Michael Mack

Michael Mack is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science. He leads the Mack Lab, a research group focused on understanding human learning and memory through an interdisciplinary approach combining behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and functional neuroimaging (fMRI).

His research investigates how attention—the selection of relevant information—interacts with memory to shape learning. This work aims to uncover both the mechanisms of successful learning and the reasons learning may fail, with implications for educational and clinical applications.

The Mack Lab actively publishes findings, participates in major neuroscience conferences such as the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) and the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), and welcomes participants for studies. The lab has recently celebrated the PhD completions of Dr. Perovic, Dr. Heffernan, and Dr. Son, highlighting his role as a mentor and advisor.

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Michael Mack advises a team of researchers and graduate students, fostering a dynamic environment for exploring the learning brain. The lab is physically located at the Centre for Biological Timing and Cognition at 325 Huron Street, Toronto, with a mailing address at 100 St. George Street.

The lab's research trends, as inferred from its stated goals, center on the integration of cognitive theory with neural data and formal models to decode learning processes. This interdisciplinary approach bridges psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, emphasizing mechanistic explanations of cognition.