Stefan Koelsch (* 7 July 1968 in Wichita Falls) is a German-American-Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist, and bestselling author.
Biography
editStefan Koelsch studied instrumental and vocal music at the University of Arts Bremen, and then psychology as well as sociology at Leipzig University. He graduated in 1994 with an artistic degree, 1998 with a diploma in psychology, and 2000 with a diploma in sociology. With his thesis Brain and Music: A contribution to the investigation of central auditory processing with a new electrophysiological approach,[1] which was compiled at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, he was awarded with a PhD (doctor rerum naturalium) at Leipzig University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School (U.S.), he founded the independent junior research group [2] Neurocognition of Music at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig in 2003. In 2004, Stefan Koelsch was awarded the habilitation in psychology at Leipzig University.
In 2006, Stefan Koelsch was appointed as Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, where he taught and conducted research in the fields of cognitive and affective neuroscience, biological psychology and music psychology. In 2010, he was appointed as university professor of music psychology and neuroscience at the Cluster of Excellence Languages of Emotion[3] at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2015, he has been Professor of Biological Psychology, Medical Psychology, and Music Psychology at the University of Bergen (Norway), to which he was appointed as part of the Norwegian Top Research Program (Toppforskprogrammet).[4]
Research
editStefan Koelsch's main fields of research include perception,[5] attention,[6] working memory,[7] emotion,[8] music therapy,[9] and personality.[10] Based on his research he concludes that the neural resources of music- and language-processing overlap strongly, and that activity in any brain structure that plays a causal role for emotions can be influenced by music. The latter has important implications for the therapeutic use of music, because numerous chronic somatic, psychiatric and neurological disorders and diseases are associated with functional abnormalities of these brain structures.[11]
References
edit- ^ Koelsch, Stefan (2000). Brain and Music: A contribution to the investigation of central auditory processing with a new electrophysiological approach. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. p. 234. ISBN 3-9807282-0-X.
- ^ "Research groups leaders". www.mpg.de. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
- ^ "Languages of Emotion". www.loe.fu-berlin.de. 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
- ^ "The Toppforsk Programme". University of Bergen. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
- ^ Koelsch, Stefan (2011). "Toward a Neural Basis of Music Perception – A Review and Updated Model". Frontiers in Psychology. 2: 110. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00110. PMC 3114071. PMID 21713060.
- ^ Koelsch, Stefan; Schröger, Erich; Tervaniemi, Mari (1999). "Superior pre-attentive auditory processing in musicians". NeuroReport. 10 (6): 1309–13. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.4.7143. doi:10.1097/00001756-199904260-00029. PMID 10363945.
- ^ Koelsch, Stefan; Schulze, Katrin; Sammler, Daniela; Fritz, Thomas; Müller, Karsten; Gruber, Oliver (March 2009). "Functional architecture of verbal and tonal working memory: An FMRI study". Human Brain Mapping. 30 (3): 859–873. doi:10.1002/hbm.20550. PMC 6871123. PMID 18330870.
- ^ Koelsch, Stefan (1 March 2010). "Towards a neural basis of music-evoked emotions". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14 (3): 131–137. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2010.01.002. ISSN 1364-6613. PMID 20153242. S2CID 15460319.
- ^ Koelsch, Stefan (July 2009). "A Neuroscientific Perspective on Music Therapy". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1169 (1): 374–384. Bibcode:2009NYASA1169..374K. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04592.x. PMID 19673812. S2CID 16815652.
- ^ Koelsch, Stefan; Skouras, Stavros; Jentschke, Sebastian; Zhan, Wang (27 November 2013). "Neural Correlates of Emotional Personality: A Structural and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study". PLOS ONE. 8 (11): e77196. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...877196K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077196. PMC 3842312. PMID 24312166.
- ^ Koelsch, Stefan (1 March 2014). "Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions". Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 15 (3): 170–180. doi:10.1038/nrn3666. PMID 24552785. S2CID 205509609.
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