Selected Publications
Lalla, A., Maloney, C., & Sheldon, S. (submitted). Option similarity determines the impact of choice outcome on updating the value of an unchosen option. Psychological Sciences.
Lalla, A., & Sheldon, S. (submitted). The conceptual relatedness of post-encoding stimuli influences forgetting for central aspects of complex memories. Memory.
Sheldon, S., Lisus, D., Dupertys, J., Lalla, A., & Liu, T.T. (submitted). Social schemas and episodic memory: insights into schema updating and emotional influence. Emotion.
Sheldon, S., Atack, L., Moscovitch, M., & Moscovitch, D.A. (in revision). Targeting schema change in social anxiety via autobiographical memory reconstruction. Cognition and Emotion.
Fenerci, C., O’Toole, S., Ranalli, E., Summers, K., & Sheldon, S. (in revision). The impact of retrieval goals on memory for complex events in younger and older adults. Cognition.
Bogdanov, M, Bustamante, L, Devine, S., Sheldon, S., & Otto, R. (in revision) "Non-invasive brain stimulation over the Frontopolar Cortex promotes willingness to exert cognitive effort in a foraging-like sequential choice task. The Journal of Neuroscience.
Gurguryan, L., Yang, H., Kohler, S., & Sheldon, S. (2024). Lifetime familiarity of cues influences autobiographical memory retrieval. Psychological Research, 88(5), 1456–1470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-024-01968-3
Fenerci, C., Setton, R., Baracchini. G., Snytte J., Spreng, R. N., Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, Sheldon, S. (2024). Aging shifts hippocampal subregion connectivity patterns during movie watching. Neurobiology of Aging, 141, 182–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.06.006
Fenerci, C., Adjei, B., & Sheldon, S. (2024). Remembering what we imagine: the role of event schemas in shaping how imagined autobiographical events are recalled. Learning & Memory, 31(4), a053993. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053993.124
Snytte, J., Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Rajah, M.N., Sheldon, S., Turner, G.R., & Spreng, R.N. (2024). Structure-function interactions in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex are associated with episodic memory in healthy aging. Eneuro, https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0418-23.2023
Lockrow, A.W., Setton, R., Spreng, K.A.P., Sheldon, Turner, G.R., & Spreng, R.N. (2024). Taking stock of the past: A psychometric evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview. Behav Res 56(2), 1002–1038, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02080-x
Gurguryan, L., Fenerci, C., Ngo, N., & Sheldon, S. (revision requested). The neural correlates of constructing conceptual and perceptual representation of autobiographical memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Fenerci, C., Davis, E., Henderson, S.E., Campbell, K.L., & Sheldon, S. (2023). Shift happens: Aging alters the content and organization of memory for complex events. psyArxiv
Melega, G., & Sheldon, S., (2023). Conceptual relatedness promotes memory generalization at the cost of detailed recollection. Sci Rep 13(1), 15575, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40803-4
Gurguryan, L., Yang, H., Kohler, S., & Sheldon, S. (revision requested). Lifetime familiarity of cues influences autobiographical memory retrieval. Psychological Research
Snytte, J., Setton R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Rajah, N.M., Sheldon, S., Turner, G.R., & Spreng, N.R. (2023). Multidimensional episodic memory in older adults is linked to structure-function interactions between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. eNeuro
Fenerci, C., Adjei, B., & Sheldon, S. (in press) Schema-congruency and novelty both enhance memory for imagined autobiographical events. Learning and Memory
Melaga, G. & Sheldon, S., (2023). Conceptual similarity promotes memory generalization at the cost of detailed recollection. Scientific Reports, 13(1), doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-40803-4
Lalla. A., Chaykin, R., & Sheldon, S. (2023). Option similarity modulates the link between choice and memory. Memory and Cognition
Gregory, A. J. P., Bartz, J. A., O'Connor, B. B., & Sheldon, S. (2023). From memory to motivation: Probing the relationship between episodic simulation, empathy, and helping intentions. Emotion. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/emo0001294
Sheldon, S., Sheldon, J., Zhang, S., Setton, R., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., & Grilli, M. D. (2023). Differences in the content and coherence of autobiographical memories between younger and older adults: Insights from text analysis. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000769
Sheldon, S., Fan, C., Uner, I., & Young, M. (2023). Learning strategy impacts medical diagnostic reasoning in early learners Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8(17), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-023-00472-3
Moscovitch, D.A., Moscovitch, M., & Sheldon, S. (2023). Neurocognitive model of schema-congruent and incongruent learning in clinical disorders: Application to social anxiety. Perspectives on Psychological Science. doi.org/10.1177/17456916221141351
Lockrow, A.W., Setton, R., Spreng, K.A.P. Sheldon, S., Turner, G., & Spreng, N.R. (2023). Taking stock of the past: A psychometric evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview. Behavioural Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02080-x
Grilli, M. & Sheldon, S., (2022). Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist. Trends in Cognitive Science, 26(12), 1079-1089, doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.09.007.
Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Sheldon, S., Turner, G. & Spreng, R.N. (2022). Hippocampus and temporal pole functional connectivity is associated with age and individual differences in autobiographical memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 119(41). doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203039119
Snytte, J., Fenerci, C., Rajagopal, S., Beaudoin, C., Hooper, K., Sheldon, S., Olsen, R. K., and Rajah, M.N.R. (2022). Volume of the posterior hippocampus mediates age-related differences in spatial context memory and is correlated with increased activity in lateral frontal, parietal, and occipital regions in healthy aging. Neuroimage, doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119164
Fenerci, C., Gurguryan, L., Spreng, R.N. & Sheldon, S. (2022). Comparing neural activity during autobiographical memory retrieval between younger and older adults: An ALE meta-analysis. Neurobiology of Aging.
Spreng, R.N., Setton, R., Spreng, K., Sheldon, S., Turner, G. (2022). Taking stock of the past: A psychometric evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview. Behavior Research Methods
Gurguryan, L., Yang, H., Kohler, S., & Sheldon, S. (submitted). Lifetime familiarity of cues influences autobiographical memory retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Language Memory and Cognition
Gregory, A., Rioux, M., Gaesser, B., Bartz, J., & Sheldon, S. (under review). The role of episodic simulation in creating empathy: Distress vs. concern. Emotion
Setton, R., Sheldon, S., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Temporal pole volume is associated with episodic autobiographical memory in healthy older adults. Hippocampus, 32(5), 373-385. PDF
Fenerci, C., & Sheldon, S. (2022). The role of episodic memory in imagining autobiographical events: the influence of event expectancy and context familiarity. Memory. PDF
Williams, K., Snytte, J., & Sheldon, S. (2022). Individual differences in depression are reflected in self-evaluation when imagining future events. Journal of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy.
Snytte, J., Fenerci, C., Rajagopal, S., Beaudoin, C., Hooper, K., Sheldon, S., ... & Rajah, M. N. (2022). Volume of the posterior hippocampus mediates age-related differences in spatial context memory and is correlated with increased activity in lateral frontal, parietal and occipital regions in healthy aging. NeuroImage, 254, 119164. PDF
Wynn, J. S., Van Genugten, R. D., Sheldon, S., & Schacter, D. L. (2022). Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation. Consciousness and Cognition, 100, 103302. PDF
DuTemple, E., & Sheldon, S. (2022). The effect of retrieval goals the content recalled from complex narratives. Memory and Cognition, 50, 397-406. PDF
Arulanandam, B., Selvarajan, A., Piche, N., Sheldon, S., Bloom, R., Emil, S., ... & Poenaru, D. (2022). Use of a risk communication survey to prioritize family-valued outcomes and communication preferences for children undergoing outpatient surgical procedures. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 57(5), 788-797. PDF
da Silva Castanheira, K., Lalla, A., Ocampo, K., Otto, R., & Sheldon, S. (2022). Reward at encoding but not retrieval modulates memory for detailed events. Cognition, 219, 104957. PDF
Lalla, A., & Sheldon, S. (2021). The effects of emotional valence and perceived life stress on recalling personal experiences and envisioning future events. Emotion, DOI: 10.1037/emo0001050
Strikwerda-Brown, C., Williams, K., Lévesque, M., Brambati, S., & Sheldon, S. (2021). What are your thoughts? Exploring age-related changes in episodic and semantic autobiographical content on an unconstrained task. Memory, 1-9. PDF
Agostino, C., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Aging alters the details recollected from emotional narratives. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 28(6). PDF
Gurguryan, L., Rouix, M., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Reduced anterior hippocampal and ventromedial prefrontal activity when repeatedly retrieving autobiographical memories. Hippocampus, 31, 869-880. PDF
Scheurich, R., Agostino, C., Kaya, B., Palmer, C., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Evidence for a visual bias when recalling complex narratives. PLOS One, 16(4): e0249950. PDF
Lockrow, A.Q., Setton, R. Spreng, K., Sheldon, S., Turner, G., Spreng, N.R. (2021). Taking stock of the past: A psychometric evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview. bioRxiv 2021.12.22.473803. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.22.473803
