Ingrid Johnsrude
Ingrid Johnsrude | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 (age 57–58) Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, Queen's University at Kingston MSc, PhD, 1997, McGill University |
| Thesis | The neural substrates of the processing of speech sounds (1997) |
| Doctoral advisors | Brenda Milner |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Western Ontario Queen's University |
Ingrid Suzanne Johnsrude FCAHS (born 1967) is a Canadian neuroscientist. She is a professor of psychology at University of Western Ontario, and former Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience. Her research involves brain imaging, the connections between brain structure and language ability, and the diagnosis of degenerative brain diseases in the elderly.
Early life and education
Johnsrude was born in 1967[1] in Halifax, Nova Scotia to a military family. Due to this, she moved around as a child before settling in Kingston, Ontario for her final year of high school.[2] She graduated from Loyalist Collegiate and Vocational Institute in 1985 with an honours diploma.[3] Johnsrude then completed her Bachelor of Science degree at Queen's University at Kingston before enrolling at McGill University for her Master of Science degree and PhD.[4] She earned her PhD under the supervision of Brenda Milner.[5]
Career
After spending seven years in England, Johnsrude was recruited by Queen's University's Department of Psychology in 2002 to return as a professor.[2] While in the UK, Johnsrude and her co-authors received an Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work showing that London taxicab drivers had more highly developed hippocampi than those in other professions.[6] She eventually joined Queen's Department of Psychology in 2003 after being named a Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience.[7] Johnsrude used this funding to study how human minds interpreted all the noises coming out of other people's mouths into meaningful sentences.[2][8] After winning a 2006 Early Researcher Award from the Ontario provincial government, Johnsrude's research team began using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study how speech is processed under difficult conditions.[9] In 2009, Johnsrude received a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship[10] and was renewed as a Canada Research Chair.[11]
Johnsrude left Queen's University in 2014 to join the University of Western Ontario's (UWO) Faculty of Social Science and Faculty of Health Sciences as an inaugural Western Research Chair.[5][12] She was appointed director of Western's Brain and Mind Institute in 2019.[13] Johnsrude was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2021 for her "major contributions to how the brain is organized for perception of speech and language."[14]
References
- ^ "Johnsrude, Ingrid S. (Ingrid Suzanne), 1967-". VIAF. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
- ^ a b c Evans, Patrick (December 11, 2004). "Scientist on the trail of how brain interprets language". The Kingston Whig-Standard. Retrieved July 16, 2025 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Loyalist Collegiate awards graudation diplomas". The Kingston Whig-Standard. December 6, 1985. Retrieved July 16, 2025 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Ingrid Johnsrude, PhD". University of Western Ontario. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
- ^ a b Winders, Jason (August 14, 2014). "Award-winning neuroscientist named first Western Research Chair". University of Western Ontario. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
- ^ Guterman, Lisa (October 3, 2003). "Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Sheep Draggers, Stop-Sign Theorist, and Other Scholars of the Strange". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on April 10, 2023. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
- ^ "Queen's awarded five more Research Council Chairs". The Kingston Whig-Standard. October 24, 2003. Retrieved July 16, 2025 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Evans, Patrick (December 11, 2004). "Computers can't interpret speech as well as humans". The Kingston Whig-Standard. Retrieved July 16, 2025 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "10 professors receive Early Researcher Awards". Queen's University. November 10, 2006. Archived from the original on December 1, 2006. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
- ^ "Congratulations to 2008 Herzberg Gold Medal finalists and 2009 E.W.R. Steacie Fellows". Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. February 26, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
- ^ "Funding renewed". The Kingston Whig-Standard. September 25, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2025 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Stacey, Megan (July 8, 2014). "Ingrid Johnsrude 1st chair in neuroscience". The London Free Press. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
- ^ Talbot, Adela (April 29, 2019). "Johnsrude named director of Brain and Mind Institute". University of Western Ontario. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
- ^ "Seventy-four new Fellows elected into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences" (PDF). Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. 2021. p. 9. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
External links
- Ingrid Johnsrude publications indexed by Google Scholar