Signy Sheldon
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Prof. Sheldon’s work focuses on understanding how and why we remember events and episodes. Prof. Sheldon uses behavioural experiments, work with patient populations and neuroimaging techniques to discover (1) the role of the hippocampus and related brain structures in storing and retrieving episodic memories (2) the functions of remembering by examining how memory processes contribute to non-mnemonic abilities, like imagination and problem solving (3) how individual differences in the way we remember are reflected in the brain.
Research Interest
Behavioral Neuroscience
Publications
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Sheldon, S., & Moscovitch, M. (2012). The nature and time course of medial temporal lobe contributions to semantic retrieval: An fMRI study on verbal fluency. Hippocampus, 22(6), 1451-1466.
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Sheldon, S., Romero, K., & Moscovitch, M. (2013). Medial temporal lobe amnesia impairs performance on a free association task. Hippocampus, 23(5), 405-412.
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Sheldon, S., & Levine. B. (2013). Same as it ever was: Vividness modulates the similarities and differences between the neural networks that support retrieving remote and recent autobiographical memories. NeuroImage, 83C, 880-891.
