CLOSER Neuropsychology Lab
Cognition, Lasting Outcomes, Symptom Evaluation & Rehabilitation
Research Areas
Research is within the area of cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology, focusing on psychiatric neuropsychology.
Terao, C. M.,* Pishdadian, S.,* Moscovitch, M., & Rosenbaum, R. S. (2025). Ask how they did it: untangling the relationships between task-specific strategy use, everyday strategy use, and associative memory. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 32(1), 29-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2024.2345408
Pishdadian, S., Coutrot, A., Webber, L., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.*, Rosenbaum, R.S*. (2024) Combining patient-lesion and big data approaches to reveal hippocampal contributions to spatial memory and navigation. iScience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109977
Pishdadian, S., Milanovic, M., Martins, F., Doell, F., Kidd, S., Grossman, M. (2023) Emotion regulation relates to clinical characteristics and quality of life but not daily functioning in psychosis spectrum outpatients. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 161, 289-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.03.022
Pishdadian, S., Rosenbaum, R.S., (2021) Memory and Amnesia. In: Della Sala, S. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 2. Elsevier, pp. 413–424. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819641-0.00133-X
Pishdadian, S., Hoang, N., Baker, S., Moscovitch, M., Rosenbaum, R.S. (2020) Not only memory: Investigating the sensitivity and specificity of the Mnemonic Similarity Task in older adults. Neuropsychologia, 149, 107670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107670
Pishdadian, S., Parlar, M., Heinrichs, R. W., McDermid Vaz, S. M. (2020) An ecologically sensitive measure of executive cognition (The Breakfast Task) improves the prediction of functional outcome in schizophrenia. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2020.1821029
Sekeres, M., Moscovitch, M., Wincour G., Pishdadian, S., Nichol, D., Grady, C. (2020) Reminders activate the prefrontal-medial temporal cortex and attenuate forgetting of event memory. Hippocampus. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23260
Sekeres, M. J., Winocur, G., Moscovitch, M., Anderson, J. A., Pishdadian, S., Martin Wojtowicz, J., . & Grady, C. L. (2018). Changes in patterns of neural activity underlie a time‐dependent transformation of memory in rats and humans. Hippocampus, 28(10), 745-764. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23009
Robin, J., Lowe, M. X., Pishdadian, S., Rivest, J., Cant, J. S., & Moscovitch, M. (2017). Selective scene perception deficits in a case of topographical disorientation. Cortex, 92, 70-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.03.014
Sekeres, M., McKelvey, K., St-Laurent, M., Pishdadian, S., Winocur, G., Grady, C., Moscovitch, M., (2016) Recovering and preventing loss of detailed memory: Time-dependent transformation of complex memory episodes. Learning & Memory, 23(2), 72-82. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.039057.115.
*asterisks indicates equal contribution