CLAUDE ALAIN, Ph.D.

Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date of birth: May 22, 1963

EDUCATION       

Ph. D., Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada, 1991.

M. A., Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada, 1988.

B. A., Psychology, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, 1986.

CURRENT POSITION

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 2006-present.

Senior Scientist, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre, 2001-present.

( Work: (416) 785-2500 ext. 3523; FAX: (416) 785-2862.

E-mail: calain@research.baycrest.org

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Assistant Director, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre, 2010-2017.

Scientist, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre and Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 2001-2006.

Junior Scientist, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 1997-2001.

Postdoctoral Fellow, VA Medical Center & University of California, Davis, 1991-1996.

RESEARCH ENDEAVOURS

            Auditory cognitive neuroscience.

            Psychophysiological and neural mechanisms of audition perception, attention, and cognition.

            Perceptual learning, rehabilitation, memory.

            Human brain electrophysiology.

            Functional neuroimaging (EEG, MEG, fMRI)

HONOURS & AWARDS (Total amount for the award period)

The Premier Research Excellence Award, $150,000, 2002-2006.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Scholarship, $250,000, 2000-2005.

Quebec Government Junior Fellowship (FRSQ), $40,000, 1996.

Quebec Government Postdoctoral Fellowship (FCAR and FRSQ), $100,000, 1991-1995.

McDonnell Foundation Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1992.

Medical Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship, $45,000, 1988‑1991.

University of Quebec at Montreal Scholarship, $12,000, 1986‑1988.

Summer Scholarship provided by the Diabetes Association of Quebec, $3000, 1986.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for Neuroscience.

Society for Cognitive Neuroscience.

Society for Psychophysiological Research.

CONSULTING REVIEWER

Journals.  Biological Psychology; Brain Sciences; Brain Research; Brain Topography; Cerebral Cortex; Child Development; Cognition; Ear and Hearing; Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology; European Journal of Neuroscience; Frontiers Psychology; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Neuroscience; Nature; Nature Communication; Neuroimage; Neuropsychologia; Perception and Psychophysics; Public Library of Science; Psychological Review; Psychology and Aging; Psychophysiology; Trends in Cognitive Science; Trends in Neuroscience.

Granting agencies.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Estonian Research Council; Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Israel Science Foundation; Medical Research Council United Kingdom; National Science Foundation (United States); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; Welcome Trust (United Kingdom).

SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Current:

2019- CFI

2019- McGill – chair the site review committee

2019- NSERC RTI committee.

2018- CIHR Doctoral review committee.

2013- Editorial board, Brain Topography.

2011- Board of Reviewing Editors for the journal Public Library of Sciences: One.

2010- Board of Reviewing Editors for the journal Frontiers in Psychology: Auditory Cognitive Neurosciences.

2008- Board of Reviewing Editors for the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience

Past:

2018-2019, Multidisciplinary review committee, Programme regroupements stratégiques, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2019, Review committee, Centre for Research on «Ingénierie de technologies interactives en réadaptation, Sherbrooke, Quebec.

2017, Review committee, Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music, McGill University and Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, Strategic Clusters from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation & Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2015, Review committee, Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music, McGill University and Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, Strategic Clusters from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation & Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2014, Review committee, site visit, Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin de l’Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine, Montréal, Québec, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2014, Review committee, Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Strategic Clusters from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation & Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2013, Expert review panel to review the effectiveness of the Vanier Doctoral Research Awards Program.

2011, Chair of site visit review committee, Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Strategic Clusters from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation & Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2010-2018, Chair of the imaging oversight committee at the Rotman Research Institute.

2010-2011, Promotion committee, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, University of Toronto.

2010-2011 Members of the review committee for Regroupment Statégiques, Fonds Nature et Technologies, Quebec.

2010, Site visit, Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin de l’Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine, Montréal, Québec, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2010, Chair, search committee for a scientist with expertise in functional magnetic resonance imaging, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Toronto.

2009-2012 Vanier Doctoral Research Awards Committee.

2009-2010, Search committee for Director/VP research at Baycest.

2009-2010, Promotion committee, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto.

2008-2012, Research Ethics Board (REB) at Baycrest.

2008, Canadian Foundation for Innovation & Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2007-2010, member of imaging oversight committee at the Rotman Research Institute.

2006-2009, CIHR Doctoral Research Awards Committee.

2006-2009, Board of Reviewing Editors for the journal Brain Research.

2006, Canadian Foundation for Innovation & Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2006, Site visit, Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Strategic Clusters from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation & Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2006, Site visit, Centre for Studies of Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.

2005-2008, Society for Psychophysiological Research’s Early Career Award committee.

2005, Search committee for Tier 1 CRC chair in the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto.

2005, NSF review committee.

2004, NSF review committee.

2002, FRSQ review committee for Career Scientist.

2000-2003, NSERC review committee for Life Science and Psychology (Chair of the review committee for the 2003 meeting).

GRANTS (Total amount for the granting period)

Submitted:

Alain, C., Bidelman, G., Chen, J., & Ross, B.  Mapping cognitive hearing using multi-modal neuroimaging.  CIHR, $930,000, 2020-2025.

Current:

Alain, C., Anderson, N., & Binss, M., Freedman, M., & Rabi, R. Improving early diagnosis of amnestic mild cognitive impairment using EEG technology.  Alzheimer Society of Canada, $150,000, 2019-2021.

Alain, C. Understanding the brain mechanisms that regulate attention to auditory memory.  NSERC, $255,000, 2016-2021.

Levine, B., Abdi, H., Alain, C., Buchsbaum, B., Chen, J., Olsen, R., Romero, K., Meagher, M., Moscovitch, M., Strong, M., & Yassa, M.  Individual differences in autobiographical memory: cognitive, behavioural, and neural correlates and their relationship to aging.  CIHR, $760,680, 2016-2021.

Snyder, J.S., Alain, C. & Elhilali, M.  Bottom-up and top-down mechanisms of context effects during auditory scene analysis.  Office of Navy Research, $1,028,398.00, 2016-2021.

Past:

Alain, C., Moussard, A. Noly-Gandon, A.  Enhancing memory in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: A novel approach pairing non-invasive brain stimulation with autobiographically salient music. The Lorraine Johnston Foundation, $40,000, 2017-2019.

Ross, B., & Alain, C.  The role of oscillatory brain networks in understanding age-related decline in speech perception.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $820,855, 2013-2018.

McGilton, K., Alain, C., Campos, J., Dupuis, K., Gutherie, D., Pichora-Fuller, M.K., & Wittich, W.  Development of a Clinically Effective Sensory Screening Tool for Residents with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in Long Term Care (LTC).  Alzheimer Society, $120,000, 2015-2017.

Arnott, S.R. & Alain, C.  Neurobiological signal processing and speech in noise problems in adults with normal audiogram.  Hearing Research Foundation of Canada, $18,000, 2015-2016.

Christensen, B., Alain, C., Bennett, P.J., Kiang, M., Noseworthy, M.D., Patrick, R.E., & Zipursky, R.B.  Investigating behavioural, electrophysiological, and neurochemical facets of dorsal auditory stream impairment in persons with schizophrenia.  Canadian Institute of Health Research, $321,303, 2013-2016.

Alain, C.  Neuroimaging studies of auditory perception and attention.  National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, $200,000, 2011-2016.

Alain C., Arnott, S.R., & Ross, B.  Aging and the neural architecture supporting the perceptual organization of speech.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $787,640, 2010-2015.

Levine, B.T., Alain, C., Black, S.E., Feinstein, A., Graham, S.J., Gryfe, P., McIntosh, A.R., O’Connor, P.W., Stuss, D.T., Turner, G.R., & Ween, J.E.  Diffuse brain damage effects on distributed systems: multimodal brain imaging and rehabilitation.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $853,770, 2010-2015.

Alain, C. & Turner, G. Combined EEG/fMRI biomarker development for covert stroke and small vessel disease (SVD).  Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre for Stroke Recovery Catalyst Grant, $47,000, 2012-2013.

Bidelman, G.M., Alain, C., & Moreno, S. Effects of musical training on the behavioral and neurophysiological processing of speech in older adults.  The GRAMMY Foundation, $17,250, 2011-2012.

Grady, C., & Alain, C (co-PI).  The effect of aging on processing of spatial and nonspatial information in the auditory and visual systems.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $341,340, 2007-2012.

Bialystok, E., Alain, C., Luo, L., Moreno, S., & Kystok, E.  Effects of normal aging on brain networks over the time course of working memory processing: a simultaneous EEG/fMRI study.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Catalyst Grant: Pilot Projects in Aging – Biological & Clinical Aspect of Aging, $49,900, 2011.

Alain, C., Ross, B., & Tremblay, K.  Neural mechanisms of auditory-based remediation programs.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $255,855, 2008-2011.

Itier, R., McIntosh, A.R., & Alain, C.  Modulations of the face and eye gaze processing brain networks.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $234,000, 2008-2011.

Schneider, B., Li, L., & Alain, C.  The effects of noise, competing speech, and age on speech comprehension in monolingual and bilingual Chinese and English listeners.  CHINA-CANADA Joint Health Research Initiative, $88,800, 2008-2011.

Alain, C.  Neuroimaging studies of auditory perception and attention.  National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, $202,500, 2006-2011.

Ross, B., Picton, T.W., & Alain, C.  Magnetoencephalographic studies of the human auditory cortex.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $681,170, 2006-2011.

Alain, C., Dyson, D., & Snyder, J.  Neuro-anatomical correlates of age-related changes in central auditory processing.  The Hearing Foundation of Canada, $24,900, 2006.

Alain, C., & Dyson, B.  Age-related changes in primary auditory cortex: implication for temporal acuity and speech perception.  The Hearing Foundation of Canada, $22,500, 2005.

Alain, C.  Neural architecture of auditory scene analysis.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $513,000, 2005-2010.

Grady, C., & Alain, C.  Age-related differences in working memory for “what” and “where” in the auditory system.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $177,000, 2004-2007.

McNeely, H., Christensen, B., Lau, M.A., & Alain, C.  Neurophysiology of emotion processing in major depression.  Dean’s Fund for New Investigator, University of Toronto, $10,000, 2004.

McNeely, H., Christensen, B., Lau, M.A., & Alain C.  Neurophysiology of cognitive inhibition deficits in major depressive disorders.  Ontario Mental Health Foundation, $93,892, 2004-2006.

McNeely, H., Young, T., Christensen, B., Lau, M.A., & Alain, C.  The functional neurobiology of cognitive inhibition deficits in major depressive disorder.  Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation, $40,000, 2004-2006.

Alain, C., & Schneider, B.  Aging and the perceptual separation of sounds in the human auditory cortex.  The Hearing Foundation of Canada, $21,500, 2003.

Alain, C.  Functional organization of human auditory system.  National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, $148,000, 2002-2006.

Alain, C., & Ostroff, J.  Auditory temporal processing: An event-related brain potential study. The Hearing Foundation of Canada, $14,000, 2002-2003.

Alain, C.  Neural basis of auditory scene analysis.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $257,585, 2001-2004.

Pantev, C., Picton, T.W., & Alain, C.  Magnetoencephalographic studies of the human auditory cortex.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $752,450, 2001-2006.

Alain, C., & Grady, C.  Spatiotemporal mapping of auditory and visual cognition during aging. Canadian Foundation for Innovation: New Opportunities and Ontario Matching Funds, $74,000, 1999-2001.

Alain, C.  Selective attention in patients with schizophrenia using spatio-temporal mapping of ERPs and PET.  National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, $88,000, 1999-2001.

Alain, C.  Spatiotemporal mapping of auditory selective attention using PET and ERPs. National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, $92,400, 1998-2002.

Alain, C.  Age-related changes in auditory scene analysis. Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $143,631, 1998-2001.

Picton, T.W., & Alain, C.  Human event-related potentials. Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $392,205, 1998-2002.

Alain, C.  Auditory selective attention, perception and schizophrenia.  National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, $82,000, 1997-1999.

STUDENTS/POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS and VOLUNTEERS SUPERVISED

Current:

Parnian Tajbakhsh: volunteer, Jan 2019 – present

Alexandra Beltran Montoya: volunteer, Jan 2019 – present

Shahier Paracha: volunteer, Jan 2019-present

Karishma Ramdeo: volunteer, Jan 2019-present

Manda Fisher, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2018-present

Emily J. Alexander, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2018-present

Rachel Rabi, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Western Ontario, 2015-present.

Vanessa Chan, Ph.D student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2014-present.

Past:

Katharina Goeke, visiting student, Dusseldorf University, summer 2019.

Chloe Orsini, visiting student, UCL, summer 2019.

Vivek Sharma, Ph.D. student, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, 2015-2019.

Susan Gillingham, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2011-2019.

