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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.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Matt Dixon

Melissa Ellamil

Kieran Fox

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Savannah Nijeboer

Tamar O'Shea

LAB COORDINATOR

Ivan Kouznetsov

ASSOCIATES

Pierre Zakarauskas

ALUMNI

Alan Gordon	Stan Geller	Lanna Bessel	Brian Luus
Conor Lavelle	Alex Weinberg	Jonathan Erez	Jason Winters
Kamyar Keramatian	Irene Liu	Graeme McCaig	Rachelle Smith