LAUREL TRAINOR (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) is the director of the Neuroscience of Auditory Interaction Lab (NAIL). Dr. Trainor has well-established leadership qualities as founding director of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind. She has done pioneering studies on musical development using behavioural, EEG, and MEG methods.  Her work is recognized in academic circles (e.g., publications in Science and Nature; 2 awards for outstanding papers from the Centres of Excellence for Early Childhood Development) and in the popular press (Cormax rating of one of top 30 Canadian researchers in the media 2006).

She works with all the member of NAIL to extend her studies of musical development in individuals to investigations of dynamic interactions between people and how they develop in children in different auditory environments and contexts.  She is particularly interested in relations between musicians and between musicians and audience members.

Link to Dr. Trainor’s group: http://www.psychology.mcmaster.ca/ljt/

McMaster Institute of Music and Mind: http://mimm.mcmaster.ca