Drs. Jean Chen, Morris Moscovitch, Tomas Paus, Bernhard Ross, Jennifer Ryan and Gordon Winocur are principal investigators of five projects awarded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research operating grants 2012-2013.

Dr. Jean Chen received a grant of $398,027 (4-year term) to advance the understanding of resting-state fMRI in the healthy adult population through   improved methods for measuring the resting-state fMRI signal in order to understand brain's neural connections and advance early identification and detection of disease and degeneration in the brain.

Dr. Morris Moscovitch and Dr. Gordon Winocur received $924,841 (5-year term) to investigate how recent and remote memories are formed, retained and retrieved. While creating diagnostic tools to identify memory disorders, this research will increase our understanding of how detailed and schematic memories contribute to language fluency, creativity and problem solving, that are essential components of activities of daily living.

Dr. Tomas Paus (collaborating with Dr. Suzanne King of McGill University) received $456,305 (5-year term) to study  the possible effects of maternal stress during pregnancy on adolescent brain maturation, resulting from the 1998 Quebec Ice Storm.

Dr. Bernhard Ross received $820,855 (5-year term) to support the study of  how the brain processes speech to help to develop and improve assistive technologies and intervention approaches for hearing impaired adults.

Dr. Jennifer Ryan was awarded $ 1,065,581 (5-year term) to monitor eye movements to understand the influence of aging on the encoding (formation) and retrieval (access) of our memories that describe the personal events in our lives.