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Poster Session A

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Saturday, March 7, 2026, 3:00 – 5:00 pm PST, Fairview/Kitsilano Ballrooms

Title 

First Author

Topic Area

A cluster-based method for the detection of planar traveling waves in the EEG

Schwenk, Jakob

METHODS: Electrophysiology

A dominant exploration-exploitation axis shapes individual differences in sequential decision-making

Abbaszadeh, Mojtaba

THINKING: Decision making

A Meta-Analysis of Age-related Differences in Hippocampal Size and Navigation and Memory Abilities - Sketchpad Series

Sahoo, Ashish

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

A meta-analysis of hippocampal indirectly targeted stimulation (HITS) effects on episodic memory

Voss, Joel

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A no-brainer! A general education neuroscience course for non-STEM undergraduates. - Sketchpad Series

Scherling, Carole

OTHER

A Novel Approach to Improving Sleep in New Parents: Safety Reactivation with a Baby-Responsive Soundtrack

Cruz Basilio, Alejandro

ATTENTION: Auditory

A proof-of-concept (POC) study for using Phybrata sensing for assessing sensory reweighting and cognitive associations in neurodivergent youth - Sketchpad Series

Khundrakpam, Budhachandra

METHODS: Other

A Single Bout of Intermittent Hypoxia Benefits Executive Function Independent of Cardiorespiratory Fitness - Sketchpad Series

Mendes, Antonio B.

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

Adaptive Thalamocortical Gating Reconfigures Low-Dimensional Connectivity Motifs to Support Cognitive Flexibility - Sketchpad Series

Stokes, Shannon

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Other

Adolescent Anxiety Adversely Impacts the Thalamic-Basal-Ganglia-Cerebellar Network

Stamoulis, Caterina

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

Age-Dependent Relationships Between Resting-State Network Connectivity and Hot and Cold Cognition in Adults with Major Depressive Disorder: A MEG Study - Sketchpad Series

King, F. Kathryn

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

Age-related Changes in Brain Connectivity: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Effects - Sketchpad Series

Zhou, Quan

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Development & aging

Alpha phase dependence of orientation adaptation revealed by a closed-loop EEG system

Nakayama, Ryohei

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

Assessing the Ability of Virtual Reality Environments to Change Brain State: An Electroencephalographic Investigation

Fletcher, Rae

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotional responding

Associations Between Longitudinal Handgrip Strength and Striatal Dopamine in Aging

Cao, Patrick

OTHER

Audiovisual temporal synchrony modulates fast sensorimotor transformation in smooth pursuit eye movements

Chow, Hiu Mei

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

Auditory Narrative Lingering Under Competing Speech

Pandey, Priya Rakesh

ATTENTION: Auditory

Autonomic Activity of Distraction Suppression and Early Adversity in Children

Soleyman Nejad, Mohammad

ATTENTION: Development & aging

Beyond the Test Room: Performance Validity Tests and Real-World Functioning - Sketchpad Series

Radlmeier, Sage

METHODS: Other

Brain activity during guided imagination differentially relates to loneliness in younger and older adults

Turnbull, Adam

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

Can Machine Learning Predict Naturalistic Episodic Memory Performance? - Sketchpad Series

Golestani, Lexi

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Catastrophizing is associated with subjective, but not objective, prospective memory in treatment-seeking veterans

Staley, Donni

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

Cerebellar Cognition: Cerebellar Prediction Errors in Reinforcement and Statistical Learning - Data Blitz - GSA Winner

Trach, Juliana E.

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Motor control

Characterizing Verbal and Non-Verbal Executive Functions in Chronic Post-Stroke Aphasia

Lenz, Emily J.

