Mathieu Roy
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Canada
Biography
My research aims at understanding how the brain encodes the subjective experience of pain using a variety of psychophysiological and brain imaging techniques (skin conductance, reflexes, EEG, fMRI). How is pain affected by prior expectations and ongoing emotional states? Why do some people experience more pain than others, and why does sometimes pain seem to endure despite the absence of peripheral injury?
Research Interest
Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience
Publications
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Roy, M., Lebuis, A., Peretz, I., Rainville, P. (2012). Spinal modulation of nociception by music. European Journal of Pain. 16(6):870-7
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Roy, M., Shohamy, D., Wager, T.D. (2012). Ventromedial prefrontal-subcortical systems and the generation of meaning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 16(3): 147-56.
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Roy, M., Daw, N., Shohamy, D., Wager, T.D. (2014). Representation of aversive prediction error in the human periaqueductal gray. Nature Neuroscience, 17(11): 1607-12.
