A5026556014- Mind wandering and attention
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Color perception and design
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Sleep and related disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
University of Calgary
2025
University of Arizona
2020-2024
University of British Columbia
2016-2017
Despite an established body of research characterizing how creative individuals explore their
Abstract Although central to well-being, functional and dysfunctional thoughts arise unfold over time in ways that remain poorly understood. To shed light on these mechanisms, we adapted a “think aloud” paradigm quantify the content dynamics of individuals’ at rest. Across two studies, external raters hand coded each thought computed dynamic metrics spanning duration, transition probabilities between affective states, conceptual similarity time. Study 1 highlighted paradigm’s high ecological...
Iconic representations are ubiquitous; they fill children's cartoons, add humor to newspapers, and bring emotional tone online communication. Yet, the communicative function serve remains unaddressed by cognitive psychology. Here, we examined hypothesis that iconic communicate information more efficiently than their realistic counterparts. In Experiment 1, manipulated low-level features of faces create five sets stimuli ranged from photorealistic fully iconic. Participants identified...
The current study used two complementary methods to examine whether hyperactive and inattentive ADHD symptoms are differentially linked thought dynamics under contexts that differ in the extent which constraints placed on ongoing thoughts. First, participants voiced aloud their thoughts real-time (i.e., Think Aloud task), conditions varying levels of exerted Individuals with more displayed heightened variability content only less constrained condition. Second, completed seven days ecological...
Abstract While recent neurocognitive theories have proposed links between dreams and waking life, it remains unclear what kinds of thoughts are most similar in their phenomenological characteristics to those dreams. To investigate this question examine relevance significant personal concerns dispositional mental health traits, we employed ecological momentary assessment trait questionnaires across 719 young adults who completed the study during COVID-19 pandemic, a time marked by...
How well can social scientists predict societal change, and what processes underlie their predictions? To answer these questions, we ran two forecasting tournaments testing accuracy of predictions change in domains commonly studied the sciences: ideological preferences, political polarization, life satisfaction, sentiment on media, gender-career racial bias. Following provision historical trend data domain, submitted pre-registered monthly forecasts for a year (Tournament 1; N=86 teams/359...
Abstract Human imagination has garnered growing interest in many fields. However, it remains unclear how to characterize different forms of imaginative thinking and differs between young older adults. Here, we introduce a novel scoring protocol based on recent theoretical developments the cognitive neuroscience provide broad tool with which thinking. The distinguishes concrete/perceptual termed “mind’s eye” abstract/reflective mind.” also captures whether thoughts pertain self, others, or...
Objective: Over the past decade, resting state functional connectivity has shown great promise as a diagnostic and prognostic tool when applied to neurological psychiatric populations. For example, integrity of default mode network - among other large-scale brain networks emerged common target disease psychopathology. Despite this explosion in research, relatively little is understood about cognitive characteristics mind at rest, most inquiries have relied on retrospective self-report...
Human imagination has garnered growing interest in many fields. However, how to characterize different forms of imaginative thinking and differs between young older adults remains unclear. Here, we introduce a novel scoring protocol based on our recently proposed neurocognitive framework provide broad tool with which thinking. The distinguishes concrete/perceptual termed the “mind’s eye” abstract/reflective mind.” also captures whether thoughts pertain self, others, or both. We applied this...
A unique trait of cartoon imagery is that it employs abstract symbolic elements, which require learning or culture to understand, in addition literal iconic elements resemble features the real world. Our previous research has demonstrated more "cartoonized" images faces communicate emotion quickly and efficiently than photorealistic faces, such heightened communicative value relies on low-level as simplicity contrast. Outstanding questions concern whether facial (e.g., :)) can be replaced...