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Caroline Palmer, membre du BRAMS, et Simone Dalla Bella, codirecteur du BRAMS, sont au cœur d’un article de La Presse portant sur la musique comme thérapie des troubles neurocognitifs.
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Troubles neurocognitifs | La musique comme thérapie
Quand on entend de la musique, souvent, on a envie de danser. Une nouvelle étude montréalaise montre que ce lien entre l’ouïe et le reste du corps a des conséquences profondes pour le cerveau et confi...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Caroline Palmer, membre du BRAMS, et Simone Dalla Bella, codirecteur du BRAMS, sont au cœur d’un article de La Presse portant sur la musique comme thérapie des troubles neurocognitifs.
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Un docu d’ICI TÉLÉ & Pamplemousse Média met en lumière comment la musique stimule le cerveau et favorise la communication chez les personnes atteintes d’Alzheimer. Le BRAMS est représenté par Isabelle Peretz et ses collaborateurs.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Un docu d’ICI TÉLÉ & Pamplemousse Média met en lumière comment la musique stimule le cerveau et favorise la communication chez les personnes atteintes d’Alzheimer. Le BRAMS est représenté par Isabelle Peretz et ses collaborateurs.
Bande-annonce : brams.org/2025/08/25/j...
Bande-annonce : brams.org/2025/08/25/j...
Dr. Etienne Thoret (INT, Marseille, France) will give the first BRAMS-CRBLM lecture for the new semester on a fascinating auditory processing topic:
Rethinking Hearing Without Fourier
Sept 3, 2025 3pm Pavillon Marie-Victorin @UMontreal
For more info/to register: brams.org/2025/08/20/b...
Rethinking Hearing Without Fourier
Sept 3, 2025 3pm Pavillon Marie-Victorin @UMontreal
For more info/to register: brams.org/2025/08/20/b...
August 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Dr. Etienne Thoret (INT, Marseille, France) will give the first BRAMS-CRBLM lecture for the new semester on a fascinating auditory processing topic:
Rethinking Hearing Without Fourier
Sept 3, 2025 3pm Pavillon Marie-Victorin @UMontreal
For more info/to register: brams.org/2025/08/20/b...
Rethinking Hearing Without Fourier
Sept 3, 2025 3pm Pavillon Marie-Victorin @UMontreal
For more info/to register: brams.org/2025/08/20/b...
Quelles sont les conséquences d'être étiqueté enfant prodige ?
@LP_Arts fait suite cette semaine à l'article de @FrontiersIn par @ChanelMStO @m_weiss_ @mshar86 @PeretzIsabelle sur les prodiges musicaux.
@LP_Arts fait suite cette semaine à l'article de @FrontiersIn par @ChanelMStO @m_weiss_ @mshar86 @PeretzIsabelle sur les prodiges musicaux.
Billet de Catherine Perrin | Attention aux enfants prodiges
Ils ont toujours existé. Leur chemin est périlleux ; cette grâce qui risque de devenir un objet de commerce, le commerce qui tue la grâce…
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July 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Quelles sont les conséquences d'être étiqueté enfant prodige ?
@LP_Arts fait suite cette semaine à l'article de @FrontiersIn par @ChanelMStO @m_weiss_ @mshar86 @PeretzIsabelle sur les prodiges musicaux.
@LP_Arts fait suite cette semaine à l'article de @FrontiersIn par @ChanelMStO @m_weiss_ @mshar86 @PeretzIsabelle sur les prodiges musicaux.
Just in time for #ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth!
BRAMS co-director Simone Dalla Bella & colleagues have a paper in @FrontiersIn about BeatWalk. It's a safe, enjoyable & easy-to-use app for personalized, music-based gait rehabilitation in #Parkinsons.
BRAMS co-director Simone Dalla Bella & colleagues have a paper in @FrontiersIn about BeatWalk. It's a safe, enjoyable & easy-to-use app for personalized, music-based gait rehabilitation in #Parkinsons.
Frontiers | BeatWalk: Personalized Music-Based Gait Rehabilitation in Parkinson’s Disease
Walking regularly in Parkinson’s disease has beneficial effects on movement and quality of life. Yet, patients usually show reduced physical activity compare...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Just in time for #ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth!
BRAMS co-director Simone Dalla Bella & colleagues have a paper in @FrontiersIn about BeatWalk. It's a safe, enjoyable & easy-to-use app for personalized, music-based gait rehabilitation in #Parkinsons.
BRAMS co-director Simone Dalla Bella & colleagues have a paper in @FrontiersIn about BeatWalk. It's a safe, enjoyable & easy-to-use app for personalized, music-based gait rehabilitation in #Parkinsons.
