MSc in Music, Mind & Brain

The Music Mind and Brain core team

Dr Lauren Stewart, co-director of the Music, Mind and Brain programme (on maternity leave until June 2012). 
Research interests: Congenital Amusia, Learning and Expertise, Neuroimaging

Dr Daniel Müllensiefen, co-director of the Music, Mind and Brain programme.
Research interests: Musical Memory, Similarity Perception, Computational Modelling

Dr Vicky Williamson, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Vicky completed her first degree in Psychology at the University of York in 2004 followed by an MA in the Psychology of Music at Sheffield University under the supervision of Professor Eric Clarke. She completed her thesis with Professor Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch investigating the role of music in the working memory model. Following this, she gained an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship which she held at Goldsmiths, University of London where she continues to work with Dr Lauren Stewart studying the cognitive processing abilities of individuals with congenital amusia.
Lecture taught: Memory in Musical Perception (1), Memory in Musical Perception (2), Music and Language.

Dr Pam Heaton, Reader in Psychology.
Research Interests: Music and Developmental Disorders, Autism

Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya, Reader in Psychology.
Research Interests: Neuronal Synchrony and Cross-Modality of Music Perception, EEG

Rory Allen, Visiting Tutor.
Research Interests: Music, Emotions and Autism, Quantitative Techniques

Dr Joyce Chen, Deptartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

Prof Stephen Clift, Professor of Health Education, Research Director of the Sidney de Haan Research Centre, Canterbury Christ Church University

Professor Steven Clift lectures on Health Education and has made important contributions to health education and promotion in the fields of HIV/AIDS and sex education for young people. His current interests are focused on arts and health and in particular the contribution of both to healthcare and health promotion. He is especially looking at the potential value and implications of group singing for health and wellbeing. Together with Greenville Hancox he has recently established the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health. Current projects are focused on developing an East Kent network of singing groups for mental health service users and assessing the value of participation in group singing for people with chronic lung disease. He is also exploring new directions for the Centre´s work in the areas of drumming, dance and theatre.

Professor  Annabel  J. Cohen, Director of the Auditory Perception & Music Cognition Research & Training Laboratory, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Dr Cohen obtained her undergraduate degree at McGill University, where she first became interested in music perception. She went on to receive both her MA and PhD  in the psychology of music at Queen’s University, Ontario, studying the effects of tonality on the ability to recognise melodies that have been transposed. She is a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. Her recent research projects look at the acquisition of music grammar and the effects of music in film. She serves as an editor journals such as Canadian Acoustics, Musicae Scientae, Psychomusicology, Psychology of Music, Music Perception, and Music and the Moving Image. 

Prof Ian Cross, Director of the Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge

Ian Cross is is responsible for teaching and research in science and music in the Faculty at Cambridge, where he is Director of the Faculty's Centre for Music and Science. He is involved in experimental investigations of the perception of tonal structures and of the role of culture in shaping musical cognition, and is also actively interested in exploring the general limits and constraints on scientific accounts of music. Current interests also include exploration of the relation between music and cognitive evolution. He is a member of the Committee of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE), and from 1992 until 2000 was on the Executive Committee of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM). He is on the editorial boards of Psychology of Music, Music Perception and Cognitive Semiotics, and from 1997 until 2000 was the Associate Editor (English language) of ESCOM's journal Musicae Scientiae.

Dr Simon Durrant, Research Associate, Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit, Manchester University.
Simon completed his first degree in Music at the University of Durham followed by an MA and PhD in the Psychology of Music at Sheffield University under the supervision of Eric Clarke.  Between 2002 and 2003, he was a Research Fellow under David Huron in the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory at Ohio State University. Simon is currently a research associate in the Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit at the University of Manchester investigating sleep and memory.

