This program was created to provide financial support to students and postdoctoral fellows of CIRCA who wish to undertake research of an interdisciplinary nature in the field of brain and learning sciences. One of the objectives of this program is to foster the training of students and highly qualified personnel by enabling them to develop the integrative and interdisciplinary approach necessary to address the challenges targeted by the Centre. The proposed training program will not only allow students to develop new study models and experimental approaches, but also to acquire cross-disciplinary skills.
2024 Awardees
Emmeline Paré (MSc)
Project title: Est-ce que l’intégration des informations proprioceptives et motrices présente un coût attentionnel supérieur chez les aînés en comparaison aux jeunes adultes ?
Director: Julie Messier
Behiye Sanliturk (MSc)
Project title: Développement d’un modèle photothrombotique de cécité corticale chez la souris.
Director: Matthieu Vanni
Raphaëlle Fortin (PhD)
Project title: Neurosciences au service de la réinsertion : Comparaison d’interventions visant à réduire le biais d’attribution d’intention hostile de personnes incarcérées. Une étude PRÉ.
Director: Jean Gagnon
Willy Nguyen (PhD)
Project title: Exploiter le couplage neurovasculaire pour faciliter la récupération de la marche après des blessures de la moelle épinière.
Director: Marina Martinez
Co-director: Hélène Girouard
Pénélope Pelland-Goulet (PhD)
Project title: TDAH chez les collégiens : fonctionnement académique, cognitif et cérébral.
Director: Martin Arguin
Co-director: Hélène Brisebois
Soraya Rahimi (PhD)
Project title: Dynamic connectivity in the cortical motor network while monkeys reach and grasp.
Director: Numa Dancause
Co-director: Matthew Perich
Miriam Schirru (PhD)
Project title: Modélisation de la dynamique dopaminergique dans les troubles neurologiques pour une meilleure efficacité thérapeutique.
Director: Fahima Nekka
Alex Tchung (PhD)
Project title: Visualisation de l'impact de la peroxydation lipidique/ferroptose dans les neurones dopaminergiques.
Director: Louis-Éric Trudeau
Co-director: Gonzalo Cosa
Olivier Codol (postdoctoral fellow)
Project title: In search of the teaching signal for neural control of movement.
Director : Guillaume Lajoie
Co-director : Matthew Perich
2023 Awardees
Hamza Abdelhedi (MSc)
Project title: Combiner la magnétoencéphalographie et les réseaux neuronaux convolutionnels pour étudier les mécanismes artificiels et biologiques de la reconnaissance faciale.
Director: Karim Jerbi
Co-director: Shahab Bakhtiari
Guillaume Blais (MSc)
Project title: La consolidation de l’accord grammatical : Une étude de potentiels évoqués chez les adolescents québécois.
Director: Phaedra Royle
Co-director: Simone Falk
Audrey Lamy-Proulx (MSc)
Project title: La reconstruction des images mentales grâce à Bubbles et à l’électroencéphalographie.
Director: Ian Charest
Co-director: Frédéric Gosselin
Cesar Augusto Canaveral (PhD)
Project title: L'étude de la prise de décision durant l'action.
Director: Paul Cisek
Co-director: Andrea Green
Marie-Pier Côté (PhD)
Project title: Modélisation des trajectoires développementales des fonctions exécutives et anatomie cérébrale : de l’enfance à l’adolescence.
Director: Annie Bernier
Co-director: Véronique Daneault
Soraya Paquereau-Gaboreau (PhD)
Project title: Développement de l'optophysiologie Raman pour l'étude de la neurotransmission.
Director: Louis-Éric Trudeau
Co-director: Jean-François Masson
Florence Renaud (PhD)
Project title: L’interaction avec les pairs des enfants d’âge préscolaire ayant des difficultés motrices.
Director: Marie-Julie Béliveau
Anca Vochin (PhD)
Project title: Évaluation de l'efficacité du neurofeedback pour l'attention dans la réhabilitation de l'aphasie chronique.
Director: Arnaud Saj
Co-director: Simona Brambati
Meriam Zid (PhD)
Project title: Désorganisation des réseaux neuronaux: une perspective dynamique sur l'apprentissage.
Director: Becket Ebitz
Yanis Inglebert (postdoctoral fellow)
Project title: L’impact des astrocytes sur la forme du potentiel d’action et les conséquences pour la plasticité synaptique et intrinsèque.
Director: Arlette Kolta
Milene Rodrigues Malheiros Lima (postdoctoral fellow)
Project title: Role of calcium signaling of brain pericytes to stroke.
