Past events

Title: Stimulating speech: Auditory-motor interactions in production and perception

In my lab, we use non-invasive brain stimulation to explore auditory-motor interactions during speech perception and speech production.  I will describe how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) works and provide a number of examples of how we have used this method in combination with behaviour and other measures of brain function. Read More

Title: Creating and analyzing mouse-tracking experiments

The goal of this four-hour workshop is to create and analyze mouse-tracking experiments. During the first half of the workshop, participants will become familiar with the computer software MouseTracker (download here – only works on Windows os). Read More

With many shifts happening in the research landscape, now is the perfect time to learn or perfect new software skills! Inkscape is a free software similar to Adobe Illustrator that can be used to edit figures and create polished documents of any size. This hands-on workshop will cover the basics of image file types, introduce the Inkscape interface, and walk through the tools and functions that you will need for making figures and posters. Read More

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This workshop is co-sponsored with the Centre for Research in Human Development. For many academics, particularly graduate students, post-docs, and early career researchers, having an online presence showcasing their academic work and achievements is an important component for advancing their research and career. A common way to do this is by creating and maintaining a personal website, which provides the opportunity to describe your research interests, highlight recent publications, and share your CV all in one location. However, many do not know where or how to begin this process. Read More

This workshop is co-sponsored with the Centre for Research in Human Development. Pre-registration is gaining popularity as a way to increase transparency and replicability. Pre-registration allows researchers to specify their research plans in advance, including hypotheses, sample, and planned analyses. Many journals, including Psychological Science (click here for the a list of journals), recognize preregistered research by awarding a Preregistered badge. Read More

The CRBLM, Brain Reach, Science Policy Exchange, and The Convergence Initiative are offering a series of workshops on science communication and knowledge mobilization.
The workshops will cover a range of approaches, target audiences, and aspects of the process of planning and delivering science outreach projects.

Participants are welcome to attend all or a subset of the four workshops, registration is required. Read More

Our combined program of research has leveraged network-level analyses to study complex cognitive abilities broadly, and bilingualism more specifically. In this workshop, we will move from theory to analysis techniques, describing how we have explored the relationship between basal ganglia signal routing and the implications of bilingual language use on mind and brain. Read More

Improvisational comedy, while seemingly a medium for entertainment, has elements that can improve the practice of science. In improv, you learn to be spontaneous, to embrace failure, to effectively tell stories, to be a better listener and to learn how to read and respond to any audience. Because science is collaborative, the same elements that make a good improv scene can translate into better science communication. In this workshop series, we will introduce the fundamentals of improv through a series of guided group and partner exercises and directly link each fundamental element of improv to its application in the practice and communication of science. Read More