Dr Johnsrude (PhD McGill, 1997) is Professor and Western Research Chair at Western University. She trained as a clinical neuropsychologist but for the last 20 years has been using neuroimaging (particularly EEG and fMRI) and psychoacoustic methods to study the importance of knowledge in guiding auditory and speech perception. Dr Johnsrude is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited nearly 23000 times (Google Scholar). She has won multiple awards for her research, including the EWR Steacie Fellowship (2009). She lives in London, Ontario, Canada with her husband and two children.