success: Characteristics of good explanations and stories predict belief and engagement with conspiracies
- B19Garri Hovhannisyan— Embodied Cognition Meets Personality Psychology: Introducing the Loss of Grip Scale
- B21Mengxi Liu— Testing a Behavioral Measure of Persistence in Problem Solving
Learning (6)
- B22Delaney O'Brien-Ristau— Does Providing Students with Choice Increase Academic Confidence and Reduce Academic Procrastination and Stress?
- B23Isaac Withers— Exploring the Role of Feedback Timing and Response Format in Verbal and Implicit Category Learning
- B24Laura Li— From Meaning to Mechanism: Semantic Constraints on Statistical Learning
- B25Ralph Redden— Integrating open science in the teaching of cognitive research methods 2.0: Meta-analytic thinking & Registered Reports
- B26Hanna Zhang— Investigating rapid adaptation to speech in noise using reverse correlation
- B27Narmada Umatheva— The Effects of Relaxation Training Interventions on Mitigating Virtual Reality Sickness
Perception (47)
- B28Mallory E. Terry— Acquisition and automatization of a complex motor skill: the role of baseline visual and motor abilities
- B29Carmi Ampo— Adjustment of Response Bias Requires Task Focus
- B30Jordan Fairlie— Age-Related Effects on Spatial Navigation and Gait During Motor–Cognitive Dual-Tasking
- B31Jocelyne Harling— Assessing the Temporal Dynamics of Attentional Control across Tasks
- B32Sm Imran Faruqui— Associative learning from contextual cueing effect: Interference from previous learning
- B33Hannah Arabella Gabling— Behind the bias: How attention shapes ensemble perception
- B34Nicole Hernandez— Capturing the Real You: Using Gamification to Assess Real-World Attentional Abilities
- B35Hala Rahman— Characterizing mental imagery and its relation to memory using multidimensional experience sampling
- B36Seohee Han— Contours Drive the Tilt Aftereffect in Naturalistic Images
- B37Ginnie Wee— Driven to Distraction: Effects of visual distraction and eyes-off-road (EOR) warnings on driver gaze behaviour and hazard detection accuracy
- B38Savannah Mancebo Bodden— Examining Light Sensitivity and ADHD Symptomatology
- B39Katia Perry— Examining the Developmental Trajectory of Elderspeak in Children
- B40Jade HY. Fok— How multilingualism affects perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech sound features
- B41Zoe Hu— Lexical Restructuring of Auditory Categories in Chinese–English Bilinguals
- B42Richard Murray— Lightness perception in augmented reality: effects of context, background, motion, and disparity
- B43Laurianne Côté— Link Between Face Detection and Identification: Evidence from Individual Differences
- B44Lianna Montanari— Locomotor Spatial Navigation Reveals More Cautious Gait Patterns in Older Adults with Age-Related Hearing Loss
- B45Aidan Steeves— Mechanisms of Emotional Sentiment in Autobiographical Memory Reactivation
- B46Jordyn Heron— Mental rotation ability: Sexual orientation matters for males and females
- B47Vitoria de Souza— Modelling embodied language under active inference
- B48Fermin Retnavarathan— More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring Binocularity in Self-Reported Amblyopia
- B49Alex Huynh— Passive and Active States in Visual Working Memory
- B50Julie Lewczuk— Perception of the sound induced flash illusion measured in-person compared to online
- B51Alejandro Gonzalez Garcia— Perceptual grouping reduces perceived speed but does not change uncertainty
- B52Jiali Song— Predicting Road Hazards from Brief Dynamic Previews: Accuracy and agreement among young adult drivers
- B53Brandon Mayer— Priming and Visual Processing Under Binocular Suppression: Investigating the Effects of Delay on Implicit Memory for Fully and Partially Processed Information in Younger Adults
- B54Coleman Olenick— Putting movement back into fixation models: the role of saccade trajectories in predicting exploratory gaze
- B55Emma Yuan— Red Contextual Cues Facilitate the Perception of Happiness Across Cultures
- B56Mincheol Lee— Seeing More Than Averages: a similarity test for ensemble stimuli
- B57Ryan Chen— Seeking Structure in Uncertainty: Boredom proneness and meaning seeking
- B58Alina Saad— Single item priming in singleton visual search: Examining the role of prime masking
- B59Salma Ben Messaoud— Social Encoding Reduces False Alarms in Face Recognition
- B60Carie Guan— Spontaneous attention towards faces of different races in adults and infants
- B61Rebecca Dong— Statistical learning during visual search: feature-specific spatial regularity of the target
