Linda Truong

Position: Ph.D., M.A. Student
Start Year: 2009
End Year: 2015
Project Manager, Research, Innovation and Translation
Rotman Research Institute
Baycrest Health Sciences
Email: LTruong@research.baycrest.org icon_linkedin

 

PhD Student, 2011 – 2015
MA Student, 2009-2011
Research Assistant & Lab Manager, 2007 – 2009
Ryerson Senior Participant Pool Administrator, 2011 – 2015

 

Degrees:

Ph.D., Psychology, Ryerson University, 2016
M.A., Psychology, Ryerson University, 2011
Honours B. Sc., Specialist in Psychology (Cognition and Behaviour), University of Toronto, 2008

Linda has been working in the lab since the summer of 2007, where she started as a volunteer RA. As a graduate student, she examined how older adults could use their preserved abilities to compensate for those that decline with age. For example, her MA thesis demonstrated that older adults’ intact emotional processing helps reduce some age-related declines in working memory. Her dissertation project followed this line of research by examining how cognitive control in older adults can be supported through manipulations of emotion. Some of her other work in the lab involves investigations of preserved self-referential and survival processing abilities in older age. Linda will use this foundation of basic psychological science to inform future applied and translational research aimed at increasing quality of life for older adults. To support this goal, Linda also completed a practicum placement at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, where she used virtual reality to examine the relationship between divided attention and mobility in younger and older adults. Linda also has interests in knowledge translation and exchange between the research community and older adults.

 

Research Experiences

  • Dissertation: Aging, cognitive control, and emotion
  • Comprehensive Paper: Is there far transfer from proactive control training in older adults?
  • PhD Practicum Project:The impact of hearing impairment on mobility in older adults: Moving from lab to life [Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network]
  • MA Thesis: Aging and emotional effects on working memory and long-term memory for target and distracting information
  • BSc Thesis: An fMRI-compatible paradigm for examining errorless and errorful learning [Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied and Evaluative Research Unit, Baycrest]

Recent Publications

  • Truong, L. & Yang, L. (2014). How does mood affect cognitive control in younger and older adults? Oral presentation, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, July 3-5, Toronto, Ontario.

Recent Awards

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2013-2015
  • The Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST), 2012
  • CIHR Summer Program in Aging (SPA) Trainee, 2012