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laurel_trainorLAUREL TRAINOR (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) is the founding director of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind. She has done groundbreaking research on musical development in children and infants.

 
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ramesh_balasubramaniamRAMESH BALASUBRAMANIAM (Kinesiology, McMaster) is a Canada Research Chair in Sensorimotor Neuroscience. He studies how auditory and motor information are integrated in the brain.

 

 

 


sue_beckerSUE BECKER (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) studies neural network models of hearing and has developed new intelligent sound processing algorithms for hearing aids.

 

 

 

 

steven_brownSTEVEN BROWN (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) studies the neural, cognitive and evolutionary foundations of the arts, including music, dance, and the dramatic and visual arts.

 

 

 

 

ian_bruceIAN BRUCE (Electrical Engineering, McMaster) has developed influential models computational models of the human peripheral auditory system and applies them to hearing aid development.

 

 

 

 

david_earn_YDAVID EARN (Mathematics, McMaster) applies mathematical models to problems in epidemiology, ecology and evolutionary theory. He is interested in absolute pitch and in modeling musical behaviour.

 

 

 

 

takako_fujioka_YTAKAKO FUJIOKA (Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Hospital; Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster) studies how music is processed in the brain and the effects of musical training on brain development.

 

 

 

 

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DAVID GERRY (School of the Arts, McMaster) is an internationally known expert in early music education, a teacher trainer for Suzuki flute methods and a Ph.D. candidate in Psychology.

 

 

 

 

g_hall_YGEOFFREY HALL (Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster) studies cognitive neuroscience and musical processing in individuals with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

 

 

 

 

Martin_v_Mohrenschildt_YMARTIN VON MOHRENSCHILDT (Department of Computing and Software, Engineering, McMaster) studies control systems and runs experiments using motion simulation with an interest in interactions between auditory, visual and motion information.

 

 

 

 

peter_pfordresher_YPETER PFORDRESHER (Psychology, University at Buffalo, SUNY) researches many aspects of music perception including singing and sensorimotor issues in musical performance.

 

 

 

 

WilliamRenwick_YWILLIAM RENWICK (School of the Arts, McMaster) is a professor of music theory with research interests encompassing studies in tonal counterpoint and analysis, Gregorian chant, and computer applications in music research.

 

 

 

 

larry_robertsLARRY ROBERTS (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) is a senior researcher who studies neuroplasticity in the auditory cortex, mechanisms of tinnitus, and effects of musical training on brain development.

 

 

 


Louis_Schmidt_YLOUIS SCHMIDT (Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster) is an expert on social and emotional development, with interests in the role of music in emotional development.

 

 

 

 

MikeSchutz_100133MIKE SCHUTZ (School of the Arts, McMaster) is a percussionist who studies how visual information affects the processing of auditory information in musical performances.

 

 

 

 

sid_segalowitzSID SEGALOWITZ (Psychology, Brock) is the founding director of the Canadian Centre for Lifespan Development at Brock University and Editor-in-Chief of Brain and Cognition. He uses EEG to study sensory systems, attentional control and self-regulation in developmental and head-injury populations.

 

 

 

 

david_shoreDAVID SHORE (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) studies multi-sensory integration and is interested in virtual acoustic environments.

 

 

 

 

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RANIL SONNADARA (Research & High Performance Computing Support, McMaster) is an expert in sound design, acoustics, and virtual environments. He studies expertise in musicians.

 

 

 

 

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MATTHEW WOOLHOUSE  (School of the Arts, McMaster) studies various aspects of musical pitch cognition and dance perception.

 
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DanBosnyak_100133DAN BOSNYAK (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) uses EEG to study neural plasticity in the human auditory system, and neural correlates of tinnitus and peripheral hearing loss.

 

 

 

 

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HUBERT DE BRUIN (Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, McMaster) uses EEG to study remediation for depression and is interested in signal processing related to musical perception.

 

 

 

 

vicki_galea_YVICKIE GALEA (Kinesiology, McMaster) is a dancer as well as a scientist. She studies motor behaviour in child patient populations using neurophysiological assessments, including motor control in relation to coordination with rhythmic sounds.

 

 

 

 

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CÉLINE MARIE (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour) is a Post-Doctoral Fellow studying the mechanisms and temporal dynamics of sound processing in healthy infants and adults using psychological and brain imaging methods (EEG).

 

 

 

 

jim_McKay_YJIM MCKAY  (Department of Music, University of Western Ontario) is Head of Music Performance at Western and is interested in virtual acoustics.

 

 

 


Michael_noseworthy_YMICHAEL NOSEWORTHY (Department of Radiology, McMaster University) is an expert in fMRI applications and his research interests include how the brain processes musical sounds.

 

 

 

 

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JIM REILLY (Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster) studies various methods of signal processing, including applications to EEG responses from auditory cortex.

 

 

 

 

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BERNHARD ROSS (Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Hospital) is an expert in auditory perception and uses MEG to study how sound is processed in the brain.

 

 

 

 

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NICHOLAS SMITH (Perceptual Development Laboratory, Boystown Research Hospital) studies many aspects of auditory development including the perception of pitch and time, and is particularly interested in auditory scene analysis.

 

 

 

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 PETER SZATMARI (Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster) is one of the world's leading experts in autism and Director of the Offord Centre for Child Studies. He is interested in musical processing in autism.

 

 

 

 

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WILLIAM THOMPSON (Institute for Culture and Communication, University of Toronto) studies many aspects of music cognition, but is particularly interested in multisensory aspects of musical perception.

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT WATTER (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) studies attention and cognition and is interested in how these areas affect musical musical processing.

 

 

 

 


 
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MichelBelyk_100133MICHEL BELYK (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) studies human vocal production and its relation to the structure, evolution and development of music and language.

 

 

 

 

JeffBruce_100133JEFF BRUCE (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) collects psychophysical and EEG measurements of auditory perception in hearing aid wearers.

 

 

 

 

BlakeButler_100133BLAKE BUTLER (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) studies musical perception skills in adults and children using event-related potentials.

 

 

 


KatieCorrigall_100133KATIE CORRIGALL (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) is examining the potential benefits of formal music training on attention and other cognitive skills, as well as the development of culture-specific musical knowledge through informal, day-to-day exposure to music.

 

 

 

 

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ANNE-MARIE DEPAPE (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) is examining the areas of auditory and musical perception in those with Autism.

 

 

 

 

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KATE EINARSON (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) is examining multisensory integration and young children’s ability to learn rhythmic structures through body movement.

 

 

 

 

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NICOLE FOLLAND (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) is studying Auditory Scene Analysis in adults and infants, with specific interests in simultaneous integration.

 

 

 

 

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RAYNA FRIENDLY (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) is studying the development of voice discrimination during the first year after birth, as well as the development of singing abilities in children.

 

 

 

 

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FIONA MANNING (School of the Arts, McMaster) is investigating the influence of movement on the perception of auditory rhythms.

 

 

 

 

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CHRIS SLUGOCKI (Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster) is investigating the development of fidelity in subcortical and cortical responses to auditory stimuli in infants.