Donna Kwan

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Donna Kwan

Ph.D. candidate

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D (in progress), Clinical Psychology, York University

M.A., Clinical Psychology, York University

B.A., Hons. Psychology, University of Waterloo

 

CURRENT RESEARCH

I study amnesic populations and healthy aging to understand (1) how the brain reconstructs memories of past experiences (episodic memory); (2) how it simulates representations of future experiences (episodic prospection); and (3) how constructions of the self contribute to other variables including intertemporal choice, risk-taking, time perspective, social judgment, and moral reasoning. This interdisciplinary research aims to understand how episodic systems and subjective time contribute to judgment and decision-making.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

I am on predoctoral clinical neuropsychology internship at Rush University Medical Centre from July 2015 - July 2016.

 

  • 2014 - 2015: Neurocognitive intervention (Goal Management Training), Baycrest Health Sciences

  • 2012 - 2013:  Psychotherapy intervention & neuropsychological assessment, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

  • 2011 - 2012: Neuropsychological assessment, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

  • 2009 - 2011: Psychotherapy intervention, York University

 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Kwan, D., Craver, C. F., Green, L., Myerson, J., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (in press).  Cueing the personal future to reduce delay discounting: Is episodic prospection necessary?  Hippocampus,

Craver, C. F., Cova, F., Green, L., Myerson, J., Rosenbaum, R. S., Kwan, D., & Bourgeois‐Gironde, S. (2014). An Allais paradox without mental time travel. Hippocampus, 24, 1375-1380.

 

Craver, C. F., Kwan, D., Steindam, C., & Rosenbaum, R. S. (2014). Individuals With Episodic Amnesia Are Not Stuck In Time.  Neuropsychologia, 57, 191-195. 

Kwan, D., Craver, C. F., Green, L., Myerson, J., & Rosenbaum, R. S. (2013). Dissociations in future thinking following hippocampal damage: Evidence from discounting and time perspective in episodic amnesia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 1355-1369.

Davidson, P., Drouin, H., Kwan, D., Moscovitch, M., & Rosenbaum, R. S. (2012). Memory as social glue: Close interpersonal relationships in amnesic patients. Frontiers in Cognition, 3, 1-9.

Kwan, D., Craver, C. F., Green, L., Myerson, J., Boyer, P., & Rosenbaum, R. S. (2012).  Future decision-making without episodic mental time travel. Hippocampus, 22, 1215–1219.

Kwan, D., Carson, N., Addis, D. R., & Rosenbaum, R. S. (2010). Deficits in past remembering extent to future imagining in a case of developmental amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3179–3186.

 

RECENT HONOURS & AWARDS

 

  • 2013–present: Focus on Stroke Doctoral Research Award, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

  • 2013: Health Professional Student Research Award, CIHR

  • 2013–2014: Ontario Graduate Scholarship

  • 2013: Fellow, Summer Programme in Aging, CIHR

  • 2012–2013:  Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology

  • 2012: Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

  • 2011: Certificate of Academic Excellence, Canadian Psychological Association

  • 2010–2012: CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Research Award

  • 2010: Ontario Graduate Scholarship

  • 2008–2010: NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canadian Graduate Scholarship