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Dr. Fahad Naveed Ahmad earned his BSc in Psychology from U of T and a PhD from 91porn under Dr. Bill Hockley, studying unitization and recognition memory. He collaborated with Dr. Myra Fernandes on aging and memory. He has taught several undergraduate Psychology courses at 91porn and MSVU. His postdoctoral work at U of T and Baycrest with Dr. Morris Moscovitch and Dr. Bradley Buchsbaum examined pattern separation using eye-tracking, EEG, and fMRI. Dr. Fahad Ahmad's research explores attention, imagery, and recognition memory. Outside academia, Fahad enjoys time with his wife and two daughters and develops educational YouTube content inspired by Khan Academy.
The main focus of my research is understanding the various relationships between attention at perception and human recognition memory. Recently, following up on research experiments that I have tested out in my PS360-Research in Cognitive Psychology classes, I have become involved in research on imagery and vividness ratings for pictures and sounds with relation to recognition memory, encoding and retrieval of gist and verbatim information, the role of categorical and perceptual interference in pattern separation and the extent of perceptual discrimination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated and human generated paintings and subsequent recognition memory.
- Nominated for the Gold Medal of Academic Excellence at Graduate level
Although not a full-time professor, as an instructor, with no funding, I choose to sometimes supervise undergraduate students in research projects. I always try to get my research projects published in relevant peer-reviewed journals to advance my research, support research, but mostly to enhance students' experiential learning outside the classroom and increase interest in Cognitive Psychology. If interested in my research and have some relevant research ideas, feel free to email me.
Ahmad, F. N., Tremblay, S., Karkuszewski, M. D., Alvi, M., & Hockley, W. E. (2024). A conceptual–perceptual distinctiveness processing account of the superior recognition memory of pictures over environmental sounds. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(7), 1555-1580.
Ozubko, J. D., Sirianni, L. A., Ahmad, F. N., MacLeod, C. M., & Addante, R. J. (2021). Recallable but not recognizable: The influence of semantic priming in recall paradigms. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21, 119-143.
Bone, M. B., Ahmad, F., & Buchsbaum, B.R. (2020). Feature Specific Neural Activation during Episodic Memory. Nature Communications, 11, 1-3.
Arrabito, G. R., Hou, M., Banbury, S., Martin, B. C., Ahmad, F., & Fang, S. (2020). A review of human factors research performed from 2014 to 2017 in support of the Royal Canadian Air Force remotely piloted aircraft system project. Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems, 9(1), 1-20.
Ahmad, F. N., Tan, P., & Hockley, W. E. (2019). Directed forgetting for categorised pictures: Recognition memory for perceptual details versus gist. Memory, 27(7), 894-903.
Ahmad, F. N., Moscovitch, M. & Hockley, W. (2017). Effects of Varying Presentation time on Long-Term Recognition Memory for Scenes: Verbatim and Gist Representations. Memory & Cognition, 45, 390-403.
Ahmad, F. N., & Hockley, W. E. (2017). Distinguishing familiarity from fluency for the compound word effect in associative recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 14, 1-24.
Hockley, W. E., Ahmad, F. N. & Nicholson, R. (2016). Intentional and Incidental Encoding of Item and Associative Information in the Directed Forgetting Procedure. Memory & Cognition, 22, 220-228.
Ahmad, F.N., Fernandes, M. & Hockley, W. E. (2015). Improving Associative Memory in Older Adults with Unitization. Aging, Neuropsychology & Cognition, 22, 452-72.
Ahmad, F. N., & W. E. Hockley (2014). The role of familiarity in associative recognition of unitized pairs. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 2301-2324.
Courses Taught at 91porn
- Introduction to Psychology (PS101/102)
- Introduction to Perception (PS262)
- Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (PS267)
- Research in Cognitive Psychology (PS360)
- Research in Perception (PS362)
- History of Psychology (PS410)
- Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience (PS467)
Synchronous Online Courses Taught at MSVU (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- PSYC1110-19: Introduction to Psychology as a Science
- PSYC 2209-18: Research Methods in Psychology
- PSYC 2213-18: Emotion and Motivation
- PSYC 2215-18:Cognitive Psychology
- PSYC 2221-03: Developmental Psychology I
- PSYC2222-19: Developmental Psychology II
- PSYC 3310-18: Cognitive Development
Course Taught at SMU (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- PSYC2010-1C: Research Methods in Psychology
Building on over 10 years of university teaching at 91porn, Dr. Fahad Ahmad is deeply committed to the transformative power of education. Dr. Fahad Ahmad believes that excellent teaching fosters curiosity, critical thinking, and the practical skills needed for success in both academia and industry. Dr. Ahmad's classes blend lectures with demonstrations, discussions, videos, and interactive activities such as live quizzes to engage diverse learners. In lab-based courses, he emphasizes hands-on, student-centred learning, guiding students through experiment design, presentation, and scientific writing. Beyond the in-person classroom, Dr. Fahad has taught online synchronous courses at Mount Saint Vincent University and Saint Mary’s University. Fahad has volunteered as a marker of Students’ posters at honour's thesis conferences at 91porn for the past four years.
Contact Info:
Office location: N2007 or Zoom
Office hours:
In-person timing depending on course; Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. by Zoom
Languages spoken: English, Urdu