Ingrid Suzanne Johnsrude is a Canadian neuroscientist, a professor of psychology at University of Western Ontario, and was the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience.
[1][4] After postdoctoral studies at University College London, she became a scientist at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England,[1] where she studied the relationship between neuroanatomy and the ability to be affected by operant conditioning[5] as well as the brain structures active during speech recognition.
[7] In 2003, Johnsrude and her co-authors received an Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work showing that London taxi drivers had more highly developed hippocampi than those in other professions.
[8][9] In 2004, while still an assistant professor, Johnsrude was awarded her Canada Research Chair; it was renewed in 2009.
[1][3] In 2009, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper presented Johnsrude with the NSERC E.W.R.