Kara Hannah (she/her)
Ph.D. candidateI am a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology (Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences research cluster) at Western University, in London, ON, Canada. I am co-supervised by Ken McRae and Ryan A. Stevenson, and part of the Brain and Mind.
Most of my research is focused on people’s knowledge and experience of meaningful patterns of behaviours in the world, called event knowledge. I am further interested in how event knowledge relates to traits associated with autism, particularly social communication abilities, and how autistic and non-autistic individuals experience events.
Claudia Morales Valiente (she/her)
Ph.D. candidateI am a Ph.D. candidate in the cognitive, developmental, and brain science (CDBS) program at Western University in London, Ontario. I earned my master's degree in the same program under the supervision of Dr. Ken McRae. Previously, I majored in Psychology at the University of Havana, Cuba.
My research interests include using natural language processing (NLP) analyses, mixed-effects and hierarchical modelling to study future-oriented cognition, imagery, and event knowledge.
Suesan MacRae (she/her)
Ph.D. candidate
I am a PhD student in the Cognitive, Developmental, and Behavioural Sciences (CDBS) stream at the University of Western Ontario. I am co-supervised by Dr. Ken McRae and Dr. Stefan Köhler. In 2022, I received my Masters of Science in Psychology (CDBS) at Western. My MSc thesis focused on how cues initiate spontaneous simulations of future and past events.
My specific interests in cognitive psychology include event cognition, episodic future thinking, and autobiographical memory.
Clementine Kohlenberg (she/her)
Research Assistant
I am a research assistant carrying out an independent study project on network science and centrality under the guidance of Mackenzie Bain and the supervision of Ken McRae and Stefan Köhler.
I completed my undergraduate studies in psychology and am interested in furthering this knowledge by pursuing a Master’s in Neuroscience, studying music and visual perception.
Lara Mohammed Sobhe (she/her)
Research Assistant
I am a research assistant in the McRae Lab since 2023. I am in the Honour specialization in the Psychology Program. I am also completing my certification in data science.
I support the work of Claudia Morales Valiente. I am interested in computational modelling and natural language processing.
Nidhi Patel
Research Assistant
Malak Osman
Research Assistant