Kelsey Canada

Assistant Professor, Arriving Fall 2025

Faculty
Kelsey Canada
Contact
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Location
Tobin 412

Education:

PhD, University of Maryland, College Park

Research

Dr. Canada’s research program seeks to characterize individual differences in brain and memory development in representative samples to gain insights into mechanism of their development and sources of modifiable risk and protective factors. Specifically, her research investigates how impressive changes in memory ability across childhood and adolescence are supported by the brain, with a focus on the hippocampus, and potentially modified by socioeconomic context shifting across periods of early life. To do this, she uses interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches including behavioral measures, neuroimaging (MRI and EEG), and applied quantitative methods (structural equation modeling).

If you are interested in joining Dr. Canada’s lab, please reach out to her.

Selected Publications

Canada, K.L, Ghetti, S., Riggins, T., Ofen, N., & Daugherty, A.M. (2024). A data integration method for new advances in development cognitive neuroscience. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 70, 101475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101475

Canada, K.L.*, Mazloum-Farzaghi, N.*, Rådman, G., Adams, J.N., Bakker, A., Baumeister, H., Berron, D., Bocchetta, M., Carr, V., Dalton, M.A., de Flores, R., Keresztes, A., La Joie, R.,  Mueller, S.G., Raz, N., Santini, T., Shaw, T., Stark, C.E.L., Tran, T.T., Wang, L., Wisse, L.E.M., Wustefeld, A., Yushkevich, P.A., Olsen, R.K.#, Daugherty, A.M.#, on behalf of the Hippocampal Subfields Group. (2024). A (sub)field guide to quality control in hippocampal segmentation on high-resolution T2-weighted MRI. Human Brain Mapping, 45(15), e70004. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70004

Canada, K.L., Saifullah, S., Gardner, J.C., Sutton, B.P., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., Raz, N., Daugherty, A.M. (2023). Development and validation of a quality control procedure for automatic segmentation of hippocampal subfields. Hippocampus, 33(9), 1048–1057.  https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23552

Canada, K.L., Homayouni, R., Yu, Q., Foster, D.,  Ramesh, S., Raz, S., Daugherty, A.M.,  Ofen, N. (2023). Household socioeconomic status relates to specific hippocampal subfield volumes across development. Hippocampus, 33(9), 1067–1072. http://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23542

Canada, K.L., Hancock, G.R., & Riggins, T. (2021). Modeling longitudinal changes in hippocampal subfields and relations with memory from early- to mid-childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48, 100947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100947

Research Areas

Developmental Science