Jorge Armony

Dr. Armony obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics from University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), followed by an M.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. in Neural Science from New York University (USA), and postdoctoral training in electrophysiology at Oxford University and Cognitive Neuroimaging at University College London (UK).

He is currently a researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and associate professor at the Dept. of Psychiatry of McGill University. He is also a member of the Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM) and adjunct professor at the Dept. of Psychology.

His research area is cognitive, affective and social human neuroscience. A main component of his research focuses on the processing of visual and auditory emotional information and its interaction with cognition (e.g., perception, memory, attention and decision making) in healthy individuals, as well as in psychiatric populations. He also investigates how body sensations and posture relate to mood, behavior and social-relevant personality traits.

To study these questions, his group employs a variety of behavioral and physiological measures, as well as neuroimaging techniques, particularly fMRI and EEG.