Speaker

Elvira Brattico

Elvira Brattico, PhD, is a neuroscientist working since 2015 as Professor of Neuroscience, Music and Aesthetics at Aarhus University in Denmark and since 2019 as Professor of General Psychology at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. She is Principal Investigator and co- founder of the center of excellence “Center for Music in the Brain”, affiliated both with Aarhus University and the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg in Denmark. Since 2009 she is Adjunct Professor at the University of Jyväskylä (Music Neuroscience) and since 2014 at the University of Helsinki (Biological Psychology) in Finland. She has managed several international and national projects in the areas of auditory cognitive neuroscience and brain research methodology. These projects led to 127 scientific peer-reviewed papers indexed in SCOPUS, 2 books (and 3 more forthcoming), invited book chapters and non-peer reviewed publications. She is a recognized pioneer in the application of Music Information Retrieval to cognitive neuroscience and in neuroaesthetics, as witnessed by her keynote addresses in several international conferences and her appointments as board member in several consortia and societies (e.g., CICERO Learning at University of Helsinki, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Neuromusic). She has been co-founder of the FInnishc Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research (2009-2013), member of the Program Committee of international conferences and Editorial Board of several journals (Section Editor of Neuroscience for Heliyon, Associate Editor for e.g., PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Psychology).

Talks at this conference:
 We, 9:15 Taming the untameable: How Information Retrieval can be integrated into neuroscience to foster a naturalistic paradigm shift

 Overview