Valorie Salimpoor, Chair
Mc Gill University, Psychology: Ph.D. Candidate

I first became interested in neuropsychology while I was completing my undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, where I worked on several  different projects involving gender differences in cognitive processing, applications of virtual reality for neuropsychological assessment, and the ability of odors to cue emotional memories.  I then pursued a masters degree in clinical psychology at York University, where I researched cognivite function in childhood disorders and executive and frontal lobe function in children with autism.  This was followed by a year of research and training at Stanford University, where I looked at neural correlates of typical and atypical mathematical cognition and repetition priming.  I am currently attending Mc Gill University, working in Dr. Robert Zatorre's laboratory.  My current research interests involve functional brain imaging, emotions, and autism.  More specifically, I am interested in what cues individuals use to identify emotions, and the neurochemical responses involved in the experience of intense emotion.