- B62Adam Szybunka-Ostopowich— The 3-dimensional advantage: Visual and tactile contributions to executive functioning in a 3-dimensional sorting task
- B63Mimi Juffe— The Effects of Prioritization on the Allocation of Attention
- B64Kate Weldon— The Impact of Auditory and Visual Noise on the Colavita Effect
- B65Velika Kristianto— The Influence of Haptics and Vision on the Endowment Effect: An Eye-Tracking Study
- B66Daria Chernova— The Influence of Lateral Biases in Spatial Judgments
- B67Cheleine Doyle— The Influence of Posture and Valence for Body-Related Words in Visual Word Recognition
- B68Inci Eke— Threshold-Dependent Biases in the Biological Motion Perception of Nervousness
- B69Lily Wortley— Understanding Sound Intolerance: Investigating Measures of Hyperacusis and Misophonia in Emerging Adults
- B70Suevin Un— Use of language and speaker cues during real-time language processing
- B71Alyssa M.L. Thibeault— Visual imagery and its relationship to executive and precision-based components of visual working memory
- B72Farhan A. Vaheed— Visual Profile Analysis in a Contrast Discrimination Task
- B95Florence Mayrand— Social media filters’ influence on the perception of attractiveness and sociability of male faces
- B96Pénélope Pelland-Goulet— Facial expression recognition: visual information utilization is more informative than ocular fixations
Social Cognition (24)
- B73Emma Power— "How Does That Make You Feel?": How Emotion Concepts are Impacted by Experiences of Trauma
- B74Scott McQuain— A Loving Engagement: Exploring Predictors of Cognitive Engagement in Loving-Kindness Meditation
- B75Jacob Oliveira— Building Trust One Character at a Time: How AI Trust is Impacted by Content Presentation
- B76Peter Diep— Can We Trust Experts’ Data in Judgments of Where We are Heading? Evaluating Indicators used in Expert Judgment of Human Progress and Social Change
- B77Carolyn Stone— Compassion Fatigue: Caring to Capacity or Resource Depletion?
- B78Tala Tayem— Emotion Regulation and Well-Being: Consequences of mild traumatic brain injury in older adults
- B79Eunchan Na— Event-related potentials to outcome valence are modulated by the decision to explore or exploit
- B80Sze Yuh Nina Wang— Evidence-Based Persuasion in Polarized Contexts: Testing the Impact of a Chatbot Intervention on Political Beliefs
- B81Mane Kara-Yakoubian— Examining Age Differences in Moral Information Search
- B82Jeremy Brand— Mapping Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury: Comparisons with Orthopedic Injury and Healthy Controls
- B83Noor Alyafei— More Than a Game: How Gaming Motivations Shape Online and Offline Social Capital
- B84Jason Phonchareon— On the Attribution of Criminality from the Rapid Presentation of Faces
- B85Ilana Davids— Paranoia predicts perceptions of untrustworthiness, but not memory for facesNEW
- B86Natalie Joly— Predicting Knowledge of Psychological Misconceptions: The Roles of Actively Open-Minded Thinking and Intellectual Humility
- B87Freya Anderson— Psychological Factors Associated with Depressive Symptoms Among Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
- B88Paris Y. Wang— Referential Cues Reveal General Effects on Memory and a Unique Role for GazeNEW
- B89Avantika Utam— Seeking or avoiding mutual gaze: Quantifying gaze coordination across communication media
- B90Katie Wade Alonso— Social Competence and Hot and Cool Cognitive-Executive Performance in Typical Development and After Pediatric Brain Tumour Treatment
- B91Neil Wegenschimmel— The Ecology of Extremism: How Compromised Meaning-Making Accelerates Authoritarianism
- B92Sabrina Perry— The Power of the Pause: Executive Function and Social Problem Solving in Young Adults
- B93Sarah Saju— The Social Brain Endures: rTPJ Activation Predicts Real-World Network Size in Older Adults Despite Mentalizing DeclinesNEW
- B94Natalia Van Esch— Thinking about Autism: Mixed Method Insights into Representations and Impressions of Autism
- B95Charmi Pastagiya— Valenced stimuli bias the content but not the frequency of mind-wandering episodes
- B97Aya Amer— Disregard disgust, focus on fear: Categorical emotion effects on L2 lexical decision times
Poster Session C 93 posters Tuesday, Jun 2 · 15:45–17:15
Attention (14)
- C01Aahana Uppal— A Glimpse Into the Past: Assessing the Validity of Recalled Attentional States Using Pupillometry
- C02Linda He— Aha! Investigating the effects of spontaneous and induced insights on incidental memory
- C03FengWei Pi— Associations Between Objective Instagram Behaviours and Psychological Traits
- C04Natalia McCullough— Building a Better Battery: Developing Measures of Gaze Control
- C05Jenna M. Bolzon— Does Posture Affect Sustained Attention?
