research

My research relates to music physiology, music psychology and musical acoustics. In my current project I study the relationship between bimanual coordination and (dichotic) listening attention. In the graphic you can see the recorded data of a person (musician) during a bimanual coordination task. While the left hand is tapping following an imagined square, the right hand is circling. The red dots display the position of the left hand tapping, the blue dots of the right hand at the moment of the left hand tap. I analyze dozens of these patterns in order to understand how the person is moving and on what she is putting her attention.

Perception is a multimodal process. We look, listen and move in an integrated fashion. Does the way a person attends to the left and right hemisphere of her body relate to how she listens to acoustic signals in her left and right hemisphere? I guess there must be some subtle relation but it is not that obvious to prove though…

Interestingly the mathematics needed to understand these kind of patterns and relations are also used in the study of climate change, risk of heart attack, water flows, patterns in nature such as leaves and branches and many more. To me the beauty of these universal patterns in nature, music and human movement is quite intriguing.

If you want to know more about my research, or if you are a musician and would like to participate in my study, please feel free to contact me. 😉