Patrick Davidson

PhD

Affiliate Investigator

Professor
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa

About:

Patrick Davidson, PhD, is a Professor with the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. He earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Arizona, following the completion of his Master’s degree.

Davidson currently leads the Neuropsychology Laboratory in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on memory, executive functions, and emotion in healthy people and those with brain injuries or diseases. His lab combines perspectives and methods from cognitive psychology, cognitive aging, and cognitive neuroscience, with an interest in cognitive training and rehabilitation.

Research Interests:

Cognitive neuroscience of human memory, executive functions, and emotion, normal aging, age-related disorders, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease.

Select Publications:

Jensen A, Castro AW, Hu R, Drouin H, Rabipour S, Bégin-Galarneau MÈ, Stamenova V, Davidson PSR. Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire: a comparison of young and older adults. Memory.

Davidson PSR, Jensen A. Executive function and episodic memory composite scores in older adults: relations with sex, mood, and subjective sleep quality. Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition.

Jensen A, Karpov G, Collin CA, Davidson PSR. Executive Function Predicts Older Adults' Lure Discrimination Difficulties on the Mnemonic Similarity Task. The Journals of Gerontology.

Contact:

pdavidso@uottawa.ca

Learn more about the Neuropsychology Laboratory here.