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Poster Session A

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

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 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 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-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

Alpha–Beta Oscillatory Dynamics Differentiate Speech in Noise - Sketchpad Series

Almotwaly, Laila

ATTENTION: Auditory

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

Fletcher, Rae

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotional responding

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

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

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

Dissociating Predictive and Postdictive Audiovisual Inference

Fischer, Manda

PERCEPTION & ACTION: Multisensory

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

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

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

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

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

Large lump-sum vs. small sequential monetary loss: A comparison of relevant neural substrates

Noda, Dr Masayo

THINKING: Decision making

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

Procedural and Declarative Category Knowledge are Integrated by a Semantic Control Network

Kalra, Dr. Priya B.

LONG-TERM MEMORY: Other

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

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

Seeing is believing: rTPJ stimulation shifts social gaze in ambiguous language processing

Baker-Iyore, Rose

EMOTION & SOCIAL: Emotion-cognition interactions

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

Grote, Luisa Alessia

EXECUTIVE PROCESSES: Monitoring & inhibitory control

Shared Parietal Deactivation Sets the Stage for Creative Problem Solving Across Creativity Tasks

Su, Yu-Shiang

THINKING: Problem solving

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 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

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 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

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

Elin, Kirill

LANGUAGE: Other

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