Gurguryan, L., DuTemple, E., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Conceptual similarity alters the impact of context shifts on temporal memory. Memory, 29(1), 11-20. PDF
Peters, S.L., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Common and distinct neural systems support the generation retrieval phase of autobiographical memory and personal problem solving. Behavioural Brain Research, 397, 112911. PDF
Sheldon, S. (2021). The impact of encoding scenarios on different forms of temporal order memory. Psychological Research, 85, 2553-2565. PDF
Sheldon, S., Peters, S., & Renoult, L. (2020). Altering access to autobiographical episodes with prior semantic knowledge. Consciousness and Cognition, 86, 103039. PDF
Lalla, A., Agostino, C., & Sheldon, S., (2020). The link between detail generation and eye movements when encoding and retrieving complex images. Memory, 28(10), 1231-1244. PDF
Fenerci, C., da Silva Castanheira, K., LoParco, M., & Sheldon, S. (2020). Changes in the experience of time: The impact of spatial information on the perception and memory of duration. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(3), 471-482. PDF
Smallwood, E., Legari, S., & Sheldon S. (2020). Group art therapy for the psychosocial dimension of epilepsy: A perspective and a preliminary mixed-methods study. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 54(3), 286-323. PDF
Chapleau, M., Bedetti, C., Devenyi, G., Sheldon, S., Rosen, H., Miller, B., Gorno-Tempini, N.K., Chakravarty, M., & Brambati, S., (2020). Deformation-based shape analysis of the hippocampus in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer's disease. NeuroImage: Clinical, 27, 102305, 1-9. PDF
Peters, S., & Sheldon, S. (2020). Individual differences in cognitive aging and autobiographical memory retrieval. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(1), 15–29 PDF
Sheldon, S., Williams, K., Harrington, S., & Otto, A.R. (2020). Emotional cue effects on accessing and elaborating upon autobiographical memories. Cognition, 198, 104217. PDF
Petrican, R., Palombo, D., Sheldon, S., & Levine, B. (2020). Individual differences in episodic autobiographical memory are predicted by spontaneous neural dynamics relevant to visual episodic memory. eNeuro, 7(2), 1-9. PDF
Nitschke, J., Giorgio, L., Zaborowska, O., & Sheldon, S. (2020). Acute psychosocial stress during retrieval impairs pattern separation. Stress, 23(4), 437-443. PDF
Peters, S.L., Fan, C.L., & Sheldon, S. (2019). Episodic memory contributes to different forms of autobiographical memory and problem-solving retrieval in younger and older adults. Memory and Cognition, 47(8), 1592-1605. PDF
Gurguryan, L., & Sheldon, S. (2019). Retrieval orientation alters neural activity during autobiographical memory recollection. NeuroImage, 199(1), 534-544. PDF
Sheldon, S., Cool, K., & El-Asmar, N. (2019). Episodic memory and visual imagery contributions to constructing event- and scene-based mental representations. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 31(3), 261-275. PDF
Simpson, S. & Sheldon, S. (2019). Testing the impact of emotional mood and cue characteristics on detailed autobiographical memory retrieval. Emotion, 20(6), 965-979. PDF
Sheldon, S., Fenerci, C., & Gurguryan, L. (2019). A neurocognitive perspective on the forms and functions of autobiographical memory retrieval. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 13(4), 1-8. PDF
Nitschke, J., Chu, S., Pruessner, J., Bartz, J., & Sheldon, S. (2019). Effects of post-encoding psychosocial stress on the integration of misinformation in memory. Psycho-neuro-endocrinology, 102, 164-171. PDF
Sheldon, S., Gurguryan, L., Madore, K.M., & Schacter, D.L. (2019). Constructing autobiographical events within a spatial or temporal context: A comparison of two targeted episodic induction techniques. Memory, 27(7), 881-893. PDF
Palombo, D., Sheldon, S. & Levine, B. (2018). Individual differences in autobiographical memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(7), 583-597. PDF
St-Armand, D., Sheldon, S., & Otto, R. (2018). Modulating episodic memory alters risk preference during decision-making. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(10), 1433-1441. PDF
Sheldon, S., Chu, S., Nitschke , J., Pruessner ,J.C., & Bartz, J. (2018). The dynamic interplay between acute psychosocial stress, emotion and autobiographical memory. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 1-12. PDF
