John Iversen

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About John Iversen

I am a computational cognitive neuroscientist who studies music, language and the brain and develops new methods for real-world neuroscience combining mobile brain and body imaging and advanced analytics. A main focus is to understand how we perceive rhythm, and how this relates to education and learning and interpersonal interactions. I am passionate about understanding the brain mechanisms underlying our perception and learning about the world, examining the role of the motor system in shaping temporal perception, motor learning and the learning of spatial navigation. I am also directing the SIMPHONY project, an ambitious collaborative longitudinal study of the impact of music training on brain and behavioral development, and Co-Direct UCSD's new NEA Research Lab studying the impact of vocal training on school readiness. Methods include time-series analysis, spectrotemporal analysis, multivariate models of causality, blind source separation and neural networks.