Alexandre Celma Miralles

As an Assistant professor, I conduct research on music neuroscience, mainly on rhythm perception and production. In my work, I mainly work with electroencephalography (especially as a member of the MIB EEG Lab Commitee) and primarily deal with EEG analyses, sensorimotor synchronization responses and auditory discrimination tests. I have a degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and have experience with music and language. My current roles include supervision, teaching and research.

How do we synchronize to the rhythms of music? My research explores the neural mechanisms that transform auditory rhythms into predictable periodicities, which allows people to synchronize with music and enjoy it. Using electroencephalography and motor synchronization, our interdisciplinary projects explore how the brain makes sense of rhythms and how this varies in healthy and clinical populations.

I inspire my students with problem-solving activities that require hands on learning and personal reflection. I teach in the PHD course "Introduction to Matlab" and the biennial "Music Neuroscience Summerschool". I have taught some guest lectures about music neuroscience in Humanities and Cognitive science fields, and I supervised several bachelor and master projects.

I recently collaborated with colleagues in the fields of Linguistics, Psychology and Comparative cognition from the Univeristy of Barcelona, Medical University of Gdańsk, University of Vienna, Western University and University Pompeu Fabra.

My primary area of responsibility is reserach and supervision, including neural and behavioral data collection, curation and analysis, to later on publish the findings. I also contribute to teaching in invited lectures (Faculty of Arts), PhD courses and the Aarhus Summer School in Music Neuroscience.