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Robert Zatorre Neurological Sciences Dr. Zatorre is a cognitive neuroscientist working at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University. His principal research interests relate to the neural substrate for auditory cognition, with special emphasis on two complex and characteristically human abilities: speech and music. Dr. Zatorre was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He obtained his undergraduate training at Boston University, where he completed dual degrees in music and in psychology, while working as an organist. He earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology at Brown University under the late Peter Eimas, investigating similarities between perception of speech and musical sounds. In 1981 he received an NIH fellowship to do postdoctoral work in neuropsychology in Brenda Milner’s lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute; shortly therafter he took on a faculty position at McGill where he has remained ever since.