Emmanuel Bigand

PR – Director, IUF

LEAD - CNRS UMR 5022
Université de Bourgogne
Pôle AAFE
Esplanade Erasme
BP 26513
21065 Dijon CEDEX

Research topics

For someone who is familiar with a musical system, the type of organization he or she perceives when listening to works that are within this system is far from arbitrary. Indeed, this perception depends on specific cognitive constraints. Research in musical cognition aims at showing what these constraints are and at understanding how they are similiar to or different from the general processes by which the human brain functions.

Research on musical cognition contributes to the advancement of cognitive science by shedding an original light on the workings of the human mind.

This research also contributes to the development of contemporary musical systems and of new methods for teaching music.

LEAD carries out research in the following areas:


Since 1999, the research on auditory cognition has been extented to

  • the auditory scene analysis of environmental sounds

 

Publications

  • Bigand, E., Habib, M., & Brun V. (In Press). Musique et cerveau. Montpellier: Sauramps médical. More ›
  • Moussard*,A., Rochette*,F, & Bigand,E. (In Press). La musique comme outil de stimulation cognitive. Année Psychologique. More ›
  • Moussard, A., Bigand, E., Belleville, S., & Peretz, I. (In Press). Music as an Aid to Learn New Verbal Information in Alzheimer’s Disease. Music Perception. More ›
  • Tillmann, B., Gosselin, N., Bigand, E., & Peretz, I. (In Press). Priming paradigm reveals harmonic structure processing in congenital amusia. Cortex. More ›
  • Bigand, E. (2012). La musique comme outil de stimulation cognitive. In Richelle M. (Eds.), La musique comme outil de stimulation cognitive (pp. ). : Editions Académie Royale de Belgique.. More ›
  • Bigand, E. (2012). L’âge d’or des sciences cognitives de la musique. In Bigand, E., Habib, M., & Brun V. (Eds.), L’âge d’or des sciences cognitives de la musique (pp. ). Montpellier: Sauramps médical. More ›
  • Bigand, E., Delbé*, C., Gérard*, Y., & Tillmann, B. (2011). Categorization of Extremely Brief Auditory Stimuli: Domain-specific or Domain-general Processes?. PlosOne, 6(10): e27024. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027024. More ›
  • Bigand, E., & Moussard, A. (2011). La musique est-elle un « neuro-protecteur » ?. La revue francophone de gériatrie et de gérontologie. More ›
  • Dellacherie, D., Bigand , E., Molin, P., Baulac, M., & Samson, S. (2011). Multidimensional scaling of emotional responses to music in patients with temporal lobe resection. Cortex. More ›
  • Dellacherie, S., Bigand, E., & Samson, S. (2011). Emotional response in Epileptic patients. Cortex. More ›

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