CULHAM LAB MEMBERS
CULHAM LAB DINNER, AUGUST 2024
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Diana Dima, PhD
Part-time postdoctoral researcher, co-supervised by Dr. Yalda Mohsenzadeh
Project: Multimodal action understanding
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
Michaela Kent, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow and former PhD student in Neuroscience (co-supervised with Emma Duerden)
Project: Effects of live interactions and visual realism on brain activation measured with optical neuroimaging
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
Eva Deligiannis, BSc
MSc student in Neuroscience
Project: Effects of 3D cues and distance on neural responses to faces
Olivia Ipwanshek, BSc
MSc student in Psychology
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
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
Matthias Babin, MSc
MITACS Programmer (primarily supervised by Brent Davis at NOMADXR)