July 2020
Did you grow up speaking only English at home with your family? Do you have a very limited knowledge of other languages?
We want to hear from you!
English speakers are needed to take part in a study investigating language processing. We will ask you to take part in an online testing session (1-1.5 hrs), and when it is safe to do so you will also take part in an ERP testing session (30-45 mins) on McGill campus (ERP is a technique used to record your brain activity).
You will be compensated for your time and inconvenience!
If you are interested, please fill out the following form: https://forms.office.com/
Can’t keep the beat? Isabelle Peretz’s laboratory (University of Montreal) is looking for participants like you for a study on rhythm. Contact us by email (beat.experiment@gmail.
This short survey was created to explore the psychological impacts of the pandemic of COVID-19 and the role of music on well-being during the crisis.
As your time is precious, this survey lasts about 10-15 minutes.
Your participation will help us describe musical habits and understand their psychological effects during a pandemic. This study should allow to make recommendations on the utilization of music in time of crisis.
To participate, you must be 14 years old or older, and understand English or French. You don’t have to be a musician to participate.
Once the survey completed, 10 tips to cope with the social distancing, will be presented to you. You could also win a $25 Amazon gift card.
Link to the survey here: https://ls.sondages.umontreal.ca/842969?lang=en
February 2020
McGill University is looking to recruit participants for a study on how Parkinson’s disease affects communication, language and cognition. This ad targets healthy individuals, as for research purposes it is important to not only study patients with the disease but also individuals without it.
Please contact us if you:
• Are between 50-80 years old
• Learned English from birth (from at least one parent).
• Do not have any psychiatric or neurological condition.
The study takes about 4 hours and can be split between 1-3 sessions. Testing takes place at McGill or in your own home. Compensation for your time will be provided plus a bonus depending on the decision-making task. Transportation or parking costs are covered.
If you are interested and fit these criteria, please contact us at pell.lab.studies@gmail.com with the subject “Communication Study”.
Or call us at 514 398 4400 ext. 00010 or 04554
The research is directed by Dr. Marc Pell, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
January 2020
The McGill Language and Multilingualism Lab is looking for individuals to participate in a study on bilingualism and picture/word processing. In this study, you will complete some computer-based tasks & questionnaires. This experiment will take place on two consecutive days for up to four hours total. Join us! Full details here.
Are you curious about bilingualism? Consider participating in our 3 hour study that involves reading sentences in French and English (with eye tracking), completing behavioral tasks, and filling out some surveys. Full details here.
November 2019
The Otto Lab at McGill University is recruiting participants for a study on decision making. The study will be conducted across 2 sessions on 2 different days, each session lasting approximately 2 hours. It involves the completion of a decision-making task and eye-tracking. Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 35, have normal or corrected vision, and free of any neurological and psychiatric condition. Participants will receive $10/hour monetary compensation. If you are interested, please email us at ottolab.subjects@gmail.com with the subject line “Two-day Decision-Making Study”.
The purpose of this research project is to investigate how biological sex, menopausal status, and genetic risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease (e.g., Apolipoprotein E [APOE]) impact brain structure, brain activity and memory in healthy middle-aged adults (aged 40-59 yrs. old). In addition, young adults, aged 18-35 yrs., will also be tested as a comparison group and old adults, aged 60-75 yrs, will also be tested as a comparison group for post-menopausal non-transitioning women. Both men and women are invited to participate. Further details here.
October 2019
McGill University’s Child Phonology Lab is currently recruiting participants for our play-based shared reading program. Participants should be boys aged 4 or 5 who will be starting kindergarten next year and who can speak English. Full details here.
September 2019
McGill University’s Neuropragmatics and Emotion Lab is seeking native-English speaking amateur or professional combat (boxing, kickboxing, mixed-martial arts, muay thai) athletes for a social communication study. Full details here.
June 2019
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.
Participate in our MRI 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). For more info, click here.
Nous cherchons des personnes de 60 ans et plus, avec et sans acouphènes, pour participer à une étude sur l’effort mental et la perception de l’intensité des sons. Plus d’informations ici.
Nous cherchons des athlètes, avec ou sans commotions cérébrales, pour participer à une étude sur les commotions cérébrales et l’hypersensibilité aux sons. Plus d’informations ici.
We are currently recruiting participants to complete a behavioral assessment where they will be asked to rate visual stimuli (faces), based on the stimuli’s perceived emotion and different physical attributes. Details here.
May 2019
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.
April 2019
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
March 2019
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. You will also complete additional behavioral and language assessments. Your participation in the study will be kept strictly confidential. You will be compensated $20 for your participation.
The following criteria must be met:
- Age: 25-40 Years Old
- No history of high-school, collegiate, amateur, or professional contact sport participation (e.g. American Football, Rugby, Boxing, Mixed-Martial Arts, etc.)
