When: Wednesday 2 July, 4-5pm AEST
Where: Via Zoom
Link to register: Eventbrite
In this presentation, A/Professor Laura Ferreri will introduce research in music science across Europe, exploring key groups and initiatives, before focusing on the Italian experience to highlight major projects and emerging directions. Drawing from her own European journey, Laura will present the experimental work that she has developed to investigate music-driven reward, memory, and social processes. A particular focus will be placed on ecological-naturalistic public engagement at the intersection of music, science, and society. Specifically, Laura will share findings from experiments conducted in collaboration with the Sonar Music Festival (Barcelona, Spain) and the Milan Symphonic Orchestra (Milan, Italy). Through this perspective, Laura hopes to spark a discussion on how these approaches can evolve and create new opportunities in the field.
Laura Ferreri is an Associate Professor at the University of Pavia (Italy). She holds a B.Sc. in Psychological Science and an M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience from S. Raffaele University in Milan. In 2014, she obtained a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (LEAD CNRS Dijon, France) as part of the Marie Curie European Brain and Music (EBRAMUS) network. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Brain Cognition and Plasticity Unit in Barcelona (Spain), in collaboration with the Montreal Neurological Institute. Since 2018, she has been an Associate Professor at Lyon University (France). In 2022, she joined the Department of Brain and Behavioral Science at Pavia University, where she coordinates the Psychology and Neuroscience of Music courses. Her research interests focus on music, memory, and reward processes, investigated through behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropharmacological approaches.