The Music Dynamics Lab

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At the music dynamics lab, our goal is to advance basic understanding of auditory perception and attention. We focus on complex, temporally structured events, such as music and speech. Our experiments use music, and simpler music-like sequences, to model temporally extended events. Our graduate students receive training in experimental design and data collection, analysis of behavioral data, analysis of EEG and fMRI data, and nonlinear dynamcial systems theory & modeling.

Our Approach

• Theory and modeling
  Using nonlinear dynamical systems theory, we build models to simulate the neural processes that underlie perceiving and attending to complex auditory stimuli.
  
  
• Behavioral experimentation
  In our behavioral laboratory we investigate auditory perception, attentional dynamics, rhythm perception, song perception, and perception-action coordination.
  
  
• Neurophysiology and neuroimaging
  In our EEG lab, we investigate the neurophysiology of rhythm perception and dynamic attending. We are are replicating and extending our findings using MEG in collaboration with the Rotman Institute of Baycrest Hospital in Toronto. In collaboration with University MRI of Boca Raton, we are using fMRI to understand which neural structures underlie rhythm perception and dynamic attending.