Vanessa Taler

PhD

Senior Investigator

Full Professor
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa

About:

Vanessa Taler’s research interests focus on semantic and cognitive processing in cognitively healthy older adults, as well as people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). She is also studies language and cognitive processing in bilinguals and uses ERP and behavioral techniques to study these questions.

Taler also the Ottawa site principal investigator for the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), a large, national, long-term study of 50,000 people aged 45-85, and the head of the CLSA Psychological Health Working Group.

Research Interests:

Aging, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, cognition, language, memory, neuropsychology, event-related potentials.

Select Publications:

Morrison C, Taler V. (2022). ERP differences between monolinguals and bilinguals: The role of linguistic distance. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Taler V, Johns BT. (2022). Using big data to understand bilingual performance in semantic fluency: Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. PLoS ONE.

Ohman A, Sheppard C, Monetta L, Taler V. (2022). Assessment of semantic memory in mild cognitive impairment: the psychometric properties of a novel semantic battery. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult.

Bedard M, Taler V. (2021). Social support buffers against cognitive decline in single mild traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness: Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. The Journals of Gerontology.

Tuokko H, Griffith LE, Simard M, Taler V, O’Connell ME, Voll S, Kadlec H, Wolfson C, Kirkland S, Raina P. (2020). The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) as a platform for exploring cognition in an aging population. The Clinical Neuropsychologist.

Contact:

vtaler@uottawa.ca