Jamie Forth, Research Fellow, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Jamie studied music and electro acoustic composition at City University, London, after which he worked on an RCUK funded project, ‘SerenA’, aimed at developing novel technologies for facilitating innovation and serendipity within research. He currently works within the Intelligent Sound and Music Systems research group (Department of Computing, Goldsmiths), using computational methods to investigate pattern discovery and conceptual representation.

Robert Fulford, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

Robert Fulford studied Music and Education undergraduate level following by a Masters in Educational Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is currently undertaking his PhD at the Royal Northern College of Music under the supervision of Professors Jane Ginsborg and Juliet Goldbart. In his research he explores how musicians with hearing impairments rehearse and perform music together. He uses interview and observation studies to investigate the social and interactive parts involved in music performance in musicians with hearing impairments.

Dr Shinichi Furuya, Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians´ Medicine, Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media

After an undergraduate degree in Engineering, Dr Shinichi Furuya earned his Masters in the field of Human Science at the Graduate School of Human Science in Osaka, Japan. This was followed by a PhD in Medical Science. He is currently working as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine in Hannover. His research interests are focused on biomechanics and sensorimotor control and learning mechanisms underlying artistic, virtuosic and efficient piano performance. Further interests are directed towards developing techniques of diagnosis and neurorehabilitation for focal dystonia.

Dr Bruno Gingras, Research Fellow, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London

After having completed a M.Sc. in molecular biology, Bruno Gingras turned to music theory, graduating with a Ph.D from McGill University (Canada) in 2008. His dissertation focused on expressive strategies in organ performance. His work has been published in Oncogene (a journal on cancer research), the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (an article on Kepler's Harmonice Mundi), and Eighteenth-Century Music (a study of German partimento fugue). His publications also include a book chapter analyzing the relationships between performance and analysis in J.S. Bach’s "Dorian” fugue for organ, as well as several conference proceedings. In 2008, he was one of two recipients of the Young Researcher Award at the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) in Sapporo (Japan). In 2009, he was a fellow of the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory on Music and the Mind. He is currently pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Geraint Wiggins at Goldsmiths (London, United Kingdom), where he continues his research on communication in music performance.

Dr Jessica Grahn, Research Fellow, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge

After obtaining a PhD from Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Jessica worked as a associate lecturer in biological psychology at the Open University. She then went on to work as a research scientist at the Medical Research Council, Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit in 2007 before becoming an assistant professor at the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario in 2011, where she is presently doing research.

Dr Alinka Greasley, Lecturer in Music, University of Leeds

Alinka Greasley was appointed to the position of Lecturer in Music Psychology at Leeds in 2009 having studied at Aston University (BSc in Human Psychology), and completed her doctorate (PhD in Psychology of Music) at Keele University. Her main research interests lie within the field of social psychology and centre on all aspects of people's engagement with music in everyday life. This includes a focus on musical preferences (why people choose to listen to certain musical styles and pieces over others); functions of music (how and why people use their preferred music in everyday contexts); musical training (how this shapes daily listening behaviour); and music festival research (motivations for attending, risk-taking behaviour). She has recently published book chapters on everyday music listening behaviour (OUP, Ashgate) and has a developing international profile of peer-reviewed articles and conference presentations. Alinka is a Member of the British Psychological Society, the Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Mick Grierson, Lecturer, department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London

Dr. Mick Grierson is an experimental artist specialising in real-time interactive audiovisual research, with specific focus on cognition and perception. He works in film, music, and software development, both inside and outside industry, designing, developing and producing new approaches to creating audiovisual experience. He is currently Director of the Goldsmiths College Creative Computing Programme, and founder member of the Goldsmiths Digital Studios Embodied Audiovisual Interaction Group (EAVI).

Dr Manon Grube, Research Associate, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University

Dr Anneli Haake completed her BA (Hons) at Stockholm University in 2003. Her major was musicology, but she also studied 1 year of music psychology at Uppsala University, for Professor Alf Gabrielsson and Professor Patrik Juslin. She then worked for 6 months for a research institute in northern Sweden called Sonic Interactive Institute, specialising in music psychology matters. After travelling in New Zealand, she came to the UK and did her PhD at Sheffield University. She is now a Swedish language teacher and translator.

