Areas of concentration:
- Clinical Neuropsychology Stream (CNS) which is CPA
- Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Sciences (BBCS)
- Social Psychology and Personality (SP)
- Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology (HTC)
- Developmental Science (DS)
- Clinical Psychology (C)
- Clinical-Developmental Psychology (CD)
- Quantitative Methods (QM)
Areas of concentration:
- Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Sciences (BBCS)
- Clinical-Developmental Psychology (CD)
- Clinical Psychology (C)
- Clinical Neuropsychology Stream (CNS) which is CPA
- Developmental Science (DS)
- Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology (HTC)
- Social Psychology and Personality (SP)
- Quantitative Methods (QM)
Psychology Research Labs by Area
Explore faculty conducting research in each area of concentration.
Students who are looking for a Thesis Supervisor, Individual Research Project supervisor, or Volunteering Opportunities, can explore supervisor availability through their Faculty Profiles page.
Visual and Cognitive Development Project
- Focus: Infant neuroscience, attention and memory, object recognition, visual search, visual expectation.
- Principal Investigator: Scott Adler
- Focus: Visual perception, biological motion, virtual reality, people perception, communication
- Principal Investigator: Nikolaus Troje
- Focus: Psychophysical methods, neural mechanisms, stereoscopic depth perception
- Principal Investigator: Laurie Wilcox
- Focus: Systems and cognitive neuroscience, flexible decision making, cognitive control, neurons to cognition
- Principal Investigator: Liya Ma
Comparative Cognition Lab (Not accepting new students)
- Focus: Animal behaviour, comparative cognition, learning and memory
- Principal Investigator: Suzanne MacDonald
- Focus: Psychophysics, computational and neural modelling, visual perception, computer vision.
- Principal Investigator: James Elder
- Focus: Cognitive and neural processes, object recognition, visuomotor control
- Principal Investigator: Erez Freud
- Focus: Prefrontal cortex, rational decision making, cognitive and affective processing, real world problem solving
- Principal Investigator: Vinod Goel
- Focus: Motion processing, attentional mechanisms, sensory information processing, motor movement, systems neuroscience
- Principal Investigator: Joseph DeSouza
Kohler Visual Neuroscience Lab
- Focus: Mid-level visual processing, visual psychophysics, visual scene representation
- Principal Investigator: Peter J. Kohler
- Focus: Visual perception, psychophysics, computational and mathematical modelling, signal detection theory
- Principal Investigator: Richard Murray
- Focus: Cognitive neuroscience, attention, memory
- Principal Investigator: Susan Murtha
Ono Lab (Not accepting new students)
- Focus: Psychology, perception, psychophysics, vision, visual direction and stability
- Principal Investigator: Hiroshi Ono
- Focus: Scene and face processing, psychophysics, neuroimaging
- Principal Investigator: Jennifer Steeves
The Visuomotor Neuroscience Lab
- Focus: Systems, cognitive, and computational neuroscience; visual-motor transformations, 3-D perception
- Principal Investigator: Doug Crawford
- Focus: Electrical synapses in vision and neuronal plasticity, genes to function
- Principal Investigator: Georg Zoidl
Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Lab
- Focus: Autism spectrum disorders, developmental disability, families/health and social service systems.
- Principal Investigator: Jonathan Weiss
- Cognitive, behavioural, and emotional functioning, children with diabetes and epilepsy, fetal alcohol spectrum, congenital hypothyroidism
- Principal Investigator: Mary Desrocher
The Infant and Child Mental Health Lab
- Focus: Cognitive-behavioural interventions for children, attachment and parenting practices, diverse cultural contexts, prevention and interventions
- Principal Investigator: Yvonne Bohr
- Focus: Mild traumatic brain, sport-related concussion, risk and recovery, long-term consequences, neuroimaging
- Principal Investigator: Magdalena Wojtowicz
- Focus: Painful situations, child and parents interactions, negative affect regulation.
