Morris Moscovitch, University of Toronto

Research

Aging Brain-Damage Episodic And Semantic Memory Frontal Lobe Functional (And Structural) Neuroimaging Medial Temporal Lobe (Hippocampus)Memory And Cognition Recent And Remote Memory

Latest papers

Spatial updating in amnesia using an eye movement analogue of a path integration task.
Neuropsychologia · 2026
The effects of hippocampal dentate gyrus lesions on categorical face perception.
Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026
The detection of episodic memory in others biases social choice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · senior author

All 167 publications

Latest funding

Memory, attention, and face recognition in young and old adults, and in people with brain damage
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$390,000
A novel memory prosthetic: From neuroscience to rehabilitation
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$306,000
Hippocampal-neocortical interactions and the precision of human memory in aging
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$315,378

All 12 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 167 publications.

01

Spatial updating in amnesia using an eye movement analogue of a path integration task.

Khosla A, Rosenbaum RS, Moscovitch M, Ryan JD

Neuropsychologia2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109354 PMID: 41478320

02

The effects of hippocampal dentate gyrus lesions on categorical face perception.

Baker S, Moscovitch M, Youm A, Levy Y, Rosenbaum RS

Attention, perception & psychophysics2026

DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03216-1 PMID: 41731295

03

The detection of episodic memory in others biases social choice.

Ciaramelli E, Waisman A, Stendardi D, Moscovitch M

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2530482123 PMID: 41941618

04

Single voxel autocorrelation reflects hippocampal function in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Bouffard NR, Audrain S, Golestani AM, Barense MD, Moscovitch M, McAndrews MP

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2026

DOI: 10.1162/imag.a.1108 PMID: 41585470

05

Adaptive episodic memory: how multiple memory representations drive behavior in humans and nonhumans.

Tarder-Stoll H, Sekeres MJ, Levine B, Moscovitch M

Physiological reviews2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00005.2025 PMID: 41187993

06

Spatial boundaries affect subjective time and order memory: the combined roles of contextual instability and unpredictability.

Cheng Z, Brzozowski N, Moscovitch M

Memory (Hove, England)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2627202 PMID: 41709717

07

Ask how they did it: untangling the relationships between task-specific strategy use, everyday strategy use, and associative memory.

Terao CM, Pishdadian S, Moscovitch M, Rosenbaum RS

Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition2025

DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2024.2345408 PMID: 38717895

08

Targeting schema change in social anxiety via autobiographical memory reconstruction.

Sheldon S, Atack L, Ngo N, Moscovitch M, Moscovitch DA

Cognition & emotion2025

DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2433516 PMID: 39618300

09

Memory-guided perception is shaped by dynamic two-stage theta- and alpha-mediated retrieval.

Fischer M, Moscovitch M, Alain C

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences2025

DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15287 PMID: 39901582

10

Spatial updating of gaze position in younger and older adults - A path integration-like process in eye movements.

Khosla A, Moscovitch M, Ryan JD

Cognition2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105835 PMID: 38875941

Memory, attention, and face recognition in young and old adults, and in people with brain damage

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris

$390,000

A novel memory prosthetic: From neuroscience to rehabilitation

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Barense, Morgan D; Honey, Christopher J; Svoboda, Eva

Keywords: Aging; Alzheimer'S Disease; Autobiographical Memory; Cognitive Neuroscience; Fmri; Hippocampus; Memory; Memory Rehabilitation; Mild Cognitive Impairment

$306,000

Hippocampal-neocortical interactions and the precision of human memory in aging

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Buchsbaum, Bradley R

Keywords: Aging; Fmri; Functional Neuroimaging; Hippocampus; Long-Term Memory; Memory

$315,378

Memory, attention and face recognition in young and old adults and people with brain damage

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Discovery Grants Program - Accelerator Supplements

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris

$120,000

Memory, attention and face recognition in young and old adults and people with brain damage

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris

$450,000

Human studies on the neuropsychology and cognitive/behavioural neuroscience of memory and its disorders.

Nominated PICIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris; Winocur, Gordon

Keywords: Aging; Brain-Damage; Episodic And Semantic Memory; Frontal Lobe; Functional (And Structural) Neuroimaging; Medial Temporal Lobe (Hippocampus); Memory And Cognition; Recent And Remote Memory

$924,841

Behavioural and Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Recent and Remote Spatial Memory in Humans

Nominated PICIHR2010Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris; Rosenbaum, Rachel S

Keywords: Amnesia; Brain Lesions; Dementia; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Hippocampus; Parietal Lobes; Recent Spatial Memory; Remote Spatial Memory

$775,731

Memory, face-recognition and attention in young and old adults

Principal investigatorNSERC2008Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris

$379,680

Memory, face-recognition and hemispheric specialization in young and old adults

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris

$370,000

Cognitive neuropsychological investigations of memory, attention and face-recognition

Principal investigatorNSERC1998Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris

$326,040

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

Frequent collaborators

Rotman Research Institute
Psychology
Neuropsychology
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
Medicine
Medical Imaging
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Other

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Gordon Winocur

Rotman Research Institute

34 shared papers, latest 2021

Brian Levine

Rotman Research Institute

11 shared papers, latest 2026

Melanie Cohn

Neuropsychology

4 shared papers, latest 2018

Margaret McKinnon

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

2 shared papers, latest 2007

David Mikulis

Medical Imaging

1 shared papers, latest 2013

Gillian Einstein

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Bernhard Ross

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2020

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Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Spatial updating in amnesia using an eye movement analogue of a path integration task.

The effects of hippocampal dentate gyrus lesions on categorical face perception.

The detection of episodic memory in others biases social choice.

Single voxel autocorrelation reflects hippocampal function in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Adaptive episodic memory: how multiple memory representations drive behavior in humans and nonhumans.

Spatial boundaries affect subjective time and order memory: the combined roles of contextual instability and unpredictability.

Ask how they did it: untangling the relationships between task-specific strategy use, everyday strategy use, and associative memory.

Targeting schema change in social anxiety via autobiographical memory reconstruction.

Memory-guided perception is shaped by dynamic two-stage theta- and alpha-mediated retrieval.

Spatial updating of gaze position in younger and older adults - A path integration-like process in eye movements.

Memory, attention, and face recognition in young and old adults, and in people with brain damage

A novel memory prosthetic: From neuroscience to rehabilitation

Hippocampal-neocortical interactions and the precision of human memory in aging

Memory, attention and face recognition in young and old adults and people with brain damage

Memory, attention and face recognition in young and old adults and people with brain damage

Human studies on the neuropsychology and cognitive/behavioural neuroscience of memory and its disorders.

Behavioural and Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Recent and Remote Spatial Memory in Humans

Memory, face-recognition and attention in young and old adults

Memory, face-recognition and hemispheric specialization in young and old adults

Cognitive neuropsychological investigations of memory, attention and face-recognition

Frequent collaborators

Gordon Winocur

Asaf Gilboa

Gordon Winocur

Cheryl Grady

Brian Levine

Claude Alain

Melanie Cohn

Signy Sheldon

Sandra Black

Margaret McKinnon

Gillian Einstein

Jens Pruessner

David Mikulis

Gillian Einstein

Robin Green

Eva Svoboda

Bernhard Ross