Prof Andrea R Halpern, Professor of Psychology, Bucknell University, USA
Professor Halpern studies cognitive processes such as memory and thinking, especially for nonverbal materials. Of particular interest to her is how musicians and nonmusicians understand and remember music. One recent project was an investigation of auditory imagery, or what is happening when you "hear a tune inside your head". She has studied this using the traditional tools of experimental psychology, as well as with cognitive neuroscience techniques. She is also interested in how both normal aging and Alzheimer's disease affect how people learn and remember music.

Prof David Hargreaves, Professor of Education, University of Roehampton

David Hargreaves is Professor of Education and Froebel Research Fellow, and has previously held posts in the Schools of Psychology and Education at the Universities of Leicester, Durham and the Open University. He is also Visiting Professor of Research in Music Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the Inter-University Institute of Macau. He is a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He was Editor of Psychology of Music 1989-96, Chair of the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) 1994-6, and is currently on the editorial boards of 10 journals in psychology, music and education. In recent years he has spoken about his research at conferences and meetings in various countries on all 5 continents. He recently gave a TEDX 2011 Warwick presentation (view here) on 'Musical Fingerprints'. He has appeared on BBC TV and radio as a jazz pianist and composer, and is organist in his local village church circuit. In 2004 he was awarded an honorary D.Phil, Doctor Honoris Causa, by the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts in the University of Gothenburg, Sweden in recognition of his 'most important contribution towards the creation of a research department of music education' in the School of Music and Music Education in that University.

Prof David Huron: Professor of Music and Head of the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Lab, University of Ohio, USA

David Huron, professor of music, joined the School of Music faculty and the OSU Center for Cognitive Science in 1998. Although he was trained in performance, Huron has an international reputation for his research in music perception and cognition. This research includes such areas as music and human emotion, and the perception of harmony, voice-leading, and melody. Since graduating in 1989 from the University of Nottingham (England) with a Ph.D. in musicology, Huron has published over 80 scholarly articles. He has been associate editor for the discipline's two major journals, and has twice been awarded extended research leaves by Stanford University's Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.

Dr Stefan Koelsch, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex

Dr. Stefan Koelsch, born 1968 in Texas (USA), studied at the University of Music and Arts Bremen music (violine, piano and composition) and at the University of Leipzig psychology and sociology. 2000 he received a PhD in psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science Leipzig and habilitated 2004 at the University of Leipzig. 2001/02 he was post-doctoral research fellow at the Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). 2003-07 Stefan Koelsch was leader of the Independent Junior Research Group “Neurocognition of Music” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science Leipzig. At the moment he is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. The main focus of his research lies on neurocognition of music and language; music and emotion; developmental aspects of language and music cognition; emotion and its effects on autonomic, hormonal, and immune function.

Dr Alexandra Lamont, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Keele University
Dr Lamont came to Keele in 2001 primarily to teach on the MSc in Music Psychology and have been involved with postgraduate teaching and research ever since. She has studied and taught in the fields of music, education and psychology, and her interests are diverse. In psychology, her expertise lies in developmental psychology and in research methods, as well as her specialty in music psychology. She is also interested in musical development and music education, and in the sociology and psychology of music consumption.

Prof Raymond MacDonald, Professor of Music Psychology, Glasgow Caledonion Institute
Raymond leads the Glasgow Caledonian Music Psychology Research Group. After completing his PhD at the University of Glasgow, investigating therapeutic applications of music, he worked as artistic director for a music company, Sounds of Progress, specialising in working with people who have special needs. His ongoing research focuses on issues relating to improvisation, musical communication, music health and wellbeing, music education and musical identities. He studies the processes and outcomes of music participation and music listening. This work contributes to debates highlighting the ubiquitous importance of music, stressing that everybody has a biological and social guarantee of musicianship. He runs music workshops and lectures internationally and has published over 60 peer reviewed papers and book chapters.

