Our Team
Dr. Ben Eppinger
Lab Supervisor
I completed my PhD at Saarland University in 2008 and then moved to Princeton University for postdoctoral training (2007-2010). After the time in Princeton I spent two years as a research scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin before taking the position of an assistant professor at the Psychology Department at Technische Universität Dresden. Since August 2016 I am an associate professor in the Psychology Department at Concordia University and since June 2017 a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in cognitive neuroscience of healthy decision-making in human aging.
You can contact me at ben.eppinger@concordia.ca
Visit Ben's ResearchGate page
Teaching:
- Summer 2021 : Consolidation in the neurocognitive-affective basics of learning and memory disorders (125193, Freie Universität Berlin)
- Summer 2021 : Statistical Methods with Nicolas Schuck (127001, Freie Universität Berlin)
- Summer 2021 : Affective and Social Neuroscience (127030, Freie Universität Berlin)
- Winter 2021 : Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364, Concordia University)
- Fall 2020 : Judgement and Decision Making (PSYC 464, Concordia University)
- Summer 2020 : Application of basic learning sciences in the classroom, Educational Sciences (Technische Universität Dresden)
- Winter 2019 : Developmental cognitive neuroscience: Basic research and potential implications for educational and health interventions (PSYC 725, Concordia University)
The Research Team
Joni Shuchat
PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology
Active Project: Decision-making and memory function
Interests: I have clinical training in neuropsychology, individual therapy, and am currently at the AMI in the Sex and Couples Therapy Service practicum.
jshuchat@gmail.com
Alexa Ruel
PhD Candidate in Experimental Psychology
Active Project: Learning strategies
Interests: Examining how different decision-making strategies change across the lifespan.
alexa.ruel@mail.concordia.ca Visit Alexa's ResearchGate page Visit Alexa's website
Maxine Profitt
PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology
Active Project: Effort-reward trade-offs during learning
Interests: Understanding how learning and decision-making processes change as a function of inattention and impulse control.
Julia Mignelli
Honours Student
Active Project: Prevalence-Induced Concept Change in face perception
Interests: Exploring how changes in prevalence affect concepts about others and the associated moral implications.
mignellij@gmail.com
Madison Williams
Volunteer
Active Project: Learning Strategies
Interests: Exploring sexual decision making in relation to alcohol consumption.
Madisonwilliamss@hotmail.com
Kimia Motevalli
Volunteer Research Assistant
Active Project: Successor representation learning
Interests: I am interested in examining how learning strategies change across the lifespan.
kimia.motevalli78@gmail.com
Sean Devine
Collaborator
Active Project: Prevalence-induced Concept Change
Interests: I am interested in understanding how decisions about concepts and cognitive effort investments change as a function of age.
seandamiandevine@gmail.com Visit Sean's ResearchGate page Visit Sean's website
Cassandra Neumann
Collaborator
Active Project: Effort-reward trade-offs across the lifespan
Interests: How the the developmental and individual differences in engaging in cognitive control changes across the lifespan.
cassandra.neumann12@gmail.com
Visit Cassandra's ResearchGate page
Agata Kasprzyk
Collaborator
Active Project: Prevalence Induced Concept Change in male body image
Interests: I am interested in exploring how substance use affects well-being and decision-making.
atakasprzyk@gmail.com
Nathalie Germain
Collaborator
Active Project: Prevalence-induced Concept Change
Interests: How we perceive characteristics and make judgements about other people as the information we have at our disposal is updated.
nathalie.germain@mail.concordia.ca
Visit Nathalie's ResearchGate page