Ingrid Johnsrude

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]

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