I am a postdoctoral researcher exploring the neuroscience of music, dance, and social interaction.
My work investigates the neurocognitive foundations of communicative musicality—the universal human ability to connect through music. Crossing the ERC MUSICOM's vision—that musicality draws on natural capacities for movement-based interaction—and my PhD research on Sign Language, I have focused on the quintessential case of gestural musical communication, namely dance. I am fascinated by how long-standing practices like dance and song may originate from a shared evolutionary capacity for human interaction, communication, and cooperation. To study these questions, I combine advanced computational methods with multimodal data—including 3D kinematics (Vicon), EEG, and eye-tracking.