Dr Karen Mattock, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University.
Karen obtained her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Wollongong andher PhD in Psychology from MARCS, University of Western Sydney. Prior to joining Lancaster in 2007 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research in Language Mind and Brain and School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, Canada. Karen is currently a Research Council U.K Fellow at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Human Development & Learning at Lancaster University, U.K.

Dr Matthias Mauch, Royal Academy Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London

Dr Matthias Mauch did his undergraduate studies as well as his Master degree in mathematics at the University of Rostock, Germany. He earned his PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of London. His research interests are mainly focused around Music Informatics, namely automated study of music from audio and symbolic music and the signal processing technology that enables it. Further works are based on automatic chord and key transcription from audio, lyrics-to-audio synchronization, automatic estimation of harpsichord timbre, automatic beat and barline induction and automatic structural analysis.

Dr Josh McDermott - Research Associate, Center for Neural Science & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University.
Dr McDermott received his undergraduate degree in Brain and Cognitive Science from Harvard University. He then attended UCL and completed his MPhil in Computational Neuroscience. He undertook his PhD in Brain and Cognitive Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota. He has worked as an editor for Nature. Previous research includes auditory perception and cognition, and auditory scene analysis. His current research interest lies primarily in hearing and sound, looking at computational audition, natural sounds and music perception.

Prof Steven Mithen, Professor of Archeology, University of Reading
Professor Steven Mithen is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International and External Engagement) at the University of Reading. Having originally studied Fine Art at the Slade School, he took a BA in Prehistory & Archaeology at Sheffield University, an MSc in Biological Computation from York University and a PhD in Archaeology at Cambridge University, where he taught prior to moving to a Lectureship at the University of Reading in 1992. Prior to his appointment as Pro-Vice Chancellor, Steven served as Head of the School of Human & Environmental Sciences (2003-2008) and Dean of the Faculty of Science (2008-2010). Steven's research interests concern early prehistoric communities and the evolution of human intelligence, language and music, with long- term field projects in Western Scotland (Mesolithic) and Southern Jordan (early Neolithic). His recent books include After the Ice (2003), The Singing Neanderthals (2005), The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan (2007), To The Islands… (2010), and Water, Life & Civilisation (2011). He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academ in 2003.

Dr Iain Morley, Lecturer in Palaeoanthropology and Human Sciences, and a Fellow of St Hugh's College
Dr Morley lectures and tutors on human evolution and the evolution of human cognition for the BA degree in Human Sciences and the MSc degree in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology. His research interests focus particularly on the Palaeolithic archaeology and evolutionary origins of musical, ritual and religious behaviours. He has also excavated at prehistoric and classical archaeology sites in Britain, Croatia, Czechia, Libya, Italy and Greece.

Prof Adam Ockelford, Professor of Education, Roehampton University.
Adam attended the Royal Academy of Music when he first became interested in working with children with complex needs, a number of whom, he noticed, had special musical abilities.  This sparked his interest in how musicality develops, even without formal musical training and he pursued this question through a PhD in Music at Goldsmiths University of London.  He is currently a Professor at the School of Eduction, Roehampton and Secretary of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research ('SEMPRE'), as well as Chair of Soundabout, a charity supporting music provision for young people with complex needs.

Rohani Omar completed her Medical degree in Cambridge, followed by general medical training in London and specialisation in neurology. She is currently a Clinical Research Fellow at the Dementia Research Centre, Queen Square.

Prof Larry Parsons, Professor of Psychology, University of Sheffield
Dr Parsons’ research is primarily concerned with the functional brain organisation in humans. Specific areas he and his colleagues work on include studying the brain basis of piano performance, singing, harmonising, conducting, and improvising music, and as well as dancing. Likewise, they have compared music to language in comparable performances, including the neural basis of pitch perception. They are studying the cognitive and neural basis of deductive and probabilistic reasoning as well as investigating the cognitive illusions of estimation. They are exploring analyses of activity patterns measured in functional magnetic resonance for the internal structure of natural conceptual categories, and for object and predicate pairs composing propositions.

