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

Ariana Youm

Graduate Student

Alexander Gordienko

Lab Programmer/Research Assistant

Sara Campitelli

Research Volunteer

Victoriya Kozhemyakina

Research Volunteer

Anuya Patil

2nd Year PhD Student

Katie MacIntosh

Lab Manager/Research Assistant

Wangjing Yu

Independent Study Project Student

Shijing Wang

Research Volunteer

Alexandra Decker

1st Year PhD Student

Azara Lalla

Lab Manager/Research Assistant

Monique Sousa

Research Volunteer

Chiheng Zhou

Research Volunteer

Kyle Nealy

Graduate Student

Hannah Tarder-Stoll

Undergraduate Thesis Student

Helen Liu

Research Volunteer

Enri Boshti

Research Volunteer

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!