Jonathan Fawcett, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research

Attention Cognition Directed Forgetting Episodic Memory Forgetting Inhibition Memory Control Psychophysiology

Latest papers

Systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia on subjective and actigraphy-measured sleep and comorbid symptoms in cancer survivors.
Sleep medicine reviews · 2022
Reconsidering unconscious persistence: Suppressing unwanted memories reduces their indirect expression in later thoughts.
Cognition · 2019

All 2 publications

Latest funding

A Network Analysis of Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Canadian Correctional Officers
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
$120,000
Trying to forget: Characterizing the mechanisms and consequences of intentional forgetting
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$240,000

All 2 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia on subjective and actigraphy-measured sleep and comorbid symptoms in cancer survivors.

Squires LR, Rash JA, Fawcett J, Garland SN

Sleep medicine reviews2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2022.101615 PMID: 35303692

02

Reconsidering unconscious persistence: Suppressing unwanted memories reduces their indirect expression in later thoughts.

Wang Y, Luppi A, Fawcett J, Anderson MC

Cognition2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.02.016 PMID: 30852261

A Network Analysis of Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Canadian Correctional Officers

SupervisorCIHR2024Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Foley, Gillian

Keywords: Correctional Officers; Correctional Services; Gender Differences; Public Safety Personnel; Quantitative

$120,000

Trying to forget: Characterizing the mechanisms and consequences of intentional forgetting

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Fawcett, Jonathan

Keywords: forgetting; memory control; inhibition; cognition; attention; psychophysiology; episodic memory; pupillometry; think/no-think; directed forgetting

$240,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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