Isabelle Peretz (born 1956) is a
professor of
psychology at the
University of Montreal, holding a
Canada Research Chair and Casavant Chair in neurocognition of music. She specializes in
music cognition, focusing on congenital and acquired musical disorders (
amusia) and on the cognitive and biological foundations of music processing in general.
Education
Peretz was educated in
Brussels,
Belgium, and she earned her
Ph.D. in
experimental psychology
Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, in ...
at the
Université libre de Bruxelles in 1984, after which she accepted a faculty position at the University of Montreal.
Career
In 2005, Peretz became the founding co-director of the international laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound research (BRAMS), a multi-university consortium that is jointly affiliated with
McGill University and the Université de Montréal. She is also a chief editor of the journal section Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.
Peretz was elected a
fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008.
In 2018, she was appointed an Officer of the
Order of Quebec.
The following year, she was the appointed a Member of the
Order of Canada.
Selected works
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References
External links
Isabelle Peretz's HomepagePeretz Music and Cognition LabBRAMS Website
1956 births
Living people
Canadian women psychologists
Canadian cognitive neuroscientists
Canadian women neuroscientists
Université de Montréal faculty
Canada Research Chairs
Members of the Order of Canada
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
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