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Dr. Josh Neudorf

Dr. Josh Neudorf is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Athabasca University. Dr. Neudorf received his PhD in Psychology with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Saskatchewan under the supervision of Dr. Ron Borowsky. This work focused on demonstrating how structural connectivity guides and constrains functional outputs including functional connectivity. Most notably, he demonstrated a near doubling in accuracy compared to previous international attempts when predicting functional connectivity from structural connectivity, using Graph Neural Network Deep Learning (Neudorf et al., 2022). He was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for his PhD work. He then spent 3 years supervised by Dr. Randy McIntosh as a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by NSERC and the Canadian Neuroanalytics Scholars Program, applying graph theory and other computational approaches to studying the structural and functional brain network changes with age that serve to support cognitive ability.

Dr. Neudorf’s research uses neuroimaging methods including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate how the structural and functional brain networks are related to one another and how these networks support cognitive processes involved in reading, semantic memory, and attention across the lifespan. This research combines methods from Psychology, Neuroscience, Mathematics, and Computer Science. More specifically, this research relies on cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, complex systems theory, graph theory, deep learning, computational simulations, etc.

Dr. Neudorf’s research expertise is widely sought after. He has been invited to present his research nationally and internationally, and has been asked to serve as Consulting Editor for the journal Cortex, external committee member for NSF CAREER, and regularly as a reviewer for peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Scientific Reports, Imaging Neuroscience, Network Neuroscience, Cortex, Brain Imaging and Behaviour, PLOS Computational Biology, etc.

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Research interests

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Network Neuroscience
• Computational Neuroscience
• Reading
• Semantic Memory
• Attention
• Aging

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Educational credentials

• 2022 PhD, Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Saskatchewan
• 2019 MA, Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Saskatchewan
• 2017 BSc Honours, Psychology, University of Saskatchewan

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Professional affiliations

• Consulting Editor, Cortex