Students who are looking for research experience are encouraged to review this document of the labs within the Department of Psychology. Note that this list is not comprehensive. Some faculty members do not have a website for their lab. In that case, information on all faculty members in the Department of Psychology can be found at the end of this document. We also strongly encourage you to browse our Faculty Research Interests.
Psychology Research Labs by Area
Biomotion Lab
Visual perception, biological motion, virtual reality, people perception, communication
Principal Investigator: Nikolaus Troje
3D Perception & Laboratory
Psychophysical methods, neural mechanisms, stereoscopic depth perception
Principal Investigator: Laurie Wilcox
Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab
Systems and cognitive neuroscience, flexible decision making, cognitive control, neurons to cognition
Principal Investigator: Liya Ma
Comparative Cognition Lab (This lab is not accepting new students)
Animal behaviour, comparative cognition, learning and memory
Principal Investigator: Suzanne MacDonald
Elder Laboratory
Psychophysics, computational and neural modelling, visual perception, computer vision.
Principal Investigator: James Elder
Freud Lab
Cognitive and neural processes, object recognition, visuomotor control
Principal Investigator: Erez Freud
Goel Reason Lab
Prefrontal cortex, rational decision making, cognitive and affective precessing, real world problem solving
Principal Investigator: Vinod Goel
joeLAB
Motion processing, attentional mechanisms, sensory information processing, motor movement, systems neuroscience
Principal Investigator: Joseph De Souza
Kohler Visual Neuroscience Lab
Mid-level visual processing, visual psychophysics, visual scene representation
Principal Investigator: Peter J. Kohler
Multisensory Integration Lab
Multisensory integration, eye and head tracking, psychophysics, virtual reality.
Principal Investigator: Laurence Harris
Murray Lab
Visual perception, psychophysics, computational and mathematical modelling, signal detection theory
Principal Investigator: Richard Murray
Murtha Lab
Cognitive neuroscience, attention, memory
Principal Investigator: Susan Murtha
Ono Lab (This lab is not accepting new students)
Pychology, perception, psychophysics, vision, visual direction and stability
Principal Investigator: Hiroshi Ono
Perceptual Neuroscience Lab
Scene and face processing, psychophysics, neuroimaging
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Steeves
The Visuomotor Neuroscience Lab
Systems, cognitive, and computational neuroscience; visual-motor transformations,
3-D perception
Principal Investigator: Doug Crawford
Zoidl Lab
Electrical synapses in vision and neuronal plasticity, genes to function
Principal Investigator: Georg Zoidl
Behavioural Alcohol and Cannabis Research (BAC) Lab
Alcohol use, cannabis use, addiction, impulsivity, health psychology
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Wardell
Boredom Lab
boredom, self control, emotion, environment, and attention, clinical psychology
Principal Investigator: John Eastwood
Centre for Research on Clinical Training
Anxiety, engagement and disengagement, motivation and CBT, relational predictors, psychotherapy
Principal Investigator: Henny Westra
Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuro-Intervention (CNN) Lab
Neurorehabilitation interventions, normal aging and neurological populations, higher cognitive control, neuroimaging
Principal Investigator: Gary Turner
CRAVE Lab
Addictive behaviour risk, depression and anxiety, young adults
Principal Investigator: Matthew Keough
Goldberg Lab
CBT, shyness and emotion, functional outcomes and 'recovery' for schizophrenia
Principal Investigator: Joel Goldberg
Human Pain Mechanisms Lab
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 (This lab is not accepting new students)
Compassion, nihilism, existentialism, transcendence, meaning, subjective well-being.
