Question: what got you intrested in the brain and the experements you do?

Carolyn McGettigan answered on 17 Mar 2010:

I’ve always been interested in speech and music, and how people think. It was only in my third year at unversity that I realised there are loads of people researching all of these things together! I did a module in Psychology and had lectures on hearing and language, and I found that for the first time I had loads of ideas for experiments that i never had about cell biology or chemistry. It was around then that I found my niche. My interest in the types of experiments I do began when I did a final-year project at university where we distorted speech and looked at how people learned to understand it. I loved playing around with the sounds and coming up with ideas as to how we could measure which parts of the speech were most useful for learning. Now I do very similar things, but having a look inside the listeners’ brains too using an MRI scanner.