Merci à nos interlocuteurs, à l'animatrice Sophie-Andrée Blondin @Anneeslumiere, et à tous ceux qui ont assisté à la conférence de la semaine dernière « Musique : un besoin essentiel. Que dit la science? »
La musique, formidable médicament pour aller bien
À une rencontre virtuelle organisée par le BRAMS le 8 avril, des chercheurs ont illustré comment la musique agit sur le cerveau. Elle est un euphorisant, un tranquillisant et un analgésique!
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July 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Merci à nos interlocuteurs, à l'animatrice Sophie-Andrée Blondin @Anneeslumiere, et à tous ceux qui ont assisté à la conférence de la semaine dernière « Musique : un besoin essentiel. Que dit la science? »
Congratulations to BRAMS Associate Member @samuelmehr, who has been recognized as an APS Rising Star!
July 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Congratulations to BRAMS Associate Member @samuelmehr, who has been recognized as an APS Rising Star!
Did you know…
that BRAMS currently has 26 full members, 45 associate members, 8 postdocs, and over 50 students all working on research that enhances our understanding of the brain, music and sound?
that BRAMS currently has 26 full members, 45 associate members, 8 postdocs, and over 50 students all working on research that enhances our understanding of the brain, music and sound?
July 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Did you know…
that BRAMS currently has 26 full members, 45 associate members, 8 postdocs, and over 50 students all working on research that enhances our understanding of the brain, music and sound?
that BRAMS currently has 26 full members, 45 associate members, 8 postdocs, and over 50 students all working on research that enhances our understanding of the brain, music and sound?
BRAMS is thrilled to announce >$9m in new funding from @InnovationCA in a joint venture with @UMontreal @mcgillu @Concordia for work on auditory-motor skill learning & brain plasticity.
This will significantly expand the cutting-edge technologies at BRAMS & extend its network!!
This will significantly expand the cutting-edge technologies at BRAMS & extend its network!!
July 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
BRAMS is thrilled to announce >$9m in new funding from @InnovationCA in a joint venture with @UMontreal @mcgillu @Concordia for work on auditory-motor skill learning & brain plasticity.
This will significantly expand the cutting-edge technologies at BRAMS & extend its network!!
This will significantly expand the cutting-edge technologies at BRAMS & extend its network!!
Should you use 'baby talk' with an infant?
BRAMS Associate Member Linda Polka & doctoral student Yufang Ruan review the research on baby talk in this new article in Acoustics Today. (Spoiler: Babies prefer it, and it may even help their development!)
BRAMS Associate Member Linda Polka & doctoral student Yufang Ruan review the research on baby talk in this new article in Acoustics Today. (Spoiler: Babies prefer it, and it may even help their development!)
July 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Should you use 'baby talk' with an infant?
BRAMS Associate Member Linda Polka & doctoral student Yufang Ruan review the research on baby talk in this new article in Acoustics Today. (Spoiler: Babies prefer it, and it may even help their development!)
BRAMS Associate Member Linda Polka & doctoral student Yufang Ruan review the research on baby talk in this new article in Acoustics Today. (Spoiler: Babies prefer it, and it may even help their development!)
This @brainpostco summary highlights recent work from BRAMS members and collaborators @m_weiss_ @mshar86 @miriamlense Krista Hyde & Sandra Trehub about the voice advantage for musical memory in #ASD and #WilliamsSyndrome.
#musicscience #musiccognition
#musicscience #musiccognition
Musical Memory in Autism and Williams Syndrome — BrainPost | Easy-to-read summaries of the latest neuroscience publications
Post by Anastasia Sares What's the science? Music has been called a “human universal,” as its presence has been found in almost every known culture. While musical instruments have an important place, the human voice is one of the most primal music-makers. In fact, people tend to remember me
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July 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This @brainpostco summary highlights recent work from BRAMS members and collaborators @m_weiss_ @mshar86 @miriamlense Krista Hyde & Sandra Trehub about the voice advantage for musical memory in #ASD and #WilliamsSyndrome.
#musicscience #musiccognition
#musicscience #musiccognition
BRAMS Associate Member @samuelmehr from @_themusiclab and colleagues recently published in Nature Human Behavior their findings that even unfamiliar lullabies from different cultures & languages can make babies relax!
Research shows lullabies in any language relax babies
Researchers at Harvard’s Music Lab have determined that American infants relaxed when played lullabies that were unfamiliar and in a foreign language.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BRAMS Associate Member @samuelmehr from @_themusiclab and colleagues recently published in Nature Human Behavior their findings that even unfamiliar lullabies from different cultures & languages can make babies relax!
Another round of congratulations this week to Isabelle Peretz, who has also been awarded one of the Prix du Québec: the Armand-Frappier Prize!!
July 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Another round of congratulations this week to Isabelle Peretz, who has also been awarded one of the Prix du Québec: the Armand-Frappier Prize!!
Congratulations to Isabelle Peretz, recipient of the 2020 Women of Distinction Award - Research and Innovation!
