Olivier Lartillot
Olivier Lartillot is a researcher at RITMO at the University of Oslo and leads the MIRAGE project.
Boris Kleber
Boris Kleber is Associate Professor at the Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University (Denmark). He studied Psychology (Master of Science) at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and received his Ph.D. (Dr. rer.nat.) as well as a higher-doctorate degree (Habilitation) in Psychology from the University of Tübingen (Germany). His academic focus is centered on the nexus between cognitive neuroscience, neuromusic, and voice research, addressing the two-fold question of (i) how music and human vocal production is processed in the brain and (ii) how their interaction informs our understanding of fundamental principles behind brain processing in general. To this end, he pioneered the first neuroimaging studies of overt singing with trained and untrained singers in Germany and Canada, demonstrating that trained singers provide an excellent model for understanding how vocal experience impacts upon the sensorimotor system underlying human vocalizations. Moreover, he developed novel fMRI paradigms for overt singing as well as advanced feedback perturbation methods, including vocal cord anesthesia and real-time auditory feedback alterations, which probe the relative contribution of perceptual systems to singing voice motor control. In his current work, he further develops the neuroimaging of singing within the conceptual framework of predictive coding in speech motor learning. Such models propose that perception, action, emotion, and learning involve an integrative, recursive Bayesian process, by which the brain attempts to minimize the prediction error between lower-level sensory input and the brain’s top-down predictions. Music has emerged as a promising field for testing and developing the predictive coding theory, for which the Center of Music in the Brain has been awarded with a Center of Excellence grant by the Danish National Research Foundation.
Filipa Lã
Filipa Lã is a researcher in Arts and Humanities, Associate Professor at the Department of Didactics, School Organisation and Special Didactics at the Faculty of Education at UNED, Madrid - Spain, Director of the Laboratory of Voice, Music and Language (https://unedvoicelab.com/), a singer and a singing teacher. With a background in education(biology) and music (singing), she holds more than 10 years as independent researcher, responsible for interdisciplinary research in Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. Main research topics include: gender studies and health education, focussing on professional voice users and performing professions.
Tuomas Eerola
Tuomas Eerola is a Professor of Music Cognition at the Durham University, UK. His disciplinary orientation is music psychology. Eerola has published more than 170 papers and book chapters on topics including musical similarity, melodic expectations, perception of rhythm and timbre, and induction and perception of emotions. He is also on the editorial board of Psychology of Music, Psychomusicology and Frontiers in Psychology – Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience and is consulting editor for Musicae Scientiae and Music Perception.
Michael A. Casey
Michael Casey is an international award-winning composer (IMEB Bourges, NEWCOMP) and a researcher in the fields of music informatics, music and AI, machine listening, and the cognitive neuroscience of music.
