Higher-order human cognition and its instanitiation in the brain, functional neuroimaging, and the pathophysiology of and neuropsychological deficits associated with schizophrenia.

Broadly speaking, I am interested in how it is that the brain instantiates our internal mental experiences. More specifically, I'm interested in the functional neuroimaging of higher cognitive processes (particulary working memory and cognitive control) and in what can be revealed about normal cognition by studying patient populations.

To this end, I am currently working on a project with Ed Smith and Janet Metcalfe on binding (i.e. the process by which multiple aspects of a stimulus or event become associated with each other in memory) and the possibility that it underlies both episodic memory formation and multiple-category learning.

As an undergraduate at Simon Fraser University, I also carried out electro-and magnetoencephalographic studies of working memory as well as a meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of working memory in schizophrenia.