Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Kimberly Cote

Contact Information

Kimberly A. Cote, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology Department
Director, Brock University Sleep Laboratory
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario,
L2S 3A1, CANADA

EDUCATION

POST-DOCTORAL TRAINING

CURRENT POSITION

Professor of Psychology, Brock University
Director, Brock University Sleep Research Laboratory
Member of the Centre for Neuroscience, Brock University
Member of the Brock Institute for Electrophysiological Research (BIER)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

SLEEP RESEARCH, especially “Sleep, Performance and Cognition” including areas such as sleep deprivation, daytime sleepiness, sleep onset processes, and information processing during sleep. Areas of application include insomnia, memory, aging, academic performance, and workplace/driving safety. Research methods include use of quantitative electrophysiological techniques (Event-related Potentials and Power Spectral Analysis) as measures of brain processing and arousal during sleep and wakefulness.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

RESEARCH FUNDING

TEACHING (Brock University, Psychology Department)

Undergraduate Courses
Psyc 3F40 Psychological Research
Psyc 3P39 Computer Data Analysis
Psyc 3P68 Sleep & Wakefulness
Psyc 4P63 Human Psychophysiology
Psyc 4P93 Honours Thesis Seminar
Graduate Courses
Psyc 5P10 Behavioural Neuroscience (occasional lecturer)
Psyc 5P11 Advances in Sleep Research

PUBLISHED THESES

Honours Thesis
Comparison of behavioural and polysomnographic methods of identifying sleep and wakefulness.
Brock University, 1993, 55 pp. Advisor: Robert D. Ogilvie, Ph.D.

Masters Thesis
Nocturnal sleep and diurnal cognitive functioning in patients with fibromyalgia.
University of Toronto, 1995, 95 pp. Advisor: Harvey Moldofsky, M.D.

Doctoral Dissertation
Event-related potential evidence of consciousness during wakefulness, sleep onset and sleep.
University of Ottawa, 236 pp. Advisor: Kenneth B. Campbell, Ph.D.
 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Cote, K. Chapter 329. Sleep, Biological Rhythms and Performance. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd Edition, V.S. Ramachandran (Editor-in-Chief), Elsevier, in press.

Yasuda, K., Ray, L.B., and Cote, K.A. (2011). Anticipatory attention during the sleep onset period. Consciousness and Cognition, in press, available online: doi:10.1016/j.concog.2010.12.016

Kertesz, R.S. & Cote, K.A. (2011). Event-related potentials reveal failure to inhibit stimuli during the pre-sleep waking period for patients with sleep-onset insomnia. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 9, 68–85.

Perlis, M., Gehrman, P., Terzano, M., Cote, K., and Riemann D. Sleep EEG in patients with Primary Insomnia. In: Insomnia: Diagnosis and Treatment. Eds. Michael J. Sateia, Daniel Buysse. Informa Healthcare USA, Inc. Chapter 6 pp.50-64. 2010. Essex UK.

Cote, K.A., Milner C.E., Smith, B.A., Aubin, A.J., Greason, T.A., Cuthbert, B.P., Kertesz, R.S., Wiebe, S., Duffus, S.E.G. (2009). CNS arousal, attention, and neurobehavioural performance in a short-term sleep restriction paradigm. Journal of Sleep Research 18, 291-303.

Milner, C.E., Cuthbert, B.P., Kertesz, R.S., & Cote, K.A. (2009). Sensory processing in waking, non-REM, and REM sleep states in good and poor sleepers. NeuroReport, 20, 331-336.

Milner, C.E., & Cote, K.A. (2009). Benefits of napping in healthy adults: Impact of nap length, time of day, age, and experience with napping. Journal of Sleep Research, 18, 272-281.
 
Cote, K.A., Milner C.E., Osip, S.L., Baker, M.L. & Cuthbert B.P. (2008). Physiological arousal and attention during a week of continuous sleep restriction. Physiology and Behavior, 95, 353-364.

Milner C.E., & Cote, K.A. (2008). A dose-response investigation of the benefits of napping in healthy young, middle, and older adult age groups. Sleep and Biological Rhythms 6, 2-15.

Fogel S.M., Smith, C.T., & Cote K.A. (2007). Dissociable learning-dependent changes in REM and non-REM sleep in declarative and procedural memory systems. Behavioral Brain Research, 180, 48-61.

Fogel, S. M., Nader, R., Cote, K. A., & Smith, C. T. (2007). Sleep spindles and learning potential. Behavioual Neuroscience, 121, 1-10.

Milner, C.E., Fogel, S.M., & Cote, K.A. (2006). Habitual napping moderates motor performance improvements following a short daytime nap. Biological Psychology, 73, 141-156.

Schmidt, L.A., Cote, K.A., Santesso, D.L., & Milner, C.E. (2003). Frontal electroencephalogram alpha asymmetry during sleep: Frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha asymmetry during sleep: Stability and its relation to affective style. Emotion, 3, 401-407.

Cote, K.A., Milner, C.E., Osip S.L., Baxter, K.D., & Ray, L.B. (2003). Waking quantitative Electroencephalogram and auditory event-related potentials following experimentally-induced sleep fragmentation. Sleep, 26, 687-694. See commentary: Colrain IM. (2003). Novel measures of daytime central nervous system function following sleep disruption. Sleep, 26, 650-651.

Cote, K.A. (2002). Probing awareness during sleep with the auditory odd-ball paradigm. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 46, 227-241.

Cote, K.A., de Lugt, D.R. & Campbell, K.B. (2002). Changes in the scalp topography of event-related potentials and behavioural responses during the sleep onset period. Psychophysiology, 39, 29-37.

Cote, K.A., Etienne, L. & Campbell, K.B. (2001). Neurophysiological evidence for the detection of external stimuli during sleep. Sleep, 24(7), 791-803.

Cote, K.A., Epps, T. & Campbell, K.B. (2000). The role of the spindle in human information processing of high intensity stimuli during sleep. Journal of Sleep Research, 9(1), 19-26.

Cote, K.A., de Lugt, D.R., Langley, S.D. & Campbell, K.B. (1999). Scalp topography of the auditory evoked K-complex in stage 2 and slow wave sleep. Journal of Sleep Research, 8(4), 263-274.

Cote, K.A. & Moldofsky, H. (1997). Sleep, daytime symptoms and cognitive performance in patients with fibromyalgia. Journal of Rheumatology, 24(10), 2014-2023.

Updated, August 2011