Caroline Palmer
Professor
Distinguished James 平特五不中 Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience of Performance
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Contact Information:
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Office: 2001 平特五不中 College, Room 652
Phone: 514.398.6128
Email: caroline.palmer[at]mcgill.ca
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Mailing Address:
Department of Psychology
2001 平特五不中 College Avenue
7th Floor
Montreal, QC
H3A 1G1
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Dr. Palmer is the Director of the NSERC-CREATE training grant in Complex听Dynamics; an Associate Member of the Schulich School of Music; and a听Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Research Areas:
Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience听| Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Summary:
From cradle to grave, people across all documented societies use music听to soothe, to invigorate, to bond with others, and even to听self-medicate. My research program focuses on how and why music moves us听by studying how people make music, from simple rhythms to complex听ensemble performances. Music, speech, and other auditory behaviors听engage attention, intention, memory, motor control, and emotions. My听research focuses on the time course of these processes. One theme听addresses the nonlinear dynamics underlying the production of auditory听sequences. Speech, music, and other human sounds follow predictable听patterns or rhythmic regularities that can be modeled in terms of听oscillations. We apply principles of nonlinear dynamics to understand听how people move in response to sound (such as clapping or tapping their听feet) and how they act in response to a partner in a joint task (such as听musical ensemble). A second theme addresses the temporal coordination听that underlies skilled performance, and properties of goal-directed听movement that allow individuals to synchronize their actions with听sensory feedback and with other individuals. See our lab website for听more information.
Selected References:
Scheurich, R., Demos, A., Zamm, A., Mathias, B., & Palmer, C. (2019).听Capturing intra- and inter-brain dynamics with recurrence quantification听analysis. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of听the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.听2748-2754). Montreal, QC: Cognitive Science Society.
Palmer, C. (2019). A postdoc is not the only career option for new听Psychology PhDs. Presented at the WiCS-Canada meeting, Waterloo ON,听June.
Lagrois, M.-E., Palmer, C., & Peretz, I. (2019). Poor synchronization to听musical beat generalizes to speech. Brain Sciences, 9, 1-20.听doi:10.3390/brainsci9070157
Demos, A.P., Layeghi, H., Wanderley, M.M., & Palmer, C. (2019). Staying听together: A bidirectional delay-coupled approach to joint action.听Cognitive Science, 43. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12766
Schultz, B.G., & Palmer, C. (2019). The roles of musical expertise and听sensory feedback in beat keeping and joint action. Psychological听Research, 83(3), 419鈥�431. doi: 10.1007/s00426-019-01156-8
Mathias, B., Gehring, W.J., & Palmer, C. (2019). Electrical brain听responses reveal sequential constraints on planning during music听performance. Brain Sciences, 9, 25. doi:10.3390/brainsci9020025
Palmer, C., Spidle, F., Koopmans, E., Schubert, P. (2019). Ears, head听and eyes: When singers synchronize. Quarterly Journal of Experimental听Psychology, 72(9), 2272-2287. doi:10.1177/1747021819833968