ABSTRACT
In this membership seminar, I will briefly introduce how my interdisciplinary background has led me to develop both a fundamental and an applied research axis on auditory neurocognition in general and music in particular. I will first describe a research axis on music, with a focus on rhythm cognition and will then present multi-media research, evaluating the synchronization of auditory, visual and motor signals in both the general public and a clinical population. I will then briefly introduce the technology featured in my research and finish by zooming in on future interdisciplinary research in music media and technology.
BIOGRAPHY
Alexandre Lehmann (M.Eng, Ph.D.) is a cognitive neuroscientist, assistant professor at McGill University and adjunct professor at U. Montréal. He uses neuro-imaging and virtual reality to investigate the plasticity and sensory-motor integration of audition. He attended IRCAM’s ATIAM M.Sc. program and received a PhD from Pierre & Marie Curie University for doctoral work conducted at College de France and Max Planck Institute (Germany). He was a post-doctoral fellow at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS) and at Montreal’s Geriatric Institute. He worked as a visiting researcher and invited professor at UAEM (Mexico). In 2013 he was appointed assistant professor at McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and joined the MUHC’s Cochlear Implant Research Program. In 2014 he became full member of BRAMS-CRBLM and adjunct professor in Psychology at University of Montreal. He recently became a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Music, Media and Technology (CIRMMT).