- Language: Native speaker of North-American English (learned from birth, from both parents)
- No history of neurological, psychiatric, cognitive, speech, or hearing disorders
If you are interested, please contact our lab at pelllab.scsd@mcgill.ca with “Control” in the subject line. Please provide your name, email address, and telephone number where you can be reached.
McGill University – Neuropragmatics and Emotion Lab
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.
February 2019
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.
January 2019
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.
Avez-vous grandi en parlant le français à la maison, avec votre famille, et appris l’anglais plus tard ? (À l’école ? Au travail ? …)
Ou peut-être avez-vous appris les deux langues simultanément, à la maison, durant l’enfance ?
Nous aimerions communiquer avec vous !
Nous cherchons des personnes bilingues français/anglais pour participer à une étude électroencéphalographique dans le but d’étudier le traitement du langage par le cerveau. L’électroencéphalographie (EEG) est une technique utilisée pour capter les signaux électriques générés par l’activité cérébrale.
Nous vous inviterons à venir au Centre de Recherche sur le Cerveau, le Langage et la Musique (anglais : CRBLM) pour une seule séance de collecte de données (3 heures). Vous serez indemnisés pour votre temps et le dérangement encouru.
Si vous êtes intéressés à participer à notre étude, veuillez nous contacter à l’adresse suivante pour plus d’informations : traitement.de.la.parole@gmail.com
December 2018
The Behavior, Autism and NeuroDevelopment (BAND) Research Group is recruiting children ages 3-5 years old and their parents for a study to evaluate the effects of a home-based, parent-supported, custom-designed, tablet application on early reading comprehension and oral language skills. More details here.
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
November 2018
Avez-vous grandi en parlant le français à la maison, avec votre famille, et appris l’anglais plus tard ? (À l’école ? Au travail ? …)
Ou peut-être avez-vous appris les deux langues simultanément, à la maison, durant l’enfance ?
Nous aimerions communiquer avec vous !
Nous cherchons des personnes bilingues français/anglais pour participer à une étude électroencéphalographique dans le but d’étudier le traitement du langage par le cerveau. L’électroencéphalographie (EEG) est une technique utilisée pour capter les signaux électriques générés par l’activité cérébrale.
Nous vous inviterons à venir au Centre de Recherche sur le Cerveau, le Langage et la Musique (anglais : CRBLM) pour une seule séance de collecte de données (3 heures). Vous serez indemnisés pour votre temps et le dérangement encouru.
Si vous êtes intéressés à participer à notre étude, veuillez nous contacter à l’adresse suivante pour plus d’informations : traitement.de.la.parole@gmail.com
October 2018
Phase 1 – participants will memorize musical melodies at home, and their memory for the melodies will be tested in a 3-hour long session at the Montreal Neurological Institute.
Phase 2 – participants who will pass the memory test in Phase 1 will continue to Phase 2, which involves imagining melodies while brain responses are measured, at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Brain activity will be measured using functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) – a safe, painless and non-invasive technique.The total compensation for both phases is $185. Interested participants could also get a photo of their brain.
Volunteers must be healthy, fluent in English, right handed, aged 18-40, and with no current medical, neurological, psychiatric, or hearing conditions.
To verify that you qualify to participate, or for more information, please email us at brain.studies.mni@gmail.com with the subject title “Music Imagery”. We will try to get back to you as soon as possible.
Please help us in the recruitment of non-musicians for a study at BRAMS (International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research) under the supervision of Dr. Isabelle Peretz, Professor, Dept. of Psychology, UdeM. We are seeking:
– Women at least 65 years old
– Men at least 70 years old
It is very important that these participants have no or very little (less than 3 years) musical education (no music lessons, except for those mandatory at school) or musical experience like singing in a choir or playing a musical instrument (even for fun).
The participants are invited to do a 25 minutes online test to assess their musical abilities: http://www.brams.org/amusia-research/ . After choosing the language, the code for this test is AMUSV2.
The test is divided in 3 parts: 1-) Comparing short musical excerpts and indicating if they are identical or different. 2-) Indicating if the melody contains an incongruity (a brief pause) or not. 3-) Determining if the melody contains an incongruity or not (false note).
Afterwards, the participant is invited to fill a 3 minute-questionnaire about the place of music in his/ her life : Questionnaire
Please, forward this email to your friends or acquaintances who meet the criteria and wish to help us by participating in this study.
We thank you in advance for your precious help and receive our best regards.
Margot Charignon margotcharignon@gmail.com
Lucie-Maud Ménard luciemaud.menard@hotmail.com
Mihaela Felezeu mihaela.felezeu@umontreal.ca
September 2018
Did you grow up speaking only English at home with your family and later learned to speak French? Or maybe you grew up speaking only French at home with your family and later learned to speak English?
Either way, we want to hear from you!
English/French bilinguals are needed to take part in an Event Related brain Potentials (ERP) study investigating language processing. ERP is a technique used to record your brain activity. We will ask you to take part in one testing session (3 hours) on McGill campus.
