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Poster Session A

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

Poster

Title

First Author 

Topic Area

A121

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

Abbaszadeh, Mojtaba

THINKING: Decision making

A27

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

Agarwal, Kanika

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Development &aging

A93

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

Amano, Koki

METHODS: Other

A79

Medial temporal default mode network selectively encodes autobiographical visual imagery

anderson, andrew

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

A12

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

Arpaci, Hazal

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

A54

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

A67

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

A64

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

Blumenthal, Anna

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A82

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

Bontkes, Oliver R.

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

A50

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

Borowsky, Ron

LANGUAGE: Other

A98

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

Borsarini, Bianca

OTHER

A62

Influence of Involuntary Autobiographical Memories on Episodic Memory

Bosyj, Catherine

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A71

Sleep enhances haptic memory of novel objects

Cacciamani, Laura

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A101

Associations Between Longitudinal Handgrip Strength and Striatal Dopamine in Aging

Cao, Patrick

OTHER

A73

Hippocampal and cortical coding of relational memory types

Cao, Weijia

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A55

Frontoparietal network segregation and associative memory in aging

Carlson, Emma

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

A57

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

A83

Remembered but Absent Landmarks Enhance Path Integration

Chen, Yue

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

A112

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

Chow, Hiu Mei

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

A127

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

A48

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

Coderre, Emily

LANGUAGE: Other

A26

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

Colón, Ivette

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Person perception

A110

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

Cook, Tyler

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

A2

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

Cruz Basilio, Alejandro

ATTENTION: Auditory

A21

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

A111

Neural State Segmentation in Naturalistic Goal-directed Activities

Ding, Yining

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

A52

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

Dorsi, Josh

LANGUAGE: Semantic

A63

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

Dudarev, Veronica

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A49

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

Elin, Kirill

LANGUAGE: Other

A113

Dissociating Predictive and Postdictive Audiovisual Inference

Fischer, Manda

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

A24

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

Fletcher, Rae

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotional responding

A16

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

Forrest, Douglas

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

A46

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

Gürcan, Berfin

LANGUAGE: Other

A25

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

Ghazi, Daria

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotional responding

A72

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

Golestani, Lexi

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A128

Creativity and the Hypnagogic State

Gomez, Alissa

THINKING: Problem solving

A33

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

Grote, Luisa Alessia

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

A38

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

Gu, Gloria

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Other

A51

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

Gurunandan, Kshipra

LANGUAGE: Semantic

A99

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

A92

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

Herdman, Anthony

METHODS: Neuroimaging

A68

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

Homann, Lauren

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A66

Effects of Social Stress on Direct and Inferential Learning

Hong, Yuju

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A95

Reimagining the Measurement of Mental Imagery - Sketchpad Series

Ivie, Cassandra G

METHODS: Other

A102

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

A124

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

Juneja, Sara

THINKING: Decision making

A14

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

Kaplan, Mila

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

A6

Holding Back the Past: Controlling When LTM Guides Attention

Kespe, Jessica

ATTENTION: Other

A19

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

A94

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

A15

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

A8

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

Konstantopoulou, Stefania

ATTENTION: Spatial

A122

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

Koslov, Seth

THINKING: Decision making

A106

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

Lambert, Kathryn JM

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Motor control

A56

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

Lawrance, Anna

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

A123

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

Le Duc, Willem

THINKING: Decision making

A129

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

Lee, Yeongji

THINKING: Reasoning

A29

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

Lenz, Emily J.

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Goal maintenance & switching

A47

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

Leong, Wesley

LANGUAGE: Other

A109

Concurrently tracking two rhythms with eye and finger movements

Liu, Abigail

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Motor control

A114

Comparing cognitive modes underlying pain experience and pain empathy

Lu, Amber

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

A41

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

Lustenberger, Declan

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Working memory

A31

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

Mao, Xinyi Zoe

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

A3

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

Martinez, Alysiana M.

ATTENTION: Auditory

A30

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

Mendes, Antonio B.

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

A90

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

Mertens, Attakias

METHODS: Neuroimaging

A42

Neural differentiation during rapid auditory processing supports infant language learning

Milovic, Laura A.