Deena Herman, thesis student, Rosenbaum lab May 2018 -Apr 2019
Brian Lau, co-op student (under David Maillet), Grady lab, Jan 2019-Apr 2019

Ayo Fakuade, volunteer and summer research student Oct 2017-Aug 2018

Gabrielle Katz, volunteer May 2018-Aug2018

Priya Shanmugathas, thesis student, Anderson lab Sept 2017-Apr 2018

Jacqueline Zimmerman, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2013-2018.

Linda Garami, Post-doctoral Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2015-2017.

Nasim Sham, Ph.D. student, University of Toronto, co-supervisor, 2011-2016.

Jiaxin Peng, visiting Ph.D. student, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, 2016.

Karen Banai, visiting Professor from University of Haifa, Israel, 2015-2016

Thijs Barten, visiting student, Radboud Univsersity Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2015.

Yanmei Feng, M.D., visiting professor, Shanghai University, China, 2015.

Stefanie Hutka, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2012-2015.

Yi Du, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Pekin University, 2012-2015.

Madeline Cusimano, Summer NSERC Create Student, University of Toronto, Ontario, 2014.

Zsuzsanna Kocsis, visiting student, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, 2014-2015.

Hannah Stewart, PhD visiting student, Nottingham University, England, 2014.

Bettina Habelt, visiting student, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, 2014

Laura Oliva, visiting student, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 2014.

Guillaume Cheung, summer student, 2013.

Sandra Campeanu, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2008-2014.

Kristina Backer, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2009-2014.

Alice Kim, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2008-2013.

Anja Roye, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Leipzig University, 2011-2013.

Claudia Freigang, visiting student, Leipzig University, 2012-2013.

Adam Cadesky, summer student, 2012, 2013.

Dean Carcone, summer student, 2012.

Laura Sokka, visiting student from Helsinki University, winter 2012.

Gavin M. Bidelman, postdoctoral fellow, co-supervised, 2011-2012.

Stefanie Hutka, M.A. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2010-2012.

Ben Zendel, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2006-2011.

Sylvain Moreno, postdoctoral fellow, co-supervisor, 2008-2011.

Ada Leung, postdoctoral fellow, 2008-2011.

Olga Kciuk, 4^th year undergraduate thesis, University of Toronto, 2009-2010.

Kuang Da Zhu, M.A. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2008-2009.

Boaz M. Ben-David, postdoctoral fellow, 2007-2008.

Alina Gheorghe, M.A. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2007-2008

Sandra Campeanu, M.A. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2007-2008.

Zofia Wodniecka, postdoctoral fellow, co-supervise, 2007-2008

Dawei Shen Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, 2006-2009.

Laura Vecchio, 4^th year undergraduate thesis, University of Toronto, 2006-2007.

Jessica Quan 4^th year undergraduate thesis, University of Toronto, 2006-2007.

Ben Zendel, M.A. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2005-2006.

Anthony Shahin, postdoctoral fellow, 2005-2006.

Roxanne Itier, postdoctoral fellow, co-supervisor, 2005-2008.

Sandra Priselac, M.A. student, co-supervisor, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2004-2006.

Ranil Sonnadara, Ph.D. student, co-supervisor, Psychology, McMaster University, 2002-2006.

Asaf Gilboa, postdoctoral fellow, 2004-2005.

Joel Snyder, postdoctoral fellow, 2003-2005.

Ben Dyson, postdoctoral fellow, 2003-2005.

Aaron Izenberg, summer student, 2002.

Karen Reinke, postdoctoral fellow, co-supervisor, 2001-2004.

Kelly McDonald, M.A. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2002-2004.

Heather McNeely, postdoctoral fellow, 1999-2001.

Janine Hay, postdoctoral fellow, co-supervisor, 1998-2000.

Jodi Ostroff, postdoctoral fellow, 1998-1999.

Stephen Arnott, Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Toronto, 1998-2005.

Alessandra Schiavetto, postdoctoral fellow, co-supervise, 1997-1999.

Robert West, postdoctoral fellow, co-supervisor, 1997-1999.

EXTERNAL Ph.D. APPRAISER

Nicole Folland, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2015.

Amee J. Hall, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2015.

Mike E. Klein, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2014.

Guylaine Bélizaire, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 2014.

Claudia Freigang, Leipzig University, Germany, 2013.

Blake Edward Butler, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2012.

Latifa Lazzouni, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2012.

Amineh Koravand, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2012.

Peter Varghese, Macquaries University, Sidney, Australia, 2011.

Jean-Pierre Chartrand, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2010.

Anja Roye, Leipzig University, Germany, 2010.

François Champoux, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2009.

Rowena Jane Cooper, University of Newcastle, Australia. 2009.

Phillip Gander, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 2009.

Chao He, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2008.

Philippe Paiement, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2008.

Carmen Marie Atkinson, University of Newcastle, Australia, 2005.

Sébastien Grimard, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2004.

Anthony Singha, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2003.

Matthew Tata, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2003.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION OR SUBMITTED

Chan, T.M.V., Schneider, B., Buschbaum, B. & Alain, C. (In preparation).  Effects of temporal order and explicit attention on reflective attention to words in noise.

Chan, T.M.V. & Alain, C. (In preparation).  Brain indices associated with semantic cues prior to and after words in noise

Dey, A., Esopenko, C., Stamenova, V., Alain, C., Turner, G.T., Black, S.E., & Levine, B. (In preparation).  Impaired top-down inhibition contributes to executive dysfunction in cerebral small vessel disease.  Neurobiology of Aging.

Gillingham, S. M., Pichora-Fuller, M.K., Anderson, N. & Alain, C. (In preparation).  Hearing loss in older adults modulates sensory and cognitive visual event-related potentials.  Clinical Neurophysiology.

Gillingham, S. M. & Alain, C. (In preparation).  Event-related potentials as a function of task complexity: Evidence for separable attentional processes.

Herman, D., Baker, S., Cazes, J., Alain, C., & Rosenbaum, S. (In preparation). Mismatch negativity (MMN) predicts mnemonic specificity: A new metric for auditory pattern separation.

Maillet, D, Yu, L., Lam, B., Chow, R., Alain, C. & Grady, C. (In preparation) Opposite effects of mind-wandering and visual distraction on task performance, age, and the P3 event-related potential.

Weintraub, D.M., Yerkes, B.D., Dadis, F., Alain, C., & Snyder, J.S. (In preparation).  Different cortical regions are modulated by prior stimulus and prior perceptual interpretation during auditory stream segregation.

Backer, K. C., Buchsbaum, B.R., & Alain, C. (Submitted).  Orienting attention to short-term memory via sensory modality and semantic category retro-cues.  eNeuro.

Fisher, M., Moscovitch, M., & Alain, C. (Submitted).  Incidental auditory learning and memory-guided attention: Examining the role of attention in contextual cuing.  Neuropsychologia

Mahmud, M.S., Faruk, A., Al-Fahad, R., Moinuddin, K.A., Yeasin, M., Alain, C. & Bidelman, G.M. (Submitted). Decoding age-related changes in the spatiotemporal neural processing of speech using machine learning.  Frontiers in Neuroscience: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.

Sasisekaran, J., Chow, R., Buron, P., & Alain, C. (Submitted). An event-related potential investigation of the brain mechanisms supporting serial processing in speech and nonspeech tasks. Brain and Language

ain, C. et al. Neural Correlates of Speech Segregation Based on Formant Frequencies

of Adjacent Vowels. Sci. Rep. 7, 40790; doi: 10.1038/srep40790 (2017)

Alain, C. et al. Neural Correlates of Speech Segregation Based on Formant Frequencies

of Adjacent Vowels. Sci. Rep. 7, 40790; doi: 10.1038/srep40790 (2017)

Alain, C. et al. Neural Correlates of Speech Segregation Based on Formant Frequencies

of Adjacent Vowels. Sci. Rep. 7, 40790; doi: 10.1038/srep40790 (2017)

Shen, D., Alain, C. & Ross, B. (Submitted).  Effects of binaural and monaural noise on the human auditory evoked field. European Journal of Neuroscience.

Stewart, H.J., Shen, D., Sham, N., & Alain, C. (Submitted).  Involuntary orienting and conflict resolution during auditory attention: The role of ventral and dorsal streams.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Zimmermann, J., Ross, B., Moscovitch, M., & Alain, C. (Submitted).  Neural dynamics supporting auditory long-term memory effects on target detection. NeuroImage.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES (total 189)

Rabi, R., Vasquez, B.P., Alain, C., Hasher, L., Belleville, S., Anderson, N.D. (In press).  Inhibitory control deficits in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: A meta-analysis. Neuropsychology Review.

Garami, L., Chow, R., Fakuade, A., Swaminathan^, S., & Alain, C. (2020).  Orienting attention to auditory and visual short-term memory: Effects of age, hearing loss and cognitive status.  Experimental Aging Research, 46(1), 22-38. doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2019.1693008

Ross, B., Tremblay, K., & Alain, C. (2020).  Simultaneous EEG and MEG recordings reveal vocal pitch elicited cortical gamma oscillations in young and older adults. Neuroimage. 204(1), doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116253

Alain, C., Moussard, A., Singer, J., Lee, Y., Bidelman, G.M., & Moreno, S. (2019).  Music and visual art training modulates brain activity in older adults.  Frontier in Psychology: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 13:182. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00182 [Invited paper for the special issue “The Clinical Neuroscience of Music: Evidence Based Approaches and neurologic Music Therapy”]

Bidelman, G.M., Mahmud, M.S., Yeasin, M., Shen, D., Arnott, S.A., & Alain, C. (2019).  Age-related hearing loss increases full-brain connectivity while reversing directed signaling within the dorsal-central pathway for speech.  Brain Structure & Function, 224(8), 2661-2676. doi.org/10.1007/s00429-019-01922-9

Bidelman, G.M., Price, C.N., Shen, D., Arnott, S.A., & Alain, C. (2019).  Afferent-efferent connectivity between auditory brainstem and cortex accounts for poorer speech-in-noise perception in older adults.  Hearing Research, 382, doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2019.107795

Campeanu, S., Alain, C. (2019).  Bilingualism augments memory advantage of accent congruency in word recognition.  Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(4), 280-287. doi: 10.1037/cep0000178

Chan, T.M.V., & Alain, C. (2019).  Listening back in time: Does attention to memory facilitate word-in-noise identification?  Attention, Perception, Psychophysics, 81(1), 253-269. doi.org/10.3758/s13414-018-1586-8

Price, C.N., Alain, C., & Bidelman, G.M. (2019).  Auditory-frontal channeling in α and β bands is altered by age-related hearing loss and relates to speech perception in noise.  Neuroscience, 423(15), 18-28. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.10.044

Sharma, V., Thaut, M., Russo, F., & Alain, C. (2019).  Absolute pitch and musical expertise modulate neuro-electric and behavioral responses in an auditory Stroop paradigm.  Frontier in Psychology: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 13:932.doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00932 [Invited paper for the special issue “Music Training, Neural Plasticity, and Executive Function”]

Zimmermann, J., Alain, C., & Butler, C. M. (2019).  Impaired memory-guided attention in asymptomatic APOE4 carriers.  Scientific Reports, 9, 8138 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44471-1

Alain, C., Garami, L., & Backer, K.C. (2018).  Attending to auditory memory changes with age.  Aging, 10, 1540-1541. http//doi.org/10.18632/101505

Alain, C., Cusimano, M., Garami, L., Backer, K.C., Habelt, B., Chan, V., & Hasher, L. (2018).  Effects of age on orienting attention to sound object representation.  Neurobiology of Aging, 66, 1-11.

Alain, C., Du, Y., Bernstein, L.J. Barten, T., & Banai, K. (2018).  Listening under difficult conditions: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.  Human Brain Mapping, 39, 2695-2709. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24031

Alain, C., Khatamian, Y., He, Y., Lee, Y., Moreno, S., Leung, A., & Bialystok, E. (2018).  Different neural activities support auditory working memory in musicians and bilinguals.  Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, 1423(1), 435-446.

Freedman, M., Binns, M., Gao, F., Holmes, M., Roseborough, A., Strother, S., Vallesi, A., Jeffers, S., Alain, C., Whitehouse, P., Ryan, J.D., Chen, R., Cusimano, M.D., Black, S.E. (2018).  Mind-matter interactions and the frontal lobes of the brain: A novel neurobiological model of Psi inhibition. Explore, 14 (1), 76-85. doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2017.08.003

Gillingham, S. M., Vallesi, A., Pichora-Fuller, M.K. & Alain, C. (2018).  Older adult with hearing loss have reduction in visual, motor, and attentional functioning.  Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 10:351. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2018.00351

Shen, D., Vuvan, D., & Alain, C. (2018).  Cortical sources of the auditory attentional blink.  Journal of Neurophysiology, 120(2), 812-829.

