Dr. Bruno Gingras

Post-Doc in the field of personality and differential psychology and diagnostics

Room: 60 428 (4^th floor)
Email: bruno.gingras@uibk.ac.at
Telephone: +43 (0) 512 507-56052

Gingras

Research interests

Biomusicology
– Biological basis of music
– Analysis of phylogenetic signal in animal vocalizations

Music performance
– Quantifying the artistic individuality of performers across pieces
– How do performers convey their expressive intentions (production)?
– Can listeners recognize performers’ expressive intentions (perception)?

Music and emotions
– Acoustical and physiological correlates of music-induced emotions

Selected publications

(^†denotes equal contribution)

Gingras, B., Marin, M. M., Puig-Waldmüller, E., & Fitch, W. T. (2015). The eye is listening: Music-induced arousal and individual differences predict pupillary responses. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9(619). doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00619. [Full text]

Gingras, B., Honing, H., Peretz, I., Trainor, L. J., & Fisher, S. E. (2015). Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 370 (20140092). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0092 [Full text]

Doolittle, E. L. ^†, Gingras, B. ^†, Endres, D. M., & Fitch, W. T. (2014). Overtone-based pitch selection in hermit thrush song: Unexpected convergence with scale construction in human music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(46), 16616-16621. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1406023111 [Full text]

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