Other Payloads

Age Differences in Decision Making Processes

This study explores decision making processes and how they change across life span. Researchers are looking for mechanisms that allow older adults to maintain intact decision making abilities despite impaired cognitive functioning in other domains.

University of Toronto

Memory and Metamemory for Spatial Locations in Children and Adolescents

This study investigates the development of memory for picture locations in children. The researchers are particularly interested in how different types of picture arrangement can affect children’s memory for the locations of the pictures.

York University and The Hospital for Sick Children

My Memories: A study of how we remember past life events

This study investigates autobiographical memory, the memory for life events, which is thought to improve with age, such that more detail is recalled as a child develops. This study will also provide a normative standard which can be used to compare potential abnormalities in autobiographical memory, which can occur in children with head injuries, epilepsy, or brain infections.

York University

User Navigation and Planning in Public Attractions

The purpose of this research is to understand how visitors navigate through public attractions in order to design novel interactive computational media.

University of Toronto

Thoughts, Actions and Genes

This study investigates obsessions (repetitive interfering thoughts) and compulsions (repetitive behaviours) that people commonly experience. This study also explores attention and activity levels, which may be related to OC traits and the genes that contribute to the development of these traits.

The Hospital for Sick Children