Benjamin Rich Zendel, PhD

Benjamin Zendel is a post-doctoral fellow in the International Laboratory for Brain Music and Sound (BRAMS) and at the Centre de recherche, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM), working in collaboration with Drs. Isabelle Peretz and Sylvie Belleville. His main research interests include auditory perception, age-related changes in auditory perception, neural plasticity and how music training can improve basic auditory processes, especially in older adults. To investigate these questions, he uses multiple psychoacoustic and neuro-imaging techniques (including EEG, MEG and fMRI) to investigate neuro-plastic changes in the brain’s of lifelong musicians, and other who have undergone auditory training. 

Speaker in 26th Concert Lecture series on Biology of Music
Use it or lose it: Musical training can mitigate age-related hearing difficulties
April 26, 2014