Research Areas

Research is within the area of cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology, focusing on psychiatric neuropsychology.

Aging & Neurodegenerative Diseases

What are the lifestyle factors that impact cognition?

How accurate are our estimates of our thinking skills?

What makes a cognitive rehabilitation intervention effective?

Psychosis Spectrum & Psychiatric Conditions

How can we adapt cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp)?

What is the impact of psychological distress on cognitive perceptions?

Is societal and self-stigma related to perceived cognitive abilities?

What are the neural correlates of self-appraisals of cogniton?

Neuropsychological Practice & Advocacy

How helpful are feedback sessions in neuropsychological practice?

What is the role for (neuro)psychologists in Ontario hospitals?

How can we best support women and minorities in (neuro)psychology?

Sex Differences

How do women and men differ on cognitive tasks in adulthood, aging and psychosis spectrum disorders?

How does vulnerability to psychosis differ by sex?

Published Research

Cuperfain, A. B., Pishdadian, S., Binns, M. A., Black, S. E., Chertkow, H., Freedman, M., Louis, J., Ma, C., Masellis, M., McLaughlin, P. M., Ramirez, J., Tang-Wai, D. F., Tartaglia, M. C., & Kumar, S. (2026). Examining the effects of alcohol use on verbal memory processes in older adults with mild cognitive impairment. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13872877261444995

Pishdadian, S.,* & Jin, J.* (2026). What’s a “cognitive” intervention? The PICC-M framework to distinguish cognitive remediation, stimulation, training, therapy, and rehabilitation. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 29(1), 59–64. https://doi.org/10.5770/cgj.29.893

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