Alexandre Lehmann PhD

Alexandre Lehmann is currently investigating perceptual and attentional correlates of auditory and auditory-visual perception at the level of the brainstem, using illusory stimuli and measuring frequency-following responses in the human auditory brainstem, under the supervision of Marc Schoenwiesner.

He completed his PhD thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience at Collège de France in Paris, under the supervision of Pr Alain Berthoz, on the multisensory integration of the auditory modality in human spatial orientation (focusing on spatial navigation and perspective taking). He carried out experimental paradigms using multi-modal virtual reality (visual, auditory and vestibular). He has a previous background as an engineer in mathemathics and signal processing.

His main research interest is the neurophenomenological investigation of states of consciousness, and their modulation by music and/or meditation. In the future he wishes to develop a line of research to study the rhytmic entrainement effect. He is particularly interested in emotional and neural resonances produced by collectively synchronized sensory-motor activity, such as ritual music and chanting for example. He is very keen on the novel oscillatory models of consciousness using non-linear dynamics and integrating data from a whole spectrum spanning from physiology to phenomenology.