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Goal maintenance & switching

Cognitive Mechanisms Shaping Autobiographical Memory Specificity in Schizophrenia

Thomas, Reece

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Common electrophysiological dynamics of human posterior cingulate cortex engagement during memory and value based decisions - Data Blitz

Koslov, Seth

THINKING: Decision making

Comparing cognitive modes underlying pain experience and pain empathy

Lu, Amber

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

Concurrently tracking two rhythms with eye and finger movements

Liu, Abigail

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Motor control

Creativity and the Hypnagogic State

Gomez, Alissa

THINKING: Problem solving

Decoding the grating position and orientation under lateral eye position using optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs)

Takaki, Yuri

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

Depth-of-processing-like computations explain visually-evoked activity in the human medial temporal lobe - Data Blitz

Shah, Aalap

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

Discrete resting-state functional connectivity patterns predict premorbid eating attitudes in healthy adults

Borsarini, Bianca

OTHER

Disentangling exposure- and retrieval-based mechanisms of word–image associative learning through repeated recognition practice - Data Blitz

Subramanyan, Janvi

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Semantic

Disrupted glial-mediated synaptic refinement and lipid signaling in Fragile X syndrome

Starr, Lindsey

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Development &aging

Dissociating Predictive and Postdictive Audiovisual Inference

Fischer, Manda

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

DNA Repair and epigenetic regulation in mice overexpressing SIRT6 variants from long- and short-lived species

Kaplan, Mila

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

Do Item-Context Bindings Distort Subsequent Memory for Details of the Source Context?

O'Donnell, Ryan

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Effects of acoustic environment and task difficulty on children’s attention and inhibitory control - Sketchpad Series

Mao, Xinyi Zoe

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

Effects of informal musical engagement on white matter integrity across development. - Sketchpad Series

Timmins, Joshua

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

Effects of Social Stress on Direct and Inferential Learning

Hong, Yuju

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation and context reinstatement on wakeful episodic memory consolidation

Morrow, Jonathan S.

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Everything, everywhere, not as one: A high-resolution investigation of the neural correlates of unitization in aging within the medial temporal lobe

Becker, Alexa

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

Examining the diversity of repeated events, single instances of repeated events, and unique events

Bontkes, Oliver R.

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

Exploring age-related changes in schema-based memory precision - Sketchpad Series

Lawrance, Anna

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

Exploring the interplay between age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline through the lens of sensory and cognitive event-related potentials. - Sketchpad Series

Jani, Sara

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Audition

Eye movements at encoding predict episodic memory in distinct ways for social and non-social information

Dudarev, Veronica

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Face Your Feelings: A higher burden of unattended negative facial stimuli may increase startle arousal.

Ghazi, Daria

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotional responding

Focal Human CA1 Lesion Potentiates Avoidance Behaviour During Approach-Avoidance Conflict Decision-Making

Le Duc, Willem

THINKING: Decision making

Frontal Eye Field in the Interaction of Reading and Attention: Exploring Functional Activation and Structural Connectivity

Borowsky, Ron

LANGUAGE: Other

Frontal midline theta in trait anxiety and associative memory

Shalamberidze, Tamari

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

Frontoparietal network segregation and associative memory in aging

Carlson, Emma

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

Gender Differences Across Age in Financial Positive-Skew Bias Under Dual-Task Cognitive Load

Juneja, Sara

THINKING: Decision making

Heterogeneity of Thalamus-Default Mode Network Connectivity in Schizophrenia

Zhao, Milong

METHODS: Neuroimaging

Hippocampal and cortical coding of relational memory types

Cao, Weijia

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Holding Back the Past: Controlling When LTM Guides Attention

Kespe, Jessica

ATTENTION: Other

How Causal Are Language-Related fMRI Activations? Evidence from Awake Direct Electrocortical Stimulation (DES)

Gürcan, Berfin

LANGUAGE: Other

Identifying critical conceptual moments during a lecture where neural encoding patterns distinguish successful from unsuccessful learners

Lee, Yeongji

THINKING: Reasoning

Important real-life events temporally organize our memories and dilate remembered time

Raghunath, Sarita

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Individual Differences in Memory Generalization

Zeithamova, Dagmar (Dasa)

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Influence of Involuntary Autobiographical Memories on Episodic Memory

Bosyj, Catherine

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Investigating Leakage in Visual Perceptual Decision-Making

Silfanus, Eusabeia

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

Investigating meaningful experiences using fMRI and a personalized movie paradigm - Sketchpad Series

Forrest, Douglas

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

Investigating the effects of Alpha and Gamma band EEG oscillations over parietal cortex on creative cognition using tACS

Nouel, Gian

THINKING: Problem solving

Investigating the Neural Dynamics Underlying Different Modes of Thought using Precision fMRI

Wood-Anderson, Desmond

THINKING: Other

Investigating the neural signature of individual differences in emotional episodic memory - Sketchpad Series

Blumenthal, Anna

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Left, not right, congruency effects in the flanker task activate frontoparietal and control networks

Konstantopoulou, Stefania

ATTENTION: Spatial

Long-term memory never turns itself off: Evidence for long-term memory potentials related to change-detection performance

Weeks, Ella E.

