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Skidmore College
Psychology Department
Dominique Vuvan

Dominique T. Vuvan
Associate Professor

CONTACT

Email: dvuvan@skidmore.edu
Phone: 518-580-8310
Office: CIS 380H

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 TAUGHT AT SKIDMORE

  • 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.