Meg Schlichting

Meg Schlichting is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Principal Investigator of the Budding Minds Lab. She specializes in developmental cognitive neuroscience, focusing on how memory systems in the brain update information across childhood and adulthood. Her work integrates neuroimaging (MRI) and behavioral studies through affiliations with the Child Study Centre, which unites labs exploring developmental psychology.

Research interests include episodic memory, hippocampal-prefrontal interactions, and neural development across adolescence. The lab investigates how structural/functional brain changes affect memory formation, recall, and decision-making in children, teens, and adults using experimental paradigms in both lab and real-world contexts.