Dr. Kathleen Lyons

Assistant Professor

Phone:
Email: klyons8@uwo.ca

Dr. Lyons is an Assistant Professor at King’s University College in the Psychology Department. Her research focuses on understanding how children make sense of the world and how the developing brain supports this processing. She uses neuroimaging, cognitive testing, surveys, and naturalistic paradigms to investigate individual differences in sensory, cognitive, and social processing across each stage of development.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology, Western University, 2022
• Master of Science, Psychology, Western University, 2016
• Honours Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2013

Teaching

• Psychology 2040: Child Development
• Psychology 2840: Research Methods
• Psychology 3410: Cognitive Development
• Psychology 3892: Correlational and Multivariate Research Methods and Statistics

Research

• Developmental cognitive neuroscience

Selected Publications

Riganello, F., Pearce, A., Lyons, K. M., Owen, A. M., Soddu, A. M., & Stojanoski, B. (2023). Differential effects of prolonged aerobic and resistance exercise on cognitive functioning in sedentary young adults. bioRxiv, 2023-04.

Nichols, E. S., Erez, J., Stojanoski, B., Lyons, K. M., Witt, S. T., Mace, C. A., ... & Owen, A. M. (2021). Longitudinal white matter changes associated with cognitive training. Human Brain Mapping, 42(14), 4722-4739.

Lyons, K. M., Stevenson, R. A., Owen, A. M., & Stojanoski, B. (2020). Examining the relationship between measures of autistic traits and neural synchrony during movies in children with and without autism. NeuroImage: Clinical, 28, 102477.

Stojanoski, B., Lyons, K. M., Pearce, A. A., & Owen, A. M. (2018). Targeted training: Converging evidence against the transferable benefits of online brain training on cognitive function. Neuropsychologia, 117, 541-550.

Girard, T. A., Wilkins, L. K., Lyons, K. M., Yang, L., & Christensen, B. K. (2018). Traditional test administration and proactive interference undermine visual-spatial working memory performance in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 23(4), 242-253.