Director: Ravi Rungta
2022 Awardees
Zerghona Shafia (MSc)
Project title: Molecular mechanism and functional consequence of rapid relaxation in Kv2.2 channels.
Director: Rikard Blunck
Co-director: Sébastien Talbot
Laurianne Zana (MSc)
Project title: Modulation of the hemodynamic response by interneuron activity during brain plasticity.
Director: Ravi Rungta
Co-director: Jean-Claude Lacaille
Maxime Bleau (PhD)
Project title: Neural correlates of orientation and spatial learning in the absence of vision.
Director: Maurice Ptito
Co-director: Joe Nemargut
Maryam Hojjat Jodaylami (PhD)
Project title: LSPR nanobiosensors: A new path to plasmonic optophysiology.
Director: Jean-François Masson
Co-director: Arlette Kolta
Hugo Laflamme (PhD)
Project title: Serious rhythm games: Exploiting new mobile technologies to understand the mechanisms of rhythmic abilities.
Director: Simone Dalla Bella
Co-director: Simon Rigoulot
Anne-Sophie Laurin (PhD)
Project title: Changes in visuospatial skills in adults with mild cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study.
Director: Aarlenne Khan
Co-director: Frédéric Gosselin
Bérangère Villatte (PhD)
Project title: Cardiac reactivity to stress in people with acute and chronic tinnitus.
Director: Sylvie Hébert
Bhat Shreyas (postdoctoral fellow)
Project title: Visualizing Kv4 channel activity in neurons during learning.
Director: Rikard Blunck
Co-director: Sébastien Talbot
Benjamin Le Gac (postdoctoral fellow)
Project title: Study of the role of astrocytic nitric oxide in neurovascular coupling in response to cholinergic stimulations.
Director: Hélène Girouard
Co-director: Jean Provost
2021 Awardees
Samuel Mérineau (PhD)
Project title: Learning who I am in a new world : understanding the dynamic processes of the Bayesian model of identity integration.
Director: Roxane de la Sablonnière
Co-director: Sébastien Hétu
Layale Youssef (PhD)
Project title: The promotion of motor learning and neuroplasticity with acute physical exercise: is the benefit worth the pain?
Director: Jason Neva
Co-director: Benjamin Pageaux
Agnès Zagala (PhD)
Project title: Individual differences in synchronized walking with a rhythmic auditory stimulus: At the interface of the motor system, rhythm processing, and cognition.
Director: Simone Dalla Bella
Co-director: Fabien Dal Maso
Annie Desmarais (postdoctoral fellow)
Project title: Combining neuropsychology and psychoeducation to promote the development of cognitive self-regulation in school-aged children.
Director: Bruno Gauthier
Co-director: Isabelle Archambault
Karine Roversi (postdoctoral fellow)
Project title: Silencing sensory neurons to resolve SARS-CoV-2 inflammation.
Director: Sébastien Talbot
Co-director: May Griffith
2020 Awardees
Jeff Ferreri (MSc)
Project title: Effect of cholinergic stimulation and perceptual learning on vision recovery in hemianopic subjects.
Director: Arnaud Saj
Co-director: Elvire Vaucher
François-Olivier Gratton (MSc)
Project title: Development of optophysiology and Raman tomography for molecular measurements in the brain.
Director: Jean-François Masson
Co-director: Louis-Éric Trudeau
Fatemeh Mardani (MSc)
Titre du projet: Study the immunomodulatory impact of neuron-derived peptides on the use of mesenchymal stem cells.
Director: Sébastien Talbot
Co-director: Moutih Rafei
Ismaël Djerourou (PhD)
Project title: Development of optogenetics and the use of cortical maps for the design of cortical neuroprostheses to restore vision.
Director: Matthieu Vanni
Co-director: Maurice Ptito
Pénélope Pelland-Goulet (PhD)
Project title: ADHD, neuropsychological profiling and school functioning during a pandemic.
Director: Nathalie Gosselin
Co-director: Martin Arguin
Solenn Tissier (PhD)
Project title: Characterization of the functional reorganization of visual functions following brain lesions in the primary visual cortex and superior areas in mice.
Director: Matthieu Vanni
Co-director: Christian Casanova
Katiane Roversi (postdoctoral fellow)
Project title: Nanophotonic-silencing of nociceptor neurons.
Director: Sébastien Talbot
Co-director: Christos Boutopoulos
This content has been updated on 19 February 2026 at 12 h 28 min.