Louie works on developing a Brain-Computer-Interface for enhancing cognitive flexibility. He combines experience with technical and insights from computer science with neuroscience to establish a closed – loop system that operates in real time to detect neural activity patterns that carry information about learning. The projects aim to enhance these learning related, endogenously generated neural signals to improve flexible learning and attention performance

Kia develops technical and analytical methods to study neuronal information flow on primates brain circuitry in the front-striatal network.He is currently working on distinguishing cell-type specific circuit functions. In his main project, he is trying to non-invasively deliver drugs using Focused Ultrasound.

Christopher designed and built novel electronic instruments and data-processing devices for experimental setups. His work included the development of advanced electrophysiological recording and stimulation setups; implementation of hard-real-time analog and digital data processing devices for closed-loop control; and development of systems for synchronization and integration of video, eye-tracking, and electrical data from multiple pieces of experimental equipment. Christopher’s Homepage.

Seema is guiding the behavioral control and analysis of complex cognitive Maze tasks in nonhuman primates. These projects involve the programming and analysis of complex tasks. She programs multiple interactive touchscreen games using the unity3D engine and the labs Multitask Unified Suite for Experiments. The tasks are trained and tested with nonhuman primates and the analysis of task performance is done in Matlab. The long term objective of the projects is to characterize pharmacological interventions designed to improve cognitive functions.

Ali works on the role of noradrenergic receptor activation for the gating of attentional relevant information in prefrontal-striatal brain circuits. Ali is a recipient of the 2016 prestigious NSERC student fellowship.

Ben concluded his MSc in 2015 with distinction and an accepted PNAS manuscript on Theta – gamma phase amplitude coupling across prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex for successful attention shifts! Ben works on the dynamic circuit motifs underlying control processes in the anterior cingulate cortex. Ben is the 2016 YorkU 3MT Winner, presenting the best 3 minute summary of a graduate thesis across campus. Ben has been awarded an NSERC graduate student scholarship!

Ryan’s research focuses on the principles and causal mechanisms governing local computation and long-range communication in distributed brain networks. His prior research has used electrophysiological methods, quantitative analysis, and computational simulation to probe cognitive faculties of the mind and dynamic networks of the brain. The current focus is on developing and applying novel burst detection methods to identify the transient activation of functional networks distributed across multiple brain regions.

Asif works on reinforcement learning models to account for improved attention when experiencing novel, complex environments. He has been developing a new Artificial intelligence wrapper that the laboratory uses to test human and animals on complex tasks. Asif’s projects are in collaboration with Prof. Paul Tiesinga from Radboud University.

Seth works on the neural mechanisms of learning and attention in a network of brain areas encompassing the medial and lateral prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia.

Shelby works on cage-based animal training and assists with all aspects of the Cognitive Neuroscience Research.

Chase wants to use behavior, electrophysiology and computational modeling to understand how we use sound features to navigate attentionally demanding scenes. Chase is doing a lab rotation in the Attention-Circuits-Control Laboratory. Research Gate Profile

Milad has moved on to pursue an M.Sc. in Majid Mohajerani’s Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience at Lethbridge University. His undergraduate Honour’s Thesis was accepted in April 2017. He was the primary code of the Quaddle Generation Scripts

Sam is now a Pharm.D. student in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. Her M.Sc. thesis “The influence of alpha7 and alpha4 beta2 nicotinic receptor agonists on feature based reversal learning in macaque monkeys” was accepted August 2017. Sam carried the prestigious Queens Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in 2016/2017!

Mariann has moved to Daeyeol Lee’s Laboratory at Yale University. Her Ph.D. dissertation “Neural processes underlying the flexible control and learning of attentional selection”, was accepted November 2017. Mariann is a three times awardee of the prestigious Ontario Graduate Studies (OGS) Fellowships! Mariann’s ResearchGate Profile

Veronica works on questions about the mechanisms and functional roles of brain network interactions in attention and learning tasks. Researcher Profile available at ResearchGate

Alireza aims to identify how saccadic eye movement patterns predict to which aspects in our environment attention is deployed.

Steven is working on the experimental control of naturalistic 3D environments and develops machine learning approaches to understand the behaviour of humans in these 3D environments.

Zemina works on projects developing an overt behavioural marker of (covert) learning the feature relevance in an attentional task.

Stephanie moved on to the Andreas Nieder Laboratory at the University in Tuebingen, Germany, after completing her work in the ACC Lab.

Salva moved on to do a postdoc with Prof. N. Kopell at Boston University (US) end of 2014. His Researcher Profiles available is at ResearcherID and ResearchGate

Matt moved on to Vancouver BC to become VP and Chief Scientist at ADX Advance Directives Xtended. His Researcher Profile available at ResearchGat Matt received 2013 the best abstract award from the Cognitive Science Society for his abstract and presentation of Balcarras, Ardid, Kaping, Everling, Womelsdorf: Reinforcement learning predicts value-driven attentional selection in a foraging task. Workshop: “Learning to Attend, Attending to Learn”, San Diego, CA.

Keshna moved on to graduate school for a MSc with a molecular focus at the University of Toronto. Keshna finished successfully an ambitious matlab analysis project for an 8 credit Honours Thesis about ‘inferring learning success and value predictions from anticipatory licking responses in a reversal learning task’.

Omar has moved on to a PhD in John Tsotsos computational laboratory of active and attentive vision at York University to embark on ambitious PhD projects!

Cristiano went on to work as Senior Research Scientist in the Neurocognitive Psychology Lab, Prof. Dr. Jochem Rieger, at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. In the Attentional Control lab Cristiano has worked on joint projects with the Valiante lab, Epilepsy Neurosurgery Program at Toronto Western Hospital.

Chen now works outside academia at a prestigious insurance company in Toronto in the statistics department.

Daniel moved to Sweden as Senior Research Scientist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden with Prof. Marie Carlen.

Michelle moved on to Medical School at Western University after completing her work in the ACC Lab.

Iman moved on to the Dental-Medical School at the University of Detroit after completing his work in the ACC Lab.