Yohana Lévêque
Postdoctoral researcher in Music Cognition
RESUME
Professional ​
info​​
I'm working at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL, France), as a lecturer. I study how brain lesions may alter music perception, and how music can be used as a therapeutic tool for neurological and psychiatric diseases.
Work​
experience​
Lecturer (Professor Assistant) at the CRNL, Lyon
​2016 - Present
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Postdoctoral researcher at the CRNL, Lyon
​2015 - 2016
I am studying the brain correlates of auditory attention, using magnetoencephalography to characterize interactions between endogenous and exogenous attention. Mechanisms of auditory hypersensitivity in patients suffering from migraine are more specifically investigated. This ANR project was launched by Aurélie Bidet-Caulet and funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR).
Postdoctoral researcher at the CRNL, Lyon
​2013 - 2015
I worked about the cognitive and neural correlates of congenital amusia. This ANR project was launched by Barbara Tillmann and Anne Caclin and funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR).
PhD student in Neurolinguistics
​2009-2012
My PhD thesis was about « The production-perception link in singing voice: role of motor representations », and was supervised by Antoine Giovanni and Daniele Schön. This work was done at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) –Université de Provence, France, and was funded by an individual fellowship from the French Ministry of National Education and Research.
Speech and language therapist
​2007 - 2009
​After an internship in a neurology-neuropsychology department in Marseille in 2006-2007, I worked two years as an independant speech and language therapist in Les Pennes Mirabeau (France), with children and adult patients.
Education
Aix-Marseille University
​2009-2012
PhD in Neurolinguistics: « The production-perception link in singing voice: role of motor representations »
Aix-Marseille University
2007-2009
M.A Research in Language Science, with distinction
Dissertation on the « Effect of model timbre on vocal accuracy in singing »
Speech and language therapy school of Marseille
​2003-2007
​Speech and language therapy degree