Colin McCormick

(He/Him)

A cognitive scientist interested in human attention, executive control, and developing gamified tools for measuring cognitive performance. Passionate about education, making science practices more open and transparent, and science communication.

Contact: Colin.McCormick@dal.ca

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Instructor of Graduate Statistics, Dalhousie
  • 2022–2023
    OpenThink Cohort, Dalhousie
  • 2022–2022
    Instructor of Intro Psych, Dalhousie

Education

  • 2024 
    Dalhousie University, PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience
  • 2020 
    Dalhousie University, MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience

Publications

  • 2025
    Assessing Posner's Theory of Alerting: A Meta-Analysis of Speed and Accuracy Effects, Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
  • 2024
    Introducing the portable AttentionTrip: An engaging tool for measuring the networks of attention, Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  • 2023
    How does exogenous alerting impact endogenous preparation on a temporal cueing task, Visual Cognition
  • 2022
    Lifestyle factors and their impact on the networks of attention, Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • 2021
    Crossmodal Correspondence Between Auditory Timbre and Visual Shape, Multisensory Research
  • 2020
    Integrating open science in the teaching of cognitive research methods, PsyArXiv
  • 2020
    Comparing Youth Engagement on the AttentionTrip to the Child Attention Network Test, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
  • 2019
    On the selection of endogenous and exogenous signals, Royal Society of Open Science
  • 2018
    The independence of endogenous and exogenous temporal attention, Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    The Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
    Role:
    PhD Student
    Funding Source:
    Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Contact Colin for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision