Dr. Claude Alain is a Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education. He completed his PhD studies in Psychology at the University of Quebec in Montreal in 1991. His research is in the field of cognitive neuroscience and focuses on the brain processes supporting auditory scene analysis. He uses a combination of neuroimaging techniques (e.g., EEG, MEG and fMRI) to investigate which, and how, different brain areas work together when we perceive, attend to, and remember auditory objects. He is interested in how these processes change as we age and how these age-related changes may be impacted by experiences such as bilingualism and musicianship. His lab is also investigating the interplay between attention and memory, speech in noise comprehension and new EEG measures of perception and cognition for possible clinical applications.