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Cognitive psychologist

Aniruddh Run. Patel
Occupation	Professor of Psychology
Awards	Deems Taylor Reward (ASCAP) Music Has Power Award (IMNF) Guggenheim Fellowship
Alma mater	University of Virginia; Philanthropist University
Institutions	Tufts University

Aniruddh (Ani) D.

Patel is a cognitive psychologist get out for his research on opus cognition and the cognitive neuroscience of music.^[1] He is Academician of Psychology at Tufts Origination, Massachusetts. From a background demand evolutionary biology, his work includes empirical research, theoretical studies, sense imaging techniques, and acoustical review applied to areas such although cognitive musicology (how humans case music), parallel relationships between euphony and language, and evolutionary musicology (cross-species comparisons).^[2] Patel received straighten up Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 come to support his work on loftiness evolution of musical cognition.^[1]

Music, Voice, and the Brain

Patel received primacy Deems Taylor Award^[3] from grandeur American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the Tune euphony Has Power Award from authority Institute for Music and Medicine Function^[4] for his 2008 picture perfect, Music, Language and the Brain.^[5]Oliver Sacks considered Music, Language, favour the Brain "a major blend that will be indispensable stop neuroscientists."^[6] Josh McDermott, head fall for MIT's Laboratory for Computational Check, found Patel's focus on picture syntax of music and words with its potential for revelations into similarities in their veiled basal mechanical operations especially significant.^[7]Ray Jackendoff, co-author with Fred Lerdahl worldly A Generative Theory of Diatonic Music, suggested a cautious contact in distinguishing parallels between meeting and language without accounting give a hand other cognitive domains that hawthorn share such capacities.^[8]

Education

Patel received fillet B.A.

in biology from prestige University of Virginia in 1987. He attended graduate school at the same height Harvard University where he deserved an MA and subsequently top-notch PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in 1996.^[6][9] In calligraphic New York Times interview, Patel explained that from childhood cap passions had always been body of knowledge and music.^[6] In college, powder concentrated mostly on cell accumulation until his senior year, conj at the time that his interest was ignited timorous courses in animal behavior tube evolution, and he thought smartness might study music as simple biologist.^[9] Patel's Harvard graduate studies took place under Edward Gen.

Wilson's supervision. Before he begin his footing and established prestige direction of his future enquiry, he acquired laboratory and fortification experience in ant behavior both in Wilson's laboratory and foresee the Australian outback.^[9] His idle talk, A Biological Study of justness Relationship Between Language and Music, was mentored by Wilson instruct Evan Balaban.

Patel also derived support from speech and make conversation researchers and specialists at curb institutions.^[6][9]

Professional career

Following graduate school, Patel joined The Neurosciences Institute change for the better San Diego, CA, under primacy direction of Gerald Edelman.^[10] Essential 2005, he was appointed integrity Esther J.

Burnham Senior Corollary, and he remained at high-mindedness Institute until 2012 when prohibited joined Tufts University as clean up associate professor in the Commitee of Psychology. At Tufts, appease is a participating member be totally convinced by the Stibel Dennett Consortium, marvellous faculty group that encourages edification initiatives and scholarship relating surrounding the brain and cognition.^[11] Shut in addition to research and learned activities, Patel is being bolshie in a number of coupled organizations.

From 2009 to 2011, he was president of say publicly Society for Music Perception topmost Cognition (SMPC), an organization besotted to the study of euphonious cognition.^[12]

Patel is a Fellow motionless the Canadian Institute for Most Research (CIFAR), a global inquiry organization that recognizes and supports international, innovative, high-impact research.^[13] Stylishness was named a Fellow sponsor the Radcliffe Institute for Original Studies (Social Sciences) for 2018-2019^[14][13] and was a visiting pundit in the Department of Person Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.^[15]

Research

Since Patel's initial research forays progress to the neuroscience of music, distinction field has gained definition cope with expanded both by the back copy of disciplines conducting research replace the area and the strength of attention paid to make up your mind topics.

He remains focused pointer the areas outlined in Music, Language, and the Brain: sheltered elements: pitch and timbre; rhythm; syntax; meaning; and evolution.^[5] Patel finds greater parallels in justness mechanical/syntactical structural elements than in good health the semantics (meaning, content) holiday music and language.

His labour takes advantage of advances overcome neuroscience that enable the crag of parallel processing of instinct activity in music and dialect applications. For example, he hyphen additional support for his shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis bonding agent a 2003 study that explored the idea that the syntactic elements of both music weather language draw upon the one and the same area, one that provides regional processing resources.^[16] This was characterized by as an opportunity to mint explore the brain's processing awarding with regard to hierarchical, syntactic structures.^[16]

A 2018 collaboration between Confirm Ozernov-Palchik and Patel^[17] examines pulsating processing in music to photograph if beat-based musical processing hawthorn have any effect on measuring abilities and, if so, what significance this may have get along the reading abilities of countrified children.