Alain, C., Arsenault, J.S., Garami, L., Bidelman, G.M., & Snyder, J.S. (2017).  Neural correlates of speech segregation based on formant frequencies of adjacent vowels.  Scientific Reports, 7, 40790, doi:10.1038/srep40790

Bartel, L., Chen, R.E.W., Alain, C., & Ross, B. (2017).  Vibroacoustic stimulation and brain oscillation: From basic research to clinical application.  Music & Medicine, 9(3), 153-166.

Bidelman, G.M. & Alain, C. (2017).  Early brainstem speech processing may offer biomarker for early cognitive impairment.  The Hearing Journal, 70, 18-20. doi: 10.1097/01.HJ.0000516777.61411.2a

Bidelman, G.M., Lowther, J.E., Tak, S.H., & Alain, C. (2017).  Mild cognitive impairment is characterized by a deficient brainstem and cortical representation of speech sounds.  Journal of Neuroscience, 37(3), 3610-3620.

Stewart, H.J., Amitay, S., & Alain, C. (2017).  Neural correlates of distraction and conflict resolution for nonverbal auditory events.  Scientific Reports, 7, 1595, doi:10.1038/s41598—17-00811-7

Zimmermann, J., Moscovitch, M., & Alain, C. (2017).  Long-term memory bias auditory spatial attention.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Leaning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(10), 1602-1615.

ain, C. et al. Neural Correlates of Speech Segregation Based on Formant Frequencies

of Adjacent Vowels. Sci. Rep. 7, 40790; doi: 10.1038/srep40790 (2017)

Alain, C. et al. Neural Correlates of Speech Segregation Based on Formant Frequencies

of Adjacent Vowels. Sci. Rep. 7, 40790; doi: 10.1038/srep40790 (2017)

Alain, C. et al. Neural Correlates of Speech Segregation Based on Formant Frequencies

of Adjacent Vowels. Sci. Rep. 7, 40790; doi: 10.1038/srep40790 (2017)

Du, Y., Buchsbaum, B., Grady, C., & Alain, C. (2016).  Increased activity in frontal cortex compensates impaired speech perception in older adults.  Nature Communication, 7:12241, doi:10.1038/ncomms12241.

Kocsis, Z., Winkler, I., Bendixen, A., & Alain, C. (2016).  Promoting the perception of two and three concurrent sound objects: an event-related potential study.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 107, 16-28.

Moussard, A., Bermudez, P., Alain, C., Tays, W. & Moreno, S. (2016).  Life-long music practice and executive control in older adults: An event-related potential study.  Brain Research, 1642, 146-153.

Shen, D., Ross, B. & Alain, C. (2016).  Temporal cue modulates alpha oscillations during auditory attentional blink.  European Journal of Neuroscience, 44, 1833–1845.

Sokka, L., Leinikka, M., Korpela, J., Helenus, A., Ahonen, L., Alain, C., Alho, K., Huotilainen, M. (2016).  Job burnout is associated with dysfunctions in brain mechanisms of voluntary and involuntary attention.  Biological Psychology, 117, 56-66.

Zimmermann, J., Moscovitch, M., & Alain, C. (2016).  Attending to auditory memory.  Brain Research, 1640, 208-221. [Invited paper for the special issue “Auditory working memory”]

Alain, C., & Bernstein, L.J. (2015).  Auditory scene analysis: Tales from cognitive neurosciences.  Music Perception, 33, 70-82.

Alain, C., Zhu, K.D., He, Y. & Ross, B. (2015).  Sleep-dependent neuroplastic changes during auditory perceptual learning.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 118, 133-142.

Backer, K.C. Binns, M.A. & Alain, C. (2015).  Neural dynamics underlying attentional orienting to auditory representations in short-term memory.  Journal of Neuroscience, 35(3), 1307-1318.

Bidelman, G.M. & Alain, C. (2015).  Musical training orchestrates coordinated neuroplasticity in auditory brainstem and cortex to counteract age-related declined in categorical vowel perception.  Journal of Neuroscience, 35(3), 1240-1249.

Bidelman, G.M. & Alain, C. (2015).  Hierarchical neurocomputations underlying concurrent sound segregation: Connecting periphery to percept.  Neuropsychologia, 68, 38-50.

Campeanu, S., Craik, F.I.M., & Alain, C. (2015).  Speaker’s voice as a memory cue.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 95, 167-174. [Invited paper for the special issue “Recent advances in auditory perception”]

Du, Y., He, Y., Arnott, S.R., Ross, B., Wu, X., Li, L., & Alain, C. (2015).  Rapid tuning of auditory “what” and “where” pathways by training.  Cerebral Cortex, 25(2), 496-506.

Hutka, S.A., & Alain, C. (2015).  The effects of absolute pitch and tone language on pitch processing and encoding in musicians.  Music Perception, 32, 344-354.

Kulagina, E., Drisdelle, B.L., Alain, C., Grimault, S., Eck, D., Vachon, F., & Jolicoeur, P. (2015).  The perception of concurrent sound objects through the use of harmonic enhancement: A study of auditory attention.  Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77(3), 922-929.

Leung, A.W.S., Jolicoeur, P. & Alain, C. (2015).  Neuroelectric evidence of competition for attention during concurrent sound perception.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 2186-2196.

Palombo, D.J., Alain, C., Söderlund, H., Khuu,W., & Levine, B. (2015).  Severely deficient autobiographical memory in otherwise healthy adults: A new mnemonic syndrome.  Neuropsychologia, 72, 105-118.

Shams, N., Alain, C., & Strother, S. (2015).  Comparison of artifact removal methods in simultaneous EEG-fMRI.  Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 245, 137-146.

Alain, C., Roye, A., & Salloum, C. (2014).  Effects of age-related hearing loss and background noise on neuromagnetic activity from auditory cortex.  Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8:8.doi:103389/fnsys.2004.00008. [Invited paper for the special issue “The effect of hearing loss on neural processing”]

Alain, C., Zendel, B.R., Hutka, S., & Bidelman, G.M. (2014).  Turning down the noise: The benefit of musical training on the aging auditory brain.  Hearing Research, 308, 162-173. [Invited paper for the special issue “Music: A window into the hearing brain”]

Alain, C. & Zendel, B.R. (2014). Use it or lose it: Hearing abilities are preserved in older musicians.  Canadian Audiologist, 1:3, http://canadianaudiologist.ca/tag/musicians/. [Invited review paper for a general audience]

Arsenault, J., He, Y., Bidelman, G.M., & Alain, C. (2014).  The impact of context on the perceptual organization of speech.  Canadian Acoustics, 42, 72-73.

Backer, K.C. & Alain, C. (2014).  Attention to memory: Orienting attention to sound object representation.  Psychological Research, 78, 439-452. [Invited paper for the special issue “Auditory attention: Merging paradigms and perspectives”]

Bidelman, G.M., Villafuerte, J.W. Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2014).  Age-related changes in the subcortical-cortical encoding and categorical perception of speech.  Neurobiology of Aging, 35, 2526-2540.

Bidelman, G.M., Weiss, M.W., Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2014).  Musical training yields coordinated plasticity in the neural encoding and categorical perception of speech.  European Journal of Neuroscience, 40, 2662-2673.

Campeanu, S., Craik, F.I.M., Backer, K.C., & Alain, C. (2014).  Voice reinstatement modulates neural indices of continuous word recognition.  Neuropsychologia, 62, 233-244.

Du, Y., Buchsbaum, B., Grady, C., & Alain, C. (2014).  Noise differentially impacts phoneme representations in the auditory and speech motor systems.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(19), 7126-7131.

Kielar, A., Meltzer, J. A., Moreno, S., Alain, C., & Bialystok, E. (2014).  Oscillatory responses to semantic and syntactic violations.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 2840-2862.

Moreno, S., Wodniecka, Z., Tays, W., Alain, C., & Bialystok, E. (2014).  Inhibitory control in bilinguals and musicians: ERP evidence for experience-specific effects.  PLoS ONE, 9(4): e94169. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094169

Sokka, L., Pakarinen, S., Leinikka, M., Korpela, J., Alain, C., Huotilainen, M. (2014).  Alteration in attention capture to auditory emotional stimuli in job burnout: An event-related potential study.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 94, 427-436.

Zendel, B.R., & Alain, C. (2014).  Enhanced attention-dependent activity in the auditory cortex of older musicians.  Neurobiology of Aging, 35, 55-63.

Bidelman, G.M., Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2013).  Tracing the emergence of speech perception in the human auditory system.  NeuroImage, 79, 201-212.

Campeanu, S., Craik, F.I.M., & Alain, C. (2013).  Voice congruency facilitates word recognition.  PLoS ONE, 8(3): e58778. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058778.

Hutka, S.A., Alain, C., Binns, M.A, & Bidelman, G.M. (2013).  Age-related difference in the sequential organization of speech sounds.  Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 133(6), 4177-4187.

Leung, A.W.S., He Y., Grady, C.L., & Alain, C. (2013).  Age differences in the neuroelectric adaptation to meaningful sounds.  PLoS ONE, 8(7): e68892. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068892

Zendel, B.R., & Alain, C. (2013).  The influence of lifelong musicianship on neurophysiological measures of concurrent sound segregation.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(4), 503-516. 

Alain C., McDonald, K.L., & Van Roon, P. (2012).  Effects of age and background noise on processing a mistuned harmonic in an otherwise periodic complex sound.  Hearing Research, 283, 126-135.

Backer, K.C. & Alain, C. (2012).  Orienting attention to sound object representations attenuates change deafness.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(6), 1554-1566.

Dyson, B.J., & Alain, C. (2012).  Task, time, and context as potential mediators of repetition priming effects.  Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 348-349.

Kim, A.S.N., Binns, M.A., Alain, C. (2012).  Neural electric evidence for cognitive association formation.  PLoS ONE, 7(4): e34856. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034856.

Shen, D. & Alain, C. (2012).  Implicit temporal expectation attenuates auditory attentional blink.  PLoS ONE, 7(4): e36031. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036031.

Snyder, J.S, Gregg, M.K., Weintraub, D.M., & Alain, C. (2012).  Attention, awareness, and the perception of auditory scenes.  Frontiers in Psychology, 3: 15, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00015

Wu, S., Chen, C.K., Feng, J., D’Angelo, L., Alain, C., & Spence, I. (2012).  Playing a first-person shooter videogame induces neuroplastic changes.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 1286-1293.

Zendel, B.R., & Alain, C. (2012).  Musicians experience less age-related decline in auditory perception.  Psychology and Aging, 27, 410-417.

Arnott, S.A., & Alain, C. (2011).  The auditory dorsal pathway: Orienting vision.  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 2162-2173. [invited paper for the special issue “Wired for sound”]

Arnott, S.A., Bardouille, T., Ross, B., & Alain, C. (2011).  Neural generators underlying concurrent sound segregation.  Brain Research, 1387, 116-124.

Ben-David, B.M., Campeanu, S., Tremblay, K., & Alain, C. (2011).  Auditory evoked potentials dissociate rapid perceptual learning from task repetition without learning.  Psychophysiology, 48, 797-807.

Diaconescu, A.O., Alain, C., & McIntosh, A.R. (2011).  Modality-dependence of “what” and “where” preparatory process.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1609-1628.

Diaconescu, A.O., Alain, C., & McIntosh, A.R. (2011).  The co-occurrence of multisensory facilitation and crossmodal conflict in the human brain.  Journal of Neurophysiology, 106, 2896-2909.

Du, Y., He, Y., Ross, B., Bardouille, T., Wu, X., Li, L., & Alain, C. (2011).  Human auditory cortex activity shows additive effects of spectral and spatial cues during speech segregation.  Cerebral Cortex, 21, 698-707.

Grady, C.L., Charlton, R., He, Y., & Alain C. (2011).  Age differences in neural adaptation for sound identity and location.  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:24, doi:10.3389/fnhum.2011.00024.

Itier, R.J., Van Roon, P., & Alain, C. (2011).  Species sensitivity of early face and eye processing.  NeuroImage, 54, 705-713.

Leung, A., & Alain, C. (2011).  Working memory load modulates the auditory “What” and “where” neural networks.  NeuroImage, 55, 1260-1269.

Leung, A.W.S., Jolicoeur, P., Vachon, F., & Alain, C. (2011).  Concurrent sound perception impairs gap detection: Implication for object-based account of auditory attention.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 727-736.

Shen, D. & Alain, C. (2011).  Temporal attention facilitates short-term consolidation during a rapid serial auditory presentation task.  Experimental Brain Research, 215, 285-292.

Alain, C., Campeanu, S., & Tremblay, K.L. (2010).  Changes in sensory evoked responses coincide with rapid improvement in speech identification performance.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 392-403.

