Sylvie Nozaradan

title	Doctoral Student
email	sylvie.nozaradan@uclouvain.be

Music background

Master degree in piano performance and music writing, at the Conservatoire Royal Supérieur de Bruxelles (Belgium, 2005)

Scientific background

Medical doctor degree, at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium, 2009). Specialization in neurology.

Since October 2009, I am doing a PhD in Neuroscience under the co-supervision of Prof. Isabelle Peretz and Prof. André Mouraux (Institute of Neuroscience, UCL, Belgium).

The topic of my PhD is about musical rhythms perception, neuronal entrainment and sensorimotor synchronization. Based on EEG and motion recordings, coupled with auditory or audiovisual stimulations, we particularly develope an original approach based on EEG steady-state evoked potentials, to capture the neural mechanisms of beat and meter in the human brain.

Through a frequency-tagging approach with steady-state evoked potentials, we aim to capture the neural mechanisms of beat perception. We explore the specific sensorimotor binding occurring in the context of entrainment at the frequency range of music tempo. We also explore multisensory binding in the context of multisensory beats induction, and the neuronal correlates of this perceptual dynamic integration.

Awards

• Grant of the Belgian Foundation for Vocation 2011.

• Award of the Belgian Brain Council for the best presentation, BBC 2010.

• Scientific Research National Fund PhD fellowship, Belgium, 2009.

• Award of the Academy of Medicine of Belgium, 2009, for the best student-researcher of the UCL medicine 2009 promotion.

Publications

Articles

Nozaradan, S., Peretz, I., Missal, M. & Mouraux, A. (2011) Tagging the neuronal entrainment to beat and meter. Journal of Neuroscience , vol. 31 (28), pp. 10234-40