- Principal Investigator: Rebecca Pillai Riddell
- Focus: Autism and developmental disabilities, assessment/diagnosis, intervention, family impact, stress, coping
- Principal Investigator: Adrienne Perry
- Focus: Clinical child psychology, family stress and resilience, family-based intervention
- Principal Investigator: Heather Prime
- Focus: Emotion regulation and well-being among emerging adults, mental health and resilience, student success, brief interventions
- Principal Investigator: Jennine Rawana
- Focus: Risk and resilience; adolescents, child welfare involved youth, tracking and intervening with trafficked youth
- Principal Investigator: Jennifer Connolly
- Focus: Children's environmental health, neurodegenerative disease, cognitive rehabilitation.
- Principal Investigator: Christine Till
- Focus: Children and adolescents, attention and learning, cognitive and affective processes, reasoning
- Principal Investigator: Maggie Toplak
- Treatment of psychological trauma, child and adult attachments, interventions, social support
- Principal Investigator: Robert T. Muller
- Focus: Child and adolescent psychotherapy, intervention development and outcomes, measurement, anxiety, depression, disruptive behaviour
- Principal Investigator: Madison Aitken
Other Research Faculty
Behavioural Alcohol and Cannabis Research (BAC) Lab
- Focus: Alcohol use, cannabis use, addiction, impulsivity, health psychology
- Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Wardell
- Focus: Boredom, self control, emotion, environment, and attention, clinical psychology
- Principal Investigator: John Eastwood
Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuro-Intervention (CNN) Lab
- Focus: Neurorehabilitation interventions, normal aging and neurological populations, higher cognitive control, neuroimaging
- Principal Investigator: Gary Turner
- Focus: Addictive behaviour risk, depression and anxiety, young adults
- Principal Investigator: Matthew Keough
- Focus: CBT, shyness and emotion, functional outcomes and 'recovery' for schizophrenia
- Principal Investigator: Joel Goldberg
- Focus: Pain memories, phantom limb, infants, gender, trauma, psychological, emotional, and biomedical factors involved in acute and chronic pain
- Principal Investigator: Joel Katz
Eating, Affect, and Self-Evaluation (EASE) Lab
- Eating and its disorders, body image, social media, and social comparison
- Principal Investigator: Jennifer Mills
Myriam Mongrain’s Positive Psychology Lab (Not accepting new students)
- Focus: Compassion, nihilism, existentialism, transcendence, meaning, subjective well-being.
- Principal Investigator: Myriam Mongrain
- Focus: Cancer and critical illness, intimate relationship adaptation, supports development of psychotherapeutic and psychoeducational interventions
- Principal Investigator: Karen Fergus
- Focus: Psychotherapy process and outcome, psychotherapy training, borderline personality disorder, complex trauma
- Principal Investigator: Tali Boritz
- Focus: Hippocampus, memory organization, fMRI, theory of mind, post neurological insult and healthy
- Principal Investigator: Shayna Rosenbaum
Sex And Violence Evaluation (SAVE) Lab
- Focus: Risk assessment, sexual offending, violence, pedophilia, sadism, paraphilias, penile plethysmograph/phallometry, psychopathy, treatment, taxometric methods, meta-analysis, scale development
- Principle Investigator: Andrew Brankley
- Focus: Borderline personality disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, dialectical behaviour therapy, intervention with relationships
- Principal Investigator: Skye Fitzpatrick
Visual and Cognitive Development Project
- Focus: Infant neuroscience, attention and memory, object recognition, visual search, visual expectation.
- Principal Investigator: Scott Adler
Cognitive Aging Neuroscience (CAN) Lab
- Focus: Cognitive neuroscience, fMRI, neurocognitive development and aging, conceptual processing
- Principal Investigator: Dale Stevens
- Focus: Cognitive flexibility, educational outcomes, spacing effect, socio-economic status scale, task switching
- Principal Investigator: Melody Wiseheart
Lifespan Cognition and Development Lab (This lab is not accepting new students)
- Focus: Cognitive development, literacy, monolingual and bilingual children, cognitive aging
- Principal Investigator: Ellen Bialystok
- Focus: Developmental cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory, time and space memory, naturalistic settings
- Principal Investigator: Thanujeni Pathman
Pierce Experience & Development Lab
- Focus: Developmental cognitive neuroscience, language, SES, stress, EEG.
