Name/Division or Faculty

Fields of Study

Websites

David Behm
Human Kinetics and Recreation

Neuromuscular responses to activity such as muscle contraction, fatigue, stretching, instability and pain

https://www.mun.ca/hkr/our-people/faculty/

Duane Button
Human Kinetics and Recreation

How the brain, spinal cord and muscle adapts to chronic resistance training, fatigue, and pain

https://www.mun.ca/hkr/our-people/faculty/

Lindsay Cahill
Chemistry

Diagnostic utility of advanced imaging techniques using experimental animal models of neurodevelopmental and pregnancy disorders.

https://www.cahilllab.com/

Christine Carter
Music

Optimizing music learning, with an interest in how evidence-based learning strategies can be adapted to the study of music

https://www.mun.ca/music/people/faculty/christine-carter/

https://christine-carter.com/

Diana De Carvalho Medicine

Responses and adaptations to prolonged spine flexion, ergonomic interventions and clinical low back pain

https://www.mun.ca/medicine/faculty-and-staff-resources/faculty-a-z/de-carvalho-diana.php

Blaire Dube

Psychology

Visual cognition (visual attention, visual short-term memory, and visual perception), and the cognitive mechanisms that allow us to prioritize the elements of our environments that are most relevant

https://www.mun.ca/psychology/bio/blaire-dube/

Jonathan Fawcett Psychology

Neurocognitive mechanisms involved in controlling unwanted thoughts or memories

https://www.mun.ca/psychology/bio/jonathan-fawcett/

Jay Henderson Computer Science

Human-computer interaction,

including, learning input techniques, augmented/mixed/virtual reality, and

2D/3D interaction

http://jayhenderson.ca/

Xianta Jiang
Computer Science

Artificial intelligence technology applications in healthcare, with a specific interest in predicting human activities from brain, eyes, and limbs signals utilizing novel sensor technologies and machine learning algorithms

https://sites.google.com/view/dr-xianta-jiang

Shyamchand Mayengbam Biochemistry

Understanding the novel roles of dietary micronutrients and bioactive molecules in the prevention and treatment of metabolic and chronic diseases

https://www.mun.ca/biochem/shyamchand-mayengbam/

Heath Matheson Psychology

Fundamental research on the nature of the mind/brain, addressing ‘big picture’ questions about how we learn concepts and think with them

https://www.createlab.ca/

https://www.mun.ca/psychology/bio/heath-matheson/

Matthew Parsons

Medicine

Understanding how and when brain cell communication fails in neurodegenerative disease

https://www.mun.ca/medicine/faculty-and-staff-resources/faculty-a-z/parsons-matthew.php

Gregory Pearcey Human Kinetics and Recreation

Decoding the neural control of human movement by recording electrical signals from human muscle, using a technique called Electromyography, to 1) determine how humans control movement, and 2) understand and enhance neuroplasticity and recovery of motor function.

https://www.mun.ca/hkr/our-people/faculty/

https://sites.google.com/mun.ca/ni4m/home

Michelle Ploughman
Medicine

Creating and testing new treatments to help promote neuroplasticity and enhance recovery in stroke and multiple sclerosis

https://mun.ca/medicine/faculty-and-staff-resources/faculty-a-z/ploughman-michelle.php

 https://www.drmichelleploughman.com/

Karteek Popuri Computer Science

Fundamental image processing algorithms to engineering big data, artificial intelligence (AI) pipelines for high-throughput medical image data processing

https://diaglab.cs.mun.ca/team/

Kevin Power
Human Kinetics and Recreation

How the brain and spinal cord work together to produce arm cycling, a rhythmic motor output that has similar neural control strategies as locomotion

https://www.mun.ca/hkr/our-people/faculty/

Sarah Power
Engineering

Development of EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies for neuroergonomics and rehabilitation applications

https://www.mun.ca/engineering/about/our-people/sarah-power/

Andrew Staniland
Music

Innovative digital instruments which interface with an individual using their brain activity to compose music

https://www.mun.ca/music/people/faculty/andrew-staniland/

Ashlyn Swift-Gallant Psychology

The role hormones play in the development of the brain and behaviour with the overall goal of understanding how individual differences develop

https://www.mun.ca/psychology/bio/ashlyn-swift-gallant/

Katie Wadden
Human Kinetics and Recreation

The impact of movement (i.e., rehabilitation and exercise-based interventions) on novel brain-body measures in clinical populations

https://www.waddenlab.com/

Benjamin Zendel Medicine

Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience: How the brain processes sound, particularly music and speech, and how that changes as we age. Using knowledge about auditory cognition to improve hearing abilities.  

https://www.mun.ca/medicine/faculty-and-staff-resources/faculty-a-z/zendel-benjamin.php

https://www.caanlab.ca/