You will be compensated for your time and inconvenience!
If you are interested, please contact us for more information.
We are recruiting pianists with at least 6 years of training whose native language is English or French. Pianists will perform simple melodies and speak short phrases in English. The experiment will take around 75 minutes and participants will receive $5 for hearing and memory tests and an additional $10 for their participation in the experiment.
Interested participants should send email to: piano.speech.study.2018@gmail.com
Notre laboratoire est à la recherche de jeunes adultes avec ou sans acouphène et avec une bonne audition/perte légère pour participer à une étude visant à examiner l’attention auditive et visuelle. Plus de détails.
Le Laboratoire de Neuropragmatiques et Émotions à McGill recherche des locuteurs natifs du français, québécois (avoir vécu moins de 5 ans dehors du Québec) ou de la France (être arrivé il y a moins de 5 ans).
August 2018
For young adults: Researchers at Concordia University’s Cognition, Aging, and Psychophysiology lab (Loyola Campus) are looking for participants for a research project investigating the relationship between bilingualism and cognition.
The testing session involves using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to record the electrical activity of the brain while listening to short stories in your first and second language.
Participants must be:
· Aged between 18 and 35 years old
· Right handed
· In good overall health
· French-English bilingual
· no functional knowledge of a third language
If you are interested in participating or are unsure if you meet the language criteria, please contact us at bilingualdiscourse@gmail.com
For older adults: Researchers at Concordia University’s Cognition, Aging, and Psychophysiology lab (Loyola Campus) are looking for participants for research projects investigating the relationship between bilingualism and cognition.
Participants must be:
· 65 or older
· Right handed
· In good overall health
· Bilingual English/French
If you are interested in participating or are unsure if you meet the language criteria, please contact us at bilingualdiscourse@
July 2018
Research participants wanted for a study on music processing at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology.
An experiment on the physical responses to music needs participants! Volunteers must be healthy, 18 years or older, and with no current medical, neurological, psychiatric, or hearing conditions. The study will involve measuring body responses using safe, non-invasive physical monitoring devices such as heart rate and respiration rate monitors.
There is a $15 compensation for time and inconveniences associated with your participation in the study. The maximum duration of the single study session will be about 1.5 hours.
To verify that you qualify to participate in the study, or for more information, please contact us by email (music.experiments.mcgill@gmail.com).
We are currently recruiting male participants to complete a computer-based behavioral assessment, where they will be asked to rate social visual and auditory stimuli (i.e. faces and voices) based on their perceived emotion and different physical attributes. Participants will be compensated $20 for their time (about 2 hours).
To participate, you have to be:
• Native or bilingual English-speakers;
• Have no history of neurological or auditory disorders.
This project is under supervision of Dr. Jorge L. Armony, McGill University.
Interested? Contact Ignacious Spiousas, Ph.D. or Hanjian Xu, Ph.D. student at: brams.imaging@gmail.com
The BRAMS – CRBLM is looking for participants to be part of a control group in a study on short-term memory and listening effort. In order to participate, you must:
– be aged between 18 and 80 years old
– have English or French as mother tongue
– not have diagnosed hearing loss
– not have any neurological disorders (e.g. epilepsy)
– not take any medication affecting the central nervous system, drug, alcohol
The study will require two sessions (not the same day) about 90-120 minutes each. You will listen to speech stimuli and sometimes memorize them. It will be presented in different auditory contexts while wearing a non-invasive glasses that track your pupil position and dilation. Compensation is CAD$20 per session. If you are interested in participating, please contact Yue Zhang via yue.zhang7@mail.mcgill.ca or 514-692-4200.
Where is it? In the CIRMMT lab: 527 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal (Metro closest : McGill).
June 2018
Jeunes adultes avec et sans acouphène sont cherchés pour participer à une étude visant à examiner la relation entre l’effort mental et leur perception auditive. Plus de renseignements.
Seeking adults with and without Parkinson’s Disease who are able to walk independently for 40 mins. More details here.
Seeking pianists whose native language is English or French for a study that investigates how people perform melodies. More info here.
Native French speakers (with advanced English proficiency) needed to watch short videos in English and perform memory tasks. More details here.
Subjects needed in the age range of 7-9 years or 20-35 years with no formal musical training. More details here.
Le laboratoire de phonétique de l’UQAM est actuellement à la recherche de jeunes enfants parlant le français québécois (âgés de 5 ou 6 ans) pour participer à une étude sur la perception de la parole. Vous pensez connaître un(e) jeune scientifique en herbe? Contactez-nous! Vous trouverez tous les détails de l’étude dans la pièce jointe.
Native English speakers needed to watch short videos and perform memory tasks. Details here.
Children aged 6 to 12 needed for a study on music-evoked emotions and music perception. Please see the bilingual flyer for more information.
Female native speakers of Canadian or American English, aged from 18 to 45 years, needed for voice experiment ($50 for two visits). Criteria and information available here.