Michelle Phillips, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge

Michelle Phillips studied music and German at the University of Nottingham followed by a research Masters examining the influence of musical structure and culture on contemporary Austrian literature. She is currently undertaking her PhD in the Centre of Music and Science under the supervision of Dr Ian Cross on the subject of prospective and retrospective experience of time during music listening, and music and dementia. Her research interests also include the golden section, music and number as well as the perception of large-scale musical form.

Dr Helen Prior, Music Department, Kings's College London.

Helen studied music as an undergraduate at the University of Hull , followed by a Masters degree in Music Psychology at Keele University. She went on to complete her PhD on Perceptual and Emotional Responses to Tonal and Atonal Music at the University of Hull , supervised by Dr Elaine King. She currently is a postdoctoral research  fellow with Professor Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, investigating the notion of Shaping Music in Performance, as part of the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP).

Dr Katrin Schulze, Research Fellow, Institute of Child Health, University College, London

Prof John Sloboda, Emeritus Professor, School of Psychology, University of Keele
John Sloboda is Emeritus Professor at Keele from October 2008. He has been a member of the School of Psychology since 1974 and was Director of its Unit for the Study of Musical Skill and Development founded in 1991. John Sloboda is internationally known for his work on the psychology of music. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and has been President of both the Psychology and General Sections of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, where he serves on the editorial board of it's journal Musicae Scientiae. He was recipient of the 1998 British Psychological Society’s Presidents Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge, and in 2004 was elected to Fellowship of the British Academy.

Dr Neta Spiro, Lecturer, Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge
Neta was a member of the CHARM project on Motive in Performance in which, together with John Rink and Nicolas Gold, she explored the relationships between music theory, performance and perception. Previously, Neta studied for her BA/Mus at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1997-2001), and Masters in Cognitive Science and Natural Language at the University of Edinburgh (2001-2). Her PhD was on the perception of phrasing which she explored under the joint supervision of Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam) and Ian Cross (Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge, UK).

Dr Renee Timmers, Lecturer in Music Psychology, University of Sheffield
Renee Timmers is Lecturer in Psychology of Music and teaches courses on music perception, psychological approaches to performance, music cognition, empirical musicology, and quantitative research techniques. She was educated in the Netherlands in musicology (MA from the University of Amsterdam) and psychology (PhD from the Radboud University Nijmegen) and as a performer. Before joining the Department of Music in Sheffield in 2009, she was a research fellow at a number of institutes, including the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music at King´s College London, the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Vienna and the Donders´ Insitute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen. She was part-time lecturer at the department of Sonology of the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague from 2000-2008 and has lectured at the Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Amsterdam on music cognition, auditory perception, and the philosophy of science. 

Her research has focused on expressive performance of music, emotion and meaning in music, and influences of emotion on music perception and cognition. Most of her work has a strong interdisciplinary focus, combining theory and computer modelling with empirical testing and exploration. She has published widely in international journals and conference proceedings.

Dr Martine Turgeon, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University

Dr Turgeon's research interests include auditory perception, cross-spectral grouping, rhythm perception and production, and audio-visual temporal integration.

Dr Peter Vuust, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University and Royal Academy of Music
After graduating from AU in Mathematics, French and Music, Dr Vuust devoted ten years to playing music, before resuming the academic career in 2000. He wrote a book on polyrhythms in Miles Davis quintet, that laid out the music theoretical framework for his PhD in neuroscience in 2006 concerning the neural processing of polyrhythms. Using behavioral measures, magnetoencephalography, electroencephalography and functional MR imaging, he provided evidence of an overlap between the neural substrates underlying processing of music and language syntax and semantics especially in musicians. This led to research into the emotional impact of music studies of neuroplasticity in musicians, and research into general theories about brain organization. Since 2007, PV leads his own group and has provided funding for 6 PhD students and 2 post docs through external collaborations, local committee applications, private companies, research councils and private foundations. Furthermore, he has contributed substantially to several successful major grant applications such as MindLab’s Unique application yielding €16 million.

