This award aims to recognize a postdoctoral fellow who stands out for the excellence of her candidacy for the FRQS competition, and whose project is related to cognitive neuroscience, a field to which Dr. Justine Sergent has contributed significantly. The prize is worth $ 10,000, which is in addition to the postdoctoral fellowship you received from the FRQS.
Candidates who have received an FRQS postdoctoral fellowship and who have been identified by the FRQS staff as being a new postdoctoral fellow whose project presented was in the field of cognitive neuroscience, are invited to submit their application for the Postdoctoral Prize. Justine and Yves Sergent.
The Laureates
2025 : Coulombe, Valérie
Affiliation : Douglas Research Centre.
Project Title: La prosodie au cœur des déficits linguistiques et socio-affectifs dans la démence frontotemporale: Identification de marqueurs cliniques prosodiques et de leurs corrélats neurocognitifs.
2024 : Diveica, Veronica
Affiliations : Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Project Title : Investigating modifiable protective factors in aging: age-related changes in the cognitive and brain correlates of wisdom.
2023 : Breton, Edith
Affiliations : Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, University of Oslo, Norway
Project Title : Facteurs génétiques et neurobiologiques liés aux différences selon les sexes en santé mentale: utilisation du traitement des émotions comme construit transdiagnostique.
2022 : Hughes, Colleen
Affiliations : Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Project Title : Identification des facteurs de risque modifiables dans la maladie d’Alzheimer pré-symptomatique : Changements comportementaux et neuraux dans la cognition et l’isolement social.
2021 : Simic, Tijana
Affiliations : Research Centre of the Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM)
Project Title : Prédire la récupération langagière de patients aphasiques post-AVC: Le rôle de la connectivité des réseaux neuronaux du contrôle exécutif.