Alain C., Shen, D., He, Y., & Grady, C. (2010).  Dissociable memory- and response-related activity in parietal cortex during auditory spatial working memory.  Frontiers in Psychology: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, doi:10.3389/fpsych.2010.00202

Dyson, B.J., Dunn, A.K., & Alain, C. (2010).  Ventral and dorsal streams as modality-independent phenomena.  Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 64-65.

Moreno, S., Bialysok, E., Wodniecka, Z., & Alain, C. (2010).  Conflict resolution in sentence processing by bilinguals.  Journal of Neurolinguistics, 23, 564-579.

Ross, B., Schneider, B., Snyder, J., & Alain, C. (2010).  Biological markers of auditory gap detection in young, middle-aged, and older adults.  PLoS ONE, 5(4), e10101. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010101.

Shen, D., & Alain, C. (2010).  Neural correlates of auditory attentional blink.  Psychophysiology, 47, 184-191.

Alain, C., McDonald,K.L., Kovacevic, N., & McIntosh, A.R. (2009).  Spatiotemporal analysis of auditory “what” and “where” working memory.  Cerebral Cortex, 19, 305-314.

Alain C., Quan, J., McDonald, K.L., & Van Roon, P. (2009).  Noise-induced increase in human auditory evoked neuromagnetic fields.  European Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 132-142.

Gilboa, A., Alain, C., He, Y., Stuss, D.T., & Moscovitch, M. (2009).  Ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions produce early functional alterations during remote memory retrieval.  Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 4871-4881.

Protzner, A.B., Cortese, F., Alain, C., & McIntosh, A.R. (2009).  The temporal interaction of modality specific and process specific neural networks supporting simple working memory tasks.  Neuropsychologia, 47, 1954-1963.

Ross, B., Snyder, J., Aalto, M., McDonald, K.L., Dyson, B.J., Schneider, B.,& Alain, C. (2009).  Neural encoding of sound duration persists in older adults.  NeuroImage, 47, 678-687.

Snyder, J.S., Carter, O.L., Hannon, E.E., & Alain, C. (2009).  Multiple levels of representation in auditory stream segregation: Evidence from context effects.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1232-1244.

Snyder, J.S., Holder, W.T., Weintraub, D.M., Carter, O.L., & Alain, C. (2009).  Adaptation effects are distinct from stimulus encoding during auditory perception.  Psychophysiology, 46, 1208-1215.

Woods D.L., & Alain C. (2009, invited).  Functional imaging of human auditory cortex.  Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, 17, 407-411.

Zendel, B.R., & Alain, C. (2009).  Concurrent sound segregation is enhanced in musicians.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1488-1498.

Alain, C. & Bernstein, L.J. (2008, invited).  From sounds to meaning: The role of attention during auditory scene analysis.  Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, 16, 485-489.

Alain, C., He, Y & Grady, C.L. (2008).  The contribution of the inferior parietal lobe to auditory spatial working memory.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 285-295.

Alain, C., & Snyder, J.S. (2008).  Age-related differences in auditory evoked responses during rapid perceptual learning.  Clinical Neurophysiology, 119, 356-366.

Dyson, B.J., & Alain, C. (2008).  Is a change as good with a rest? Effects of inter-trial contingency and task on concurrent sound segregation.  Brain Research, 1189, 135-144.

Dyson, B.J., & Alain, C. (2008).  It all sounds the same to me: Sequential ERP and behavioral effects during pitch and harmonicity judgments.  Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(3), 329-343.

Grady, C.L., He. Y., & Alain, C. (2008).  Age-related differences in brain activity underlying working memory for spatial and nonspatial auditory information.  Cerebral Cortex, 18, 189-199.

McNeely, H.E., Lau, M.A., Christensen, B.K., & Alain, C. (2008).  Neurophysiological evidence of cognitive inhibition anomalies in persons with major depressive disorder.  Clinical Neurophysiology, 119, 1578-1589.

Snyder, J.S., Carter, O.L., Lee, S.K., Hannon, E.E., & Alain, C. (2008).  Effects of context on auditory stream segregation.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1007-1016.

Alain, C. (2007).  Breaking the wave: Effects of attention and learning on concurrent sound perception.  Hearing Research, 229, 225-236.

Alain, C. & McDonald, K.L. (2007).  Age-related differences in neuromagnetic brain activity underlying concurrent sound perception.  Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 1308-1314.

Alain, C., Snyder, J.S., He, Y., & Reinke, K. (2007).  Changes in auditory cortex parallel rapid perceptual learning.  Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1074-1084.

Alain, C., & Tremblay, K. (2007, invited).  The role of event-related brain potentials in assessing central auditory processing.  Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 18, 592-608.

Itier, R.J., Alain, C., Kovacevic, N. & McIntosh, A.R. (2007).  Explicit versus implicit gaze processing assessed by ERPs.  Brain Research, 1177, 79-89.

Itier, R.J., Alain, C., Sedore, K. & McIntosh, A.R. (2007).  Early face processing specificity: it’s in the eyes!  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1815-1826.

Shahin, A.J., Roberts, L.R., Miller, L.M., McDonald, K.L., & Alain, C. (2007).  Sensitivity of the radial and tangential sources of the P2 auditory evoked response to increased spectral complexity of sounds.  Brain Topography, 20, 55-61.

Snyder, J.S., & Alain, C. (2007).  Sequential auditory scene analysis is preserved in normal aging adults.  Cerebral Cortex, 17, 501-512.

Snyder, J.S., & Alain, C. (2007).  Toward a neurophysiological theory of auditory stream segregation.  Psychological Bulletin, 133, 780-799.

Gilboa, A., Alain, C., Stuss, D.T., Melo, B., Miller, S., & Moscovitch, M. (2006).  Mechanisms of spontaneous confabulations: a strategic retrieval account.  Brain, 129, 1399-1414.

Shahin, A.J., Alain, C., & Picton, T.W. (2006).  Scalp topography and intracerebral sources for ERPs recorded during auditory target detection.  Brain Topography, 19, 89-105.

Snyder, J., Alain, C., & Picton, T.W. (2006).  Effects of attention on neuroelectric correlates of auditory stream segregation.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1-13.

Sonnadara, R.R., Alain, C., & Trainor, L.J. (2006).  Effects of spatial separation and stimulus probability on the event-related potentials elicited by occasional changes in sound location.  Brain Research, 1071, 175-185.

Sonnadara, R.R., Alain, C., & Trainor, L.J. (2006).  Occasional changes in sound location enhance middle latency evoked responses.  Brain Research, 1076, 187-192.

Alain, C., Reinke, K., He, Y., Wang, C., & Lobaugh, N. (2005).  Hearing two things at once: Neurophysiological indices of speech segregation and identification.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 811-818.

Alain, C., Reinke, K., McDonald, K.L., Chau, W., Tam, F., Pacurar, A., & Graham S. (2005).  Left thalamo-cortical network implicated in successful speech separation and identification.  NeuroImage, 26, 592-599.

Arnott, S.R., Grady, C.L., Hevenor, S., Graham, S., & Alain, C. (2005).  The functional organization of human auditory working memory as revealed by fMRI.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 819-831.

Dyson, B.J., Alain, C., & He, Y. (2005).  I’ve heard it all before: Perceptual invariance represented by early cortical auditory-evoked responses.  Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 457-460.

Dyson, B.J., Alain, C., & He, Y. (2005).  Effects of visual attentional load on low-level auditory scene analysis.  Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 319-338.

Li, L., Qi, J.G., He, Y., Alain, C., & Schneider, B.A. (2005).  Attribute capture in the precedence effect for long-duration noise sounds.  Hearing Research, 202, 235-247.

McDonald, K.L. & Alain, C. (2005).  Contribution of harmonicity and location to auditory object formation in free field: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.  Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 118, 1593-1604.

Snyder, J., & Alain, C. (2005).  Age-related changes in neural activity associated with concurrent vowel segregation.  Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 492-499.

Easdon, C., Izenberg, A., Armilio, M.L., & Alain, C. (2005).  Alcohol consumption impairs stimulus- and error-related processing during Go/No-Go task.  Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 873-883.

Alain, C., McDonald, K.L., Ostroff, J.M., & Schneider, B.A. (2004).  Aging: a switch from automatic to controlled processing of sounds?  Psychology and Aging, 19, 125-133.

Arnott, S.R., Binns, M.A., Grady, C.L., & Alain, C. (2004).  Assessing the auditory dual-pathway model in humans.  NeuroImage, 22, 401-408.

Dyson, B.J., & Alain, C. (2004).  Representation of concurrent auditory objects in primary auditory cortex.  Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 115, 280-288.

Heinrich, A., Alain, C., & Schneider, B.A. (2004).  Within and between-channel gap detection in the human auditory cortex.  NeuroReport, 15, 2051-2056.

Alain, C., & Izenberg, A. (2003).  Effects of attentional load on auditory scene analysis.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 1063-1073.

Alain, C., Theunissen, E.L., Chevalier, H., & Taylor, M.T. (2003).  Developmental changes in distinguishing concurrent auditory objects.  Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 210-218.

McNeely, H.E., Christensen, B.K., West, R., & Alain, C. (2003).  Neurophysiological evidence for disturbances of conflict processing in patients with schizophrenia.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 679–688.

Ostroff, J.M., McDonald, K.L., Schneider, B., & Alain, C. (2003).  Aging and the processing of sound duration in human auditory cortex.  Hearing Research, 181, 1-7.

Reinke, K., He, Y., Wang, C., & Alain, C. (2003).  Perceptual learning modulates sensory evoked response during vowel segregation.  Cognitive Brain Research, 17, 781-791.

Alain, C., Bernstein, L.J., Cortese, F., Yu, H., & Zipursky,R.B. (2002).  Visual feature conjunction in schizophrenia: An event-related brain potential study.  Schizophrenia Research, 57, 69-79.

Alain, C., Cortese, F., Bernstein, L.J., Yu, H., & Zipursky, R.B. (2002).  Deficits in automatically detecting changes in conjunction of auditory features in patients with schizophrenia.  Psychophysiology, 39, 599-606.

Alain, C., McNeely, H., Yu, H., Christensen, B., & West R. (2002).  Neurophysiological evidence for error monitoring deficit in patients with schizophrenia.  Cerebral Cortex, 12, 840-846.

Alain C., Shuler, B.M., & McDonald, K.L. (2002).  Neural activity associated with distinguishing concurrent auditory objects.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111, 990-995.

Arnott, S.R., & Alain, C. (2002).  Effects of perceptual context on event-related brain potentials during auditory spatial attention.  Psychophysiology, 39, 625-632.

Arnott, S.R., & Alain, C. (2002).  Stepping out of the spotlight: MMN attenuation as a function of the distance from the attended location.  NeuroReport, 13, 2209-2212.

Hay, J.F., Kane, K.A., West, R., & Alain, C. (2002).  Event-related neural activity associated with habit and recollection.  Neuropsychologia, 40, 260-270.

Trainor, L.J., McDonald, K.L., & Alain C. (2002).  Automatic and controlled processing of melodic contour and interval information as measured by event-related brain potentials.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 430-442.

Alain, C., Arnott, S.R., Hevenor, S., Graham, S., & Grady, C.L. (2001).  “What” and “Where” in the human auditory system.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 12301-12306.

Alain, C., Arnott, S.R., & Picton, T.W. (2001).  Bottom-up and top-down influences on auditory scene analysis: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 1072-1089.

Alain, C., Cortese, F., Bernstein, L.J., Yu, H., & Zipursky,R.B. (2001).  Auditory feature conjunction in patients with schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Research, 49, 179-191.

Alain, C., McDonald, K.L., Ostroff, J., & Schneider, B. (2001).  Age-related changes in detecting a mistuned harmonic.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 2211-2216.

Arnott, S.R., Pratt, J., Shore, D.I., & Alain C. (2001).  Attentional set modulates visual areas: An event-related potential study of attentional capture.  Cognitive Brain Research, 12, 383-395.

Theunissen, E.L., Alain, C., Chevalier, H., & Taylor, M.J. (2001).  Binding occurs at early stages of processing in children and adults.  NeuroReport, 12, 1949-1954.

Trainor, L.J., McDonald, K.L., & Alain, C. (2001). Electrical brain activity associated with automatic and controlled processing of melodic contour and interval.  Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, 930, 429-432.

Woods, D.L., & Alain, C. (2001).  Conjoining three auditory features: An event-related brain potential study.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 492-509.

Woods, D.L., Alain, C., Diaz, R., Ogawa, K.H., & Rhodes, D. (2001).  Location and frequency cues in auditory selective attention.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 65-74.

Alain, C. & Arnott, S.R. (2000).  Selectively attending to auditory objects.  Frontiers in Bioscience, 5, 202-212.

Otten, L., Alain, C., & Picton, T.W. (2000).  Effects of visual attentional load on auditory processing.  NeuroReport, 11, 875-880.

