Faculty
Dominique T. Vuvan
Associate Professor of Psychology
Office: Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences 380H
Phone: 518-580-8310
Email: dvuvan@skidmore.edu
Education:
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research (BRAMS)
- Ph.D., University of Toronto
- M.A., University of Toronto
- B.Sc., University of Toronto
Courses:
- SSP 100 Human Dilemmas
- NS 101 Neuroscience: Mind and Behavior
- PS 102 Colloquium in Psychological Science
- PS 202 Statistics and Research Methods I
- PS 218 Cognition
- PS 233 Cognitive Neuroscience
- PS 336 Music Cognition
- PS 352 Meeting of the Minds – Free Will
- PS 352 Meeting of the Minds – The Healing Arts?
Research interests:
- Cognitive expectancy: How do we predict what’s coming, and what are the consequences of this prediction?
- Neurocognition of music: How do the brain and the cognitive system subserve human musicality?
- Auditory perception and production: What is the relationship between processing a pitch and singing it?
- Relation between language and music: Are these abilities subserved by the same or different cognitive systems?
Fun Fact:
I play the accordion.