Sheldon, S. & Levine, B. (2018). The medial temporal lobe functional connectivity patterns associated with forming different mental representations. Hippocampus, 28(4), 269-280. PDF
Sheldon, S. & El-Asmar, N. (2018). The cognitive tools that support mentally constructing event and scene representations. Memory, 26(6), 858-868. PDF
Sheldon, S. & Ruel, A. (2017). The many routes of mental navigation: Contrasting the effects of a detailed and gist retrieval approach on using and forming spatial representations. Psychological Research, 82(6), 1130-1143. PDF
Sheldon, S., & Donahue, J. (2017). More than a feeling: Characterizing the impact of emotional cues on the access and experience of autobiographical memories. Memory and Cognition, 45(5), 731-744. PDF
Peters, S., Fellows, L.K., & Sheldon, S. (2017). The ventromedial frontal lobe contributes to forming effective solutions to real-world problems. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(6), 991-1001. PDF
Sheldon, S. & Chu, S. (2017). What versus where: Investigating how autobiographical memory retrieval differs when accessed with thematic versus spatial information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(9), 1909-1921. PDF
Sheldon, S., McAndrews, M.P., Pruessner, J., & Moscovitch, M. (2016). Dissociable patterns of anterior and posterior hippocampal activity and connectivity during category fluency. Neuropsychologia, 90(1), 148-158. PDF
Lenton-Brym, A., Kurczek, J., Rosenbaum, S., Sheldon, S. (2016) A new method for assessing the impact of medial temporal lobe amnesia on the characteristics of generated autobiographical events. Neuropsychologia, 85(1), 35-43. PDF
Sheldon. S., Amaral, R.S.C., & Levine. B. (2016). Individual differences in visual imagery determine how event information is remembered. Memory, 25(3), 360-369. PDF
Sheldon. S., Farb, N., Palombo, D.J., & Levine. B. (2016). Intrinsic medial temporal lobe connectivity relates to individual differences in episodic autobiographical remembering. Cortex, 74(1), 206-216. PDF
Sheldon. S., & Levine, B. (2016). The role of the hippocampus in memory and mental construction. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1369(1), 76-92. PDF
Sheldon. S., & Levine. B. (2015). The medial temporal lobe distinguishes between within-item and item-context relations during autobiographical memory retrieval. Hippocampus, 25(12), 1577-1590. PDF
Sheldon. S., Vandermorris, S., Al-Haj, M., Cohen, S., Winocur, G., & Moscovitch, M. (2015). Ill-defined problem solving in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: Linking episodic memory to effective solution generation. Neuropsychologia, 6(68C), 168-175. PDF
Vandermorris, S., Sheldon, S., Winocur, G., & Moscovitch, M. (2013). Differential contributions of executive and episodic memory functions to problem solving in younger and older adults. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 19(10), 1087-1096. PDF
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. PDF
Sheldon, S., Macdonald, R.L., Cusimano, M., Spears, J., & Schweizer, T.A. (2013). Long-term consequences of subarachnoid hemorrhage: Examining working memory. Journal of Neurological Sciences, 332(1-2), 145-147. PDF
Sheldon, S., Romero, K., & Moscovitch, M. (2013). Medial temporal lobe amnesia impairs performance on a free association task. Hippocampus, 23(5), 405-412. PDF
Sheldon, S., Macdonald, R.L., & Schweizer, T.A. (2012). Free recall memory performance after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18(2), 334-342. PDF
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. PDF
Sheldon, S., McAndrews, M.P., & Moscovitch, M. (2011). Episodic memory processes mediated by the medial temporal lobes contribute to open-ended problem solving. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2439-2447. PDF
Sheldon, S.A.M., & Moscovitch, M. (2010). Recollective performance advantages for implicit memory tasks. Memory, 18(7), 681-697. PDF
Sheldon, S., Pichora-Fuller, K., & Schneider, B. (2008). Effect of age, presentation method, and training on identification of noise-vocoded words. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(1), 476-488. PDF
Sheldon, S., Pichora-Fuller, K., & Schneider, B. (2008). Priming and sentence context support listening to noise-vocoded speech by younger and older adults. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(1), 489-499. PDF
Book
Chapters
Sheldon, S. (2022). The role of visual imagery in constructing autobiographical memories and future events. In T. Brady & W. Bainbridge (Eds) Visual Memory. Routledge.
