A collaboration of researchers from the Departments of Psychology and Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo, are involved in the Neurological Patient Database. These researchers study a wide range of different topics including cognition, atttention, motor behaviours, and memory. Click on the People category in the Menu to find out more about what each researcher studies.
Examples of research studies involving NPD participants
- Exploring the cognitive and motor processes underlying prism adaptation in patients with neglect using behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques
- Saccadic adaptation task to test a possible new treatment method for hemineglect patients
- Updating intention in the right parietal cortex
- Rock, Paper, Scissors and representational updating
- Attention and spatial probability in hemispatial neglect
- Attentional bias in neurological patients
- The long-term impact of closed-head injury severity on attention and memory
- Cognitive modulation of the experience
of boredom in patients with traumatic brain injury
- Recognition memory and study condition
- Prefrontal gating of cortical somatosensory processing
- Linking sensory input to visual awareness - the role of visual short-term memory
- Statistical learning of unfamiliar words
- Physical activity and cognitive function in healthy adults and people with stroke
Dr. Eric Roy, of the Department of Kinesiology at the university of Waterloo, examining a series of CT scans.
