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Sean Hutchins PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal
Supervisor: Isabelle Peretz
Biography:
Sean Hutchins received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2008, studying the implicit memory for music and its role in production responses with Prof. Caroline Palmer. He is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at BRAMS with Prof. Isabelle Peretz, studying the perception and production of the human voice. His research deals with issues such as the causes of poor singing, the imitation of speech prosody, the dissociation between pitch perception and production abilities, ERP evidence for pitch perception, and structural and functional neural correlates of pitch perception and production. Sean has presented talks on the psychology of singing and the relationship between language and music, as well as workshops on the advanced uses of Microsoft Excel for research purposes.
Sean Hutchins's CV can be found here.
Teaching:
Sean Hutchins Sample Music Cognition Syllabus (Junior - Senior Level).pdf.
Sean Hutchins Statement of Teaching Interests.pdf.
Sean Hutchins Teaching Evaluation Summary.pdf.
Sean Hutchins's Excel workshop can be found here.
More about Sean Hutchins:
http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/09/28/where-bad-singing-comes-from/
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/28/8020046-why-some-of-us-are-terrible-singers