- Principal Investigator: Lara Pierce
- Focus: Feminist epistemology and historiography, history of women in psychology, science and culture
- Principal Investigator: Alexandra Rutherford
MaCH: Migration and Critical Health Psychology
- Focus: Community-based, social integration, social conflict, social inclusion, health and well-being
- Principal Investigator: Michaela Hynie
- Focus: History of psychology, digital research techniques. Statistics and Methods.
- Principal Investigator: Christopher Green
- Focus: German philosophical psychology, postcolonial psychology, race and racism, ontology, epistemology, ethics
- Principal Investigator: Thomas Teo
- Focus: Cultural, cognitive, and evolutionary foundations of religion and morality
- Principal Investigator: Cindel White
- Focus: Perfectionism, psychosocial functioning, health problems
- Principal Investigator: Gordon L. Flett
- Focus: Psychosocial factors and rehabilitation, coping, The Proactive Coping Inventory
- Principal Investigator: Esther Greenglass
Interpersonal Perception and Social Cognition Lab
- Focus: Gender/racial stereotypes, intergroup relations and social development, social cognitive perspective
- Principal Investigator: Jennifer Steele
Leadership, Competition, Collaboration Lab
- Focus: Social hierarchy, overconfidence, competition
- Principal Investigator: Joey Cheng
- Focus: Empathy, social understanding, imagination, neural processes
- Principal Investigator: Raymond A. Mar
Sexual Health and Relationships (SHaRe) Lab
- Romantic relationships, sexuality, relationship satisfaction, motivation, perception, behaviour
- Principal Investigator: Amy Muise
- Focus: The Social Cognition Laboratory at York University investigates a variety of social categorization processes using a diversity of methods. Some of the main issues examined are how we perceive people from different social groups, how we react to intergroup bias, and strategies to reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.
- Principle Investigator: Kerry Kawakami
- Focus: Social cognition, social and organizational psychology, social motivation, post-transgression responses, interpersonal relationships
- Principal Investigator: Ward Struthers
- Focus: Psychometrics, Psychological Scale Formats, Structural Equation Modelling, Factor Analysis, Missing Data, Model Fit Indices.
- Principal Investigator: Cathy (Xijuan) Zhang
- Focus: Latent variable modeling, item response theory, measurement invariance, computational statistics
- Principal Investigator: Robert P. Chalmers
- Focus: Statistical graphics, multivariate statistical methods and the history of data visualization
- Principal Investigator: Michael Friendly
- Focus: Psychometric methods and longitudinal data analysis; particularly item factor analysis, structural equation modeling, item response theory, and growth curve modeling.
- Principal Investigator: David Flora
- Focus: Technical development, quantitative methods, Bayesian statistics, analysis of functional data analysis, structural equation modeling
- Principal Investigator: Ji Yeh Choi
- Focus: Robust ANOVA methods, multiplicity control, equivalence testing, measurement of change
- Principal Investigator: Robert Cribbie
- Focus: Sensory information, perception, cognition and communication
- Principal Investigator: Nikolaus Troje
- Focus: Cognitive-Motor integration, eye-hand coordination, behaviour, neurophysiology
- Principal Investigator: Lauren Sergio
- Focus: Auditory biophysics, otoacoustic emission, phonetics
- Principal Investigator: Christopher Bergevin
- Focus: Sensorimotor, coordination, representations, learning
- Principal Investigator: Denise Henriques
Virtual Reality and Perception Lab
- Focus: Stereoscopic depth perception, virtual reality, augmented-reality, depth cues, eye movements
- Principal Investigator: Robert Allison
More Research Opportunities
Some faculty members do not lead a research lab but actively supervise undergraduate research assistants or projects. Explore individual Faculty Profiles for availability.
Allistair Mapp
Julie Conder
Allistair Mapp
Kathleen Fortune
Monique Herbert