Laurel Trainor

Overview

Laurel Trainor is a professor of psychology, neuroscience and behaviour. She is a cognitive psychologist whose work brings together both music and science in the study of perception, cognition and neuroscience of music. ​Laurel serves as the founding member and current director of the LIVE Lab at McMaster University. The LIVE Lab researches how performers and audiences interact, and how music can be used to promote health and well-being. She is a trained musician and is still active as principal flutist of Symphony Hamilton.

Affiliations

• Professor; Director, McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind
• Faculty of Science, McMaster University
• Member, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), McMaster University
• Associate Member, Linguistics and Languages, Faculty of Humanities
• Director, McMaster Institute for Music & the Mind, Faculty of Science
• Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, Faculty of Science
• Scientist, Rotman Research Institute
• Associate member, Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia,

Education

• BMus (Music Performance), University of Toronto
• MA (Experimental Psychology), University of Toronto
• PhD (Experimental Psychology), University of Toronto
• ARCT, Royal Conservatory of Music