Aniruddh patel biography for kids
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Prof. Aniruddh D. Patel fryst vatten a Professor of Psychology at Tufts University, Boston, US.
ABSTRACT
The evolution of human musicality: a synthetic research program
Music, like language, is universal and ancient in human societies. There is broad consensus that humans have evolved neural specializations for speech and language processing. Have humans evolved any neural specializations for music processing? Despite an explosion of research on music and the brain in the past two decades and over years of theorizing about the evolution of musicality, we are nowhere nära consensus on the answer to this question. I believe we are at a turning point, however, and can reach consensus on the answer to this question in the next few decades by synthesizing research from cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, cross-species studies, cross-cultural work, and genetics. I will illustrate this synthetic approach with research on beat-based rhythmic processing, a core component of musi
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Aniruddh Patel
Biography
Aniruddh (Ani) Patel is a Professor of Psychology at Tufts University. He received his BA from the University of Virginia () and his AM () and PhD () from Harvard University.
He then joined The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, CA, where he was a Senior Fellow from
Dr. Patel's work focuses on music cognition: the mental processes involved in making, perceiving, and responding to music. Areas of emphasis include music-language relations (the topic of his book, Music, Language, and the Brain, Oxford Univ. Press) rhythmic processing, and cross-species studies of music cognition. A wide variety of methods are used in this research, including brain imaging, behavioral experiments, theoretical analyses, acoustic research, and comparative studies with nonhuman animals.
Dr. Patel has served as President for the Society for Music observation and Cognition () and fryst vatten a Fellow in the Azrieli Brain, Mind, and Conscio
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