Thesis and Dissertation
It is expected that the MA thesis will be completed within the first two years in the program. The Masters degree will normally be required before studies for the doctorate are begun.
The main component of the doctoral program is the dissertation. Students are usually assigned to a specific research supervisor when they are admitted to the program based on interests and background. Any of the core or cross-appointed faculty listed on the faculty page can serve as supervisors for the doctoral program. In addition, the adjunct appointees to the department are also occasionally willing to supervise our doctoral students. Completion of the PhD dissertation typically requires another three years after completing the MA.
To give you an idea of the kinds of projects that you can do in Cognitive Neuroscience, here is a list of some of our recently completed dissertations in behavioural and cognitive neuroscience:
- The influence of study context on recollection: Cognitive, neural, and age-related processes. Erin Skinner, 2009
- Attention and the parietal cortex: Investigations of spatial neglect, optic ataxia, and the influence of prism adaptation on attention. Christopher L. Striemer, 2008
- What's Wrong with my Rats?: Characterising Multiple Memory Systems and Neural Gene Expressions in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat, Koreen Clements, 2006
- The good and the bad of affective guidance: Insights from the influence of automatic prejudice on complex decisions under uncertainty. Brandon Wagar, 2005
- A role for action knowledge in visual object identification. Genevieve Desmarais, 2005
- When Immediate Working Memory Fails to Work: Effects of Alcohol and Performance Incentives. Karen Grattan-Miscio, 2004
- Non-Visual Attributes of Objects Influence Visual Object Identification: Converging Evidence from Multiple Visual Identification Tasks. Tom Schweizer, 2004
- Hemispheric Specialization for the Conscious and Unconscious Perception of Emotional Stimuli. Stephen Smith, 2004
- The Role of Central Executive and Working Memory during Non-Lexical Reading: Evidence from a Case of Non-Fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia. Mark Dowhaniuk, 2003
- Evaluation of Serotonin Involvement in Toxin-induced Conditioned Rejection of Saccharin. Cheryl Limebeer, 2003
