John Connolly

Overview

John Connolly is the Chair and Director of McMaster University’s Cognitive Science of Language program, co-directs the Language, Memory and Brain Lab (LMBLab), and is a member of MINDS (McMaster Institute for Neuroscience Discovery and Study). John’s research examines consciousness, with applications to brain injury, such as the vegetative state, the locked-in syndrome, and coma. His work aims to develop methods to record brain activity, allowing cognitive function assessment for those who are unable to use language to communicate. Over the past 35 years, John has published extensively on cognitive neuroscience of language with a particular emphasis on the use of brain imaging techniques.

Affiliations

• Professor
• Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
• Member, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), McMaster University
• Associate Member, Anesthesia, Faculty of Health Sciences
• Director, McMaster Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities
• Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and Languages, Faculty of Humanities
• Member, Origins Institute, Faculty of Science
• Associate Member, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, Faculty of Science
• Chief Science Officer, VoxNeuro, Inc. (www.voxneuro.com),

Education

• AB (Psychology), College of the Holy Cross
• MA (Experimental Psychology), University of Saskatchewan
• PhD (Experimental Psychology), University of London, King’s College Institute of Psychiatry