- About
- Contact Us
- People
- Administration & Staff
- Current Faculty
- Adjunct Faculty & Other Members
- Retired Faculty & Staff
- In Memoriam
- Alumni
- Alumni Profile Mehnaz Thawer
- Alumni Profile David Wotherspoon
- Alumni Profile Yarko Petriw
- Alumni Profile Jenny Konkin
- Alumni Profile Elijah Mudryk
- Alumni Profile Leah Pells
- Alumni Profile Brittany Lasanen
- Alumni Profile Diane Umezuki
- Alumni Profile Christina Wong
- Alumni Profile Hooman Salavati
- Alumni Profile Zoe Crane
- Indigenous Reconciliation
- IRC Events
- Karlee Fellner IRC Workshop - All day workshop with Karlee Fellner
- Kyle Mays IRC Event - Blackness, Indigeneity, and Kinship as Solidarity
- Mark Champley IRC Event - One person's reconciliation journey in Australia
- Adam Murry IRC Event - Going where the need is: Psychological research in the context of reconciliation
- Amy Bombay IRC Event - Intergenerational trauma and the protective effects of culture...
- Karlee Fellner IRC Event -iskotew & crow: (re)igniting narratives of Indigenous survivance & trauma wisdom in psychology
- JoLee Sasakamoose IRC Event -The Culturally Responsive Framework, Developing strength-based trauma-informed practices & Indigenous wellbeing
- Cornelia Wieman IRC Event - A Year in Public Health: The Collision of Three Public Health Emergencies
- Other Ongoing Events
- What is Reconciliation?
- Territorial Acknowledgment
- Resources
- Student Profiles
- IRC Committee Members
- IRC Events
- EDI
- Employment
- Areas of Study
- Undergraduate
- Graduate
- News & Events
- Research
- Adolescent Health Lab
- All Families Lab
- Autism & Developmental Disabilities Lab
- Children's Memory Research Group
- Close Relationships Lab
- Cognitive Aging Lab
- CORTECH Lab
- Culture and Development Lab
- Douglas Research Lab
- Dr. Aknin's Helping and Happiness Lab
- Family Dynamics Project
- Grow to Care Lab
- Human Neuropsychology Lab
- Measurement and Modelling Lab
- Mental Health, Law and Policy Institute
- Personality and Emotion Research Lab
- Psychological Methods Consulting
- Sustainability, Identity & Social Change Lab
- Singlehood Experiences and Complexities Underlying Relationships (SECURE) Lab
- Spalek Laboratory of Attention Memory and Perception
- Studies in Methodology and Philosophy of Psychological Science Lab
- Translational Neuroscience Lab
- Vision Lab
- Weight and Eating Lab
- Clinical Psychology Centre
- login (for Dept. Members)
Areas of interest
Cognitive & Neural Sciences
Research Interests
Hormones and behaviour, sexual differentiation of the nervous system, reproductive behaviour, psychopharmacology, human neuropsychology, neurobiology.
Selected Publications
(my trainees marked with *)
*Jones, B.A., *Wagner, L.S., and Watson, N.V. (2014 - submitted). The effects of Bisphenol A exposure at different developmental time points in an androgen-sensitive neuromuscular system. Endocrinology
*Hamson, D.K., *Jones, B.A., *Csupity, A.S., *Ali, F.M. & Watson, N.V. (2014). Androgen insensitive male rats display increased anxiety-like behaviour on the elevated plus maze. Behavioural Brain Research, 259, 158-163.
*Zilioli, S. & Watson, N.V. (2014). Testosterone across successive competitions: Evidence for a winner effect in humans? Psychoneuroendocrinology, 47, 1-9.
*Zilioli S., Watson N.V. (2013) Winning Isn't Everything: Mood and Testosterone Regulate the Cortisol Response in Competition. PLoS One, 8(1), e52582.
Watson, N. V., & Breedlove, S.M. (2012). The Mind's Machine: Foundations of Brain and Behavior. Sunderland MA: Sinauer
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.