Sheldon, S., Diamond, N., Armson, M., Selarka, D., Bacapolous, A., & Levine, B. (2017). How to assess autobiographical memory: Implications for understanding the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms. In J. T. Wixted, E. Phelps & L. Davachi (Eds), The Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (4th Edition, Volume 1: Learning & Memory). New York: Wiley.
Sheldon, S., & Winocur, G. (2013). Memory after stroke. In T.A. Schweizer and R.L. Macdonald (Eds.), The Behavioural Consequences of Stroke (pp. 151-176). New York, Springer Science and Business Media.
Sheldon, S., & Moscovitch, M. (2010). Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory. In E. Perry, D. Collerton, F.E.N. LeBeau and H. Ashton (Eds.), New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness (pp. 83–90). Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing.
Presentations
Lalla, A., Chaykin, R., Sheldon, S. (2022, April 23-26) Option similarity during decision-making is linked to relational processing and episodic memory performance [poster submitted]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2022, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Fenerci, C., Gurguryan, L., Spreng, R. N., & Sheldon, S. (2022, April 23-26). Common and distinct neural basis of autobiographical memory retrieval between younger and older adults: An ALE meta-analysis [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Fransisco, United States.
Scheurich, R., Lisus, D., Michelmann, S., & Sheldon, S. (2022, April 23-26). Salience modulates neural activity at event boundaries within spoken narratives [Poster submission]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Gurguryan, L., Fenerci, C., Rioux, M., Yang, H., Köhler, S., & Sheldon, S. (2022). The effect of cue-evoked familiarity on the recollection of autobiographical memories. Poster presented at the 2022 Cognitive Neuroscience Society virtual meeting.
Snytte, J., Fenerci, C., Rajagopal, S., Beaudoin, C., Hooper, K., Sheldon, S., Olsen, R.K., & Rajah, M.N. (2022). Volume of the posterior hippocampus mediates age-related differences in spatial context memory and is correlated with increased activity in lateral frontoparietal and occipital regions in healthy aging. Poster presented at the Human Brain Mapping Meeting.
Snytte, J., Fenerci, C., Rajagopal, S., Beaudoin, C., Hooper, K., Sheldon, S., Olsen, R.K., & Rajah, M.N. (2022). Volume of the posterior hippocampus mediates age-related differences in spatial context memory and is correlated with increased activity in frontoparietal and occipital regions in healthy aging. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Fenerci., C. & Sheldon, S. (2021). Changes in the experience of time: The impact of spatial information on the perception and memory of duration. Talk presented at virtual spring Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) conference.
Fenerci, C. & Sheldon S. (2021). The influence of event schemas and context familiarity on imagining autobiographical events. Talk presented at the virtual 2021 Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science Meeting.
Lalla, A., Zhu, L., & Sheldon S. (2021). Comparing past and future emotional autobiographical events and impact of individual differences in current life stress. Talk presented at the virtual 2021 Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science Meeting.
Williams, K., Snytte, J., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Subclinical depression and autobiographical future thinking: An impairment in self-concept and not episodic specificity. Talk presented at the virtual 2021 Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting.
Snytte, J., Fenerci, C., Beaudoin, C., Hooper, K., Olsen, R.K., Sheldon, S., & Rajah, M.N. (2021). Age-related atrophy in the medial temporal lobes and context memory. Poster presented at the virtual Canadian association for neuroscience annual meeting.