Principal Investigator: Myriam Mongrain
Pos Lab
Experiential psychotherapy, depression, nonverbal emotion, emotion regulation, interruption of emotional experience, and emotion typology
Principal Investigator: Alberta Pos
Psychosocial Oncology Lab
Cancer and critical illness, intimate relationship adaptation, supports development of psychotherapeutic and psychoeducational interventions
Principal Investigator: Karen Fergus
Psychotherapy Research Lab
Psychotherapy process and outcome, psychotherapy training, borderline personality disorder, complex trauma
Principal Investigator: Tali Boritz
Rosenbaum Memory Lab
Hippocampus, memory organization, fMRI, theory of mind, post neurological insult and healthy
Principal Investigator: Shayna Rosenbaum
TULiP Lab
Borderline personality disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, dialectical behaviour therapy, intervention with relationships
Principal Investigator: Skye Fitzpatrick
Children’s Learning Projects Lab
Autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, attention and intersensory processing, audiovisual integration, fMRI, linguistics, interventions
Principal Investigator: James M. Bebko
Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Lab
Autism spectrum disorders, developmental disability, families/health and social service systems.
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Weiss
Desrocher Lab
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
Cognitive-behavioural interventions for children, attachment and parenting practices, diverse cultural contexts, prevention and interventions
Principal Investigator: Yvonne Bohr
NORTH Lab
Mild traumatic brain, sport-related concussion, risk and recovery, long-term consequences, neuroimaging
Principal Investigator: Magdalena Wojtowicz
O.U.C.H. Lab
Painful situations, child and parents interactions, negative affect regulation.
Principal Investigator: Rebecca Pillai Riddell
Perry Lab
Autism and developmental disabilities, assessment/diagnosis, intervention, family impact, stress, coping
Principal Investigator: Adrienne Perry
Prime Family Lab
Clinical child psychology, family stress and resilience, family-based intervention
Principal Investigator: Heather Prime
REACh Lab
Emotion regulation and well-being among emerging adults, mental health and resilience, student success, brief interventions
Principal Investigator: Jennine Rawana
Teen Relationships Lab
Risk and resilience; adolescents, child welfare involved youth, tracking and intervening with trafficked youth
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Connolly
Till Lab
Children's environmental health, neurodegenerative disease, cognitive rehabilitation.
Principal Investigator: Christine Till
Toplak Research Lab
Children and adolescents, attention and learning, cognitive and affective processes, reasoning
Principal Investigator: Maggie Toplak
Trauma and Attachment Lab
Treatment of psychological trauma, child and adult attachments, interventions, social support
Principal Investigator: Robert T. Muller
Child and adolescent psychotherapy, intervention development and outcomes, measurement, anxiety, depression, disruptive behaviour
Principal Investigator: Madison Aitken
Visual and Cognitive Development Project
Infant neuroscience, attention and memory, object recognition, visual search, visual expectation.
Principal Investigator: Scott Adler
Cognitive Aging Neuroscience (CAN) Lab
Cognitive neuroscience, fMRI, neurocognitive development and aging, conceptual processing
Principal Investigator: Dale Stevens
Cognitive Flexibility Lab
Cognitive flexibility, educational outcomes, spacing effect, socio-economic status scale, task switching
Principal Investigator: Melody Wiseheart
Developmental Processes Laboratory
Mental-attentional capacity, executive functions, individual-differences, cognitive development, language processing, Theory of Constructive Operators
Principal Investigator: Juan Pascual-Leone, Janice Johnson
Lifespan Cognition and Development Lab (This lab is not accepting new students)
Cognitive development, literacy, monolingual and bilingual children, cognitive aging
Principal Investigator: Ellen Bialystok
Memory Development Laboratory
Developmental cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory, time and space memory, naturalistic settings
Principal Investigator: Thanujeni Pathman
Pierce Experience & Development Lab
Developmental cognitive neuroscience, language, SES, stress, EEG.
Principal Investigator: Lara Pierce
Feminist Voices
Feminist epistemology and historiography, history of women in psychology, science and culture
Principal Investigator: Alexandra Rutherford
MaCH: Migration and Critical Health Psychology
Community-based, social integration, social conflict, social inclusion, health and well-being
Principal Investigator: Michaela Hynie
GreenLab
History of psychology, digital research techniques. Statistics and Methods.