- C06Dana Hayward— Doomscrolling your attention away: Investigating the effect of continuous versus interrupted TikTok content on inhibition and task switching performance
- C07Kristen Lott— Examining variability in pupil responses to mutual gaze sub-events in face-to-face and video-mediated communication
- C08Mridula Srikanth— Instant or Gradual: The Impact of Social Attention on Accurate Impression Formation Over Time
- C09Amanjot Grewal— Modulation of spatial attention does not affect Object Substitution Masking.
- C10Simar Moussaoui— Task Demands Shape the Structure of Transsaccadic Working Memory Error Across ADHD and Neurotypical Adults
- C11Wendy Gachagua— The Effects of Divided Attention on Episodic Memory in Adults with ADHD
- C13Melissa van Dijk-Allen— Time-on-task during video lectures: Separating the influences of time and lecture content on mind wandering and performance
- C14Noor Alyafei— Trait Mindfulness and Collisions in a Driving Simulator: Associations Beyond Attention in Young Adults
- C15Makenna Tardif— When Angry Faces Seem Most Frequent: The role of Encoding Focus
Cognitive Neuroscience (41)
- C16Romesa Khan— A predictive coding account of asymmetric cortical connectivity
- C17Sydney Lambert— Accessing the meaning of autobiographical memories promotes shared representational structure in anterior hippocampus
- C18Mikayla Tat— Assessing the Weapon Focus Effect Using a Virtual Reality Crime Simulation
- C19Bianca Sirbu— Associations between socioeconomic variables and functional alpha connectivity in toddlers
- C20Antonella Feeny— Attention to Sincerity in Social Communication: The Role of Autistic Traits
- C21Petros Georgiadis— Beyond Reach-to-Grasp: Distinct Neural Processes for Object Placement
- C22Shao-Yang Tsai— Blink-related neural responses in older adults: task effects, sex differences, and test-retest reliability
- C23Setareh Dorood— Brain Waves in Noise: Do Background Speech Language and Semantic Context Matter?
- C24Anne Peiris— Characterizing critical bands and absolute efficiency of neural networks using ideal observers
- C25Tolu Faromika— Charting Spatial Memory Over Time in Developmental Amnesia
- C26Paul Riesthuis— Decisions under Uncertainty: A Statistical Framework for Evaluating Practical Relevance in Interval-Based Hypothesis Testing
- C27Anagha Vinod— Developmental Maturity and Sex Linked to Altered Functional Brain Network Topology in Neonatal HIE: An fNIRS Study
- C29Amie Durston— Early emotional expression processing is not influenced by face gender nor participant sex – a mass univariate analysis of ERP data
- C30Michaela Luceno— Evidence for Independent Processes Underlying Addition and Multiplication in Mathematical Decision Making
- C31Scott Squires— fMRI PLS analysis supports a novel Thought Content x Autobiographical Memory System (TCAMS) multidimensional framework of major rumination domains
- C32Tal Friedman— From Steering to Screening: Predicting Mature Driver Health Status from On-Road Behaviour
- C33Breann Krygsman— High-frequency hearing loss predicts medial-lateral sway in healthy young adults
- C34Isimeme Okonofua— Individual Variability in Visual Evoked Potentials Predicted by Cortical Morphology
- C35Daniela Herrera-Chaves— Investigating hippocampal predictive processing in speech-based statistical learning: an intracranial EEG study
- C36Abhishek Dedhe— Investigating public-health-related optimism bias using survey data and agent-based modelling
- C37Emily Cordeiro— Investigating the role of the hippocampus in statistical learning in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
- C38Pranavan Thirunavukkarasu— Laminar Organization of Medial Frontal β-Bursts During a Stop Signal Task
- C39Kai Ian Leung— Language Exposure and Neurodevelopment: Linguistic and Cognitive Outcomes in Children Post-Stroke
- C40Mani Setayesh— Learning Rule Activations via Backpropagation within a Neuro-Symbolic Cognitive Architecture
- C41Josephine Nicholson— Mind Wandering Without the Media Multitasking: Validation of an Online Visual Rhythm Task
