I am a PhD student in Psychology co-supervised by Dr. Stefan Kohler and Dr. Ken McRae. I am interested in ideas of Embodied and Grounded Cognition especially as they relate to learning and memory. I completed my Bachelor’s of Science (Honours) and my Master’s of Science at the University of Northern British Columbia. During my MSc, I worked under the supervision of Dr. Heath Matheson and studied how information from the body affects understanding of words. In my PhD work, I am investigating the ways in which action shapes memory for object location. I am using mouse tracking in combination with imaging to monitor the dynamic systems that underlie learning and memory.

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Education

H.BSc., Psychology, University of Northern British Columbia

Msc., Psychology, University of Northern British Columbia

Publications

MacRae, S., Duffels, B., Duchesne, A., Siakaluk, P.D., Matheon, H.E. (2022). God in body and space: Investigating sensorimotor grounding in abstract concepts. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 1-13 doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.972193