Amir RazAmir Raz
Ph.D., ABPH
Canada Research Chair in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention
McGill University and SMBD Jewish General Hospital
Cognitive
Neuroscience Laboratory
Duff Medical Building #103 at the Montreal Neurological Institute
3775 University Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4
Tel: 514-398-3410 ; Fax: 514-398-8069
URL:
www.razlab.mcgill.ca
Clinical Neuroscience and Applied Cognition
Laboratory
Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry at the SMBD Jewish General
Hospital
4333 Cote Ste Catherine Rd.
Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E4
Tel: 514-340-8210 ; Fax: 514-340-8124
URL:
E-mail: amir.raz at mcgill.ca
Professor Raz investigates attention, expectation, placebos, and altered states of consciousness (e.g., hypnosis). Working with children as well as adults, his experiments elucidate how attention regulates internal processes involving cognition, emotion, thought, and action. A former magician, he studies the psychology of misdirection and the power of suggestion to influence psychological and physiological components.
Raz, A., J. Fan, et al. (2005). Hypnotic suggestion reduces conflict in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 102(28): 9978-83.
Raz, A., I. Kirsch, et al. (2006). Suggestion reduces the stroop effect. Psychological Science 17(2): 91-5.
Raz, A., Fan, J., & Posner, M.I. (2006). Neuroimaging and genetic associations of attentional and hypnotic processes. Journal of Physiology Paris, 99(4-6), 483- 91.
Raz, A., & Buhle, J. (2006). Typologies of attentional networks. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7(5), 367-79.
Raz, A. (2008) Genetics and Neuroimaging of Attention and Hypnotizability May Elucidate Placebo. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(1): 99-116.
Updated: July 1, 2008
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