Music is central in our society. However, the neural mechanisms leading to the enjoyment of music remain unclear. This project is part of a bigger investigation with multimodal data. One dimension of that data involves eye and pupil dynamics, which are known to reflect neural activity relevant to sound perception. Here, you will analyse eye/pupil data and the corresponding music with methods such as multivariate regression and music transformers.
You will join a research team composed of the principal investigator, a postdoctoral researcher, and six PhD students. The team meets weekly to discuss exciting ongoing work from within and outside the team, which is also an opportunity for Master’s students to experience research life and hear about the latest advances in brain research (especially speech, language, and music processing).
Lab website: https://diliberg.net