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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Kalina Christoff is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department and the Brain Research Centre at the University of British Columbia.
She completed her doctoral work in at Stanford University, and her postdoctoral training at Cambridge, UK. Her work focuses on the neural and cognitive mechanisms of human thought, reasoning and memory, using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).
Her work on the functions of the anterior prefrontal cortex (PFC) has linked this part of the brain to the uniquely human mental processes of introspection and meta-awareness. Dr. Christoff’s most recent work focuses on examining spontaneous forms thought, such as memories and thought streams occuring in the form of mind wandering. She is also interested in examining meditation-based thought phenomena such as mindfulness, and developing clinical applications for fMRI using real-time fMRI feedback to train modulation of activation in specific brain regions.
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