Lots of good news!

Jody is honoured be the 2025 recipient of the Davida Teller Award from the Vision Sciences Society.

Congratulations to Dr. Michaela Kent for successfully defending her PhD thesis in Neuroscience, “From faces to minds: Exploring socio-cognitive development with fNIRS”. Michaela will be continuing as a postdoc in the lab as she writes up publications from her thesis.

Congratulations to MSc student Olivia Ipwanshek for recieving a Canada Graduate Scholarship — Master’s award!

Congratulations to Emiko Muraki for receiving an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship to work in the lab. Emiko will be joining the lab in July to study hand actions in individuals with aphantasia.

Welcome to Rieko Osu, a visiting scholar from Waseda University in Japan, who is spending part of her sabbatical (March-April) at Western

Welcome to Juan Chen, a visiting scholar from South China Normal University (and former postdoc with Mel Goodale and Jody Culham) who is spending her 2025 sabbatical at Queen’s University in Canada and visiting Western periodically during that time.

Welcome to Linda Rosbach, a visiting Master’s student from Regensburg University in Germany supervised by Angelika Lingnau. Linda will be working on a collaborative fMRI project comparing virtual to real hand actions.