Louis Chitiz, Directed project student
Department of Psychology
17lssc@queensu.ca
202 Craine Building
Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
ORCID: 0000-0001-6433-9319
I am a third year Psychology student at Queen’s University. In addition to my psychology classes I have studied film, history and language (including Italian, German and Hebrew) as well as introductory computer programming. Outside of my Queen’s academic curriculum I have completed grade 9 piano with advanced theory from the Royal Conservatory of Music and at Queen’s have been and am involved with Queen’s theatre both in dramatic and musical theatre and amateur film.
During my psychology studies at Queen’s the areas in which I have been most interested are cognitive neuroscience, biopsychology, psycholinguistics and behavioral economics. I was interested to learn that different psychology disciplines have tended to operate in silos independent of each other. For example, while doing research for a paper, I found very little discussing the intersection between psycholinguistics and behavioral economics even though the behavioral processes each field analyses are connected. Since then, it has become an interest of mine to find ways to connect the various silos existing in the social sciences to each other. It seems to me that cognitive neuroscience, with its focus on biological mechanisms that drive cognition can act as a bridge to compliment and connect the silos of psychological study. This is an area of research that I hope to pursue.