Lahlou, S., Sheldon, S., & Sharp, M. (2021). Selectivity of forgetting in Parkinson’s disease: a pilot study. Poster presented at the 2021 Neuropsychology Day, Montreal, QC, CAN.
Yan, E. Lalla. A., Bakkour, A., Sheldon, S., & Sharp, M. (2021). Understanding apathy in Parkinson’s disease through the lens of value-based decisions: a planned study. Poster presented at the 2021 Neuropsychology Day, Montreal, QC, CAN.
Gurguryan, L., Yang, H., Kohler, S., & Sheldon, S. (2021). The influence of cue familiarity on the recollection of autobiographical memories. Talk presented at the virtual 2021 Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science Meeting.
Gurguryan, L., Yang, H., Kohler, S., & Sheldon, S. (2021). The impact of cue familiarity on autobiographical memory retrieval. Poster presented at the virtual 2021 Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM) Scientific Day.
Gregory, A., Rioux, M., Gaesser, B., Bartz, J., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Episodic simulation increases the personal distress response to empathic scenarios. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting.
Gregory, A., Rioux, M., Gaesser, B., Bartz, J., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Mental simulation as a mechanism driving empathic responding. Poster presented at the Society for Affective Sciences Annual Meeting (online).
Fenerci, C., Gurguryan, L., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Dissociating the brain activity during autobiographical memory retrieval based on spatial and object imagery ability. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Lalla, A., Bilbul, J., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Disrupting Post-Encoding Consolidation Affects the Recall of Details from Complex Memories. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Melaga, G., & Sheldon, S. (2021). Activating prior knowledge preferentially promotes memory generalization. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Strikwerda-Brown, C., Williams, K., Lévesque,M., Brambati, S., & Sheldon, S. (2021). What are your thoughts? Exploring age-related changes in episodic and semantic autobiographical content on an unconstrained task. Talk presented at GEMS 2021: Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy.
Agostino, C., & Sheldon, S. (2020). How do younger and older adults recall emotional narratives? Virtual talk presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference in Psychology, Ottawa, ON, CAN.
da Silva Castanheira, K., Lalla, A., Sheldon, S., & Otto, R. (2020). Modelling the Effect of Monetary Incentives on Recognition Memory. Abstract and virtual poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON, CAN.
Fenerci, C., Gurguryan, L., Levine, B., & Sheldon, S. (cancelled due to COVID). Linking imagery ability to neural activity during memory and mental simulation tasks. Poster submitted to the 14th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, Montreal, QC, CAN.
Sheldon, S., Schoemaker, D., & Pruessner, J. (submitted). Aging and neural recruitment during episodic memory encoding. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, QC, CAN (online).
Gurguryan, L., Rioux, M., & Sheldon, S., (2020). Changes in neural activity across repeated retrievals of autobiographical memories. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA (online).
Peters, S., & Sheldon, S. (2020). The role of autobiographical memory processes in planning and problem solving. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA (online).
Lalla, A., da Silva Castanheira, K., Otto, R., & Sheldon, S. (2020). The role of reward in encoding details of complex episodic memories for events. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA (online).
Pereira, E.J., Gurguryan, L., Sheldon, S., & Ristic, J. (2019). Variability in the content of mind wandering is associated with intrinsic connectivity within the default network. Poster presented at Object Perception, Attention, & Memory (OPAM) Conference, Montreal, QC, CAN.
Lalla, A., & Sheldon, S. (2019). Contrasting the Effects of Decay and Interference on Recollecting Detailed Complex Events. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, QC, CAN.
Scheurich, R., Palmer, C., & Sheldon, S. (2019). Memory for Complex Events: Contributions of Visual and Auditory Perceptual Information. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, QC, CAN.
Lockrow, A.W., Setton, R., Sheldon, S., Turner, G.R., & Spreng, N.R. (2019). Taking Stock of the Past: A Comprehensive Psychometric Evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, QC, CAN.
