Congratulations to Hannah Thomas and Joseph Merante who successfully defended their Master's theses this week. Both students took on challenging eye-tracking studies for their theses, looking at the effects of age on attention and memory during tasks that are more similar to everyday activities than typical cognitive experiments (i.e., reading and movie watching). Both Hannah and Joseph will be staying in the lab for their PhDs - onwards and upwards!
 Eryka Jones (left) received a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada Graduate Research Scholarship (CGRS - Master's program) to support her research looking at age differences in the neural correlates of sustained attention. Abby Awad (centre) received an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award to support her research using eye tracking to examine age differences in distractibility during movie watching. Hannah Thomas (right) received an NSERC CGRS (Doctoral program) to support her research looking at how age differences in associative memory relate to the memorability of the individual items. Thank you NSERC for your continued support of our science!!!
 The Campbell Neurocognitive Aging Lab took part in the the Alzheimer's Society walk at Brock University on May 31. We raised over $2000, our most ever!
Thanks to everyone who donated for your support. 🙏🏻💙 And thanks to Hannah Thomas for organizing our team! The Campbell lab was well represented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's Annual Meeting this March in Vancouver, BC. Dr. Campbell gave a talk as part of the "Beyond biomarkers: Comprehensive approaches to brain resilience in aging and dementia" symposium (press release here). Dr. Emily Davis (former Campbell-lab student) and Rosa Torres (current PhD student) gave posters based on their research, shown below.
The Campbell lab recently attended the Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment's 53rd Annual Conference in Niagara Falls. Hannah Thomas presented about the relationship between sustained attention and inhibition, while Donnelle DiMarco presented about using AI to score free recall in younger and older adults.
 Did you know that untreated hearing loss increases your risk of developing dementia by 7%? Hearing aids can help! Dr. Campbell recently spoke with the St. Catharine's Standard about how poor hearing may put extra strain on your ability to concentrate.
Find the full story here. Welcome to our newest lab members, Eryka Jones (MA student) and Donnelle DiMarco (Postdoc), who will be starting in the Campbell lab this fall. Hopefully we didn't scare you off with our first (annual??) corn husking contest at the Lab BBQ. Former lab manager, Luke Atack, was the winner with an amazing time of 6.62 seconds for his corn (still the fastest time even after incurring a 2-second penalty for it being too hairy). Official timekeeper very serious about his job ;)  Research conducted by Emily Davis, Hannah Thomas, and Matthew Price, and supervised by Karen Campbell and Caitlin Mahy has been shared to the public in a community-friendly graphic summarizing their research. The summary graphic can be found on the Lifespan Institute Website, or on their social media @brock_ldri (see Instagram below). The full research publication from Memory (2025) is also posted below. |
