Shahin Zangenehpour

Assistant Professor


Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg.
Room N8/13, 514-398-1685
shahin.zangenehpour at mcgill.ca
 

Research Areas

Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition-Language-Perception

Research Summary

Professor Zangenehpour’s primary research interest is in understanding how multiple sources of sensory information converge to represent coherent percepts of environmental stimuli. He focuses on multisensory processing by studying human and non-human animal models, both in adulthood and during development. His overarching research goal is to understand the developmental and evolutionary origins of multisensory processing in the human brain. He also studies the impact of prenatal ethanol exposure on the development of cognitive capacities in a naturalistic non-human primate model of fetal alcohol syndrome.

Selected References

Zangenehpour S, Zatorre RJ. Crossmodal recruitment of primary visual cortex following brief exposure to bimodal audiovisual stimuli. Neuropsychologia. 2010 Jan;48(2):591-600. Epub 2009 Oct 31. PubMed PMID: 19883668.

Zangenehpour S, Cornish KM, Chaudhuri A. Whole-brain expression analysis of FMRP in adult monkey and its relationship to cognitive deficits in fragile X syndrome. Brain Res. 2009 Apr 6;1264:76-84. Epub 2009 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 19368811.

Zangenehpour S, Ghazanfar AA, Lewkowicz DJ, Zatorre RJ. Heterochrony and cross-species intersensory matching by infant vervet monkeys. PLoS One. 2009;4(1):e4302. Epub 2009 Jan 28. PubMed PMID: 19172998; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2627929.

Zangenehpour S, Chaudhuri A. Patchy organization and asymmetric distribution of the neural correlates of face processing in monkey inferotemporal cortex. Curr Biol. 2005 Jun 7;15(11):993-1005. PubMed PMID: 15936269.

Kogan CS, Boutet I, Cornish K, Zangenehpour S, Mullen KT, Holden JJ, Der Kaloustian VM, Andermann E, Chaudhuri A. Differential impact of the FMR1 gene on visual processing in fragile X syndrome. Brain. 2004 Mar;127(Pt 3):591-601. Epub 2004 Jan 21. PubMed PMID: 14736752.

Zangenehpour S, Chaudhuri A. Neural activity profiles of the neocortex and superior colliculus after bimodal sensory stimulation. Cereb Cortex. 2001 Oct;11(10):924-35. PubMed PMID: 11549615.

Updated: June 1, 2010
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