I'm a researcher in auditory perception and cognition. My research focuses on human perception of pitch, the auditory feature of periodic (repeating) sounds related to their fundamental frequency. My two passions are music and languages, and pitch turns out to be critically important for perceiving both of these. My research asks questions like:
- How is pitch coded by the auditory system?
- What makes some combinations of pitches sound good together?
- Can we consciously observe pitch perception?
I did my PhD in Psychology with Dr. Andrew Oxenham at the University of Minnesota, in the Auditory Perception and Cognition (APC) laboratory.
Later, I spent several years in France, working at both the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL) in Lyon and the Perceptual Systems Laboratory (LSP) of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
I am currently a postdoc working with Dr. Anahita Mehta at the University of Michigan's Kresge Hearing Research Institute (KHRI).
In addition to English, je parle français, falo português, y hablo espa˜ñol. Please feel free to contact me in any of these languages!
I also like to write music in my free time. You can find some of my compositions here.