My name is Christopher Madan and I am working on my PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience area) at the University of Alberta. I am being co-supervised by Dr. Jeremy Caplan (Psychology & Neuroscience) and Dr. Esther Fujiwara (Psychiatry & Neuroscience). I am also an associate member/research scientist in the research laboratories of Dr. Marcia Spetch (Psychology), Dr. Anthony Singhal (Psychology & Neuroscience), Dr. Tobias Sommer (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Systems Neuroscience) and Dr. Nikolai Malykhin (Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience). If you want to email me, I can be contacted at: contact@cmadan.com.
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Refereed Publications
Ludvig, E. A.*, Madan, C. R.*, & Spetch, M. L. (in press). Extreme outcomes sway risky decisions from experience. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Madan, C. R.*, & Teitge, B. D.* (2013, May 1). The benefits of undergraduate research: The student's perspective. The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal.
Madan, C. R., & Singhal, A. (2013). Introducing TAMI: An objective test of ability in movement imagery. Journal of Motor Behavior, 45, 153-166. doi:10.1080/00222895.2013.763764
Madan, C. R., & Singhal, A. (2012). Using actions to enhance memory: Effects of enactment, gestures, and exercise on human memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 507. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00507
Legge, E. L. G., Madan, C. R., Ng, E. T., & Caplan, J. B. (2012). Building a memory palace in minutes: Equivalent memory performance using virtual versus conventional environments with the Method of Loci. Acta Psychologica, 141, 380-390. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.09.002
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Nankoo, J.-F., Madan, C. R., Spetch, M. L., & Wylie, D. R. (2012). Perception of dynamic Glass patterns. Vision Research, 72, 55-62. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2012.09.008
Madan, C. R., Fujiwara, E., Gerson, B. C., & Caplan, J. B. (2012). High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 61. doi:10.3389/fnint.2012.00061
Madan, C. R., & Singhal, A. (2012). Encoding the world around us: Motor-related processing influences verbal memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 1563-1570. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2012.07.006
Madan, C. R., Caplan, J. B., Lau, C. S. M., & Fujiwara, E. (2012). Emotional arousal does not enhance association-memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 695-716. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2012.04.001
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Madan, C. R., & Singhal, A. (2012). Motor imagery and higher-level cognition: Four hurdles before research can sprint forward. Cognitive Processing, 13, 211-229. doi:10.1007/s10339-012-0438-z
Madan, C. R., & Spetch, M. L. (2012). Is the enhancement of memory due to reward driven by value or salience? Acta Psychologica, 139, 343-349. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.12.010
Madan, C. R., Glaholt, M. G., & Caplan, J. B. (2010). The influence of item properties on association-memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 63, 46-63. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.03.001
Non-refereed Publications
Madan, C. R. (2012). Eureka: Undergraduates can publish too! Eureka, 3, 5.
Madan, C. R., & Chen, Y. Y. (2012) Getting involved in research: A guide for inspired undergraduates. Eureka, 3, 2-4.
Madan, C. R. (2011). Eureka: A beacon for undergraduate research. Eureka, 2, 1.
Madan, C. R. (2011). Organic amnesia: A diversity in deficits. Eureka, 2, 37-42.
Madan, C. R., & Caplan, J. B (2010). A systematic exploration of model-mechanisms for interactions between item- and association-memory in paired-associate learning. BMC Neuroscience, 11 (Suppl 1), P93. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-11-S1-P93
Madan, C. R. (2010). Neuromarketing: The next step in market research? Eureka, 1, 34-42.
Madan, C. R., Lau, C. S. M., Caplan, J. B., & Fujiwara, E. (2009). Emotion selectively impairs associative memory. BMC Neuroscience, 10 (Suppl 1), P341. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-10-S1-P341