Fenerci, C. & Sheldon, S. (2019). Dissociating the effect of autobiographical memory retrieval on the cognitive and affective components of empathy. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Society, Waterloo, ON, CAN
Scheurich, R., Palmer, C., Sheldon, S (2019). Memory for Complex Events: Contributions of Visual and Auditory Perceptual Information. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Society, Waterloo, ON, CAN
Gurguryan, L., DuTemple, E., Sheldon, S. (2019). Pushing boundaries: The influence of context shifts on memory for temporal order. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Society, Waterloo, ON, CAN
Simpson, S. & Sheldon, S. (2019). Hooked on a feeling: how emotional mood and cues bias autobiographical memory recall. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Society, Waterloo, ON, CAN
Sandre, D., Olson J. A., Chmoulevitch D., Sheldon S., Raz A., Veissière S. (2019). Reducing smartphone overuse through behavioural nudges. The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, QC. CAN
Fenerci, C., LoParco, M., da Silva-Castanheira, K., Sheldon, S. (2019). Space Matters: Investigating the influence of spatial information on subjective time perception/ The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, QC. CAN
Gurguryan, L. Sheldon, S. (2019). The impact of emphasizing contextual and conceptual details on neural activity during discrete phases of autobiographical memory retrieval. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
Lalla, A., Agostino, C. Sheldon, S. (2019). Fixating on a memory: Comparing the link between eye movements at encoding and at retrieval on recollection. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
Peters, S., & Sheldon, S. (2018). Differentiating autobiographical memory performance in healthy and unhealthy aging. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Sheldon, S. (2018). The common and unique influences of encoding information within a spatial and non-spatial context on temporal memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Smallwood, E., & Sheldon, S. (2018). Group Art Therapy for Young Adults with Epilepsy: A Psychosocial Inquest Examining Multiple Ways of Knowing. Canadian Art Therapy Association Conference, Montreal, QC, CAN
Sheldon, S. (2018). Retrieval states that bias autobiographical memory recollection: The impact of emotion and stress. Talk presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sheldon, S. (2018). A common role for episodic memory in remembering the past and solving problems. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science Society, St. Johns, Newfoundland, CAN
Peters, S. & Sheldon, S. (2018). Comparing and contrasting the neural mechanisms of autobiographical memory and problem solving. Poster to be presented at the 2018 International Conference on Learning and Memory, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Gurguryan, L. Sheldon, S. (2018). The dynamic nature of autobiographical memory is a matter of detail. Talk to be presented at the 2018 International Conference on Learning and Memory, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Sheldon, S., Chu, S,. Nitschke, J., Bartz, J.& Pruessner, J. (2017). Retrieving Autobiographical Memories Under Stress: Examining the Effects of Cortisol on Retrieval and Reconsolidation Processes. Memory Retrieval Nanosymposium. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA.
Gurguryan, L. & Sheldon, S. (2017). The neural basis of thematically and spatially guided recall of recent and remote autobiographical memories. Poster to be presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA.
Gurguryan, L. & Sheldon, S. (2017). Characterizing the neural networks supporting conceptually and spatially guided retrieval of autobiographical memories. Poster to be presented at the 11th Annual CAN Meeting Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Montreal, QC, CAN.
Gurguryan, L. & Sheldon, S. (2017). What and where: Establishing the neural underpinnings of conceptually and spatially guided autobiographical memory retrieval. Poster to be presented at the Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, Toronto, ON, CAN.
Fan, C.L., Young, M., & Sheldon, S. (2017). Do I remind you of someone? Recalling episodic event details affects clinical decision-making. Poster to be presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, CAN.
Donahue, J., & Sheldon, S. (2016). The way it makes me feel: The influence of emotional music on autobiographical memory retrieval. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Society, Ottawa, ON, CAN.
Peters, S., Fellow, L.K., & Sheldon, S. (2016). Ventromedial frontal lobe damage impairs the ability to generate effective solutions to open-ended real-world problems. Poster to be presented at the 38th International Symposium of the GRSNC: The neuroscience of decision-making. Montreal, QC, CAN.
Sheldon, S. McAndrews, M.P., Moscovitch, M. (2016). Exploring the functional organization of the hippocampus with a category fluency task. The 2016 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Poole, H. L., Agnew, M., Khan, A., Sandor, J., Cooper, N., Beaudette, S., Basharat, B., Modi, A., Wiener, J., Sheldon, S., Beaton, E., & Sanders, A. (2015). One week, many ripples: Measuring the impacts of the McMaster fall break on student stress physiology. Poster presented at the Research on Teaching and Learning Conference.
