Prof. Robert Zatorre
Fellow
Current Employer
McGill University
Election Year
2017
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Medical Sciences
Department
Medicine
Keywords
Auditory Processing, Neuropsychology, fMRI, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Psychology
ZATORRE, Robert - McGill University
Professor Zatorre’s innovative contributions to auditory cognitive neuroscience include discoveries about the processing of speech and vocal signals in the brain, and reorganization of this system after sensory loss. He is perhaps best known for his work on the neural mechanisms of music perception and performance, including plasticity related to musical training, and the discovery that musical pleasure is mediated by dopaminergic mechanisms in the brain’s reward circuitry.
Professor Zatorre’s innovative contributions to auditory cognitive neuroscience include discoveries about the processing of speech and vocal signals in the brain, and reorganization of this system after sensory loss. He is perhaps best known for his work on the neural mechanisms of music perception and performance, including plasticity related to musical training, and the discovery that musical pleasure is mediated by dopaminergic mechanisms in the brain’s reward circuitry.
Le Professeur Robert Zatorre a contribué de façon innovative à la neuroscience cognitive de l'audition avec des découvertes sur le traitement de la parole et la voix, et la réorganisation de ce système suite à la perte sensorielle. Il est bien connu pour sa recherche sur les mécanismes neuronaux pour la perception et la performance de la musique, y compris la plasticité associé à la formation musicale, et sa découverte que le plaisir musicale est relié au système dopaminergique dans le circuit de la récompense.
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