Most romantic relationships begin as friendships, a process called friends-first initiation, yet very little research has been devoted to understanding how such relationships form. Instead, research has focused on dating ...
Introduction: While music interventions for persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD) are increasingly utilized due to their documented cognitive and behavioral benefits, the neurological correlates ...
We confirm that under certain conditions, constituents of motor actions afforded by handled objects play a role in their identification. Subjects held in working memory action plans specifying both the laterality of the ...
Olfactory function plays an important role in health and well-being. Deficits have been associated with a greater risk of cognitive decline, dementia, and death, indicating that olfactory ability may be an early marker of ...
Given the ecological importance of face recognition, it is not surprising that the visual system is capable of processing faces with remarkable efficiency. When presented with a face, information is rapidly extracted to ...
Past research on the impacts of acculturation gaps among immigrant family members has yielded inconclusive results potentially due to inconsistent analytical methods, lack of consideration of family processes, and discrepant ...
As the global refugee crisis grows increasingly dire, the Canadian government has raised quotas for refugee resettlement through the Privately Sponsored Refugees Program. Private sponsors provide emotional, financial, and ...
Background Research: The COVID-19 pandemic has likely impacted the resilience of Indigenous and non-Indigenous post-secondary students in Canada. Resilience may be negatively impacted by psychological experiences such as ...
A conflicted and contentious literature has emerged from the proposal that visuospatial information from static images can automatically trigger associated motor representations. Curiously, investigations into this ...
Decarbonizing the global economy is essential to reducing the effects of climate change, however doing so jeopardizes many communities economically dependent on fossil fuel extraction. A small but growing body of literature ...
Dementia is a clinical syndrome characterized by sharp declines in cognition as well as a loss of ability to function independently. Several “predementia” syndromes exist including amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI; ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted parents and children leading to increased stress and decreased psychological well-being (Black et al., 2021; Duan et al., 2020; Spinelli et al., 2020). Building on current research, ...
Gender inequality persists in the workplace, including in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The CAF is struggling to attain their goal of increasing the representation of women in uniform from 16% to 25%. One factor that ...
Introduction: Classifications such as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Cognitive Impairment, No Dementia (CIND) are thought to represent the transitory, pre-clinical phase of dementia. However, increasing research ...
Sense of purpose in life, or the view that one’s life has direction and is guided by overarching life aims, has been found to predict better health outcomes across the adult lifespan, including better cognitive functioning ...
Introduction: Executive functions (EFs) are a set of inter-related neurocognitive abilities, recruited for top-down, conscious control of thoughts, actions and emotions. EFs develop rapidly during the preschool period (age ...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a well-recognized public health issue with significant consequences for victims, families, communities, and society at large. Although IPV was once thought to be an almost exclusively ...
Survivors of complex childhood trauma (CCT) tend to develop distinctive mental health challenges later on in adulthood, which may be exacerbated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. CCT survivors often struggle with ...
When humans are faced with multiple options, they must decide whether to choose a novel or less certain option (explore) or stick with what they know (exploit). Exploration is a fundamental cognitive process. Importantly, ...
In many regions worldwide, older adults now form the fastest growing portion of the population. As such, aging research has seen tremendous growth in recent years, with a focus on identifying early biomarkers of age-related ...