A writer, improvist, photographer, fully licensed scuba diver, and a practicing mad scientist.
"I study Science. psych!!!"
- me -
Matthew A. Berry, H.B.Sc., Ph.D.*
NeuroArts Lab
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
McMaster University
Please allow myself to introduce myself: I graduated from the University of Ottawa with a H.B.Sc. in Psychology and am now a third year Ph.D. student in the NeuroArts lab in PNB at McMaster University. My research interests fall into two categories: the SCIENCE of performance and the PERFORMANCE of science. At Mac, I am investigating the psychology and cognitive neuroscience of theatre (gesture), and literature (narrative and storytelling), with side interests in creativity, humour, and improvisation.
Presently, I am attempting to develop a new field devoted to analyzing the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the
production, perception, and synthesis of these areas. I have been the first to
experimentally code and predict character production in actors.
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In Brief
Education
2021 - Ph.D. Psychology, McMaster University
2014 - H.B.Sc. Psychology, University of Ottawa
2010 - O.S.S.D., Aldershot High School
Grants & Awards
2018-21 - Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2018 - Stephen & Tina Wilson Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2018 - Ontario 3 Minute Thesis Champion
2018 - McMaster 3 Minute Thesis Champion & Top Science Prize
2017-18 - Dean's Award for Excellence in Communicating Graduate Research
Publications
2019 - Character mediation of story generation via protagonist insertion.
2019 - Acting in Action: Prosodic analysis of character portrayal during acting.
2017 - A classification scheme for literary characters.