R. Shayna Rosenbaum

Faculty & School/Dept.

Faculty of Health - Department of Psychology

Degrees

B.A. - 1997
University of Western Ontario
London

M.A. - 1999
University of Toronto
Toronto

B.A. (Hons) - 1998
York University
Toronto

Ph.D. - 2004
University of Toronto
Toronto

Biography

Shayna Rosenbaum is a Professor and York Research Chair in the Clinical Neuropsychology Stream, Adult Clinical Area, Department of Psychology, Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience, and the CFREF-funded Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) and Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society programs. She is an Adjunct Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest and registered as a Clinical Neuropsychologist with the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto in 2004 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rotman. She has published extensively on the topics of memory and decision-making, and has received awards for her neuroimaging and patient research, including a Sloan Research Fellowship and early career awards from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), and International Neuropsychological Society. Her research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. She is an elected member (emerita) of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists and past member of the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre.

Selected Publications

Chow, R., Baker, S., Mo, S., Bugos, J.A., Alain, C., Rosenbaum, R.S. (2025). Mismatch negativity predicts age-related declines in memory precision. Neurobiology of Aging, 147, 32-48.

Halilova, J.G., Fynes-Clinton, S., Addis, D.R.*, & Rosenbaum, R.S.* (2024). Predictors of change in vaccination decisions among the vaccine-hesitant: Examining the roles of age and intolerance of uncertainty. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 58, 768-777.

Pishdadian, S., Coutrot, A., Webber, L., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2024). Combining patient-lesion and big data approaches to reveal hippocampal contributions to spatial memory and navigation. iScience, 27, 109997.

Mitchnick, K.A., Marlatte, H., Belchev, Z., Gao, F.Q., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2024). Dissociable contributions of the hippocampal dentate gyrus and CA1 subfield to mnemonic discrimination. Hippocampus, 34, 278-283. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23604.

Lauzon, C., Chiasso, D., Rabin, J.S., Ciaramelli, E., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2024). Ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for generalization, not pattern separation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 435-446.

Li, A., Lei, X., Herdman, K.A., Waidergoren, S., Gilboa, A., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2024). Impoverished details with preserved gist in remote and recent spatial memory following hippocampal and fornix lesions. Neuropsychologia, 194, 108787.

Farzanfar, D., Spiers, H., Moscovitch, M., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2023). From cognitive maps to spatial schemas. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 24, 63-79.

Rosenbaum, R.S., Halilova, J.G., Kwan, D., Beneventi, S., Craver, C.F., Gilboa, A., & Ciaramelli, E. (2023). Temporal construal of future events following lesions to the hippocampus or to ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Psychological Science, 34, 75-86.

Ciaramelli, E., De Luca, F., Kwan, D., Mok, J.N.Y., Bianconi, F., Knyagnytska, V., Craver, C., Green, L., Myerson, J., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2021). The future (put) in mind: future cues reduce delay discounting following ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage. eLife, 10:e67387.

Liu, Z-X, Rosenbaum, R.S., & Ryan, J.D. (2020). Restricting visual exploration impedes neural activity, functional connectivity, and memory. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 1, 1-15.

Halilova, J., Addis, D.R., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2020). Getting better without memory. Social Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(8),

Kim, A.S.N., Wiseheart, M., Wong-Kee-You, A.M.B., Le, B.T., Moreno, S., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2020). Specifying the neural basis of the spacing effect with multivariate ERP. Neuropsychologia, 30, 107550. 

Gao, A.F., Keith, J.L., Gao, F.Q., Black, S.E., Moscovitch, M., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2020). Neuropathology of a remarkable case of memory impairment informs human memory. Neuropsychologia, 140, 107342.

Kim, A.S.N., Wong-Kee-You, A.M.B., Wiseheart, M., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2019). The spacing effect stands up to big data. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1485-1497.

Baker, S.W., Vieweg, P., Gao, F.Q., Gilboa, A., Wolbers, T., Black, S.E., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2016). A necessary role for the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus in pattern separation in humans. Current Biology, 26, 2629-2634.

Rosenbaum, R.S., Gilboa, A., & Moscovitch, M. (2014). Case studies continue to illuminate the cognitive neuroscience of memory. The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1316, 105-133.

Rabin, J.S., & Rosenbaum, R.S. (2012). Familiarity modulates the functional relationship between theory of mind and autobiographical memory. Neuroimage, 62, 520-529.

Rosenbaum, R.S., Stuss, D.T., Levine, B., & Tulving, E. (2007). Theory of mind is independent of episodic memory. Science, 318, 1257.

Rosenbaum, R.S., Priselac, S., Köhler, S., Black, S.E., Gao, F.Q., Nadel, L., & Moscovitch, M. (2000). Remote spatial memory in an amnesic person with extensive bilateral hippocampal lesions. Nature Neuroscience, 3(10), 1044-1048.

 

Affiliations

Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest
Adjunct Scientist

Service/Community Activities

Ontario Science Centre
Member, Board of Trustees

Awards

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research – Established Career, Faculty of Health - 2024

James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, The James McKeen Cattell Fund - 2018

INS Award for Early Career Research, International Neuropsychological Society - 2017

Teaching Award – Established Career, Faculty of Health, York University - 2016

York Research Chair–Tier II, Faculty of Health, York University - 2016

President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award - 2015

Member (elected), inaugural cohort of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada - 2014

Early Career Award, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science - 2014

Young Investigator Award, Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) - 2013

Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - 2010

Research Award – Early Career, Faculty of Health, York University - 2010

CIHR New Investigator Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research - 2008

Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation - 2007

Supervision

Currently available to supervise graduate students: No

Currently taking on work-study students, Graduate Assistants or Volunteers: No

Available to supervise undergraduate thesis projects: No

Curriculum Vitae (C.V. file):

CV of R. Shayna Rosenbaum