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We are a cognitive neuroscience laboratory located in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto.

We are interested in how memory functions are organized within the human brain and how this organization deteriorates through brain damage or disease. Specific research interests include the neural basis of human long-term memory and how this process might interact with other cognitive systems, such as perception. For example, we investigate how the act of perceiving a stimulus can influence how one subsequently remembers it.

We use neuroimaging techniques (functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI) to investigate brain activity as healthy participants try to remember information. This technique provides in vivo images of the active brain that can help to clarify the normal functioning of individual brain structures, as well as measure their deterioration through dementia. In addition to our neuroimaging research, we conduct both behavioural experiments in healthy individuals and also neuropsychological investigations in amnesic patients to determine how different kinds of memory are affected following brain damage. We work with patients with focal brain damage (e.g., following viral infection or head injury) and patients with neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

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