- C42Gaelle Luabeya— More than Reach: an fMRI investigation of action intention and execution in object grasp and placement
- C43Polina Andrievskaia— Neural and postural mechanisms associated with visually-induced motion sickness (VIMS)
- C44Merron Woodbury— Neural object representations predict visual discrimination success in adolescents and adults
- C45Michael Petrovski— Oculomotor dance learning task: Implications for audio-visual cued spatial learning
- C47Ashkan Karimi— Prefrontal and Parietal Local Field Potentials Employ Different Visuospatial Codes for Reach: A Complex-Valued Network Classification Approach
- C48Jennifer Lin— Prefrontal LFP activity is associated with visuospatial context and task performance in head-unrestrained, memory-guided reaching
- C49Courtney Stacey— Reading in Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study of Naturalistic Eye Movements
- C50Harley Glassman— Repeated Exposure Modulates Auditory-Frontal Coupling as a Function of Musical Preference: An fNIRS Study
- C51Zelin Chen— Response-Locked Time–Frequency Dynamics of Error Processing and Their Association with Anxiety Traits
- C52Kari Kinnear— Sarcastic Cue Perception Within ADHD and Neurotypical Populations
- C53Defne Tuncer— Testing an Affective Arousal Account for Temporal Binding
- C54Aymee Alvarez-Rivero— The development of the fronto-parietal network for number processing in early elementary school.
- C55Calla Mueller— The face and house inversion effects are robust at the individual level, but not related to behavioural measures
- C56Yubin Xing— The neural indicators of grammatical co-activation in adverb placement processing of English-French bilinguals
- C57Bailey Thompson— Whole-Brain Anatomical and Temporal Patterns for the Stop Signal Task
- C95Jiangtian Li— Issues of Generalization from Unreliable or Unrepresentative Psycholinguistic Stimuli: A Case Study on Lexical Ambiguity
Individual Differences (6)
- C58Annalise LaPlume— Age-related variability in executive functions and memory for over 40,000 individuals over the lifespan
- C59Shadini Dematagoda— Curiosity and Information Seeking: Effects of Age, Culture and Relevance
- C60Eleni Dubé-Zinatelli— Health Literacy as a Predictor of Quality of Life in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
- C61Cameron Dobko— Investigating the Relationship Between ADHD Symptoms, Video Game Experience, and Simulated Driving Ability
- C62Sarah Keating— Mechanistic Creativity: An Active Inference Model of the Alternative Uses Task
- C63Priya Kalra— Similarity Ratings Reveal Expert-Novice Differences in Knowledge Organization
Learning (3)
- C64Lindsay Richardson— Cognitive Offloading to GenAI: Effects of Scaffolded Versus Unrestricted ChatGPT Use on Student Retention
- C65Cheryl Techentin— Do students over-estimate their career-readiness skills? The Dunning-Kruger Effect in work-integrated learning courses
- C66Julia Schirmeister— Explaining categorical thinking: Specialized ability to form category prototypes?
Memory (29)
- C67Steve Lindsay— Culture and Recognition Memory Response Bias
- C68Brendan Redmond— Does encouraging distinctiveness heuristic enhance the between-subject production effect?
- C69Katherine R. Churey— Does reminding improve source memory accuracy?
- C70Nadja Jankovic— Does the reactivation positivity (PR) survive response execution?
- C71Gabrielle Levasseur— Effects of Orthographic Neighbourhood Density on Naturalistic Reading in Schizophrenia and Dyslexia: An Eye-Tracking Investigation
- C72Aditi Roy— Enhanced Item but not Source Memory for Inverted Text
- C73Mackenzie Bain— From one thought to another: Chained memories and future thoughts originating from event and location cues
- C74Christiane Marie Canillo— How Culture Alters Autobiographical Memory Recollection" has been successfully received
- C75Denelle O'Neil— How do Subjective Cognitive Difficulties Affect Quality of Life During Perimenopause?
- C76Dana Murphy— Implicit memory for unattended background information appears different in two different tasks.
