The Queen's Psychology Department Student Council reached out to our labs PI @effiejp.bsky.social and Dr. Li-Jun Ji to ask them about their experiences as researchers from racialized backgrounds. You can read more of their answers here: www.instagram.com/p/DWwpqPOid5...

We are ecstatic to share that Aahana Uppal, MSc1 student at the QuAD Lab, has won an NSERC Canada Graduate Research Scholarship! Congratulations Aahana!

We are excited to celebrate our team members, Aleah, Leila, and Mia, for presenting their thesis/directed lab projects at the 2026 @queensuresearch.bsky.social Psychology Research Day!

We’re excited to welcome our EEG system into the lab! Our brand new BioSemi ActiveThree will support our neural data collection to study how temporal dynamics of attention are reflected in the brain. A big thank you to @cortechsolutions.bsky.social and Lloyd Smith for an incredible training session!

Wonderful memories from the Connected Minds Retreat! The QuAD Lab at our February gathering, where researchers came together to share insights and build collaborations. This is what interdisciplinary community looks like—learning, connecting, and advancing research together!

It was an absolute privilege and pleasure welcoming @churchillfship.bsky.social cultural thinker Suzanne Alleyne as a Visiting Artist to the @quadlab.bsky.social last week! www.churchillfellowship.org/ideas-expert...

Her work looks at understanding power through the cognitive & social processes that sustain it, and we had great chats about how attention sits at the heart of this. Thanks to her & her team for their passion and for broadening my own views on how attention can be used to create equitable spaces

We are excited to share that our PI @effiejp.bsky.social was awarded the Ontario Research Fund grant for her work with uncovering the temporal dynamics of selective attention!

Excited to share that our lab attended the 2026 @connectedminds.bsky.social retreat @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. We had an amazing time meeting so many wonderful people, learning about exciting new projects, sharing our own research, and making new connections!

Our lab was excited to return to the LOVE Conference in Niagara Falls this year with our two master's students, and our lab coordinator, to share some of our exciting ongoing studies @queensuresearch.bsky.social and to contribute to ongoing conversations in the field. @connectedminds.bsky.social

So excited to share that our PI Dr. Pereira @queensuresearch.bsky.social was just at the Science Meets Parliament 2025! @connectedminds.bsky.social

We’re happy to share that Dr. Pereira has received funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund! @queensuresearch.bsky.social @connectedminds.bsky.social

Introducing the 2025-2026 QuAD Lab members at @queensuresearch.bsky.social Special shout-out to key members of the lab Dani, Dilara, and Selina, who were unfortunately not available for photo day. Check out more information on our website and follow us for updates!

Congratulations to our RA Selina, who has been working with the Bloorview Research Institute this summer. She was selected to give a presentation at Ward Research Day about her work investigating how brain-computer interfaces can assist individuals with cerebral palsy. We're so proud of her!

Interested in how you interact with others? Sign up to participate in this exciting study from the QuAD lab and earn $10: forms.office.com/r/Jt4xgTuEGX

Hot off the press—we're so excited to welcome our newest Research Assistant! Izabela is a fourth-year Health Sciences major at Queen’s University. She is fascinated by individual differences in attention and is excited to expand her knowledge through her work in the lab!

We’re glad to have returning lab members join us for the summer, too!

Finally, let’s introduce our new research assistants!

Next up, we’re so excited to have an NSERC-USRA Student join us this summer! Isabella Persad is a third-year BScH Biology and Psychology Specialization major at Queen’s University. She’s interested in learning more about the various lab techniques used to understand human attention!

We’re thrilled to have two SWEP students joining our summer team!

What a great kickoff to Spring! Our Lab Director Dr. Pereira has been hard at work bridging science and policy in Ontario and we can't think of a better advocate for #QueensU @queensuglobal.bsky.social @connectedminds.bsky.social @queensucns.bsky.social!

Our QuAD lab members did such a fabulous job of presenting their work today at the PSYC Undergraduate Poster Day! A big congratulations to thesis students Mridula & Jocelyne, directed lab students Maddison, Aleah, Ryan, & Yvonne, and lab coordinator Madhumita!

Interested in how we interact with others? Sign up to participate in this engaging study from the QuAD lab and earn $10: forms.office.com/r/Jt4xgTuEGX

Finally, former Special Directed Lab Students Yvonne Pelau and Ryan Thompson are continuing with us as Research Assistants!

We’re happy to have some familiar faces around this semester, too! Former Research Assistants Aleah Williamson and Maddison De Beaupre are staying on with us as Special Directed Lab Students.

Next up, let’s introduce our new Research Assistants! Paige Babb is a fourth-year BAH Psychology major and Health Studies minor at Queen’s University and is working on data coding for the lab’s projects.

We’re so excited to welcome new members to the QuAD lab team! First up is Emma Jamieson, a Special Directed Lab student. Emma is a fourth-year BAH Psychology major at Queen’s University, and is excited to study attentional dynamics and impression formation in social interactions!

The @quadlab.bsky.social had a fantastic time at the LOVE conference in Niagara Falls! A big shoutout to our thesis students and lab coordinator for showcasing some of the cool work they've done this past year!

The QuAD lab is recruiting! We’re hiring two Summer Work Experience Program (SWEP) students from May to Aug 2025 who are interested in learning more about how our brain and mind supports everyday performance and general functioning. See our website for full job descriptions: www.quadlab.ca/jobs

Excited for @quadlab.bsky.social PI Dr. Pereira's talk tomorrow at the CNS! See you all then!

Thank you for joining us as we got things off the ground this Fall! We’re excited to keep sharing more of the QuAD lab in the Winter, including the opening of our laboratory space in Humphrey Hall and updates for all of the projects we’re about to launch!

And to end, let’s wrap up by introducing our Research Assistants! Selina Chalmers is a third-year BScH Biology and Psychology Specialization Major at Queen’s University and is building her skills in research and knowledge as she aspires towards a career in neuroscience research!

Next up, introducing our Special Directed Lab Students! Yvonne Pelau is a fourth-year in Psychology (BAH) and Concurrent Education at Queen’s University and looks forward to studying attention and learning in students!

Next up, let’s introduce our Honours Thesis Students! Mridula Srikanth is a fourth-year BAH Psychology major at Queen’s University and her research interests are in the Cognitive Neuroscience field, specifically, in attention and perception.

Next let’s introduce you to our coordinators! Madhumita Rajagopal is our Lab Coordinator, and she is a second-year BScH Psychology major at Queen’s University who is excited to learn more about individual differences in attention!

Let’s introduce you to the team! First up, our principal investigator, Dr. Effie Pereira @effiejp.bsky.social! Dr. Pereira is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and @QueensUCNS.bsky.social at Queen’s University and is Director of the @quadlab.bsky.social

Super stoked that we finally have our socials up and running & a big thank you to our lab coordinator Madhu for her fantastic work in putting our website together! Check us out at quadlab.ca!

Introducing the QuAD lab! The Queen’s Attentional Dynamics Lab investigates how, when, and why attention shifts over time. We’re so excited to introduce you to the team and talk about some of the cool work that we’ll be launching soon!