Dr. Campbell gave one of the keynote talks at the Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment (LOVE) Conference in Niagara Falls last week. She spoke about how age differences in memory and language may be explained by the kinds of tasks we commonly use in psychology. Dr. Stephen Emrich, also from Brock Psychology, gave a roast of Dr. Campbell before the talk, as is tradition at the annual LOVE conference.

The Neurocognitive Aging Lab welcomed its newest "member" in September, with the birth of Dr. Campbell's third child. Mom and baby are doing well, if a little tired!

​No doubt it won't be long before this little boy is also coming in to the Lifespan Centre to take part in experiments!

We are excited to have three new graduate students join the lab this fall. Sarah and Emily are veterans, having worked in the lab as undergraduates. While Tiago joins us from São Paulo, where he completed his MA in Neuroscience. Welcome all!

Incoming grad student, Sarah Henderson, has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship to support her MA research on age differences in memory. Sarah recently completed her undergraduate honours thesis in the lab, looking at age differences in the neural underpinnings of voluntary vs involuntary memory. We are very excited that she decided to stay on in the lab for grad school!

We are very proud of Emily Davis for winning a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's Award. Emily is currently working as our lab manager, but she will be starting as a graduate student in the lab this September. Not sure how we're going to run the lab without Emily at the helm, but clearly she is destined for bigger and brighter things. Congratulations Emily!

Congrats also to undergraduate thesis student, Emily Chemnitz, on winning an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award to work in the lab this summer. Following this, Emily will be starting as a graduate student in Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Western University. Exciting times!

​Congratulations to current MA student, Dawn Ryan, on winning a Spring 2018 Research Fellowship. These funds will allow Dawn to focus on her MA thesis project this summer, which is looking at the biological mechanisms underlying stereotype threat in older adults.