Our group brings together researchers from across disciplines to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms that shape how individuals think, perceive, remember and act. Through collaborative, interdisciplinary research, our work advances understanding of the brain and its connection to physical and mental health.

Our focus

Our research spans multiple levels of analysis—from neural circuits to complex behaviour—drawing on expertise in cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, behavioural neuroscience, biochemistry, computer vision, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Topics of focus include the following:

  • attention and perception
  • memory and learning
  • decision making and reward processing
  • neurological and mental health disorders

We also provide mentorship and hands-on research training to emerging scholars through Honours theses, independent studies, capstone projects and research assistantships.

Meet Dr. Chris Striemer, research group lead
Dr. Chris Striemer, professor in the Department of Psychology, leads the Cognition and Neuroscience Research Group. His primary research interests are the cognitive neuroscience of attention, perception and visuomotor control.
Dr. Janet Kemei

Our researchers

Meet the faculty who make up our interdisciplinary research group. We represent three departments in the Faculty of Arts and Science: psychology, computer science and physical sciences.

Get in touch

Contact our interdisciplinary research team by email or connect with individual members using the contact details in their profiles above.

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Explore our research

Learn how our work advances understanding of the brain, cognition and mental and physical health.

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research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img1.jpg Hippocampus shape analysis using a variational graph deep autoencoder
Dr. Dana Cobzas: Hippocampus shape analysis using a variational graph deep autoencoder
research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img2.jpg Fractal analysis of human brain shape
Dr. Christopher Madan: Fractal analysis of human brain shape
research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img3.jpg Behavioural neuroscience in zebra fish in the lab
Dr. Trevor Hamilton: Behavioural neuroscience in zebra fish in the lab
research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img4.jpg Behavioural neuroscience in zebra fish data analysis
Dr. Trevor Hamilton: Behavioural neuroscience in zebra fish data analysis
research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img5.jpg Virtual reality in health-care simulation
Dr. Sam Qorbani: Virtual reality in health-care simulation
research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img6.jpg Human neuropsychology
Dr. Chris Striemer: Human neuropsychology
research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img7.jpg Brain lesion analysis
Dr. Chris Striemer: Brain lesion analysis
research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img8.jpg Eye tracking lab
Eye tracking lab
research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img10.jpg EEG lab
Dr. Cameron Hassall: EEG lab
research-groups-cnrg-carousel-img9.jpg EEG measures of decision making and reward processing
Dr. Cameron Hassall: EEG measures of decision making and reward processing