LOVE 2013 Programme with Abstracts (PDF) - Judith M Shedden ...

SPEAKERSISABELLE PERETZThe nature of music: Evidencefrom congenital amusiaAbstract: Dr. Peretz is a cognitive neuropsychologist and a professorof Psychology at the University of Montreal. Dr. Peretz was born andeducated in Brussels, Belgium. She earned her Ph.D. in experimentalpsychology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles under José Morais in1984. Shortly thereafter she took on a faculty position at Universitéde Montréal where she has remained ever since. Dr. Peretz’s researchfocuses on the musical potential of ordinary people, its neural correlates,its heritability and its specificity relative to language. She haspublished over 150 scientific papers on a variety of topics, from perception,memory, and emotions to performance. Dr Peretz is renowned forher work on congenital and acquired musical disorders (amusia) and onthe biological foundations of music processing in general. Her researchhas received continued support from the Canadian Natural Science andEngineering Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Researchsince 1986. In 2004, the Université de Montréal earned her an endowedCasavant chair in neurocognition of music and in 2007, a Canada ResearchChair in neurocognition of music. In 2005, Dr. Peretz became thefounding co-director of the international laboratory for Brain, Music, andSound research (BRAMS). She was awarded several prices including theprestigious IPSEN award in 2011. Dr. Peretz is a fellow of the Royal Societyof Canada and of the American Psychological Association. In 2010,She became the founding Editor-in-chief of the new open access journalFrontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.6