- C77Ria Sahota— Individual differences in metamemory ability predicts fluid intelligence
- C78Jeremy Caplan— Inter-item spacing of short lists is judged in two different waysNEW
- C79Lauren Homann— Investigating Memory Integration as a Mechanism for the Testing Effect: Inconsistent Evidence and Its Implications
- C80Leili Rouhi— Is Metacognitive Monitoring Vulnerable to Working Memory Load?
- C81Amiya Aggarwal— Language Based Statistical Learning is a Stable Individual Trait
- C82Casey Aurin— Learning From Experience: Studying Semantic Memory Formation using a Naturalistic Paradigm
- C83Bryan Hong— Listener age affects age-related differences in the episodic specificity and flexibility of autobiographical recollection
- C84Ava Suuronen— Organization of the Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Memory Effects of Translations Versus Semantic Relations in Simultaneous and Late Bilinguals
- C85Jasmine Collins— Recasting the Past as the Future in Younger and Older Adults
- C86Mahveen Salman Mubarak— Robustness of Prediction-Based False Memory in Naturalistic Contexts
- C87Ian Dauphinee— Semantic Similarity Disrupts Order Recall: The Key Role of Task DifficultyNEW
- C88Nathaniel Wells— The Effect of Retrieval Suppression on the Probability and Fidelity of Recall
- C89Grace Bucci— The False Fame Effect and Memory Processes through Online Delivery
- C90Maliha Dew— The Influence of Emotional Content on Metamemory Accuracy and Judgments of Learning (JOLs) within the Framework of Memory Monitoring in Emoji Recognition
- C91Marie Pier Grégoire— The Influence of Physical and Virtual Puzzles on Parents’ and Children’s Spatial Language Production
- C92Monika Daigle— The Spatial Production Effect: Is Embodied Cognition the Key?
- C93Stefanie Gard— Trajectories of Cognitive and Functional Performance in Subjective Cognitive Decline: Evidence from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on AgingNEW
- C94Brooke Vachon— Visual memory of coloured shapes
- C28Sho Ishiguro— Does the directionality of semantic associations affect working memory?
Poster Session D 91 posters Wednesday, Jun 3 · 10:15–11:35
Cognitive Neuroscience (1)
- D01Abigail Riesen— Pharmacological Modulation of Sleep-Like State Alternations in Urethane Anesthetized RatsNEW
Decision Making (5)
- D02Dominic Le— A Spreading-Activation Model of Causal Reasoning
- D03Hamza Tariq— Breaking Bad Agreement: Intervening on Correlated Errors in Human Judgment
- D04Sam Clément-Coulson— Influence of Experience and Training on Go/Reject Decision-Making During Airplane Takeoff
- D05Sofia Sierra— Metacognitive Beliefs and Confidence
- D06Ver-Se Denga— Previous responses bias present decisionsNEW
Language (26)
- D07Anna Cole— A Wedge in Perception: Bilingual Advantage in the Detection of Coarticulation Violations
- D08Mia Collins— Baby Talk: A Scoping Review of Language and Reading Measures in Infantile Spasms Research
- D09Akshaya Kirithy Baskar— Blunted Engagement or Increased Effort? Ocular Markers of Naturalistic Reading in Depression
- D10Laura MacGrath— Crosslinguistic Effects of Literacy Interventions in Elementary School Children: A Scoping Review
- D12Aya Amer— Do language learners show a bias for transparent vocabulary? Insights into the development of compositional language structure.
- D13Brooke Johnston— Does speaker age impact preschoolers’ predictive use of disfluencies?
- D14Chelsea McKenzie— English Exposure Impacts Polish Lexical Categories
- D15Michelle Yang— How Does Gender Stereotype and Pronoun Congruence Impact Sentence Reading in Bilingual Adults?
- D16Malak Osman— How similar are mowing the lawn and taking a college exam? Predicting human ratings of event similarity based on content and temporal structure
- D17Alexander Taikh— Influence of autocomplete interference on typing words embedded in pseudo-compounds.
