Duncan Lab

Welcome to the Duncan Memory Lab

Why do we remember some events and not others?

How do important events change memory?

How does the hippocampus support memory encoding and retrieval?

We are working towards answering these questions, and more, through our research.

OUR RESEARCH

MEET OUR LAB

Katherine Duncan, PhD

Principal Investigator

Azara Lalla

Lab Manager/Research Assistant

Freda Jian

Individual Study Project Student

Candice Tay

Research Assistant

Andrew Bauer

Postdoctoral Fellow

Katie MacIntosh

Lab Manager/Research Assistant

Hannah Tarder-Stoll

Individual Study Project Student

Wangjing Yu

Research Assistant

Anuya Patil

Graduate Student

Helen Liu

Undergraduate Thesis Student

Freha Mian

Research Assistant

Thalia Vrantsidis

Outside Project Graduate Student

Yaxin Liu

Individual Study Project Student

Yin Liao

Lab Programmer

More about our Lab

PUBLICATIONS

Consolidation of Associative and Item Memory Is Related to Post-Encoding Functional Connectivity between the Ventral Tegmental Area and Different Medial Temporal Lobe Subregions during an Unrelated Task

Model-based choices involve prospective neural activity

Associative Encoding and Retrieval Are Predicted by Functional Connectivity in Distinct Hippocampal Area CA1 Pathways

See more publications

NEWS

Accepting Applicants!

The Duncan Lab is now accepting applications from prospective graduate student researchers.
New MRI Scanner arrives!
Congratulations on successfully defending your Master’s thesis, Anuya!
Congratulations to our lab alumni, Sara Pishdadian, Rachel Downey and Louisa Man. Best of luck in your future endeavors!
A warm welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow, Meg Schlichting!
Congratulations to Meg Schlichting for accepting a faculty position in the Psychology Department!
The Toronto Neuroimaging Facility has opened!
A warm welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow, Andrew Bauer!