CONTACT INFORMATIONCREDENTIALSPUBLICATIONSEdmund C. Lalor, Ph.D.Contact InformationLocationsUniversity of Rochester500 Joseph C. Wilson Blvd.Box 270168Rochester, NY 14611Faculty AppointmentsAssociate Professor - Department of Biomedical Engineering (RC) Associate Professor - Department of Neuroscience (SMD) - JointBiographyResearchEd Lalor received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland in 1998 and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. After periods working as a silicon design engineer for a Dublin-based company and a primary school teacher for children with learning difficulties, Ed joined MIT's Media Lab Europe, where he worked from 2002-2005 as a research scientist investigating brain-computer interfacing and attentional mechanisms in the brain. This research led to a PhD in biomedical engineering which was completed through UCD in 2006. Subsequently, he spent 2 years in New York working as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research and as an adjunct assistant professor in the City College of New York. He returned to a position as a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the Institute of Neuroscience and the Centre for Bioengineering in Trinity College Dublin in 2008. Following a brief stint at University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology, he returned to Trinity College Dublin as an Ussher Assistant Professor in 2011. In 2016, he joined the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at the University of Rochester as an Associate Professor. Research in the Lalor lab seeks to explore quantitative modelling approaches to the analysis of sensory electrophysiology in humans. Such a framework has two important advantages over more traditional approaches to this type of research: 1. It enables the examination of the neural processing of natural stimuli such as speech, music and video, thereby facilitating the flexible design of highly naturalistic cognitive neuroscience experiments. 2. It allows for improved spatiotemporal resolution and (accordingly) improved interpretability of non-invasively recorded neuro-electric responses to such naturalistic stimuli. We seek not only to develop these modelling approaches, but also to exploit them in tackling a number of specific cognitive and clinical neuroscience questions. In terms of cognition much of this work has focused on how we direct our attention to behaviourally relevant stimuli in our environment. This includes studies on visual spatial attention and more recent work on the cocktail party problem. In addition, we are interested in how we integrate visual and auditory information when processing natural speech. In terms of clinical research, through collaboration, we investigate these sensory processing questions in patients with schizophrenia and in children with developmental disorders.PublicationsJournal Articles8/30/2022Prinsloo KD, Lalor EC. "General auditory and speech-specific contributions to cortical envelope tracking revealed using auditory chimeras." The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2022 Aug 30; Epub 2022 Aug 30. 8/22/2022Broderick MP, Zuk NJ, Anderson AJ, Lalor EC. "More than Words: Neurophysiological Correlates of Semantic Dissimilarity Depend on Comprehension of the Speech Narrative." The European journal of neuroscience.. 2022 Aug 22; Epub 2022 Aug 22. 12/2/2021Teoh ES, Ahmed F, Lalor EC. "Attention differentially affects acoustic and phonetic feature encoding in a multispeaker environment." The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2021 Dec 2; Epub 2021 Dec 02. VIEW ALL PUBLICATIONSClose WindowSchedule an appointment with Edmund C. Lalor, Ph.D.Please answer the following questions to help us find the right appointment for you.Important: If you believe that you have a medical or psychiatric emergency, please call 911 or go to the nearest hospital. This website is not intended for emergency care.Have you seen this provider in the last 2 years?YesNoExisting Patient Schedule or request a follow up appointment online through MyChart. If you do not have a MyChart account, please close this window and call the appointment phone number. Edmund C. Lalor, Ph.D. is currently scheduling for the following appointment type(s): Our policy does not permit patients to establish care with multiple providers within the same practice or specialty without prior approval. If you choose a new provider in the same office, we will cancel the appointment. Please contact the office directly with questions on this policy.