- D19Leah Gosselin— Keystroke dynamics in bilingual typing: Evidence from a phrase-copying task in the KLiCKe Corpus
- D20Vincent Hou— Language Dominance in Multilingual Young Adults
- D21Ashley Tran— Lexical Conceptual Representations For Seating and Tools in Vietnamese-English Bilinguals
- D22Esteban Hernandez-River— Moral Evaluation Across Languages: Developing Moral and Psycholinguistic Norms for L1 and L2 Readers
- D23Naima Mansuri— New metric, same effect: Final-word surprisal and whole-phrase frequency comparably impact binomial processingNEW
- D24Mia Collins— Not so simple: Language, executive function, and reading comprehension in school-aged children
- D25Erika Guedea— Orthographic Structure Shapes Eye Movements and Perceptual Span During Reading: Evidence from Korean-English Bilinguals
- D26Yaqian Bao— Reading Direction Shapes Global Scanpath Structure in Bidirectional Traditional Chinese Reading
- D27Alexander Taikh— The effect of filled pauses on subsequent word fluency in adults who stutter.
- D28Rebecca Norman— The effects of contextual diversity on lexical processing: A scoping review
- D29Isabelle Boucher— The Influence of Phonological Processing on L1 and L2 Reading in Monolingual and Bilingual Children and Adults: An Eye-Tracking Investigation
- D30Mariam Mazen— Voice-based Social Judgments in Bilinguals
- D31Irys-Amélie Champagne— Vowel Classification in Nonwords: A Comparison of Automated, Crowdsourced, and Expert Responses
- D32Ariane Senécal— When bilinguals are more than that: distinguishing between non-monolinguals in executive function research
- D33Trent N. Cash— Worth the Weight: Modern LLMs Demonstrate Accurate Metacognitive Knowledge of Decision Weights in Multi-Attribute Choice
- D34John Anderson— A Balloon Model of Bilingual Plasticity: From Development to Cognitive Reserve
Other (13)
- D35Paul Emanuel Stan— A Psychological Experiment on Lay Intuitions About Knowledge From Falsehood
- D36Theresa Waclawek— Autonomy and Mental Effort
- D37Michael Hopkins— Did Video Kill the Radio Star? Exploring the Influence of Beauty and Motion in Subjective Music Appraisal
- D38Katherine White— Do we attend less to detail in foreign-accented speech?
- D39Can Mekik— Evidential Structures: An Axiomatic Core
- D40Colin Kwiatkowski— Familiarity as a potential cue for strategic media multitasking behaviour
- D41Jiangtian Li— From color to state: Production of redundant adjectives and limits of informativity-based models
- D42Emily Schwartz— Generation Speed of the Intuitive Response: Its Influence on the Likelihood of Rationalization Versus DecouplingNEW
- D43Matthew Yeung— How the relationship between accuracy and difficulty shapes perceived task competence
- D44Mishaal Kandapath— Human Hippocampal Replay as Search
- D45Liana Brown— Is There a Relationship Between Freezing of Gait and Freezing of Speech In People Living with Parkinson’s Disease?
- D46Harleen Rai— The association between self-reported sleep quality, physical activity and cognition in middle-aged females
- D47Sydney Smith— The Self After Cancer: Illness Identity and Continuity of Self Across Time
Perception (46)
- D48Maria Orlando— Age differences in the effect of congruency in extrapolating beyond visual boundaries of scenes
- D49M. Eric Cui— Age-Related Difference in Peripheral Information Benefits for Face Perception
- D50Christian Riegel— Approaches to Visualizing Eye Movement Data From a Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Study
- D51Helena Pimentel— Assessing the generalization of perceptual learning using mental imagery
- D52Veronica Bodea— Attentional Lapses in Time Estimation Across Prospective and Retrospective Paradigms
- D53Madeline Sinnamon— Attentional prioritization in visual working memory can be guided by emotional retro-cues
- D54Kareena Malhotra— Audiovisual Speech Accessibility Study (ASAS)
- D55Aryanna Lee— Collective Cognitive Estimation for Public-Health Related Forecasting
- D56Rachel Yapp— Comparing visual and auditory deviance distraction in visual search
- D57Jessica Kespe— Control of LTM Reinstatement Across Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity
- D58Emma Neto— Crowding is stronger for edges than bars
- D59Graham Voiles— Degree of Reentrant Processing Indexed by the N2pc
- D60Tara Nichols— Detection and discrimination of depth from local and global stereopsis across display methods
- D61Ethan Churchill— Does Optimal Processing Explain Differences in Vision for Perception and Action?NEW
- D62Yifan Han— Effect of emotional expression on the visual working memory of face identity
- D63Lauren Hong— Effects of Dual-Task Listening While Driving on Speech Perception and Auditory Memory in Older Adults
- D64Zainab Haseeb— Effects of Feedback on Individual Differences in Attentional Asymmetries
- D65Micah Amd— Examining Conscious and Unconscious Processing of Facial Attractiveness Using Standard and Reverse Breaking Continuous Flash Suppression
- D66Kamal Abou Chaaban— Examining the Disfluency Effect with a Visual Masking Paradigm
- D67Suesan MacRae— Here or there: Motor simulation and enactment boost memory for locations of objects, even without action during recall.