Prof Aaron Williamon, Centre for Performance Science, Royal College of Music, London
Aaron heads the Centre for Performance Science at the Royal College of Music. In addition, Aaron is also a professional trumpeter, performing in various chamber and symphony orchestra in Europe and North America. His current research includes applied psychological and health-related initiatives in regards to music learning and teaching.

Dori Berger, Music Therapist
Lectures taught: Music as a Therapeutic Tool

Toni Brennan, Visting Tutor, Department of Psychology, University of East London
Lectures taught: Introduction to Qualitative Techniques

Dr Gianna Cochini, Lecturer in Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Brain Functions (1), Brain Functions (2), Cortical and Subcortical Structures of the Adult Healthy Brain, Introduction to Neuropsychology, Neurons and Neuro-transmission

Dr Bruno Gingras, Research Fellow, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Method Session 1: Analysing Sound, Method Session 2: Investigating Rhythm Perception, Method Session 3: An Experiment on Harmonic Tension, Musical Performance Research, Theories on the Origins of Music

Prof John Gruzelier, Profesorial Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Effects of Neurofeedback on Performance

Dr Elisabeth Hill, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Brain Development

Dr Alice Jones, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Imaging Genetics

Mats Küssner, Music Department, King's College, University of London
Lectures taught: Introduction to Bibliographic Searching

Joseph Leach, Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Approaches to the Study of Musical Creativity

Dr Chris Lee, Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Fundamentals of Rhythm and Metre Perception, Metre Induction, Wider Perspectives on Rhythm and Metre Perception

Dr Wendy Magee, International Fellow in Music Therapy, Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, London
Lectures taught: Music as a clinical tool

Manuela Marin, Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Music Cognition Research, Method Session 4: Psychoacoustic Illusions, Method Session 5: Exploring a Musical Priming Paradigm

Dr Marcus Pearce, Research Fellow, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Auditory Grouping, Computational Theories of Music Cognition, Expectation in Music Listening, Timbre Perception

Dr Karin Rosenkranz, Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institue of Neurology, University College, London
Lectures taught: Maladaptive Plasticity in Musical Skill Learning

Prof Joseph Sanders, Professor of Oboe, Guildhall School of Music
Lectures taught: Performance Anxiety in the Professional Musician

Dr Mirjam James Schlemmer, Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice.
Mirjam completed her MA at the Technical University Berlin (musicology, psychology), and received her Msc in Music Psychology at Keele University under John Sloboda. She went back to Germany (also Technical University Berlin) for her PhD with Helga de la Motte-Haber on audiovisual  perception. She was also a Research Assistant at the Guildhall School for Music and Drama. Mirjam is currently a Research Associate at the CMPCP.

Dr Jose van Velzen, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Brain Imaging: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Magnetoencephalography (MEG), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Dr Jason Warren,  Institute of Neurology, National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Lectures taught: Clinical Disorders of Music and Emotion

Prof Graham Welch, Chair of Music Education, Institute of Education, University of London
Graham holds the Established Chair in Music Education at the Institute of Education. He is also Chair of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) and President Elect of the International Society for Music Education (ISME).
Lectures taught: Mapping Music in Children with Special Educational Needs.

Prof Geraint Wiggins, Professor of Computational Creativity, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lectures taught: Timbre

Prof Aaron Williamon, Centre for Performance Science, Royal College of Music, London
Aaron heads the Centre for Performance Science at the Royal College of Music. In addition, Aaron is also a professional trumpeter, performing in various chamber and symphony orchestra in Europe and North America. His current research includes applied psychological and health-related initiatives in regards to music learning and teaching. Lectures taught: Memory in the Musical Performer.