Lingua Memoria · The Buchsbaum Lab
How the brain stores, represents, and brings back memories.
We study how the quality and fidelity of complex memories—for words, images, and audiovisual episodes—can be captured, quantified, and modelled using functional neuroimaging, eye tracking, and behaviour.
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest · Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Research themes
All projects →Memory Reactivation
Multivariate fMRI pattern analysis of how the brain reinstates the content of complex memories during recall.
02Eye-Movement Reinstatement
Gaze during recall retraces the original experience—a behavioural window into memory retrieval.
03Memory, Speech, and Language
How auditory and motor systems interact to hold and rehearse speech in verbal working memory.
04Vividability
Why some images are remembered more vividly than others, consistently across people.
Recent papers
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2026
Examination of the role of the mediodorsal thalamus in supporting frontal cortical processes Geier, K. T., Vidal, J. P., Barbeau, E. J., Péran, P., Pariente, J., Buchsbaum, B. R., Danet, L., & Olsen, R. K. · Cortex
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2026
Scene-sensitive Medial Temporal Lobe Subregions Are Recruited for the Integration of Non-scene Stimuli Kulkarni, M., Jiang, L., Robin, J., Choi, J. W., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Olsen, R. K. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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2026
Fragile recurrent processing in Aphantasia: Evidence from visual pattern completion Loo, C., & Buchsbaum, B. R. · Consciousness and Cognition
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2026
Different Reliance on Sensory Reinstatement and Internally Transformed Representations during Vivid Retrieval of Visual and Auditory Episodes Zhang, L., Alain, C., & Buchsbaum, B. R. · The Journal of Neuroscience
Lab director
The team →
Bradley R. Buchsbaum
Opportunities
Join the lab
We welcome inquiries from prospective graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research assistants interested in memory, neuroimaging, and computational methods.
Graduate students join through the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. For all positions, email Brad with a CV and a short note about your interests.
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