Priya Kalra, PhD

BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Kalra studies implicit learning — learning without effort or awareness of what has been learned. She uses a combination of behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging techniques to characterize how expertise develops and how procedural and declarative memory systems interact.

Anthony Cruz, MSc

PhD Candidate

Anthony studies how people learn best, with a focus on inferential learning and metacognition. His dissertation explores how metacognitive monitoring during learning impacts memory and transfer. He uses behavioral, computational, and smartphone-based methods to make his research ecologically valid and accessible.

Chelsea McKenzie

PhD Candidate

Chelsea studies the conceptual structure of cities to better understand how people think and reason about where they live. She is also examining the effects of culture on category learning and categorization.

Isaac Withers

MSc Student

Isaac is an MSc student interested in a broad range of topics in cognitive psychology. He is currently focused on behavioural techniques to understand the cognitive processes underlying categorization.

Paula Barea-Arroyo

Visiting PhD Student — University of Seville

Paula is a PhD candidate focused on concept formation and categorization in non-verbal autism, exploring how cognition is structured in the absence of language.