Dr. Dukas and his lab members examine the evolutionary biology of cognition, including topics such as acquisition, retention, and retrieval. The laboratory primarily works with insect species, such as bees, flies, and grasshoppers, between the contexts of solitary and social behaviour. In terms of long-term findings, the close relation between genetic and neurobiological mechanisms is explored in order to note and potentially discover important effects of sociability and aggression on fitness.

Dr. Balshine’s research interests are centered on evolutionary behavioural ecology with a special focus on sociality, breeding system evolution and anthropogenic impacts on behaviour. Dr. Balshine’s Aquatic Behavioural Ecology Lab, takes an interdisciplinary approach, both in the field and the lab, investigating the evolution of complex breeding systems, social behaviour, reproductive tactics, and decision-making in animal societies.

Dr. Service is a co-director of the Language, Memory, and Brain Lab. Incorporating working memory, language, and dyslexia, their lab combines experimental behavioural methods and collaborative research studying brain responses with different methodologies. The goals of her research include finding the elementary cognitive building blocks essential in language development, language learning, and successful literacy, concentrating on representation of serial order in working memory.

Dr. Hashemi completed his PhD in the Vision and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at McMaster University. He has conducted research on understanding the neural mechanisms of face perception, and then using these principles to develop a novel stimulus class to study the generalizability of perceptual learning. His current research focuses on understanding how basic visual and cognitive processes are affected in healthy and non-healthy older adults, relative to healthy younger adults.

Dr. Bennett is the Research Chair in Vision Science and the director of the Vision and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at McMaster. The research conducted in this lab centers around age related changes in visual performance and processing due to compensatory reorganization. Dr. Bennett’s research interests include neuroimaging, the development of perception, perceptual learning, psychophysics, and vision patterns.

Dr. Andrews is an associate professor in the PNB department, focusing on evolutionary psychology. His research centers around the evolution of depression and understanding depression as an emotional response that has evolved in order to make sense of complex situations. Dr. Andrews investigates how the serotonin system evolved and the ways in which antidepressants impact overall health, specifically the cardiovascular risk they impose.

Dr. Becker is the Principle Investigator of the Neurotechnology and Neuroplasticity Lab as well as a professor in the PNB department. Dr. Becker investigates cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory, and how certain lifestyle factors influence memory, mental illness, and stress in older adults. Her work also focuses on developing treatments for hearing loss associated with age.

Dr. Bock is an associate professor and associate undergraduate chair of the PNB department. His work explores how the functions of the brain result from its structure, focusing in particular on the cerebral cortex. Dr. Bock works to develop in vivo techniques using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to map the cortex. He also investigates how different thought processes influence the health of the cortex.

Dr. Goldreich's research is centered on the tactile psychophysics, the neural basis of tactile perception, and perception as Bayesian inference. Dr. Goldreich’s Tactile Perception Lab focuses on studying discriminative touch, perceptual learning, sensory compensation in blindness, the sense of touch during development and aging, and sensory illusions. The goal of his lab is to formulate models of human perception that have the predictive power of the equations of physics.