- D68Eugenie Roudaia— Impaired contour integration in older adults with mild cognitive impairment
- D69Jamie G.E. Cochrane— Improving face discrimination in older adults through horizontal bias training
- D70Reegan McCheyne— Individual Differences in Future Thinking and Their Links to Mental Health
- D71Sara Missaghi— Investigating the Frequency and Intensity of Illusory Self-Motion in the General Population
- D72Peter Diep— Perceived vs. lived history in times of crisis: Retrodictions and reality of societal change
- D73Jeonghu Lee— Perceptions of public-health-related “normalcy” in a non-WEIRD setting
- D74Danielle Harvey— Reading Between the Lines: Personality Correlates of Sarcasm Detection
- D75Kaleigh McKye— Relations among posttraumatic stress symptoms, perceptions of trustworthiness, and face memory
- D76Samuel Ketcheson— Semantic Change During Movie-Watching Is Associated with Default Mode Network Activation and Perceptual Decoupling
- D77Serena Trotti— Size Constancy in VR: How is Distance Measured?
- D79Jack Simiao He— Spatial Biases in Face-Based Visual Search: A Top-Left Advantage in Target Detection
- D80Jaime Lamont— Squeezing to hear: Listeners readily take physical actions to avoid exerting cognitive effort
- D81Arathi Shanmuganathan— Statistical learning in visual search: A new paradigm for associative learning of relative locations between two targets
- D82Siqi Yi— Stimulus-level variability in eye gaze influences mental state perception but not gaze following
- D83Maxime LeDrew— Switching Between a Computer Monitor and Virtual Reality to Reduce the Sustained Attention Decrement
- D84Fion Lee— The effect of race in visual search among faces
- D85Shannon St George— The Impact of Emotional Valence on the Colavita Effect
- D86Iroshini Gunasekera— The Role of Depth Cues in Shape Constancy
- D87Harley Glassman— The Role of Musical Absorption and Arousal in Mitigating Visually Induced Motion Sickness (VIMS)
- D88Kelsey Szczerbickyj— The Role of Physiological Arousal in Pilots’ Takeoff Decision-Making Under Simulated Conditions
- D89Greg Shaikevich— Truth perception and memory for crossmodally presented information
- D90Alice Atkin— Vibrotactile stimulus detection during Fitts aiming: Implications for the use of biofeedback devices during skilled, manual tasks
- D91Leonie Ferber— Visual Search Termination When Salient and Memory-Matching Distractors Are Present
- D92Jingshu Hua— Visual working memory: effect of task-irrelevant location information
- D93Laura Franzoi— When Layout Meets Syntax: The Role of Line Break Placement in Sentence Reading
- D94Danial Kordmodanlou— Illusory parallax in stereoscopic displays: Effect of Scene ContextNEW
Venue & Campus Map
York University — Keele Campus, Toronto
The conference takes place across two main buildings on the Keele Campus. The HNE Building (Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies) hosts two talk-session rooms (Rooms 35 & 37). The Second Student Centre hosts symposia and two additional talk rooms (Rooms A, B & C). Poster sessions are held in the Second Student Centre Atrium. During plenary sessions and WiCSC+, Rooms A, B & C are combined into a single large hall. The Ticketed Banquet takes place at the Schulich School of Business Dining Hall.
The Finch West subway station is a short walk from the main campus entrance on York Boulevard.
🗺️ Open Interactive Campus MapVenue Key
| Room Code | Building | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| HNE Building · Room 035 | HNE Building | Talk Sessions (slot A — 1st parallel room) |
| HNE Building · Room 037 | HNE Building | Talk Sessions (slot B — 2nd parallel room) |
| Second Student Centre · Room A | Second Student Centre | Symposia (all sessions) |
| Second Student Centre · Room B | Second Student Centre | Talk Sessions (slot C) · Symposium VII in Session 6 |
| Second Student Centre · Room C | Second Student Centre | Talk Sessions (slot D, sessions 1–5) · Session 6 slot C |