Former Team Members

Teia is currently an undergraduate student at UTM. She is actively working towards a specialist in Psychology with a minor in Women and Gender Studies. Her primary goal is to gain research experience through studies and programs on campus, as well as through extracurricular activities pertaining to psychology, especially clinical psychology. Teia hopes to gain valuable and applicable experience here for future endeavours.  In her personal life, Teia enjoys spending time with her cats and trying out new coffee spots.  

Jessica is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in Psychology. She will be doing an IRP this fall and she is interested in developmental psychology in children with experiments related to music as studied in the LAMA lab. Jessica wants to look into how auditory training can help develop skills needed in other domains. Growing up, she was put into music lessons by her parents and gained a passion for instrumental music.

Grace is currently a 3rd year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto Mississauga! She is specializing in Neuroscience with a minor in Creative Writing. With the LAMA laboratory, Grace is enrolled and set to complete an ROP (Research Opportunity Program) for the 2022 summer session! She is currently interested in how brain activity and perceptual attention may differ when hearing voices of different emotions.

Selina graduated from UTM with a psychology specialty degree. She is interested in pursuing research on children’s learning, with a focus on language development. She is enthusiastic about working on hearing-related projects in the LAMA Lab. Apart from her strong interests in psychology research, she currently works as a retail supervisor and a medical receptionist. She enjoys watching crime documentaries, trying out new food locations, and spending time with friends and family.

Mia is entering her third year as an undergraduate student at UTM studying psychology. She has a strong interest in psychological research, specifically the study of interpersonal relationships and communication, as well as a long history in musical studies. She played the clarinet in her high school band and has also been a member of the musical theatre group in her hometown for 6 years. The LAMA Lab at UTM presented itself as a perfect opportunity for her to gain more experience doing research that combined two of her greatest interests.

Justin is an undergraduate student working towards a psychology and biology major. He loves teaching and tutoring and hopes to make it his career in the future, where he can educate children of all ages about the sciences. To forward this goal, he applied to the LAMA lab to better understand how children process music and language in the hopes of integrating what he has learned into his teaching skillset. Aside from occupational aspirations, his hobbies include learning to play new instruments, taking care of plants and fish, and playing tabletop games.

Jule is a visiting graduate student from Radboud University in the Netherlands where she is pursuing a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience with a major in Language and Communication. She has completed her BSc in Psychology at Leiden University. While she usually spends her summers organizing fun holiday programs for kids, she is visiting the LAMA lab this summer as part of the Beyond the Frontiers Honours program. Her interests include the development of language and music skills in young children. In her free time, Jule plays the flute in a student orchestra and enjoys being outdoors, playing tennis, and swimming.

Yimeng is an undergraduate student from Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program. Her current major is chemistry, but she is very passionate about neuroscience and psychology. She is interested in perception and speech. In the lab, she has a keen interest in using EEG and time-frequency methods to explore attention and speech. She hopes to explore more about the brain in the future. In her free time, Yimeng enjoys going to the cat cafe, reading various novels, cooking and jogging.