Café des sciences: "Our brains: we're all a bit of a musician!

Friday 14 March at 8.30pm
Restaurant Françoise, 6 rue du Gal Leclerc - Avignon
Free admission

Café des sciences: "Our brains: we're all a bit of a musician!

This science café is being organised as part of the BRAIN WEEK.

GUESTS :

Daniele Schon - Director of Research - Systems Neuroscience Institute - INSERM & Aix-Marseille University
Paul Robert - Doctoral student - Systems Neuroscience Institute - INSERM & Aix-Marseille University

During this evening, neuroscience researchers Daniele and Paul will explore how human beings are profoundly musical and how playing music can transform our brains, influencing our behaviour.
By focusing on the essential role of predictions in musical understanding, they will demonstrate that our ability to anticipate musical elements is at the heart of the mechanisms that make music so powerful and essential to our experience.
A captivating journey into the world of music, the brain and the human spirit!

Daniele Schön studied cello at the Padua Conservatory. He studied with Teodora Campagnaro, a pupil of Antonio Janigro, and with Menahem Meir, a pupil of Pablo Casals. He has played in various ensembles, baroque, classical and jazz, with a particular preference for chamber music and the string quartet. Before fleeing Italy under the Berlusconi regime, he studied neuropsychology at the University of Padua, before completing a doctorate in neuroscience in Marseille, Trieste and Ljubljana. In 2004, he became a researcher at the CNRS. He currently works at the Systems Neuroscience Institute, where he is interested in the links between music, language, the brain and learning.

Paul Robert studied classical music at the Conservatoire de Nantes, initially cello with François Girard, then baroque, classical and romantic composition with Franck Lagarde and Stanislas Janin. It was here that he realised, through practice, that it is the listener's brain that assembles and interprets sounds to create the musical experience. To study this phenomenon, he began studying psychology, which led him to take a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience. His thesis work consists of observing the traces of listeners' musical culture in the activity of their auditory cortex, by simulating the perceptive mechanisms produced by their brain.

For information, the Salt granary will be living to the rhythm of music and the brain from 12 to 15 March.