Sheldon, S. (2015). Individual differences in memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Society, Ottawa, ON, CAN.
Lenton-Brym, A., Rosenbaum, R., & Sheldon, S. (2015). Event generation following medial temporal lobe damage: Using unbiased ratings to assess the quality of the remembered events. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Society, Ottawa, ON, CAN.
Esopenko, C., Sheldon, S., McIntosh, A. R., Strother, S., & Levine, B. (2015). Intrinsic Functional Brain Connectivity in Retired Professional Hockey Players. Talk given at the North American Brain Injury Society: 12th Annual Conference on Brain Injury, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Sheldon, S., & Levine, B. (2015). Dissociable hippocampal networks are engaged in autobiographical memory retrieval during event generation and detail elaboration. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sheldon, S., Farb, N., & Levine, B. (2014). Resting state connectivity is related to individual differences in subjectively rated memory ability. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.
Vandermorris, S., Sheldon, S., Al-Haj, M., Cohen, S., Winocur, G., & Moscovitch, M. (2014). Autobiographical episodic Memory is associated with open-ended problem-solving in single-domain amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). Poster presented at the Annual International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.
Sheldon, S., & Levine, B. (2013). Common and distinct neural structures support autobiographical memory, semantic and imagery-based retrieval. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sheldon, S., & Levine, B. (2013). Characterizing the patterns of neural activity supporting autobiographical memory, spatial and imagery-based retrieval. Poster presented at the Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, Toronto, ON, CAN.
Sheldon, S., & Levine, B. (2012). Vividness and the retrieval of recent and remote autobiographical memories: An fMRI investigation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Kou, N., Sheldon, S., Macdonald, L. Cusimano, M., Spears, J., & Schweizer, T.A. (2011). Impaired driving performance with increasing attentional demand after aneursymal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Poster presented at the Canadian Stroke Congress, Ottawa, ON, CAN.
Sheldon, S.A., Macdonald, R.L., Cusimano, M., Spears, J., & Schweizer, T. (2011). Memory impairments following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: deficits in organization and strategic retrieval. Poster presented at the Canadian Stroke Congress, Ottawa, ON, CAN.
Vandermorris, S., Sheldon, S., Winocur, G., & Moscovitch, M. (2011). Neuropsychological correlates of problem-solving in normal aging. Poster presented at the Annual International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
Vandermorris, S., Sheldon, S., Winocur, G., & Moscovitch, M. (2011). Memory and executive systems are differentially associated with ill-defined and well-defined problem-solving in normal aging. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, CAN.
Sheldon, S., & Moscovitch, M. (2011). Investigating medial temporal lobe contributions to semantic fluency. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, CAN.
Sheldon, S., & Moscovitch, M. (2010). The medial temporal lobes are involved in late but not early item generation in a category fluency task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, QC, CAN.
Sheldon, S., & Moscovitch, M. (2009). Memory systems interact: Rapid and non-conscious effects of recollection on priming. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, USA.
Sheldon, S., Ramos, A., & Moscovitch, M (2008). Investigating the role of episodic memory in problem solving for younger and older adults. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Pichora-Fuller, M.K., Dupuis, K., Sheldon, S., & Phillips, N. (2008). Effects of age, sentence context, and noise-vocoding on word identification: behavioural and electrophysiological findings. Poster Presented at the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.
Sheldon, S., Pichora-Fuller, K., & Schneider, B. (2007). It’s all in the way you say it: Priming and sentence context supports listening to noise-speech by younger and older adults. Poster presented at the Aging and Speech Communication Conference, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Moscovitch, M., & Sheldon, S. (2007). Recollection in the service of problem solving. Talk given at the Memory Disorders Researcher Symposium (MDRS), Cambridge, UK.
Sheldon, S., Pichora-Fuller, K., & Schneider, B. (2006). Adults age differences in the use of envelope cues to identify noise-vocoded words with a varying number of frequency bands. Poster presented at the Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Sheldon, S., & Westbury, C. (2005). Are there modality-specific verb/noun access dissociations in normals? Evidence from a syntactic priming task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Toronto, ON, CAN.
Sheldon, S., & Westbury, C. (2005). Are there modality-specific verb/noun access dissociations in normals? Poster presented at the Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (BASICS), Banff, AB, CAN.