Principal Investigator: Christopher Green
Psychological Humanities
German philosophical psychology, postcolonial psychology, race and racism, ontology, epistemology, ethics
Principal Investigator: Thomas Teo
Cathy's Quant Psych Lab
Psychometrics, Psychological Scale Formats, Structural Equation Modelling, Factor Analysis, Missing Data, Model Fit Indices.
Principal Investigator: Cathy (Xijuan) Zhang
Chalmers Lab
Latent variable modeling, item response theory, measurement invariance, computational statistics
Principal Investigator: Robert P. Chalmers
DataVis Lab
Statistical graphics, multivariate statistical methods and the history of data visualization
Principal Investigator: Michael Friendly
Flora Quantitative Lab
Psychometric methods and longitudinal data analysis; particularly item factor analysis, structural equation modeling, item response theory, and growth curve modeling.
Principal Investigator: David Flora
Latent Variable Modeling Lab
Technical development, quantitative methods, Bayesian statistics, analysis of functional data analysis, structural equation modeling
Principal Investigator: Ji Yeh Choi
Robust Statistics Lab
Robust ANOVA methods, multiplicity control, equivalence testing, measurement of change
Principal Investigator: Robert Cribbie
Complex Trauma, Social Cognition and Psychopathology Lab (This lab is not accepting new students)
Information processing, interpersonal communication, social cognition, psychopathology, reasoning
Principal Investigator: Doug McCann
Cultural Collective Lab (This lab is not accepting new students)
Bicultural identity, cultural conflict, individual’s social identity Eastern tradition, Western tradition
Principal Investigator: Richard Lalonde
Culture and Belief Lab
Cultural, cognitive, and evolutionary foundations of religion and morality
Principal Investigator: Cindel White
Flett Lab
Perfectionism, psychosocial functioning, health problems
Principal Investigator: Gordon L. Flett
Greenglass Lab
Psychosocial factors and rehabilitation, coping, The Proactive Coping Inventory
Principal Investigator: Esther Greenglass
Interpersonal Perception and Social Cognition Lab
Gender/racial stereotypes, intergroup relations and social development, social cognitive perspective
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Steele
Leadership, Competition, Collaboration Lab
Social hierarchy, overconfidence, competition
Principal Investigator: Joey Cheng
The MAR Lab
Empathy, social understanding, imagination, neural processes
Principal Investigator: Raymond A. Mar
Psychology and Law Lab (This lab is not accepting new students)
Social psychology and law, decision-making processes, racial bias, legal strategies
Principal Investigator: Regina Schuller
Sexual Health and Relationships (SHaRe) Lab
Romantic relationships, sexuality, relationship satisfaction, motivation, perception, behaviour
Principal Investigator: Amy Muise
Social Cognition Lab
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
Social Motivation Lab
Social cognition, social and organizational psychology, social motivation, post-transgression responses, interpersonal relationships
Principal Investigator: Ward Struthers
BioMotion Lab
Sensory information, perception, cognition and communication
Principal Investigator: Nikolaus Troje
Motorcontrol Lab
Cognitive-Motor integration, eye-hand coordination, behaviour, neurophysiology
Principal Investigator: Lauren Sergio
Sensory Biophysics Lab
Auditory biophysics, otoacoustic emission, phonetics
Principal Investigator: Christopher Bergevin
Sensorimotor Control Lab
Sensorimotor, coordination, representations, learning
Principal Investigator: Denise Henriques
Virtual Reality and Perception Lab
Stereoscopic depth perception, virtual reality, augmented-reality, depth cues, eye movements
Principal Investigator: Robert Allison
Barranti, Maxwell (Social and Personality)
Mapp, Allistair (Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences; Quantitative Methods)
Martin, Jodi (Quantitative Methods)
Sutherland, Jessica (Developmental Science)
Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences
CLINICAL
Clinical-Developmental
Developmental Science
Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology
Quantitative Methods
Social and Personality
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