About Jody:

I grew up in Calgary and Nanton, Alberta, Canada. I received my B.Sc. in Psychology (1991) from the University of Calgary. There I worked with Don Kline in the Vision and Aging Lab and with Jane Raymond in the Perception and Cognition Lab. I did my Ph.D. in Psychology (1997) at Harvard with Patrick Cavanagh in the Vision Sciences Lab and became involved in neuroimaging through Nancy Kanwisher at the MGH NMR Center. In 1997, I moved to "World's Second-Best London" as a postdoctoral fellow with Mel Goodale at Western University (then known as the University of Western Ontario).

I am now a Professor and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Immersive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Western University in London, Ontario. I do functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at the Robarts Research Institute and behavioral and optical neuroimaging research Western's Brain and Mind Institute. I supervise graduate trainees from Psychology, Neuroscience and other related fields. I teach Psychology 2220: Introduction to Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience 2000: Introduction to Neuroscience, and Psychology 9223 (Graduate): Neuroimaging of Cognition. The latter formed the basis for my popular web site, fMRI for Newbies and a new site with online tutorials NEWBI4fMRI.

At Neurotree, you can view my academic genealogy.