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my primary appointment is as a research scientist with the university of toronto surgical skills centre at mount sinai hospital. i also hold academic appointments in the department of surgery and the faculty of physical education and health in toronto, and in the mcmaster institute for music and the mind.
much of my research focuses on optimizing education and development for health professionals, musicians and athletes, and in the evaluation of performance. i am particularly interested in how we acquire new skills, and how learning and practice effect our sensory and motor systems. for a list of current and upcoming research projects, please visit my lab site.
my postdoctoral work focussed on issues of multisensory integration, in particular looking at expertise and gender effects on visual reaching movements. i have also done a fair bit of work looking at interactions between the auditory and motor systems.
the big question underlying my doctoral research was how the human brain develops to allow us to break up our complex environment into discrete auditory 'objects' for processing, and then successfully reintegrate all these objects to form an accurate representation of this environment. i studied this through a variety of methods, using primarily behavioural and electrophysiological measures in human infants and adults. my thesis research focussed on sound localisation as a cue for segmenting our environment.
my postdoctoral fellowship with digby elliott was funded through the natural sciences and engineering research council. my doctoral research (supervised by laurel trainor) was funded through the canadian institutes of health research.