Thursday, February 21, 2008
5:30 pm
Sanders Hall, 212
Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Senior Vice President,Tufts University. "Music, Mind, and the Ineffable." A psychologist who studies cognitive neuroscience and music perception, his research has focused on the cognitive and neural basis of the perception of music, using perceptual experiments, neural net modeling and funtional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Provost Bharucha graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College, where he majored in biopsychology, received an M.A. in philosophy from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Harvard University. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award from AAVC, in 2005.
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