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New face at MIB: Alexandre Celma Miralles

Center for Music in the Brain welcomes new postdoc.

07.11.2019 | Hella Kastbjerg

Alexandre Celma Miralles just arrived in Aarhus to begin his postdoc. He will work on rhythmic perception and production, extending his methodological scope from EEG and behavioral paradigms to MEG and fMRI measures. 

He is interested in the hierarchical organization of the beat (i.e. meter) and the musical notes (i.e. tonal harmony). He is currently seeking the hierarchical tonal-harmonic structures of music and the effects of neural entrainment to beat subdivision on motor production.

After a Music Professional degree on violin (2010) and a BA in Catalan Philology (2012), he pursued a MA in Cognitive Science and Language (2014) and a MSc in Brain and Cognition (2015) to study the origin of the “syntactic” structures of music and language.

Then he pursued a PhD in Biomedicine in the Center for Brain and Cognition at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). His thesis is entitled “Neural and Evolutionary Correlates of Rhythm Processing through Beat and Meter”. The neural correlates were observed through frequency analyses of the electroencephalographic recordings, while the evolutionary bases of rhythm were studied on rats' behavior. The human studies focused on the role of modality, attention and formal music training in rhythmic perception. The animal studies focused on isochrony detection, rhythm recognition and tempo-pitch-timbre modulation.

Sànder is looking forward to meeting all of his new colleagues, playing music and games, and discussing new projects and ideas!

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