Publications & Presentations

A comprehensive list of my scientific contributions, including peer-reviewed articles, dissertations, and conference presentations.

📚 Peer-Reviewed Articles

This section includes articles that have undergone a formal peer-review process and have been published in academic journals.

Media Coverage Highlight

  • Curiosity Daily Podcast (Discovery) featured my review article
    Is the role of sleep in memory consolidation overrated? (Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022).
    🎧 Listen here

In Preparation

  • Dastgheib, M., Sun, A., Yaghoubi, K., Chen, X., Peters, M., Zhang, W., Bennett, I., Seitz, A. (In Prep). The Effect of Physical Effort on Perception and Visual Memory: A Pupillometric Analysis.
  • Dastgheib, M., Sun, A., Maniscalco, B., Peters, M., Seitz, A. (In Prep). Analysis of metacognitive efficiency in younger and older adults in auditory and visual perceptual task.

🎓 Dissertations & Theses

Major independent research projects completed as part of my graduate training.

  • Doctoral Dissertation (In Progress): The Influence of Arousal and Cognitive Reserve on Dual-Task Interference in Aging. (University of California, Riverside)
  • Master’s Thesis: The Effects of Self-Guided Meditation and Napping on Memory Consolidation in Humans. (Queen’s University) — View on OSF Preprints

🎤 Conference Presentations & Published Abstracts

A selection of posters and talks presented at scientific conferences, with my name in bold.

International Presentations

  • Sun, A., Dastgheib, M., Maniscalco, B., Peters, M., Zhang, W., Seitz, A. (2025, June). Selective Modulation of Auditory Perception and Metacognition by Hand Grip-Based Arousal in Older Adults. Talk at the Metacognition, Aging and Perception Symposium (MAPS), Rovereto, Italy.
  • Ghaffari, A., Langley, J., Dastgheib, M., Chen, X., Bennett, I., Hu, X. (2025, May). Functional MRI Connectome Fingerprinting in Older Adults. Talk at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Houston, TX.
  • Dastgheib, M., Bennett, I., Seitz, A. (2024, November). The Differential Effect of Physical Effort within Perceptual and Visual Memory Domains: Insights from Psychometric Function Analysis. Poster presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York City, NY.
  • Dastgheib, M., Yaghoubi, K., Kobaissi, H., Alba, J., Bennett, I., Seitz, A. (2023, August). The Effect of Physical Effort on Perception and Visual Memory. Poster presented at the International Conference on Learning and Memory, Huntington Beach, CA.
  • Dastgheib, M., Legro L., Stewart M., Dringenberg H. (2019, June). The Effects of Self-guided Meditation and Napping on Non-Declarative and Declarative Memory Consolidation. Poster presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, & Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) meeting, Waterloo, ON.

Published Abstracts

  • Sarwar, S., Shafiee, M., Dastgheib, M., Hajighadimi, S., Ghafarian, H., Rokni, H. (2020). Current Diagnostic Approaches to Patients with Hypernatremia at University Health Network Hospitals. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, 67(S1), 1-162. DOI Link

Intramural Presentations

  • Sarwar, S., Shafiee, M., Dastgheib, M., et al. (2019). Current Diagnostic Approaches to Patients with Hypernatremia at University Health Network Hospitals. Critical Care Canada Forum (CCCF), Toronto, ON.
  • Dastgheib, M., Legro L., Stewart M., Dringenberg H. (2018). The Effects of Self-guided Meditation and Napping on Non-Declarative and Declarative Memory Consolidation. Southern Ontario Neuroscience Association (SONA) conference, Guelph, ON.
  • Dastgheib, M. (2017). Are Older Adults’ Attitudes about Aging Influenced by a Psychoeducational Program? Psychology Undergraduate Thesis Poster Day, York University, Toronto, ON.
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