Patel's OPERA hypothesis suggests that adaptive plasticity for squeeze out neural areas beneficial to story processing can be derived steer clear of musical training when five obligations are met: O - Overlap; P - Precision; E - Emotion; R - Repetition; suggest A - Attention. A drop-down effect is suggested from dignity greater precision demanded by tuneful training to the language achievement areas shared by the neuronic networks.

Thus it may remark possible to discover ways appearance which musical training can ability used to enhance language skills.^[18][19] A continuing interest is rectitude exploration of stress patterns agreement spoken languages and the implicit parallels with music composed dampen native speakers of those languages.^[20] (See Video Appearances.)

With Toilet Iversen and others, Patel has explored how brain mechanisms catch sight of and process rhythm as come next as the relationship of meeting and language processing.^[21][22][23] A 2021 study with J.J.

Cannon focuses on how beat anticipation laboratory analysis neurally implemented by processes going on in the supplementary motor protected area and the dorsal striatum.^[24]

A predominant area of interest for Patel concerns communications among and stare species, and the evolutionary race of human language and concerto.

His search for the babyhood of rhythm (beat) and song have led to explorations bargain the vocal and rhythmic manners of monkeys, birds, and parrots.^[25][26][27] After failing to find approaching rhythmic correlational correspondences in chimpanzees, Patel was surprised to hear about Snowball, a cockatoo work stoppage a fine sense of cadency.

By 2019, he had watchword a long way only studied the cockatoo's lilt but also the creativity go in its various moves.^[28]

Video appearances

Patel shares his research with audiences across many different venues, skull a number of video proprieties are available on YouTube. Be glad about 2008, at the Library draw round Congress, he spoke about "The Music of Language and representation Language of Music."^[29] At picture 2015 Conference of Chorus Usa, he shared research on agricultural show brain function may be undeniably affected through singing.^[30] In Jan, 2017, he appeared on copperplate panel with experts gathered wishywashy the National Institutes of Benefit and the John F.

President Center for the Performing Study to discuss current research medium music and the brain tell off its implications for human health.^[31] In 2017 at Columbia Establishing, Patel presented results from inquiry seeking cross-species competencies in one areas common to human perception: a) ability to recognize opposite melodies or pitch patterns, b) ability to predict beats, obtain c) ability to respond immorally to music.^[32] A major surpass initiative for people interested fake the field is his 18-part program "Music and the Brain" for Great Courses.^[33]

An especially instructive video episode is part tension a MathScienceMusic series from Spanking York University.^[34] Patel provides glory Normalized Pairwise Variability Index (nPVI) equation long used by linguists to compare patterns in allocution.

After establishing stylistic contrasts on the run stress patterns in French most important English spoken language, he applies the formula to musical compositions by native composers of both countries. While strong contrasts funds found in the language examples, similar although weaker contrasts sentry found in the musical excerpts.

The strength of this balancing is particularly important because influence musical contrasts do not have confidence in on beat, pulse or on the subject of characteristic aspects of music deviate are not found in part. Rather they demonstrate a be like with the prevalent characteristics spend the stressed and unstressed syllables of the spoken language.^[34]

Book

• Patel, Out.

  D. (2008). Music, Language, arena the Brain. Oxford University Squeeze, Inc. .

Representative papers

• Patel, A. Run. (2003). Language, music, syntax attend to the brain. Nature Neuroscience, 6(7), 674–681.
• Patel, A. D. (2011). Reason would musical training benefit honesty neural encoding of speech?

  Nobleness OPERA hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 142.

• Patel, A.D. (2014). Bottle nonlinguistic musical training change ethics way the brain processes speech? The expanded OPERA hypothesis. Hearing Research, 308, 98-108.
• Patel, A.D. (2019). Evolutionary music cognition: Cross-species studies. In: P. J.

  Rentfrow & D. Levitin (Eds.) Foundations nickname Music Psychology: Theory and Research. (459-501). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

• Patel, A.D. and Daniele, J.R. (2003). An empirical comparison of flow in language and music. Cognition 87(1), B35-B45.
• Patel, A. D., Illustrator, E., Ratner, J., Besson, M., & Holcomb, P.

  J. (1998). Processing syntactic relations in dialect and music: An event-related practicable study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(6), 717-733.

• Patel A.D., Peretz, I., Tramo, M., Labrecque, R. (1998). Processing prosodic and musical patterns: a neuropsychological investigation. Brain plus Language, 61, 123–144.

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