Clara James
Affiliations: Faculty of Psychology and Science of Education
Group name: Geneva Musical Minds Lab (GEMMI lab)
Domains: Development and Plasticity, Sensory and Motor Systems, Perception, Attention and Cognition
Keywords: brain plasticity, child development, countervail cognitive decline, Musical training regimens
Research activities
Research interests:
– Neuronal substrates at the root of perceptive, cognitive and motor functioning
– Experience-driven brain and behavioral plasticity following musical activity over the lifespan
– Links between general and musical cognition and their neuronal substrates
– Cognitive and brain features of musicians with absolute pitch
– Developing musical training regimens that:
- Countervail age-induced cognitive and sensorimotor decline and brain degeneration
- Boost cognitive, sensorimotor and associated brain development in children
Site web du groupe (in prep)
Latest publications
Electrical Neuroimaging of Music Processing in Pianists With and Without True Absolute Pitch.
Steady-state evoked potentials distinguish brain mechanisms of self-paced versus synchronization finger tapping.
Electrical Neuroimaging of Music Processing Reveals Mid-Latency Changes with Level of Musical Expertise.
Impact of major and minor mode on EEG frequency range activities of music processing as a function of expertise.
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Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Haute Ecole de Santé de Genève
Email: clara.james@hesge.ch/clara.james@unige.ch