Hello! I'm Buddhika.
Current position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology; Glendon campus, York University [2021 - now]
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Focus: principle investigator of the Memory & Meaning lab
Postdoctoral training: Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences; Johns Hopkins University [2018 - 2021]
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Supervisors: Janice Chen and Christopher Honey
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Focus: using narratives, online experiments and naturalistic neuroimaging paradigms, to examine how we remember and think about complex, real-world situations
Graduate training: Department of Psychology; University of Toronto [MA, PhD; 2012 - 2018]
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Supervisors: Cheryl Grady and Morris Moscovitch
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Focus: role of the posterior parietal cortex in episodic memory
What I am curious about: memory, spontaneous thought, stories, default mode network, etc.
Random fact: My best idea to date is the following 'would you rather': "Would you rather have teeth for hair or hair for teeth?"