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

Medial temporal default mode network selectively encodes autobiographical visual imagery

anderson, andrew

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

Memory Without Imagery: Episodic Recall And Meta-Cognitive Performance in Individuals with Aphantasia

Sharma, Anjou

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Modeling Context Similarity in Fear Renewal

Rajagopal, Shreya

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

Modulation of the effects of amphetamine use on inhibitory control and error monitoring by smoking

Muggleton, Neil

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

Music-evoked memory engages similar behavioural and neurophysiological patterns in mild cognitive impairment and healthy controls - Data Blitz

Vuong, Veronica

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Neural and Behavioural Correlates of Audiovisual Gaze-Orienting in Common Marmosets - Sketchpad Series

Cook, Tyler

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

Neural correlates of mental rotation in aphantasia

Paul, Rain

ATTENTION: Spatial

Neural Correlates of Visual Awareness and Unconscious Visual Processing: A Concurrent TMS-EEG Study - Sketchpad Series

Zhang, Zhilin

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

Neural differentiation during rapid auditory processing supports infant language learning

Milovic, Laura A.

LANGUAGE: Development & aging

Neural Mechanisms of a Brief, Short Body Scan Meditation and the Influence on Cognitive Performance & Perceived Stress - Sketchpad Series

Key, Elizabeth M.

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

Neural mechanisms of insight: nonlinear cortical representational change with hippocampal and catecholamine engagement - Data Blitz - Sketchpad Series - PFA Winner

Becker, Dr. Maxi

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Neural representations of faces are widely distributed and highly individualized - Data Blitz - GSA Winner

Colón, Ivette

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Person perception

Neural responses in the macaque inferotemporal cortex to translucent-object images - Data Blitz

Nakada, Hoko

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

Neural Signatures of Language and Cognition in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: Insights from the Meta-analyses of Pediatric Neuroimaging Studies

Molnar, Monika

LANGUAGE: Development & aging

Neural State Segmentation in Naturalistic Goal-directed Activities

Ding, Yining

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

Neurophysiological mechanisms of math anxiety and working memory: An ERP study

Pinhas, Michal

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Working memory

NeuroVLM: A Bi-Directional Vision-Language Framework Linking Brain Activation Maps and Cognitive Functions - Data Blitz

Omoma-Edosa, Borngreat

METHODS: Neuroimaging

Non-REM oscillations and emotion regulation are related to anxiety and depression symptoms in adolescents

Arpaci, Hazal

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

Obligatory Co-opting of Motor Control by Awareness

Xie, Zengbo

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Motor control

On the contributions of frontoparietal regions to false memory production irrespective of age and memoranda domain.

Wagner, Rebecca

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

Parkinson’s Disease impairs motor imagery performance: An oscillatory investigation

Lambert, Kathryn JM

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Motor control

Precision Aging: Profiles of Risk Related to Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults

Ryan, Lee

OTHER

Predicting Pure Tone Audiometry using Auditory Brainstem Responses to Continuous Speech

Shrestha, Neejata

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Audition

Predictive processing of written and visual narratives in adults across the autism spectrum

Coderre, Emily

LANGUAGE: Other

Preliminary Exploration of the Efficacy and Cognitive Neural Mechanisms of Group Natural Psychotherapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Zhang, Xiangyang

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

Preliminary investigation of emotional voice judgment in healthy young adults using fNIRS: A foundation for future MCI research - Sketchpad Series

YAMANO, YUKA

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

Pure-Tone Audiometry Fails to Predict Real-World Speech-in-Noise Perception: Insights From a Multi-Talker Spatial Attention Paradigm

Wade, Nina E.

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Audition

Reduced Neural Tracking of Speech in Noisy Classroom Environments - Sketchpad Series

Schneider, Julie

LANGUAGE: Development & aging

Reimagining the Measurement of Mental Imagery - Sketchpad Series

Ivie, Cassandra G

METHODS: Other

REM sleep's role in emotional memory changes in middle age

Sanders, Kristin E. G.