LANGUAGE: Development & aging

A5

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

Mollot, R. Blaine

ATTENTION: Nonspatial

A43

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

A77

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

Morrow, Jonathan S.

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A34

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

Muggleton, Neil

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

A20

The ADHD Emotion Trap: Is It Reactivity or Attention?

Nadav, Tehila

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

A116

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

Nakada, Hoko

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

A118

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

Nakayama, Ryohei

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

A126

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

Nouel, Gian

THINKING: Problem solving

A69

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

O'Donnell, Ryan

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A88

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

Omoma-Edosa, Borngreat

METHODS: Neuroimaging

A120

The role of schemas in extrapolating beyond visual boundaries

Orlando, Maria S.

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

A84

Schematic prior knowledge modulates covert visual attention

Osborne, Emiko

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Semantic

A1

Auditory Narrative Lingering Under Competing Speech

Pandey, Priya Rakesh

ATTENTION: Auditory

A9

Neural correlates of mental rotation in aphantasia

Paul, Rain

ATTENTION: Spatial

A7

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

Pitts, Michael

ATTENTION: Other

A96

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

Radlmeier, Sage

METHODS: Other

A76

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

Raghunath, Sarita

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A35

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

Rai, Harleen

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

A23

Modeling Context Similarity in Fear Renewal

Rajagopal, Shreya

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

A36

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

Rattray, Ben

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

A18

The Effect of Acute Exercise on Emotion Regulation

Rawliuk, Thomas

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

A100

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

Ryan, Lee

OTHER

A59

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

Sahoo, Ashish

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

A58

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

Sanders, Kristin E. G.

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

A97

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

Scherling, Carole

OTHER

A39

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

Schneider, Daniel

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Working memory

A44

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

Schneider, Julie

LANGUAGE: Development & aging

A86

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

Schwenk, Jakob

METHODS: Electrophysiology

A80

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

Shah, Aalap

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

A17

Frontal midline theta in trait anxiety and associative memory

Shalamberidze, Tamari

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

A74

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

Sharma, Anjou

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A89

What effect sizes can we expect in functional neuroimaging?

Shearer, Hallee

METHODS: Neuroimaging

A104

Predicting Pure Tone Audiometry using Auditory Brainstem Responses to Continuous Speech

Shrestha, Neejata

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Audition

A115

Investigating Leakage in Visual Perceptual Decision-Making

Silfanus, Eusabeia

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

A4

Autonomic Activity of Distraction Suppression and Early Adversity in Children

Soleyman Nejad, Mohammad

ATTENTION: Development & aging

A81

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

Staley, Donni

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

A13

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

Stamoulis, Caterina

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

A28

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

Starr, Lindsey

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Development &aging

A37

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

Stokes, Shannon

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Other

A85

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

Subramanyan, Janvi

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Semantic

A119

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

Takaki, Yuri

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

A61

Cognitive Mechanisms Shaping Autobiographical Memory Specificity in Schizophrenia

Thomas, Reece

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A11

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

Timmins, Joshua

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

A108

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

Trach, Juliana E.

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Motor control

A10

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

Turnbull, Adam

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Development & aging

A65

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

Voss, Joel

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A70

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

Vuong, Veronica

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A103

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

A53

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

Wagner, Rebecca

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Development & aging

A45

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

Wah, Deanne T.O.

LANGUAGE: Development & aging

A60

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

Wardell, Victoria

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A78

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

A125

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

Wood-Anderson, Desmond

THINKING: Other

A107

Obligatory Co-opting of Motor Control by Awareness

Xie, Zengbo

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Motor control

A22

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

A87

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

Zając, Cezary

METHODS: Electrophysiology

A75

Individual Differences in Memory Generalization

Zeithamova, Dagmar (Dasa)

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Episodic

A32

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

Zhang, Xiangyang

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

A117

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

Zhang, Zhilin

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Vision

A91

Heterogeneity of Thalamus-Default Mode Network Connectivity in Schizophrenia

Zhao, Milong

METHODS: Neuroimaging

A105

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

Zhou, Quan

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Development & aging

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