CULHAM LAB DINNER, AUGUST 2024
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Jody Culham, PhD
Professor; Tier 1 NSERC Canada Research Chair in Immersive Neuroscience
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Shaylyn Kress, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow based at the University of Lethbridge, co-supervised with Dr. Chelsea Ekstrand
Project: Developing video-game play as a novel approach for fMRI studies of active perception, cognition and action
Emiko Muraki, PhD
NSERC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: The contribution of mental imagery to actions
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Cassandra Bacher, MSc
PhD student in Neuroscience (co-supervised with Marieke Mur and Mel Goodale)
Project: The effect of active learning of object recognition
Olivia Ipwanshek, BSc
MSc student in Psychology (co-supervised with Paul Gribble)
Project: Using virtual reality to disentangle the effects of acting hand from the seen hand in visuomotor control
Ben Pilling, BSc
MSc student in Psychology
Project: Using video games to investigate the human neural representations of ethological actions with fMRI
Sanjivan Loganathan, BSc
MSc Student in Psychology
Project: Examining neural represenations of real objects. vs. pictures using fMRI
TECHNICAL STAFF
Eva Deligiannis, MSc
Full-time Research Assistant and Lab Manager
Projects: Effects of 3D cues to depth and distance on high-level vision; Data collection and analysis for multiple projects
Karsten Babin, BSc
Virtual Reality Programmer
Project: Programming 3D visual stimuli and video games for studies of real-world perception and action
Sofia Varon, BSc
Part-time Research Assistant
Projects: Target interception in Virtual Reality; Contribution of 3D cues to neural processing of scenes
Kevin Stubbs, BSc
Part-time Lab Programmer and Brain Canada SPRINT fNIRS Analysis Developer
Project: Development of stimulus-presentation and data analysis code for fMRI, fNIRS, and behavioral studies
Macchiato “Kia” Culham
Emotional Support Cat