Independent Study & Thesis Supervision - Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

Undergraduate supervisor selection and enrollment for experiential courses for PNB are by one of the online ballots listed below:

Experiential Courses

Supervisor selection enrollment for experiential courses are via online ballot.

Research Opportunities

Overview of Theses Completed

Students interested in viewing previous undergraduate theses completed with specific supervisors may do so by e-mailing . Theses are listed by year under each supervisor’s name for both internal and external supervisors.

To see the complete thesis, e-mail with the name of the supervisor, year completed and name of the student. Only requests from McMaster e-mail addresses will be processed.

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To learn more about Faculty members who are accepting thesis/independent study students and the prerequisites for application, click on a profile below:

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour | McMaster University has 35 registered members

Paul Andrews

Associate Professor

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Research Interests:

evolution and neurobiology of depression, evolved functions of rumination, suicide, and serotonin, costs and benefits of antidepressants

Sigal Balshine

Professor

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evolutionary behavioural ecology, animal behaviour lab and fieldwork, breeding system evolution, evolution of cooperation and social behaviour, impacts of contaminants on behaviour, physiology and community structure, cichlids, great lake fish and toadfish

Suzanna Becker

Professor

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Computational and cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory

Patrick Bennett

Professor

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visual perception, psychophysics, face perception, perceptual learning, aging & vision, evoked potentials, ideal observer theory

Nicholas Bock

Associate Professor

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Healthy and disrupted brain structure and composition in humans and animals measured with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Steven Brown

Associate Professor

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Neuroscience of the arts and vocalization, narrative models of cognition, cross-cultural analysis of music

Jonathan Cannon

Assistant Professor

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Time perception; rhythm perception; temporal control of movement; music; computational models; neural oscillations; perception as Bayesian inference

Katrina Choe

Assistant Professor

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Integrative neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, molecular biology, cellular and synaptic physiology, circuits and network, neurodevelopmental disorders, functional magnetic resonance imaging, lightsheet microscopy, social behaviour, disease modeling in animals

Reuven Dukas

Professor

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Cognitive Ecology: the mechanisms, ecology and evolution of cognition, and effects of cognitive traits on animal behaviour, ecology and evolution

Paul Faure

Professor

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Our research is on the links between hearing and behaviour

David Feinberg

Associate Professor

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The Voice Research Laboratory is committed to discovering how we use voices and faces to perceive the world

Lauren Fink

Assistant Professor

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Multi-modal attention; inter-personal timing and synchronization; physiological responses during musical engagement; computational modeling of musical expectations; affective computing; music information retrieval; multi-person adaptive music-making; altered states and subjective experience.

Deda Gillespie

Associate Professor

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circuits and systems neuroscience, patch physiology, plasticity, synaptic inhibition, auditory processing/development

Daniel Goldreich

Associate Professor

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Tactile psychophysics, The neural basis of tactile perception, Perception as Bayesian inference

Geoffrey Hall

Professor

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His interests broadly encompass the neurological foundations of human emotion and cognition

Ali Hashemi

Assistant Professor

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William Huggon

Assistant Professor

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Karin Humphreys

Associate Professor, On Leave 2022

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Research Interests:

cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, language production, errors in normal and pathological speech

Ayesha Khan

Associate Professor

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Student experience with community-engaged education, the impact of institutional policies on student mental health, hormones and behaviour

Joe Kim

Associate Professor

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Assessing the Impact of Learning Objective Format on Knowledge Retention

Meagan MacKenzie

Assistant Professor

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Mental Health

Bruce Milliken

Professor

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Research Interests:

Attention and visual perception

Kathryn Murphy

Professor

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Research Interests:

neurodevelopment of humans and animal models, neural mechanisms regulating neuroplasticity using postmortem tissue, typical and atypical development

Mayu Nishimura

Assistant Professor

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Sukhvinder Obhi

Professor

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Research Interests:

Mirroring & Simulation, Power & the Brain, Sense of Agency, Culture & the Brain

Jennifer Ostovich

Assistant Professor

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human sexual attitudes and behaviours

Nikol Piskuric

Assistant Professor

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Neurophysiology and neurotransmission; sensory receptors; experiential learning; curriculum development

Mel Rutherford

Professor & Chair

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Evolutionary psychological perspectives on social perceptual development, social cognitive development, theory of mind and autism

Louis Schmidt

Professor

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Developmental psychophysiology, social emotional development in children, neural basis of human emotion

Allison Sekuler

Faculty

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Vision, cognitive neuroscience, EEG, aging, face perception, perceptual learning, neural plasticity, Alzheimer’s and related dementias, neurotechnology

David Shore

Professor

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Research Interests:

Crossmodal temporal processing, memory and visual search, varieties and effects of attention

Hong Jin Sun

Associate Professor

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Research Interests:

visual perception, multisensory processing, visual motor control, locomotion, visual attention, driving, implicit learning, spatial memory

Laurel Trainor

Professor

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Development of auditory perception

Scott Watter

Associate Professor

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Divided attention and executive control

Gabriel (Naiqi) Xiao

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests:

Infants’ visual perception, Face perception, Top-down perceptual modulation, Infants’ social biases, Eye-tracking, functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS)

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