People
Lab Head
Dan Lametti is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Acadia University and Honorary Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology at University College London. He trained in physics at Bishop’s before completing his PhD in Experimental Psychology at McGill. He then held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he studied the neurobiology of language. His research spans the psychology and neuroscience of language, speech, and human-AI interaction.
Lab Members
Ileana Wheeler — Honours Student. After completing her BSc in Psychology and Biology in 2026, Ileana returned to Acadia to add an Honours project to her degree. Ileana is testing the extent to which the language people use in short conversations with AI conveys their personality. Her research in the lab is funded by an Honours Summer Research Award from Acadia.
Jonah Appleton — Research Assistant. Jonah recently graduated with an Honours degree in Psychology from Acadia, with a specialization in Neuroscience and a minor in Philosophy. His interests span social and personality psychology, existential psychology, and neuroscience. As part of his research in the lab, Jonah is building a web-based platform to study human-AI interactions. He hopes to pursue graduate school in psychology with the goal of working as a psychotherapist. Connect with Jonah on LinkedIn.
Recent Collaborators
- Dr. Abigail Bradshaw — University of Cambridge
- Dr. Santiago Castiello — Yale University
- Prof. Carolyn McGettigan — University College London
- Prof. Robin Murphy — University of Oxford
- Prof. Douglas Shiller — University of Montreal
- Prof. Jeremy Skipper — University College London
- Prof. Kate Watkins — University of Oxford