Picton, T.W., Alain, C., Otten, L., Ritter, W., & Achim, A. (2000).  Mismatch negativity: Different water in the same river.  Audiology and Neuro-Otology, 5, 111-139.

West, R., & Alain, C. (2000).  Age-related decline in inhibitory control contributes to the increased Stroop effect observed in older adults.  Psychophysiology, 37, 179-189.

West, R., & Alain, C. (2000).  Evidence for the transient nature of a neural system supporting goal-directed action.  Cerebral Cortex, 10, 748-752.

West, R., & Alain, C. (2000).  Effects of task context and fluctuations of attention on neural activity supporting performance of the Stroop task.  Brain Research, 873, 102-111.

Alain, C., Achim, A., & Woods, D.L. (1999).  Separate memory-related processing for auditory frequency and pattern.  Psychophysiology, 36, 737-744.

Alain, C., Cortese, F., & Picton, T.W. (1999).  Event-related brain activity associated with auditory pattern processing.  NeuroReport, 10, 2429-2434.

Alain, C., & Woods, D.L. (1999).  Age-related changes in processing auditory stimuli during visual attention: Evidence for deficits in inhibitory control and sensory memory.  Psychology and Aging, 14, 507-519.

Cortese, F., Bernstein, L.J., & Alain, C. (1999).  Binding visual features during high-rate serial presentation.  NeuroReport, 10, 1565-1570.

Schiavetto, A., Cortese, F., & Alain, C. (1999).  Global and local processing of musical sequences: An event-related brain potential study.  NeuroReport, 10, 2467-2472.

Picton, T.W., Alain, C., Woods, D.L, John, M.S., Scherg, M., Valdes‑Sosa, P., Bosch-Bayard, J., & Trujillo, N.J. (1999). Intracerebral sources of human auditory-evoked potentials.  Audiology and Neuro-Otology, 4, 64-79.

West, R., & Alain, C. (1999).  Event-related neural activity associated with the Stroop task.  Cognitive Brain Research, 8, 157-164.

Alain, C., Hargrave, R., & Woods, D.L. (1998).  Processing of auditory stimuli during visual attention in patients with schizophrenia.  Biological Psychiatry, 44, 1151-1159.

Alain, C., Woods, D.L., & Knight, R.T. (1998).  A distributed cortical network for auditory sensory memory in humans.  Brain Research, 812, 23-37.

Woods, D.L., Alain, C., & Ogawa, K.H. (1998).  Conjoining auditory and visual features during high-rate serial presentation: processing and conjoining two features can be faster than processing one.  Perception and Psychophysics, 60, 239-249.

Alain, C. & Woods, D.L. (1997).  Attention modulates auditory pattern memory as indexed by event-related brain potentials.  Psychophysiology, 34, 534-546.

Alain, C., Woods, D.L., & Covarrubias, D. (1997).  Activation of duration-sensitive auditory cortical fields in humans.  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 104, 531-539.

Alain, C., Hargrave, R., & Woods, D.L. (1997).  Auditory short-term memory in schizophrenia: An event-related brain potentials study.  Brain and Cognition, 35, 348-351.

Alain, C., Ogawa, K.H., & Woods, D.L. (1996).  Aging and the segregation of auditory sequences.  Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 51, 91-93.

Woods, D.L., Alain, C., Covarrubias, D., & Zaidel, O. (1995).  Middle latency auditory evoked potentials to tones of different frequency.  Hearing Research, 85, 69-75.

Alain, C., & Woods, D.L. (1994).  Signal clustering modulates auditory cortical activity in humans.  Perception and Psychophysics, 56, 501-516.

Alain, C., Woods, D.L., & Ogawa, K.H. (1994).  Brain indices of automatic pattern processing.  NeuroReport, 6, 140-144.

Alain, C. (1993).  The relation among fundamental frequency, intensity and duration varies with accentuation.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 94, 2434-2436.

Alain, C., Achim, A., & Richer, F. (1993).  Perceptual context and the selective attention effect on auditory event-related brain potentials.  Psychophysiology, 30, 572-580.

Alain, C., & Woods, D.L. (1993).  Distractor clustering enhances detection speed and accuracy during selective listening.  Perception and Psychophysics, 54, 509-514.

Woods, D.L., & Alain, C. (1993).  Feature processing during high-rate auditory selective attention. Perception and Psychophysics, 53, 391-402.

Woods, D.L., Alain, C., Covarrubias, D., & Zaidel, O. (1993).  Frequency-related differences in the speed of human auditory processing.  Hearing Research, 66, 46-52.

Alain, C., Achim, A., & Richer, F. (1991).  Matching cannot account for context effect on brain potentials observed during selective processing.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 761-762.

Alain, C., Richer, F., Achim, A., & Saint-Hilaire, J.M. (1989).  Human intracerebral potentials associated with target, novel and omitted auditory stimuli.  Brain Topography, 1, 237-245.

Renaud, A., Tremblay, L., Alain, C., & Roy, S. (1989).  L’abandon spontané d’un processus psychothérapique.  Psychothérapie, 9, 31-41.

Richer, F., Alain, C., Achim. A., Bouvier, G., & Saint-Hilaire, J.M. (1989).  Intracerebral amplitude distribution of the auditory evoked potential.  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 74, 202-208.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Chan, T.M.V & Alain, C. (In press). Theories of cognitive aging: A look at the benefit of music training on the aging brain.  In “Music and the Aging Brain.”  Cuddy, L., Belleville, S., & Moussard, A. (Eds) Elsevier, pp xxx-xxx.

Pichora-Fuller, K.M., Alain, C., & Schneider, B. (2017). Older adults at the cocktail party.  In “The Auditory System at the Cocktail Party.”  Middlebrook, J.C., Simon, J.Z., Popper, A.N., & Fay, R.F. (Eds) Springer, pp 227-259.

Alain, C., Arnott, S.R., Gillingham, S., Leung, A., & Wong, J. (2015).  The interplay between auditory attention and working memory.  In “Mechanisms of Sensory Working Memory,” P. Jolicoeur, Lefebre, C., & J. Martinez-Trujillo (Eds.), Elsevier, pp. 215-228.

Arnott, S.A. & Alain, C. (2014).  A brain guide to sound galleries.  In “The Multisensory Museum: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space,” N. Levent & A. Pascual-Leone (Eds.), Alta Mira Press, pp. 85-107.

Alain, C., Arnott, S.A., & Dyson, B. (2013).  Varieties of auditory attention.  In “The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience: Volume I Core Topics,” K.N. Ochsner & S.M. Kosslin (Vol. Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 215-236.

Alain, C., Roye, A., & Arnott, S.A. (2013).  Middle and late auditory evoked responses: What are they telling us on central auditory disorders?  In “Disorders of Peripheral and Central Auditory Processing: Handbook of Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol 10,” G.G. Celesia (Vol. Ed.), Elsevier, pp. 177-199.

Alain, C., & Winkler, I. (2012).  Recording event-related brain potentials: Application to study auditory perception.  In “Human Auditory Cortex,” D. Poeppel, T. Overath, A. Popper, & R. Fay (Eds.), Springer, pp. 69-96.

Alain, C., & Ross, B. (2008).  The role of neuroelectric and neuromagnetic recordings in assessing learning and rehabilitation effects.  In “Cognitive Neurorehabilitation, Evidence and Applications, 2^nd Edition,” D.T. Stuss, & G. Winocur (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, New York. pp 183-199.

Alain, C., Dyson, B.J., & Snyder, J.S. (2006).  Aging and the perceptual organization of sounds: a change of scene? In “Handbook of Models for the Study of Human Aging,” M. Conn (Ed.), Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam. pp 759-769.

Alain, C. (2004).  Speech separation: Further insights from recordings of event-related brain potentials in human.  In “Speech Separation by Humans and Machines”, P. Divenyi (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York. pp 13-30.

Picton, T.W., Alain, C., & McIntosh, A.R. (2002).  The theatre of the mind: physiological studies of the human frontal lobes.  In “Principle of Frontal Lobe Functions,” D.T. Stuss, & R.T. Knight (Eds.), Oxford University Press, New York. pp 109-126.

Achim, A., Richer, F., Alain, C., & Saint-Hilaire, J.M. (1988).  A test of model adequacy applied to the dimensionality of multi-channel average auditory evoked potentials.  In “Statistic and Topography in Quantitative EEG,”  D. Samson-Dolfus, J.D. Guieu, P. Etevon, & J. Gotman (Eds.), Elsevier, Paris. pp 161-171.

ABSTRACTS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Herman, D., Baker, S., Cazes, J., Alain, C., & Rosenbaum, S. (2020). Mismatch negativity (MMN) predicts memonic specificity: A new metric for auditory pattern separation. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, USA.

Fisher, M., Moscovitch, M., & Alain, C. (2020) Long-term memory-guided attention and alpha-band oscillations: Implicit access to spatial information. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, USA.

Fisher, M., Moscovitch, M., & Alain, C. (2019) Everyday incidental auditory learning and memory-guided attention: A behavioral and electroencephalogram (EEG) study. Oral presentation, Psychonomic Society, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Sharma, V., Alain, C., Thaut, M.H., Russo, F. (2019) Musical expertise modulates cognitive control mechanisms needed to resolve conflicting auditory information. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Backer, K. C., Ross, B., Cheung, G., & Alain, C. (2019). Supramodal and modality-specific osciallatory activity during attention to memory. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

Price, C., Bidelman, G., Shen, D., Arnott, S., & Alain, C. (2019). Afferent-efferent connectivity between auditory brainstem and cortex account for poorer speech-in-noise comprehension in older adults. 42^nd MidWinter ARO Meeting.

Chan, V.T.M., & Alain, C. (2018) Neural indices of auditory reflective attention in word-in-noise identification. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.

Mahmud, M.S., Yeasin, M., Shen, D., Arnott, S. R., Alain, C., & Bidelman, G. M., (2018). What brain connectivity patterns from EEG tell us about hearing loss: A graph theoretic approach. In Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), 2018 10th International Conference on IEEE, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 205-208. doi:10.1109/ICECE.2018.8636698

Bidelman, G. M., Lowther, J., Tak, S., & Alain, C. (2017). Mild cognitive impairment is characterized by deficient hierarchy of speech coding between auditory brainstem and cortex. Poster presented at the 40^th Annual MidWinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Shams, N., Alain, C., & Strother, S. (2017) Simultaneous EEG-fMRI study of EEG oscillations and the BOLD response in the auditory cortex. 23^nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Zimmermann, J., & Alain, C. (2017). Long term memory guides auditory attention : An event-related potential study.  Poster presented at the xx^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 13-16, San Francisco, California.

Chan, V.T.M., & Alain, C. (2016) Auditory perception and executive functions in simultaneous interpreters: re-examining the music-language relationship. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, USA.

Freedman, M., Binns, M., Strother, S., Gao, F., Vallessi, A., Jeffers, S., Alain, C., Whitehouse, P., Roseborough, A., Holmes, M., Ryan, J., Chen. R., Cusimano, M., & Black, S.  (2016) Mind-matter interactions and the frontal lobes of the brain.  Paper presented at the Society for Scientific Exploration and Parapsychological Association, June, Boulder, Colorado.

Shams, N., Alain, C., & Strother, S. (2016) Simultaneous EEG-fMRI study of BOLD signal variability in the visual cortex. 22^nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Geneva, Switzerland.

Garami, L., Arsenault, J.S., Bidelman, G.M., Snyder, J.S., & Alain, C. (2016) First formant context information modulates speech segregation. Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN), San Diego, USA.

Alain, C. & Du, Y. (2015).  Recruitment of the speech motor system in adverse listening conditions. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 137(suppl), 2211.

Bidelman, G. M. & Alain, C. (2015). Musical training orchestrates coordinated neuroplasticity in auditory brainstem and cortex to counteract age-related declines in categorical speech perception. Poster presented at the 37th Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February 21–25, Baltimore, MD.

Sokka, L., Pakarinen, S., Leinikka, M., Korpela, J., Alain, C., Huotilainen, M. (2015).  Allocation of attentional resources during cognitively demanding tasks in altered in job burnout.  Poster presented at the 168th APA Annual Meeting, May 16-20, Toronto, On, Canada.

Weintraub, D.M., Dadis, F., Alain, C., & Snyder J.S. (2015).  Distinct cortical regions are modulated by prior stimulus and prior perceptual interpretation during auditory stream segregation: Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging. Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting; Baltimore, MD.

Bidelman, G. M., Villafuerte, J. W., & Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2014).  Age-related changes in subcortical-cortical encoding and categorical perception of speech, 37^th Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February 22–26, San Diego, CA,

Zimmermann, J., Moscovitch, M., & Alain, C. (2014). Long term memory influences the deployment of auditory attention as revealed by neuromagnetic recordings.  Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, November 15-19, Washington DC.

