Brains in Harmony: the role of brain-to-brain synchrony in naturalistic social interactions Neuroscience research has produced tremendous insight into how the human brain supports dynamic social interactions. Still, laboratory-generated findings do not always straightforwardly generalize to real-world environments. To fill this gap, I collaborate with scientists, artists, and educators to take neuroscience out of the laboratory, into schools, […]

Prospects for Collaborative Research between Latin Palaeography, Cognitive Psychology and the Neurosciences Twenty years ago, Brian Stock, the distinguished Canadian historian of medieval literature and philosophy, published Augustine the Reader, a seminal resource for examining the patristic vocabulary for reading in the fifth century C.E.  The Latin verbs videre and inspicere came to be closely […]

"Musicians at the cocktail party: Neural correlates of bottom-up and top down mechanisms" Robert Zatorre Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University Segregating sound mixtures makes demands on multiple cognitive and neural mechanisms that musical training may enhance or exploit. In a series of studies we have documented the music-related enhancement behaviorally in the context of speech […]

"Using Data Science to Study Children's Cognitive Development" Abdellah Fourtassi Following the seminal work of Piaget, the traditional approach in cognitive development has focused on studying the structure of children’s knowledge in controlled situations (e.g., laboratory experiments). While this approach allows for precise inference about how children behave in certain tasks, it cannot provide an […]

What we learn and when we learn it: the interaction of maturation and experience in music and language Virginia Penhune Department of Psychology, Concordia University Laboratory for Motor Control and Neural Plasticity https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/psychology/research/penhune-lab.html The impact of training or experience is not the same at all points in development. Children who learn to play a musical […]