Dr. Matthew Shane
PhD
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Director (General Psychology)
Psychology
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Contact information
2 Simcoe Street
- Room 619
Downtown Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5
905.721.8668 ext. 5968
Research Areas
- emotional/cognitive processes in antisocial personalities
- psychopathic behaviour
- neural systems underlying fear, guilt, shame, empathy, perspective taking
- error monitoring and experiential learning
- neuromodulation—the ability to voluntarily initiate changes in neural responses
CANdiLab
CANdiLab aims to comprehend the integrity of cognitive and affective processes in antisocial populations, utilizing diverse neuroscientific and psychological methodologies to facilitate scientific advancements.
Team
CANdiLab is led by Dr. Matthew Shane, whose specialization and research integrate his doctoral and post-doctoral studies in personality and abnormal psychology. Dr. Shane employs behavioural, cognitive, psychological, and neuroimaging techniques to provide a thorough assessment of cognitive and emotional functions and dysfunctions. CANdiLab possesses a comprehensive laboratory comprising numerous members across diverse academic tiers, including PhD candidates Femi Carrington, MSc candidates Corina Picco and Ardeshir Mordezaei, research assistants Jamie Van Doorselaer, Andrea Manning, Kirsten Stewart, Jingbei Zhang, Rahma Kahn, Mayra Leblanc, and BA graduate Soha Dehghan.
Current projects
CANdiLab aims to understand cognitive processes in the antisocial population, currently focusing on three major topics: “Can psychopathic individuals feel emotions?” CANdiLab is investigating whether psychopaths are incapable of feeling emotions or simply choose not to, utilizing scientific technology to determine if their brain regions activate in response to negative stimuli. CANdiLab is also working to “isolate neural features of antiscialiality from those of substance use disorders.” The neural features of each disorder are difficult to distinguish when 93% of individuals with ASPD are also diagnosed with an SUD, as noted by CANdiLab in their analysis of the comorbidity of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and substance abuse disorder (SUD). The objective of CANdiLab is to differentiate the neural differences between psychotherapy and substance use disorders in light of this challenge. The final research area that CANdiLab is currently concentrating on is "Virtuous versus Nonvirtuous Empathy." CANdiLab researchers are employing both psychological and neuroscientific methods to assess the emergence of empathy for non-virtuous motivated.
Furthermore, CANdiLab researchers are conducting a diverse array of supplementary research projects that integrate a variety of available psychological and neuroscientific methodologies, such as:
- Detailed personality assessments
- Detailed clinical/forensic assessments
- Cognitive/Affective assessments
- Psychophysiological measures: HR, GSR, EMG
- Neural measures: sMRI, fMRI, [fNIRS coming soon]
- Neurostimulation protocols: tDCS
- Facial affect analysis: AI-based FACS analyses
Education
- PhD Psychology University of Toronto
Involvement
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Publications
Shane, M.S. & *Denomme, W.J. (invited). Data-driven approaches to parsing neurocognitive abnormalities associated with externalizing behavior from more pervasive externalizing characteristics. Personality Neuroscience, XX, XX-XX.
*Maraj, A., Martin, M., Shane, M.S., Mohammad, N. (in press). On the relationship between personality traits and password security. Paper submitted to the 2018 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
*Groat, L.L. & Shane, M.S. (revise/resubmit). A Motivational Account of Psychopathy: Etiological considerations and implications for treatment. European Psychologist, XX, XX-XX.
*Denomme, W.J., *Simard, I., & Shane, M.S. (2018). Neuroimaging metrics of drug and food processing in cocaine-dependence, as a function of psychopathic traits and substance use severity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 350. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00350
Shane, M.S. & *Groat, L.L. (2018). Psychopathic individuals show capacity to increase neural reactivity to emotional cues: All you have to do is ask. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 1163-1176. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsy088
Claus, E., & Shane, M.S. (2018). Reduced dACC response following presentation of negative feedback differentiates stimulant abusers from nonabusers and is associated with abstinence twelve months later. Neuroimage: Clinical, 20, 16-23. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.05.007
*Arbuckle, N.L., & Shane, M.S. (2017). Up-regulation of neural indicators of empathy in offenders. Social Neuroscience, X, XX-XX. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2016.1179669.
Shane, M.S. and Weywadt, C.R. (2014). Voluntary modulation of anterior cingulate response to negative feedback. PLoS One, 2014; 9(11.
Cope, L., Shane, M.S., Segall, J., Stevens, M., Pearlson, G. and Kiehl, K.A., (2012). Examining the effect of psychopathic traits on gray matter volume in a community substance abuse sample. Psychiatric Research: Neuroimaging, 91-100.
Posse, S., Ackley, E., Mutihac, R., Rick, J., Shane, M.S., Murray-Krezan, C., et al. (2012). Enhancement of temporal resolution and BOLD sensitivity in real-time fMRI using multi-slab echo-volumar imaging. NeuroImage, 61, 115-130.
Harenski, C.L., Harenski, K.A., Shane, M.S. and Kiehl, K.A. (2012). Neural development of mentalizing in moral judgment from adolescence to adulthood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2, 162-173.
Mayer, A.R., Teshiba, T.M., Franco, A.R., Ling, J., Shane, M.S., Stephen, J.M. and Jung, R.E. (2012). Modeling conflict and error in the medial frontal cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 2843-2855.
DeYoung, C.G., Hirsch, J.B., Shane, M.S., Papademetris, X., Rajeevan, N. and Gray, J.R. (2010). Testing Predictions from Personality Neuroscience: Brain Structure and the Big Five. Psychological Science, 21, 820–828. New York Times article on this study: Linking Personality to Brain Structure.