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

Remembered but Absent Landmarks Enhance Path Integration

Chen, Yue

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

Reproducibility Crisis in Functional Connectivity Analyses of EEG and MEG: An Approach to Reduce False Connectivity Findings

Herdman, Anthony

METHODS: Neuroimaging

Retrieval Practice Drives Integration Across Related Memories: A Candidate Mechanism for the Testing Effect

Homann, Lauren

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Schematic prior knowledge modulates covert visual attention

Osborne, Emiko

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Semantic

Sense of Agency as a Gate for Cognitive Control: Insights from EEG and Behaviour

Grote, Luisa Alessia

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

Simultaneous representation of multiple object-states in language is supported by left temporal theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling - Data Blitz

Leong, Wesley

LANGUAGE: Other

Sleep enhances haptic memory of novel objects

Cacciamani, Laura

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Sound-Shape Correspondences for Pseudowords in People with Aphasia - Sketchpad Series

Dorsi, Josh

LANGUAGE: Semantic

Spatial navigation in childhood is linked to age differences in hippocampal subfield volumes

Agarwal, Kanika

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Development &aging

Spontaneous eye-blinks align with the updating of visual working memory

Schneider, Daniel

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Working memory

Stability and Change in Autobiographical Memory Narratives - Data Blitz - GSA Winner

Wardell, Victoria

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

Studying cognitive processes using mobile EEG in VR: studying possible artifacts and signal validation - Sketchpad Series

Zając, Cezary

METHODS: Electrophysiology

Subcortical contributions to prediction and reward in language processing - Data Blitz - PFA Winner

Gurunandan, Kshipra

LANGUAGE: Semantic

The (un)connected brain. A preliminary investigation of effective connectivity as a measure of mental fatigue

Rattray, Ben

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

The ADHD Emotion Trap: Is It Reactivity or Attention?

Nadav, Tehila

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

The association between self-reported sleep quality, physical activity and cognition in middle-aged females - Sketchpad Series

Rai, Harleen

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

The Brain Resilience Study: Cognitive performance on a test of pattern separation is associated with cortical thickness in older adults

Chang, Miranda

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

The Effect of Acute Exercise on Emotion Regulation

Rawliuk, Thomas

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

The effects of prestimulus alpha power on neural and behavioral responses to task stimuli

Mollot, R. Blaine

ATTENTION: Nonspatial

The Impact of Age on the Cortical Excitatory/Inhibitory Ratio Across the Lifespan

Mertens, Attakias

METHODS: Neuroimaging

The impact of learning preferences, perceptual differences, and cognitive control for fixation to pictorial examples in design problem solving

Chrysikou, Evangelia G.

THINKING: Problem solving

The intersection of art and grief as a model for probing the neurophysiologic mechanisms of mediating bereavement. - Sketchpad Series

Demopoulos, Reema

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

The role of schemas in extrapolating beyond visual boundaries

Orlando, Maria S.

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

The Spark of Memory: When a Neuron Whispers, I Remember - Sketchpad Series

Lustenberger, Declan

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Working memory

Tuning Brain Synchrony: phase-synchronized stimulation Balance Impulsivity and Control

Wen, Wen

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

Two stages of processing for visual awareness identified in a novel inattentional blindness video-game paradigm

Pitts, Michael

ATTENTION: Other

Using Representational Similarity Analysis to Examine Print-Speech Integration in Struggling Readers Using fMRI

Wah, Deanne T.O.

LANGUAGE: Development & aging

Using The Virtual Brain to probe the effects of senescence-driven alterations in neuronal firing activity on brain dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease - Sketchpad Series

Han, Cathlin Jiaqi

OTHER

Validation of SpAM for product packaging: a comparative analysis with PRaM - Sketchpad Series

Amano, Koki

METHODS: Other

Weather on the Mind: An Examination of the Relationship between Weather and Cognition - Sketchpad Series

Gu, Gloria

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Other

What effect sizes can we expect in functional neuroimaging?

Shearer, Hallee

METHODS: Neuroimaging

What’s on Your Mind during the 12 Minutes Before Lights-Out Influences Sleep Quality

Martinez, Alysiana M.

ATTENTION: Auditory

When words paint fainter pictures: L2 usage and the vividness of mental imagery

Elin, Kirill

LANGUAGE: Other

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