Participant Recruitment

Do you feel like your memory has gotten worse, but otherwise consider yourself healthy and have NO diagnosis of a cognitive impairment? Alternatively, have you been diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)? As part of a research study on memory and aging, Dr. Rajah and colleagues are recruiting participants for an intervention involving non-invasive brain stimulation. Further details here.

French-speaking participants are needed for a study that involves doing computer tasks while listening to music. Further details here.

McGill University’s Neuropragmatics and Emotion Lab is seeking native English-speaking males for a social communication study. This study will take place at the downtown campus and will consist of an audio recording of a conversational interaction between you and one other person from our lab. Details here.

BRAMS (International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research) and the laboratory of Prof. Simone Dalla Bella at the University of Montréal, are interested in your ability to perceive and synchronize to a musical rhythm.
 What?
You will listen to short musical excerpts and tap your finger during tasks. Additionally, your brain activity will be measured using electroencephalography (EEG).
 Who?
Are you between 18-30 years or 60-80 years old; a non-musician (<2 years of formal training); having normal hearing abilities (or corrected to normal) and currently not diagnosed with a mental- or neurological disorder?
 Remuneration?
Receive 40 $ for participating in this study of approximately 4 hours in total (spread over two sessions).
 Interested?
Call us on 514-343-6111, poste 3617
Write us to bramsrecrute@gmail.com to schedule an appointment or to ask questions.
Located at Pavilion Marie-Victorin. Montreal University (Metro station Édouard-Montpetit)

Notre équipe de laboratoire est à la recherche de jeunes adultes AVEC ou SANS acouphènes et avec une bonne audition/ perte légère pour participer à une étude visant à recréer le son entendu par ordinateur. Plus de détails. 

Do you want to know how your brain is understanding this sentence right now? Participate in our study and let us show you! Here, you will complete some reading/behavioral tasks & language questionnaires. This experiment will take place in one testing session for up to two hours. Join us!

To participate, you must…

1. Be a French-English or English-French bilingual. This means that you must have high proficiency in English and good knowledge of French OR high proficiency in French and good knowledge of English.

2. NOT have a strong third language. This means French and English are your first two acquired languages.

3. Have normal or corrected vision (glasses and contacts ok)

4. Have no hearing impairments

5. Have no history of neurological disorders.

You will receive $10/hour for your participation or course credit. If you are ready to dive into science, please contact us at bilingual.mcgill@gmail.com.

Subject line: “Interest to participate: MT”

Body of email: name, age, time availabilities (2 hours in 1 weekday), first language, second language, any third languages, age of first acquiring each language, relative proficiency in each language (1-10), and parents’ languages.

Experimenters:
Mehrgol Tiv, Ph.D. Student, Psychology, mehrgol.tiv@mail.mcgill.ca
Professor D. Titone, Ph.D., Psychology, debra.titone@mcgill.ca

We are seeking musicians and non-musicians to tap simple melodies with or without a partner. The study takes about one hour and fifteen minutes and participants receive up to $15.

Participants must be 18-35 years of age, and must pass a hearing screening and memory melody test to participate.

Musicians: you must have at least 6 years of private instrument training.

Non-Musicians: you must have less than 2 years of private instrument training, and must have stopped 5 years or more from now.

If interested, e-mail Pauline at: mcgilltappingstudy@gmail.com

This project is under the supervision of Prof. Caroline Palmer,

Psychology Dept., McGill University, N6/3 Stewart Biology Bldg, 398-5270

The Sequence Production Lab is seeking pianists whose first language is English or French to perform simple melodies and speak short phrases in English. The study takes about 75 minutes and participants will receive $15. Participants must have at least 6 years of private piano training, be 18-30 years of age, have no neurological or psychiatric disorders, and must pass a hearing test and melody memory test to participate. If interested, email piano.speech.study.2018@gmail.com

More details here.

The International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS) is looking for non-musicians (formal musical experience of less than two years), having normal hearing and normal sight (or corrected to normal):
• Receive $ 10 per hour by participating in three sessions of 1 hour and 30 minutes each;
• In several tasks, you will have to either listen to sequences of sounds and detect if these sounds are at the same pace or synchronize by tapping on a tablet;
• Appointments at your convenience!
• Located at University of Montreal, Metro station Édouard-Montpetit

More details here.

RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE PERCEPTION
Native English speakers needed for study of language, emotion and social meanings.
Testing requires 2 sessions, compensation will be provided (15$ + bonus).
If you are interested and meet all of the following criteria, please email
pell.lab.studies@gmail.com with the subject “Anglophone Montrealer” and provide your name,
e-mail and telephone number.
Participant criteria:
• Aged between 18 and 35 years
• Native English speaker (acquired English from birth from at least one parent)
• Must have lived in Montreal most of their life
• Must have normal hearing and no language-related impairment or psychiatric disorder
Research directed by Dr. M. Pell, James McGill Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
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ETUDE SUR LA PERCEPTION DU LANGAGE
Nous recherchons des locateurs natifs du français pour une étude sur le langage, les émotions et
les interactions sociales.
L’expérience requiert 2 sessions et sera dédommagée financièrement (15$ + bonus).
Si vous êtes intéressé(e) et remplissez tous les critères suivants, contactez
pell.lab.studies@gmail.com avec votre nom, e-mail et numéro de téléphone avec pour objet «
Montréalais(e) Francophone ».
Critères de participation :
• Avoir entre 18 et 35 ans
• Être locateur natif du français (avoir appris le français d’au moins un parent depuis la
naissance)
• Avoir vécu à Montréal la plupart de votre vie
• Maîtriser l’anglais
• Avoir une audition normale et aucun antécédent de troubles psychiatriques ou liés au
langage
Étude dirigée par Dr. M. Pell, Professeur James McGill
École des Sciences de la Communication Humaine

Participate in a study investigating how biological sex, menopausal status in women, and genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease influence brain activity, brain structure, and memory in healthy adults (18-75 years). More information at www.ugd-dmu.ca/memory

Le Laboratoire de recherche sur la musique, les émotions et la cognition (MUSEC) est à la recherche d’adultes âgé.es entre 18 et 35 ans ou entre 60 et 75 ans, en bonne santé, et sans trouble auditif, afin de participer à une étude sur les effets de la musique de fond sur la cognition.

Pour plus d’informations, veuillez contacter Amélie Cloutier et Catherine Houde-Archambault à l’adresse courriel suivante : labo.musique@gmail.com, ou au numéro de téléphone suivant : 450-686-4777, poste 31078.

McGill’s Spoken Interaction Lab is looking for students to participate in a research project about Montreal French.

You must be a native speaker of French and have grown up in the Greater Montreal area. Your parents must be francophone. You must have completed your primary school, secondary school and cégep studies in French in the Greater Montreal area. You must be at least 18 years old.

The aim of this project is to collect audio and video data of Montreal French to be used in research and educational settings. It will render possible the analysis of this variety of French on various linguistic aspects.

Participants will be compensated $15.15 per hour and receive a reimbursement for the cost of their transportation to the recording studio.

We are looking more specifically for pairs of participants, i.e. two friends.

You can find all the project’s details here.

Would you wish to participate, please contact us at mcgillfrenchcorpus@gmail.com.

We are seeking pianists for a study that investigates how biological rhythms are related to how people perform melodies. In this study, you will perform simple melodies on a piano, provide a few physiological measurements, and be asked to record your sleep patterns for 1 week. The experiment will consist of four sessions in a single day with each session taking about 20 minutes.

Interested participants should be between 18-35 years of age, have no known hearing impairments or psychiatric disorders, and have at least 6 years of private instruction on the piano (and currently play the piano). Participants will receive $5 for completing the initial audiometric and melody memory test and an additional amount of up to $45 for their participation in the testing sessions.

Interested participants should write Shannon at: movement.rhythms@gmail.com

Experimenters:

Shannon Wright (PI), PhD Student

Prof. Caroline Palmer, Dept. of Psychology

Sebastian Andric, Undergraduate Student

Room: Stewart Biology Building, N6/3

McGill University

1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue

Montreal, H3A 1B1

514-398-5270

The Music, Emotions and Cognition Research Laboratory (MUSEC Laboratory) is currently seeking french-speaking participants aged from 18 to 35 years old, presenting no neurological, psychologic or auditory disorders to participate in a study on the effect of music on cognition, under the supervision of Nathalie Gosselin.

Participation in this study requires :

1- A short phone call interview to assess if you can participate in the study.

2-You will then complete four online questionnaires prior to the laboratory procedures. The links to these questionnaires will be sent to you by email.

3-In laboratory procedures will include questionnaires and a computerized task done while listening to music. The laboratory is located at the University of Montreal campus in Laval (Pavillon Guy-Joron; metro station Montmorency) for a duration of 1h30 to 2h. You will receive a compensation of 10$/hour.

To participate, please write to “labo.musique@gmail.com” and include “Étude Musique et cognition” in the subject line. Please include your name, age, email address and phone number. Thank you