Amir Raz
Professor Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Psychology . University of McGill, Canada
Research Areas
Cognition-Language-PerceptionBehavioural NeuroscienceSocial and Personality Psychology, Health Psychology, Developmenta Science
Research Summary
Professor Raz investigates attention, expectation, placebos, and altered states of consciousness (e.g., hypnosis). Working with children as well as
adults, his experiments elucidate how attention regulates internal processes involving cognition, emotion, thought, and action. A former magician, he studies
the psychology of misdirection and the power of suggestion to influence psychological and physiological components.
Professor Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Psychology . University of McGill, Canada
Research Areas
Cognition-Language-PerceptionBehavioural NeuroscienceSocial and Personality Psychology, Health Psychology, Developmenta Science
Research Summary
Professor Raz investigates attention, expectation, placebos, and altered states of consciousness (e.g., hypnosis). Working with children as well as
adults, his experiments elucidate how attention regulates internal processes involving cognition, emotion, thought, and action. A former magician, he studies
the psychology of misdirection and the power of suggestion to influence psychological and physiological components.