Isabelle Peretz (born 1956) is a

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at the

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, holding a

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and Casavant Chair in neurocognition of music. She specializes in

music cognition Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, res ...

, focusing on congenital and acquired musical disorders (

amusia Amusia is a musical disorder that appears mainly as a defect in processing pitch but also encompasses musical memory and recognition. Two main classifications of amusia exist: acquired amusia, which occurs as a result of brain damage, and co ...

) and on the cognitive and biological foundations of music processing in general.

Education

Peretz was educated in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

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, and she earned her

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in experimental psychology 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

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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 Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Canada judges to have "made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public lif ...

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

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Selected works

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 {{Canada-psychologist-stub