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Research
Latest papers
Interactive narratives reveal the personalizing effect of agency on episodic memory.
Nature communications · 2026
Age differences in the conceptualization and experience of curiosity: A qualitative study.
PloS one · 2026
Studying memory narratives with natural language processing.
Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025
Latest funding
- $63,934
How Collective Knowledge Shapes Personal Understanding of Life Transitions
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $12,500
Lingering mental context and the formation of lasting memories
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $78,000
Lingering mental context and the formation of lasting memories
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
10 publications.
Interactive narratives reveal the personalizing effect of agency on episodic memory.
Li X, Ni NK, Born SJ, Gualano RJ, Lee I, Bellana B, Chen J
Age differences in the conceptualization and experience of curiosity: A qualitative study.
Hirsch ME, Virk T, Chang C, Bellana B, Cyr AA
Studying memory narratives with natural language processing.
Fenerci C, Cheng Z, Addis DR, Bellana B, Sheldon S
Single voxel autocorrelation uncovers gradients of temporal dynamics in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex during rest and navigation.
Bouffard NR, Golestani A, Brunec IK, Bellana B, Park JY, Barense MD, Moscovitch M
Recollection and prior knowledge recruit the left angular gyrus during recognition.
Bellana B, Ladyka-Wojcik N, Lahan S, Moscovitch M, Grady CL
Narrative thinking lingers in spontaneous thought.
Bellana B, Mahabal A, Honey CJ
Language and cognitive control networks in bilinguals and monolinguals.
Anderson JAE, Chung-Fat-Yim A, Bellana B, Luk G, Bialystok E
Multiple Scales of Representation along the Hippocampal Anteroposterior Axis in Humans.
Brunec IK, Bellana B, Ozubko JD, Man V, Robin J, Liu ZX, Grady C, Rosenbaum RS, Winocur G, Barense MD, Moscovitch M
Task-linked Diurnal Brain Network Reorganization in Older Adults: A Graph Theoretical Approach.
Anderson JA, Sarraf S, Amer T, Bellana B, Man V, Campbell KL, Hasher L, Grady CL
Laterality effects in functional connectivity of the angular gyrus during rest and episodic retrieval.
Bellana B, Liu Z, Anderson JAE, Moscovitch M, Grady CL
How Collective Knowledge Shapes Personal Understanding of Life Transitions
Principal investigators: Addis, Donna Rose
Keywords: life transitions; collective knowledge; autobiographical memory; future thinking; narrative; natural language processing; psychosocial adjustment
Lingering mental context and the formation of lasting memories
Principal investigators: Bellana, Buddhika
Lingering mental context and the formation of lasting memories
Principal investigators: Bellana, Buddhika
Keywords: cognitive neuroscience; human memory; narratives; mental context; natural language processing; fmri; mind wandering; spontaenous thought; learning
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
- Gordon Winocur and Morris Moscovitch: 13 shared papers
- Morris Moscovitch and Cheryl Grady: 12 shared papers
- Morris Moscovitch and Buddhika Bellana: 4 shared papers
- Gordon Winocur and Cheryl Grady: 3 shared papers
- Cheryl Grady and Ellen Bialystok: 3 shared papers
- Morris Moscovitch and Signy Sheldon: 2 shared papers
- Gordon Winocur and Buddhika Bellana: 1 shared paper
- Cheryl Grady and Buddhika Bellana: 1 shared paper
- Signy Sheldon and Buddhika Bellana: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Bialystok and Buddhika Bellana: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Glendon, Psychology
- Psychology (St. George Campus)
- Other
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