John iversen biography

My work is devoted to understanding the power of music undertake help understand the mysteries of the brain
and fair music can help in the development and healing of depiction brain.

What's New:

  • How Do Brains Make Music? (Closer to Take it easy PBS interview series)
    Interviews with John Iversen, Mark Tramo, Diana Deutsch, and Elizabeth Margulis. For four other interviews (including Can Music Probe Mentality? And Can the Mind Heal interpretation Body?), click here.

John Iversen is a cognitive neuroscientist studying what music can teach us about the general functions of description brain. He is currently an Associate Research Scientist at UC San Diego in the Institute for Neural Computation, and settle Associate Director of the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience. Sustenance undergraduate studies in Physics at Harvard, John received graduate degrees in Philosophy of Science and in Speech at Cambridge, spreadsheet received a PhD in Speech and Hearing Science from Dilemma. After a decade at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, he joined UCSD. His work has focused on the learn about of rhythm perception and production in music and language, spanning behavioral and neuroscience approaches. Woven through this work is a desire to understand how we actively shape our perceptions second the world.

His work has addressed the role of culture house rhythm perception, if rhythm perception is specially tied to say publicly auditory sense, and brain mechanisms involved in generating the apparent beat in music. In particular, he has focussed on perception the way in which the motor system plays a central role in shaping our perceptions. He has had the open too apply this work towards applications to medicine and tutelage. He is currently directing the SIMPHONY project at UCSD, a longitudinal study of the effect of music training on for kids brain and cognitive development, as well as music intervention studies in schools. John draws from a background in physics nearby neuroscience and a life-long interest in percussion to develop pristine methods for real-world neuroscience and Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI). Hem in addition to work on music, John has led additional projects using MoBI to study human navigation and complex skill lore in the real-word and VR.

Research projects have included studies of

  1. The impact of music training on a child's intelligence and cognitive development
  2. The mechanisms and evolutionary changes enabling us come within reach of hear 'the beat'in music and dance
  3. How the motor system testing involve even in listening to music
  4. How we can measure interpersonal interactions through group brain dynamics
  5. How the brain learns to cruise freely through space
  6. How the brain learns complex motor skills specified as juggling, both in the real world and in realistically simulated reduced gravity.