July 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Congratulations to Isabelle Peretz, recipient of the 2020 Women of Distinction Award - Research and Innovation!
Congratulations to Robert Zatorre for the C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2020!
The award ceremony will take place via a Livestream Event on Thursday, October 1st at 2pm, Montreal Time at
The award ceremony will take place via a Livestream Event on Thursday, October 1st at 2pm, Montreal Time at
July 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Congratulations to Robert Zatorre for the C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2020!
The award ceremony will take place via a Livestream Event on Thursday, October 1st at 2pm, Montreal Time at
The award ceremony will take place via a Livestream Event on Thursday, October 1st at 2pm, Montreal Time at
udemnouvelles discusses a number of current research projects, including some from BRAMS, related to music during the COVID-19 pandemic:
In English:
#COVID19 #BRAMSresearch
In English:
#COVID19 #BRAMSresearch
Music in times of pandemic
Université de Montréal's music observatory and two of its labs are conducting several projects to understand the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives of musicians and the public.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
udemnouvelles discusses a number of current research projects, including some from BRAMS, related to music during the COVID-19 pandemic:
In English:
#COVID19 #BRAMSresearch
In English:
#COVID19 #BRAMSresearch
BRAMS Member Prof. Caroline Palmer was interviewed by La Presse about recent auditory-motor synchronization research from her lab published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience:
Le sens du rythme loge dans le cerveau
Plus dans la tête que dans les hanches : le sens du rythme se trouve dans le cerveau, rapportent des chercheurs de l’Université McGill.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
BRAMS Member Prof. Caroline Palmer was interviewed by La Presse about recent auditory-motor synchronization research from her lab published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience:
A great new resource for 2020!
Music and the Aging Brain (Elsevier/Academic Press), edited by Lola L. Cuddy (BRAMS Associate Member), Sylvie Belleville and Aline Moussard (former BRAMS trainee), with chapter contributions from other BRAMS members.
Music and the Aging Brain (Elsevier/Academic Press), edited by Lola L. Cuddy (BRAMS Associate Member), Sylvie Belleville and Aline Moussard (former BRAMS trainee), with chapter contributions from other BRAMS members.
Music and the Aging Brain
Music and the Aging Brain describes brain functioning in aging and addresses the power of music to protect the brain from loss of function and how to
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July 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A great new resource for 2020!
Music and the Aging Brain (Elsevier/Academic Press), edited by Lola L. Cuddy (BRAMS Associate Member), Sylvie Belleville and Aline Moussard (former BRAMS trainee), with chapter contributions from other BRAMS members.
Music and the Aging Brain (Elsevier/Academic Press), edited by Lola L. Cuddy (BRAMS Associate Member), Sylvie Belleville and Aline Moussard (former BRAMS trainee), with chapter contributions from other BRAMS members.
BRAMS wishes a fond farewell to @mshar86, who was a postdoc in the labs of Krista Hyde and @PeretzIsabelle. We wish you the best Megha! Pictured here with a hand-stitched brams logo (!) by the multitalented Margot Charignon. (Photo by Véronique Martel.)
July 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
BRAMS wishes a fond farewell to @mshar86, who was a postdoc in the labs of Krista Hyde and @PeretzIsabelle. We wish you the best Megha! Pictured here with a hand-stitched brams logo (!) by the multitalented Margot Charignon. (Photo by Véronique Martel.)
Tri-nation #auditory plasticity symposium at the @TheNeuro_MNI with PIs from India(@nanchatter), Israel (@MeravAhissar) and Canada(@RobertZatorre)
July 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Tri-nation #auditory plasticity symposium at the @TheNeuro_MNI with PIs from India(@nanchatter), Israel (@MeravAhissar) and Canada(@RobertZatorre)
BRAMS gets a new co-director- Dr. Simone Dalla Bella!
July 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
BRAMS gets a new co-director- Dr. Simone Dalla Bella!
100 years of the legendary Dr.Brenda Milner #Milner100 #neuroscience
July 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
100 years of the legendary Dr.Brenda Milner #Milner100 #neuroscience
Régis Trapeau and Marc Schoenwiesner's research in "the dome", featured by the @nytimes !
How the Shape of Your Ears Affects What You Hear (Published 2018)
We’re able to locate sound because our brains grasp the shape of our ears. When that shape changes, we need time and practice to adapt.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Régis Trapeau and Marc Schoenwiesner's research in "the dome", featured by the @nytimes !
Neurophysiological and Behavioral Differences between Older and Younger Adults When Processing Violations of Tonal Structure in Music
Frontiers | Neurophysiological and Behavioral Differences between Older and Younger Adults When Processing Violations of Tonal Structure in Music
Aging is associated with decline in both cognitive and auditory abilities. However, evidence suggests that music perception is relatively spared, despite rel...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Neurophysiological and Behavioral Differences between Older and Younger Adults When Processing Violations of Tonal Structure in Music