Kielar, A., Meltzer, J. A., Moreno, S., Alain, C., & Bialystok, E. (2014).  Oscillatory responses to sentence embedded semantic and syntactic violations: Effects of bilingualism.  Poster presented at the 2014 Canadian Association for Neuroscience Meeting, Montreal, Quebec.

Backer, K.C., & Alain, C. (2013).  Neural correlates of selective attention to sound object representations. Poster presented at the 20^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 13-16, San Francisco, California.

Bidelman, G.M., Weiss, M.W., Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2013).  Musical training strengthens the subcortical-cortical encoding and categorical perception of speech.  Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting.

Backer, K.C., & Alain, C. (2013).  Neural correlates of selective attention to sound object representations. Poster to be presented at the 20^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 13-16, 2013, San Francisco, California.

Bidelman, G. M., Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Moussard, A., & Alain, C. (2013). Short-term musical training enhances pre-attentive auditory processing in older adults. Poster presented at the 20th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 13–16, 2013.

Bidelman, G. M., Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Moussard, A., & Alain, C. (2013). Short-term musical training enhances pre-attentive auditory processing in older adults. Poster presented at the 2nd Meeting of the Entertainment Software and Cognitive Neurotherapeutics Society, Los Angeles, CA, March 15–17, 2013.

Bidelman, G. M., Weiss, M. W., Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2013). Musical training strengthens the subcortical-cortical encoding and categorical perception of speech. Poster presented at the 36th Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD, February 16–20, 2013.

Bidelman, G. M., Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Moussard, A., & Alain, C. (2013). Enhanced pre-attentive auditory processing following short-term musical training in older adults. Poster presented at the 41st Meeting of International Neuropsychological Society, Waikoloa, HI, February 6–9, 2013.

Bidelman, G. M., Weiss, M. W., Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2013). “Musical training strengthens the subcortical-cortical encoding and categorical perception of speech,” Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC 2013), Toronto, ON, Canada, August 8–11, 2013.

Du, Y., Buchsbaum, B., Grady, C., & Alain, C. (2013).  The compensatory mechanism of auditory-motor integration in speech perception. Poster to be presented at the 20^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 13-16, 2013, San Francisco, California.

Esopenko, C.,Kumar, P.K., Alain, C., Chow, T. W., McIntosh, A.R., Strother, S., & Levine, B. (2013).  Neuroimaging during a Working Memory Task in Remote Traumatic Brain Injury: Evidence from NHL Alumni. Poster to be presented at the 20^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 13-16, 2013, San Francisco, California and the 23rd Annual Neuroscience Conference, Toronto, March 4-6, 2013.

Esopenko, C., Kumar, P.K., Alain, C., Chow, T. W., McIntosh, A.R., Strother, S., & Levine, B. (2013). The Interaction between Traumatic Brain Injury and Aging: Evidence from NHL Alumni. Poster to be presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, February 6-9, 2013, Waikoloa, Hawaii. Abstract published in Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 19(S1), i-295.

Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Bidelman, G. M., Moussard, A., & Alain, C. (2013). Cognitive benefits of music and art training in healthy older adults. Poster presented at the 20th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 13–16, 2013.

Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Bidelman, G. M., Moussard, A., & Alain, C. (2013). Cognitive benefits of music and art training in healthy older adults. Poster presented at the 2nd Meeting of the Entertainment Software and Cognitive Neurotherapeutics Society, Los Angeles, CA, March 15–17, 2013.

Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Bidelman, G. M., Moussard, A., & Alain, C. (2013). Cognitive benefits of music and art training in healthy older adults. Talk presented at the Baycrest 23rd Annual Neuroscience Conference: Brain Plasticity & Neurorehabilitation, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 3–6, 2013.

Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Bidelman, G. M., Moussard, A., & Alain, C. (2013). Cognitive benefits of music and art training in healthy older adults. Poster presented at the 41st Meeting of International Neuropsychological Society, Waikoloa, HI, February 6–9, 2013.

Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Bidelman, G. M., Moussard, A., & Alain, C. (2013). “Cognitive benefits of music and art training in healthy older adults,” Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC 2013), Toronto, ON, Canada, August 8–11, 2013.

Shams, N., Alain, C., & Strother, S. (2013).  Simultanous EEG-fMRI recording of passive sensory processing.  Human Brain Mapping Conference.

Alain, C. & Leung, A.W.S. (2012). Concurrent sound perception interferes with signal detection.  Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 131 (suppl), 3229.

Alain, C. (2012). Noise-induced increased in human auditory evoked fields.  Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 131 (suppl), 3341.

Du, Y., He, Y., Wu, X., Li, L., & Alain, C. (2012).  Feature-specific cortical plasticity after rapid perceptual learning during speech segregation: a MEG study.  Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 131 (suppl), 3388.

Alain, C. (2011).  Aging and the perceptual organization of sounds.  Journal of Psychophysiology, 25(suppl 1), 6.

Alain, C. & Leung, A.W.S. (2011). Working memory load modulates the auditory “what” and “where” neural networks.  X1^th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Mallorca, Spain.

Backer, K, Alain, C. (2011). Change Deafness: A Case of “Misallocation” of Auditory Attention. The 18^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Campeanu, S., Craik, F.I.M., & Alain, C. (2011). Neuroelectric Correlates of Voice Congruency in Recognition. Poster session presented at the XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Palma, Mallorca, Spain.

Leung, A.W.S., Alain, C. (2011). Impaired Gap detection during concurrent sound Perception: Top-down or bottom-up effects? The 18^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Moreno, S., Leung, A.W.S., Bialystok, E., Alain, C. (2011)”What” and “Where” auditory pathways influenced by bilingualism and music experiences. The 18^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Shen, D., & Alain, C. (2010). Attentional set effects on auditory attentional blink: An event-related potential (ERP) study.  Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain.

Diaconescu, A., Bardouille, T., Alain, C., Hasher, L., & McInstosh, A.R. (2010). Neural correlates of multisensory facilitation and competition.  Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain.

Kim, A.S.N., Binns, M.A., Alain, C., & Tulving, E. (2010).  Distinguishing association formation from item encoding using ERPs.  Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA, Abstract viewer/Itinary planner, CD-ROM, Washington, DC.

Zendel, B.R., & Alain, C. (2010).  Age-related changes in the auditory evoked response are mitigated by musical training.  Society for Neuroscience, Abstract viewer/Itinary planner, CD-ROM, Washington, DC.

Campeanu, S., Craik, F., & Alain, C. (2009).  Effects of multiple source characteristics on word and speaker recognition: An ERP study.  Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Misic, B., Schneider, B.A., de la Rosa, S., Alain, C., & McIntosh, A.R. (2009).  Electrophysiological events related to top-down contrast sensitivity control.  Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, CA.

Moreno, S., Bialystok, E., Wodniecka, Z., & Alain C. (2009).  Resolution of conflict by bilinguals and musicians: Evidence from ERPs.  Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Vuvan, D., & Alain, C. (2009).  The cognitive-perceptual effects of audio game training. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Snyder, J.S., Carter, O.L., Hannon, E.E., & Alain, C. (2008).  Multiple levels of representation in auditory stream segregation: Evidence from context effects. Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona

Snyder, J.S., Carter, O.L., Hannon, E.E., & Alain, C. (2008).  Adaptation reveals multiple levels of representation in auditory stream segregation.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Zendel, B., & Alain, C. (2008).  Concurrent sound segregation and related auditory evoked potentials are enhanced in musicians.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Alain, C., Campeanu, S., & Trembkay, K. (2007).  Neuroelectric correlates of rapid perceptual learning of speech sounds.  Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Dyson, B.J., & Alain, C. (2007).  Complex sounds in the brain: Neuroelectric correlates representing pitch and harmonicity.  Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Quan, J., & Alain, C. (2007).  Age-related increased in auditory evoked fields: A central or peripheral problem?  Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Snyder, J.S., Ross, B., McDonald, K., Aalto, M., Schneider, B.A.,& Alain C. (2007). Sound duration processing in human auditory cortex of aging adults.  Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Zendel, B.R., & Alain, C. (2006).  Musical expertise and concurrent sound segregation.  Acoustic society of America. Honolulu, HI.

Alain, C., & Reinke, K. (2005).  Rapid Neural Changes Underlie Auditory Discrimination Learning.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. New York, NY.

Dyson, B.J. & Alain, C. (2005). Tales of the unexpected (frequency): What harmonicity can tell us about acoustic processing. Paper presentation at the 4^th Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting, November 2005, Toronto, ON.

Dyson, B.J., Alain, C. & He. Y. (2005). Exogenous and endogenous contributions to acoustic perceptual invariance. Paper presentation at the Methods In Mind Conference, September 2005, Birmingham, UK.

Gilboa, A., Alain, C., Stuss, D.T., & Moscovitch, M. (2005).  Confabulation after anterior communicating artery (AcoA) aneurysm rupture: temporal context confusion (TCC) or general monitoring failure? Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. New York, NY.

Huang, J., Wu, X.-H., He, Y., Qi, J.G., Alain, C., Schneider, B.A., & Li, L. (2005). The event-related brain potentials to uncorrelated fragment of noise. The 149^th meeting of the Acoustic Society of American, 4pPP23.

Reinke, K.S., & Alain, C. (2005).  Neural underpinnings of speech separation and identification.  International Neuropsychological Society, St. Louis, MO.

Snyder, J.S., Alain, C., & Picton, T.W. (2005).  Differential effects of attention on segregation and buildup of auditory streams: Evidence from event-related potentials.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. New York, NY.

Arnott, S.R., & Alain, C. (2004). Neural chronometry of sound identification and sound localization. Cognitive Neuroscience SocietyAnnual Meeting, 136D.

Dyson, B.J., & Alain, C. (2004). Effect of visual attentional load on low-level auditory scene analysis. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Dyson, B.J., & Alain, C. (2004b). Constraints on the development and maintenance of harmonic templates: Evidence from inter-trial repetition effects. Poster presentation at the Hanse Conference on Auditory Grouping and Speech Perception, Delmenhorst, Germany.

Itier, R.J., Fatima, Z., Alain, C., Stuss, D.T., McIntosh, A.R. (2004).  Are you looking at me? Effects of attention and head orientation on eye gaze processing.  Society for Neuroscience, Abstract viewer/Itinary planner, CD-ROM, Washington, DC.

Snyder, J.S., & Alain, C. (2004). Age-related changes in identification of simultaneous speech events: Event-related potential (ERP) and behavioral evidence.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

Snyder, J.S., Alain, C., & Picton, T.W. (2004). Human steady-state cortical activity reflects auditory stream segregation. Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting. Minneapolis, MN.

Alain, C., McNeely, H.E., Christensen, B.K., & West, R. (2003).  Neurophysiological Evidence for Deficits in Conflict Processing in Patients with Schizophrenia.  Cognitive Neurosience Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Alain, C., He, Y., Wang, C., Reinke, K., & Lobaugh, N. (2003).  Hearing Two Things at Once: a Neurophysiological Index of Concurrent Vowel Segregation.  2nd Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Vancouver, BC.

McDonald, K.L., Alain, C., & Schneider, B.A. (2003).  The contribution of harmonicity and location cues to concurrent sound segregation.  Cognitive Neurosience Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Reinke, K.S., He, Y., Wang, C., & Alain, C. (2003).  Perceptual learning modulated neural activity in auditory cortices.  Cognitive Neurosience Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Sonnadara, R.R., Alain, C., & Trainor, L.J. (2003).  MMN elicited by changes in sound location is moderated by location and probability of the occasional stimulus.  43^rd Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Chicago, Il.

Dyson, B., & Alain, C. (2003).  Representation of concurrent auditory objects as revealed by middle Latency auditory evoked potentials.  43^rd Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Chicago, IL.

Itier, R.J., Glaholt, M., Alain, C., & McIntosh, A.R. (2003).  Cross-modal facilitation in a cueing task using ERPs.  Society for Neuroscience, Abstract viewer/Itinary planner, CD-ROM, Washington, DC.

Li, L., Qi, J.G., He, Y., Alain, C., Schneider, B.A. (2003). The nature of the precedence effect: attribute capture.  Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Annual Meeting, 119.

Alain, C., & Izenberg, A. (2002).  Effects of attentional load on auditory scene analysis.  Society for Neuroscience, Abstract viewer/Itinary planner. CD-ROM, Washington, DC.

Arnott, S.R., Alain, C., Hevenor, S., Graham, S., Dade, L., & Grady, C.L. (2002).  What, where, and how in the human prefrontal cortex.  Society for Neuroscience, Abstract viewer/Itinary planner, program. CD-ROM, Washinton, DC.

