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. Anthony is set to defend his dissertation in Fall 2026 and is currently exploring next steps.

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 interested in a broad range of topics in cognitive psychology. His current areas of focus include behavioural cognitive processes underlying categorization and ethical uses for local AI in qualitative research.

Lavine Amin-Zadeh

Honours Thesis Student

Lavine is an undergraduate student completing her honours thesis in the lab. She is passionate in how people organize and represent knowledge, and how these processes shape the way we think, learn, and make decisions.

Benny Zucchet

Honours Thesis Student

Benny is an undergraduate psychology student completing his honours thesis in the lab. He’s interested in research involving rule-based and non-rule-based learning as well as its applications.

Ghala Abu Jayyab

Honours Thesis Student

Ghala Abu Jayyab is a fourth-year undergraduate psychology student completing her honours thesis in the lab. She is interested in cognitive psychology, with a focus on perception, language, thinking, and reasoning.

Deandre Williams

Independent Study Student

Deandre is an undergraduate independent study student in the lab. He is interested in how the dual memory systems interact to guide cognitive processes, including selective attention and category learning, as well as the brain regions that are involved.

Bandna

Independent Study Student

Bandna is an undergraduate student completing an independent study in the lab. Her interests are rooted in cognitive science, with a particular passion for how people categorize, remember, and recall information, as well as how these cognitive processes develop over time.