Models and Experiments in Timing, Rhythm, and Entrainment

Postdoctoral and PhD Positions in modeling and analyzing intracranial dopamine data from rhythm perception experiments

McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario The METRE lab is initiating a collaboration with Dan Bang’s group at University of Aarhus, Denmark, funded by the Human Frontier Science Program. The project will collect electrophysiological and electrochemical data from human basal ganglia during deep brain stimulator implantations while patients listen to and entrain movement to auditory rhythms. Data…
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Human Frontier Science Award

We are honored and delighted to have received a research grant from the Human Frontier Science Program, an international nonprofit supporting international collaborations in cutting-edge science. We will be working with Associate Professor Dan Bang at University of Aarhus, Denmark, who will be recording dopamine levels in the human basal ganglia with sub-second resolution while…
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Recruiting participants with autism or stutter!

The precision of entrainment of movement to rhythm has been shown to vary with a whole range of learning and developmental conditions, including stuttering and autism. This winter in the METRE lab, we’re running a set of experiments that look at sensorimotor integration for rhythmic timing in participants with autism and in participants who stutter.…
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Experiments are underway!

With help from some sharp, motivated undergraduates, we have started a set of experiments exploring the inner logic by which mind, action, and external processes are coordinated in time. Our working hypothesis is that covert timekeeping and action timing operate in a closed loop: our inner timekeeper is used to plan the timing for our…
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Arriving at McMaster!

I will be arriving on campus July 1st. I’m excited to start setting up some experiments! Please feel free to reach out with any inquiries about research opportunities or other questions. I am not planning to formally advise any new undergraduate projects this fall, but there may be informal opportunities to help out, and I’d…
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