Reinke, K., O’Craven, K., Alain, C., & Graham, S. (2002).  Neural mechanisms of perceptual learning investigated with fMRI and ERP.  Society for Neuroscience, Abstract viewer/Itinary planner, CD-ROM, Washington, DC.

Alain, C., Arnott, S.R., Hevenor, S., Graham, S., & Grady C. (2001).  Distinct pathways for identification and localization of auditory objects.  Cognitive Neurosience Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Arnott, S.R., Alain, C., Pratt, J., & Shore, D.I. (2001).  Attentional set modulates visual areas: An event-related potential study of attentional capture.  Cognitive Neurosience Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

McDonald, K.L., Ostroff, J.M., Alain, C., & Schnieder, B.A. (2001).  Effects of automatic and controlled processes on gap detection as a function of age.  41^st Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, PQ.

Shuler, B., McDonald, K.L., & Alain, C. (2001).  Effects of Sound Duration on Distinguishing Concurrent Auditory Events as Evidenced by Event-Related Brain Potentials.  41^st Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, PQ.

Arnott, S.R., & Alain, C. (2000).  Effects of perceptual context on event-related brain potentials during auditory spatial attention.  Society for Neuroscience, 26(2), 2230.

Trainor, L.J., McDonald, K., & Alain, C. (2000).  Musical pitch processing:  Changes in melodic interval and contour elicit early mismatch negativity responses. Presented at the New York Academy of Sciences Conference on The Biological Foundations of Music, New York, NY.

Ostroff, J.M., McDonald, K.L., Alain, C., & Schneider, B. (2000).  Effect of tonal duration on auditory evoked potentials as a function of age.  Acoustical Society of America, Newport Beach, CA.

Arnott, S.R., Alain, C., Cortese, F., & Grady, C. (1999).  Separate memory-related processing for auditory object location and identity.  Psychophysiology Supplement, 36, 27.

Hay, J.F., Kane, K.A., West, R. & Alain, C. (1999).  Event-related brain activity associated with recollection and habit in young adults.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement, 11, 41.

Woods, D.L., Alain, C., & Knight, R.T. (1999).  The effects of brain lesions on target processing: A comparison of ERPs and event-related difference spectra (ERDISPs).  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement, 102.

West, R., & Alain, C. (1999).  Neural correlates of goal neglect revealed by event-related brain potentials.  Paper presented at the 40^th meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Alain, C., & Arnott, S.R. (1998).  Event-related brain potentials associated with perception of simultaneous auditory objects.  Psychophysiology, Supplement, 35, 15.

Cortese, F., & Alain, C. (1998).  Human event-related evoked potential evidence of feature conjunction in vision.  Investigation of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 39(4), s862.

Schiavetto, A., Alain, C., & Cortese F. (1998).  ERP evidence of global and local processing of musical sequences.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement, 96.

John, M.S., Picton, T.W., & Alain, C. (1998).  Auditory steady-state responses: using phase to measure latency.  Society for Neuroscience, 24(2), 1634.

West, R.W., & Alain, C. (1998).  Attentional set modulates the activity of neural systems supporting performance of the Stroop task.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement, 10, 139.

West, R., & Alain, C. (1998).  ERPs reveal age‑related decline in inhibitory processes.  Paper presented at the 39^th meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX.

Woods, D.L., & Alain, C. (1998).  Auditory Attention modulates rhythmic brain oscillations in humans.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement, 10, 75.

Alain, C., Cortese, F., & Picton, T.W. (1997).  Representation of complex auditory patterns in the human brain.  Society for Neuroscience, 23(2), 1582.

Alain, C., & Woods, D.L. (1996).  Age-related changes in auditory sensory memory.  Society for Neuroscience, 22(3), 1853.

Alain, C., Woods, D.L., & Knight, R.T. (1995).  Prefrontal and temporo-parietal lesions impair automatic pattern processing.  Society for Neuroscience, 21(1), 437.

Woods, D.L., & Alain C. (1995).  Auditory feature-conjunction: an event-related brain potential study.  Human Brain Mapping Supplement, 1, 163.

Alain, C., Woods, D.L., & Covarrubias, D. (1994).  Activation of duration-sensitive auditory neurons in humans.  Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 20(2), 1002.

Ogawa, K.H., Woods, D.L., & Alain, C. (1994).  Visual search of complex displays.  American Psychological Society.  Washington, DC.  Abstract Proceeding, 45.

Woods, D.L., Alain C., Covarrubias, D., & Remler, M. P. (1994).  Event-related differences in EEG spectral power (ERDISP).  Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 20(2), 1003.

Alain, C., & Woods, D.L. (1993).  Auditory streaming modulates brain signs of selective attention.  Third West Coast Attention Meeting, Eugene, OR.

Alain, C., & Woods, D.L. (1993).  Streaming modulates auditory cortical activity during selective listening.  Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 19(1), 561.

Ogawa, K.H., Woods, D.L., Alain, C., & Covarrubias, D. (1993).  Feature conjunction during rapid serial visual presentation.  Third West Coast Attention Meeting, Eugene, OR.

Woods, D.L., Alain, C., Ogawa, K.H., & Covarrubias, D. (1993).  Auditory feature conjunction: primacy of frequency over lateralization cues.  Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 19(3), 1805.

Alain, C., & Woods, D.L. (1992).  Auditory streaming reduces reaction times to infrequent targets.  Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 18(2), 1208.

Woods, D.L., Alain, C., & Algazi, A. (1992).  Auditory feature conjunction during selective attention to high-rate tone sequences.  ICON V Proceedings, 5, 7.

Woods, D.L., Alain, C., Zaidel, O., & Covarrubias, D. (1992).  Frequency-related differences in the speed of human auditory processing.  Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 18(1), 840.

Alain, C., Achim, A., & Richer F. (1991).  Grouping effect on auditory processing of irrelevant stimuli: an event-related potentials (ERPs) study.  3^rd IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience Proceeding, 3, 478.

Achim, A., Alain, C., Richer, F., & Saint-Hilaire, J.M. (1990).  Statistical detection of differences in averaged evoked potential waveshapes or topographies.  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 75, 8P.

Alain, C., Richer, F., Achim, A., & Saint-Hilaire, J.M. (1990).  Intracerebral distribution of the human auditory late potential.  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 75, 8P.

Alain, C., Achim, A., & Richer, F. (1990).  Auditory streaming influences onset of selective attention effect on auditory ERPs.  Society For Neuroscience Abstracts, 16, 577.

Alain, C., Achim A., & Richer, F. (1990).  Le rôle du contexte auditif sur le potentiel évoqué (PE) durant une écoute sélective.  Paper presented at XIII Congrès Annuel de la SQRP, Résumés des Communications, p.58.

Alain, C., Vigneux, P., Laframboise, M., & Keller E. (1990).  Dissociation des paramètres acoustiques associés à la modulation de la parole chez le sujet normal.  Paper presented at XIII Congrès Annuel de la SQRP, Résumés des Communications, p.59.

Alain, C., Achim, A., Baribeau, J., & Richer, F. (1990).  Perceptual context influences the selective attention effect on late auditory evoked potentials (LAEP).  Brain and Language, 39, 594.

Alain, C., Richer, F., Achim, A., & Saint-Hilaire, J.M. (1989).  Intracerebral distribution of the human late potentials associated with target, novel and missing auditory stimuli.  Society For Neuroscience Abstracts, 15, 477.

Alain, C., Richer, F., & Achim, A. (1989).  Dissociation des générateurs des réponses évoquées N1 et N2: une étude intracérébrale.  Paper presented at XII Congrès Annuel de la SQRP, Résumés des Communications, p.61.

Pilon, N., Richer, F., Alain, C., & Achim, A. (1989).  Effet des excisions frontales sur la réponse neuro-électrique auditive.  Paper presented at XII Congrès Annuel de la SQRP, Résumés des Communications, p.149.

Alain, C., Richer, F., Achim, A., & Saint-Hilaire, J.M. (1988).  Distribution of the intracerebral auditory evoked potential.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 11, 83.

Alain, C., Richer, F., Achim, A., & Saint-Hilaire, J.M. (1988).  Contribution de la région temporo-pariétale à la genèse du potentiel évoqué auditif.  The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 15, 347.

Alain, C., Richer, F., Achim, A., & Saint-Hilaire, J.M. (1988).  Distribution intracérébrale du potentiel évoqué cognitif P300 chez l’humain.  Paper presented at XI Congrès Annuel de la SQRP, Résumés des Communications, p.48.

Alain, C., Richer, F., Achim, A., Saint-Hilaire, J.M., & Mercier, M. (1987).  Distribution intracranienne du potentiel évoqué auditif chez l’humain.  Paper Presented at X Congrès Annuel de la Société Québécoise pour la Recherche en Psychologie (SQRP), Résumés des Communications, p.78.

Kabene, M., Harnois, C., & Alain, C. (1986).  Aspects neurocognitifs du diabète mellitus.  L’Union Médicale du Canada, 115, 563.

Richer, F., Marcil, F., Fortier, L., Alain, C., & Beatty, J. (1986).  The task-evoked pupillary response in delayed choice tasks.  Paper presented at Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montréal, PQ.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Healthy cognitive aging through musical training.  International Alzheimer’s Disease Conference, Hong Kong, China, June, 2016.

Use it or Lose it: The benefit of musical training on the aging auditory brain.  The Acoustic Week in Canada, Winnipeg, October, 2014.

INVITED SPEAKER/ SYMPOSIUM

Early detection of mild cognitive impairment using EEG. Paper presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Rotman Research Institute, Aging & Brain Health – Prevention & Early Detection of Dementia. Toronto, ON, Canada, March 2019.

Neural dynamics during auditory scene analysis.  Paper presented at a Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics in Brain and Behaviour, NSERC Create, Montreal, QC, August, 2019.

Orienting attention to speech representation improves word in noise identification.  Paper presented at a symposium entitled “Understanding the role of attention and memory at the cocktail party.” Society for Psychophysiological Research, Quebec, QC, October, 2018

Attentional blink: A window into perceptual awareness.  Paper presented at the 8^th Mismatch Negativity conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 2018.

Promoting healthy aging: The role of musical training and bilingualism.  Paper presented at the Neuroscience and Music VI – Music, Sound and Health Conference, Boston, USA, June 2017.

The interplay between attention and memory.  Paper presented at the Erasmus Mundus Symposium on Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany, April 2017.

Promoting successful aging through music making.  Paper presented at the Rotman Research, “Neural Dynamics and Brain Health,” Toronto, ON, Canada, March, 2017.

The object-related negativity: A neural metric to assess concurrent sound segregation from infancy to old age.  Paper presented at a Round Table Session: Brain Imaging in Audiology, Research and Clinical Practice.  33^rd World Congress of Audiology, Vancouver, Canada, September 2016.

Benefits of musical training and bilingualism on auditory working memory.  Paper presented at a Feature Session: Extra-Musical Benefits of Music Training.  33^rd World Congress of Audiology, Vancouver, Canada, September 2016.

Musical training, hearing loss and the aging brain.  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Academy of Audiology, Niagara Fall, Ontario, October, 2015.

Effects of age, noise, and hearing loss on concurrent sound segregation.  7th Mismatch Negativity Conference, Leipzig, Germany, September, 2015.

Musical training and the aging brain.  Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, Linköping, Sweden, June 2015.

Orienting attention to sound object representation in short-term memory.  Paper presented at a symposium “Mechanisms of selective-attention in the normal and concussed brain: Evidence from human electrophysiology”, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, Ontario, June, 2015.

Recruitment of the speech motor system in adverse listening conditions. Paper presented at a symposium “Listening Effort”, 169^th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May, 2015.

The benefit of musical training on the aging auditory brain. Paper presented at a Symposium “Music Learning across the Lifespan”, Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium, Tampa, Florida, February, 2015.

Auditory scene analysis: From sound to meaning.  BKN 25: Milestones in Music Cognition.  Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada, July 7, 2014.

Neurocomputation underlying sound segregation: From periphery to percept.  Paper presented at the symposium “Auditory processing from the brainstem to cortex”, 53^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Florence, Italy, October, 2013.

Distinguishing attention and working memory for sound location.  Attention and Performance XXV conference.  Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 2013.

Neural architecture underlying concurrent speech separation.  Paper presented at the symposium “Auditory Scene Analysis: From Sound to Meaning”, International Conference on Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa, July, 2012.

Concurrent sound perception interferes with signal detection.  Paper presented at the symposium “Open Challenges in Auditory Scene Analysis”, Acoustic 2012 Hong Kong Conference, Hong Kong, China, May 2012.

Noise-induced increase in human auditory evoked fields.  Paper presented at the symposium “Release from Masking in Listeners with Normal and Impaired Hearing”, Acoustic 2012 Hong Kong Conference, Hong Kong, China, May 2012.

