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Ontario Tech acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation.

We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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Matthew Shane
PhD

Associate Professor

Undergraduate Program Director (General Psychology)

Forensic Psychology
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities


  • PhD, Psychology University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario 2004

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.

  • R01. National Institute of Drug Abuse, NIDA (PI: Shane, M.S.)
    •  Error Monitoring and Error Awareness in Incarcerated Cocaine-dependent Individuals
    • Co-Investigators: Vince Calhoun (MRN), Angela Bryan (U of Col)
    • $1,885,000
  • R21. National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH (PI: Shane, M.S.)
    • Emotional Reactivity and Voluntary Emotional Control in Psychopathic Individuals
    • Co-Investigators: Kent Kiehl (MRN), Carla Harenski (MRN)
    • $472,274
  • R21. National Institute of Drug Abuse, NIDA (MPIs: Shane, M.S., Kiehl, K.A., Posse, S.)
    • Using real-time fMRI to Facilitate Neuromodulation to Drug- and Nondrug-Cues in Adolescent Abusers
    • $669,951
  • R21. National Institute of Drug Abuse, NIDA (MPIs: Shane, M.S., Kiehl, K.A., Posse, S)
    • Using real-time fMRI to Modulate Neural Response to Drug- and Non-drug Cues
    • $469,333
  • The Mind Research Network/Department of Energy (PI: Shane, M.S.)
    • Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Control in Psychopathic Inmates
    • $96,450
  • I/START R03. National Institute of Drug Abuse, NIDA (PI: Shane, M.S.)
    • Error Monitoring and Error Awareness in Incarcerated Cocaine-dependent Individuals
    • Co-Investigators: Kent Kiehl (MRN)
    • $246,892
  • The Mind Research Network/Department of Energy (PI: Shane, M.S.)
    • Voluntary Control of Error Processing in Healthy Individuals
    • Co-Investigators: Kent Kiehl (MRN)
    • $50,000
  • Brain and Behaviour (PSYC 2050U)
    This course will examine aspects of human neuroscience particularly as they relate to how the brain’s normal and abnormal functioning affect human experience and behaviour. Particular emphasis will be placed on aspects of neuroanatomy and physiology that directly influence human language, thought, and learning
  • Psychopathic Behaviour (PSYC 5580G)
    This advanced seminar will provide an in-depth understanding of the psychopathic personality. The course will begin by carefully defining the characteristics of the disorder and debunking common misperceptions encouraged by the popular media. A brief discussion of “nature/nurture” will then be followed by readings that encourage a careful examination of the most dominant contemporary models of the disorder. Social, cognitive, clinical and neural features of the disorder will all be considered in turn, and students will be encouraged to think critically about each model discussed. The course will culminate with a discussion of therapeutic attempts and opportunities, and with a careful consideration of the ethical and practical issues regarding how the legal system should deal with psychopathic personalities.