Working memory load modulates the auditory “what” and “where” neural networks.  Paper presented at the symposium “Auditory Processing”, X1^th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Mallorca, Spain, September, 2011.

The cocktail party problem: Insight from electromagnetic recordings.  Paper presented at the symposium “Auditory stream segregation and selection”, The Association for Research on Otolaryngology 33rd MidWinter Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, February, 2010.

Neuromagnetic recordings reveal additive effects of spectral and spatial cues in human auditory cortex.  Paper presented at a scientific day from The International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Montreal, PQ, Canada, April, 2010.

Varieties of auditory attention.  Paper presented at the Summer School and Research Training Group on Function of attention in cognition, Dierhagen, Germany, July, 2010.

Aging and the perceptual organization of sounds.  Paper presented at Aging and Cognition.  Dortmund, Germany, October, 2010.

Aging and the cocktail party problem: What can we learn from electromagnetic recording?  Paper presented at the third research conference on aging and speech communication.  University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, USA, October, 2009.

From young to older to dementia: What can we learn from neuroimaging studies.  Paper presented at the 18^th Annual Conference of the Rotman Research Institute, “Neuroimaging and Dementia”, Toronto, ON, Canada, March, 2008.

Top-down influences on memory- and response-related activity for sound location.  Paper presented at the meeting “Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Auditory and Visual Attention”, Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, NY, USA, April, 2008.

Working memory load for sound location modulates activity in the where pathway.  Paper presented at the symposium “Brain mechanisms of auditory attention and auditory short-term memory”, 48^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Austin, TX, USA, October, 2008.

Signal duration modulates age differences in neuromagnetic activity associated with concurrent sound segregation.  European and American Acoustic Society, Paris, France, June 2008.

Aging and the cocktail party problem: Where is the problem?  Paper presented at the symposium “Auditory scene analysis: From sound to meaning”, Canadian Acoustic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October, 2008.

The contribution of inferior parietal lobule to auditory spatial working memory.  Paper presented at the symposium “Attention and memory in audition: Measurements of brain activity and behavior”, 47^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, GA, USA, October, 2007.

Age-related changes affecting temporal processing: Evidence from event-related potentials.  Paper presented at the second research conference on aging and speech communication.  University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, USA, October, 2007.

Neural correlates of auditory scene analysis: Potential clinical applications.  Paper presented at the XVII National Week against Deafness, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July, 2006.

Aging and the perceptual organization of sounds: A change of scene.  Paper presented at the XVII National Week against Deafness, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July, 2006.

Assessing learning and rehabilitation effects using auditory evoked potentials.  Paper presented at the XVII National Week against Deafness, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July, 2006.

Domain-specific of auditory working memory.  Paper presented at the symposium “ERPs and Working Memory”, 14^th Bennial Congress from Pharmaco-EEG Society, Awaji Island, Japan, September, 2006.

Breaking the wave: Effects of attention and learning on concurrent sound perception.  Paper presented at the 2^nd International Conference on the Auditory Cortex — The Listening Brain,   Grantham, England, September, 2006.

Aging and speech separation: Further insight from recording and analysis of event-related brain potentials.  Paper presented at the CRBCS Communication and Aging Symposium at UTM, Mississauga, ON, Canada, May, 2005.

Age-related changes in auditory attention and scene analysis.  Paper presented at the 15^th Annual Conference of the Rotman Research Institute, “The Centre of Attention:  Theoretical Advances and Implications for Rehabilitation”, Toronto, ON, Canada, April, 2005.

Aging and perceptual organization of sounds.  Paper presented at the symposium “Aging and Event-Related Brain Potentials”, 45^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Lisbon, Portugal, October, 2005.

Neural concomitant of auditory scene analysis.  Paper presented at the 13^th Annual Conference of the Rotman Research Institute “Neuroimaging of Cognitive Functions”, Toronto, ON. Canada, April, 2003.

Domain- and process-specific organization of auditory working memory.  Paper presented at the 5^th Congress of the Federation of European Psychophysiology Societies, Bordeaux, France, August, 2003.

Aging: a switch from automatic to controlled processing of sounds?  Paper presented at the symposium “Attention and Working Memory Changes in Aging”, 43^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Chicago, IL, USA. October, 2003.

Neural concomitant of vowels segregation.  Paper presented at a workshop “Separation of Speech Sounds”, Montreal, PQ, Canada, September, 2003.

Event-related brain potentials associated with distinguishing simultaneous auditory objects.  Paper presented at the conference “The Listening Brain”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May, 2001.

Representing auditory features in patients with schizophrenia.  Paper presented at the symposium “MMN and Neuropsychiatry”, 2^nd international meeting on clinical application of the mismatch negativity, Barcelona, Spain, August, 2000.

Distinguishing simultaneous auditory events.  Paper presented at the symposium “Integration and Segregation in Auditory Processing”, 7^th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Budapest, Hungary, July, 1999.

Feature conjunction in patients with schizophrenia.  Paper presented at the symposium “Electrophysiological Studies of Feature Conjunction” 39^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Granada, Spain, October, 1999.

Electrophysiological studies of auditory organization in humans.  Paper presented at the symposium “Approches to auditory organization”, 26^th Congrès International de Psychologie.  Montréal, PQ, Canada, July, 1996.

COLLOQUIUM/SEMINAR SPEAKER

How music keeps the hearing brain young.  University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, October, 2019.

The interplay between attention and memory: Clinical applications.  Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, China, October, 2019.

Promoting successful aging through music making. Brain Science Rounds, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 2019.

Promoting healthy aging: The role of musical training.  Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, December, 2017.

Understanding the role of attention and memory at the cocktail party.  Department of Psychology, University of Jerusalem, Israel, December 2017.

Brain mechanisms supporting listening effort.  Department of Communication Disorders Seminars, Haifa University, Israel, December 2017.

Tracking the influence of music on cognitive aging.  Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences Seminar, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA, November, 2017.

Music and Healthy Aging. San Ruth Legacy Luncheon, Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 2017.

Brain mechanisms supporting effortful listening in older people.  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, June, 2016.

The benefit of musical training on the aging brain.  Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, December 2012.

The auditory “what” and “where” in human.

        Graduate Diploma Program in Neuroscience at York University, Toronto, Ontario, March 2011.

The auditory “what” and “where” in human: memory vs. sensory-motor account.  Neuroscience Seminar series, West Virginia University, Virginia, November 2011.

Aging and the cocktail party problem: What can we learn from recording of neuroelectric and neuromagnetic brain activity.  Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, October 2010.

The auditory “what” and “where” in humans: 10 years after.

        Ebbinghaus Empire Meeting, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, November, 2010.

The “what” and the “where” in human auditory system: Ten years later.

        Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, May 2009.

Différentes voies cortico-corticales impliquées dans l‘identification et la localisation d‘objects auditifs.  Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, February 2007.

Breaking the wave: Effects of attention and learning on concurrent sound perception. 

        Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2007.

Age effects on auditory stream segregation. 

        Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2007.

The “what” and the “where” in human auditory system. 

        Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2007.

Différentes voies cortico-corticales impliquées dans l‘analyse de scène auditive. 

        Department of Psychology, Université du Québec a Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, October 2004.

Cognitive control and response monitoring in patients with schizophrenia. 

        Psychiatry, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, November 2002.

Age-related changes in auditory scene analysis. 

        Hôpital Cote des Neige, Montréal, Québec, December 2001.

Neurophysiological studies of auditory perception in patients with schizophrenia. 

        Psychiatry, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, December 2000.

One object or two objects: that is the question. 

        Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Ontario, March 1999.

Feature conjunction in patients with schizophrenia. 

        Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Ontario, November 1999.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the MMN — but were afraid to ask.

        Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Ontario, October 1998.

Feature- versus object-based attention system.

        Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Ontario, May 1997.

Processing of auditory stimuli during visual attention in patients with schizophrenia.

        Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, November 1997.

The role of attention in processing auditory patterns.

        Department of Psychology, University of Québec at Montréal, Montreal, Québec, January 1996.

Brain indices of auditory pattern processing.

        Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, February 1996.

Neurophysiological studies of auditory pattern perception.

        Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, March 1996.

Event-related brain activity associated with auditory pattern perception.

        Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, April 1996.

Perceptual organization of sounds: Behavioral and neurophysiological correlates.

        Department of Psychology, University of Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, February 1995.

Contribution of event-related brain potentials to research in auditory cognition.

        Department of Psychology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, October 1995.

Auditory perceptual grouping: An event-related potentials analysis.

        Montreal Neurological Institute, Montréal, Québec, January 1994.

Perceptual organization of sounds.

        Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, May 1994.

Neurophysiological correlates of perceptual organization of sounds.

        Department of Psychology. University of Concordia, Montreal, Quebec, June 1993.

Perceptual organization of sounds: An event-related potentials study.

        Department of Neurology, VA Medical Center, Martinez, California, November 1991.

TEACHING

Psychology:

Graduate seminar

            PSY5201HS, Advanced Topics in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, winter term, 2018.

            PSY5201HS, Advanced Topics in Auditory Perception and Cognition, winter term, 2014.

            PSY5201HS, Advanced Topics in Auditory Perception and Cognition, winter term, 2008.

Guest lecture on recording and analysis of neuroelectric and neuromagnetic recording event-related brain potentials.

            PSY5221, Neurocognitive Aging, 2006

PSY5221, Neurocognitive Aging, 2004.

PSY 2005, Strategies and methods in psychological research. 2001

PSY 2005, Strategies and methods in psychological research. 2000

Institute of Medical Sciences: 

            MSC1010Y – M.Sc. Student Seminars, 2005

            MSC1011Y – Ph.D. Student Seminars, 2004

Royal Conservatory of Music:

            Sciences for Citizen – Music training changes the brain, 2018

Event administration.

Co-chair, Symposium entitled “Is the frequency-following response (FFR) an index of subcortical auditory cognition?” at the Annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) in Quebec City, Seminar, 2018/9 – 2018/9

MEDIA & PRESS COVERAGE

2019-08-23      MEDICALRESEARCH.COM, Patients genetically predisposed to Alzheimer’s have difficulty accessing memories.

2017-03-15      ScienceDaily.com, The way the brain processes speech could serve as a predictor of early dementia before obvious communication problems appear.

2017-03-15      NeuroscienceNews.com, The way the brain processes speech could serve as a predictor of early dementia before obvious communication problems appear.

2017-03-15      EurekAlert! AAAS, The way the brain processes speech could serve as a predictor of early dementia before obvious communication problems appear.

2015-02-06      Toronto Star, Toronto researchers find playing music in youth helps hearing in old age.

2015-02-06      CBS Science Roundtable Segment, National TV Broadcast, This Morning.

2015-02-06      N. Toche, El Economista, Mexico. Learning to play an instrument compensates for the loss of language.

2015-02-04      CTV News, Canada, Musical training in youth keeps brain functioning longer: study.

2015-02-04      New York Daily News, Musical training in youth keeps brain functioning longer: study.

2015-02-04      Iran Daily, Musical training protects brain.

2015-02-03      The Washington Post, Early music training prevents loss of listening skills later in life.

2015-02-03      CKNW NewsTalk Radio, AM 980, British Columbia, Learning to play an instrument compensates for the loss of language.

2015-02-03      The Tribune, India, Early musical training boosts 20pc brainpower in later life.

2015-02-03      A. Nutt. The Washington Post, Early music training prevents loss of listening skills later in life

2015-02-02      EurekAlert! AAAS, More evidence that musical training protects the brain.

2013-11-13      Scientific American, Musicians maintain hearing better.

2011-11-13      Le Devoir, Quebec, La musique rend-elle sourd? Les sons affectent l’audition selon leur intensité et la durée d’exposition.

2011-09-28      The Washington Post, Lifelong music training may help stave off hearing loss.

2011-09-22      CBC Eyeopener, Hearing Loss.

2011-09-16      Science World, Voice of America, Lifelong musicians hear better than the rest of us.

2011-09-15      The Globe and Mail, Lifelong musicians experience fewer age-related hearing problems.

2011-09-13      BBC News, Lifelong musicians have better hearing.

2011-09-12      The Toronto Star, Practice the piano. Do you hear me?

2011-09-10      The New York Times, Early music lessons have longtime benefits.

2010-11-21      Naked Scientists, BBC Radio, Smart Pills: Drugs to boost brain power.

OUTREACH (public talks and presentations)

Memory and aging: Music and the brain. Vaughan Library, North York, ON, Canada, September 2019.

Music to my ear: How music activities can unlock your brain? Terraces of Baycrest Retirement Residence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 28, 2018.

Mind your hearing: The link between our ears, brain and dementia. Alzheimer Society Speaker Series Talk, Toronto Library, Ontario, Canada, January 25, 2018.

Music making and the aging brain.  The Sam Ruth Legacy Luncheon, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 12, 2017.