Anjali Bhatara's research is aimed at understanding the effects of experience on perception of rhythm and emotion in music and speech. Her current work focuses specifically on the impact of early and late musical and linguistic experience. Her interests include typical and atypical language development, perception of emotion from speech prosody and musical expression, and the relationship between low-level auditory perception and perception of speech prosody in typical and atypical development, including autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome.

Eve-Marie Quintin’s research is designed to understand variability in cognitive, socioemotional, and brain development throughout the lifespan. Her current work focuses on neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood and adolescence including autism spectrum disorders and fragile X syndrome. Her interests include assessing strengths and weaknesses within cognitive and behavioral profiles and investigating gene-brain-behavior interactions. The primary objective of her work is to produce results that can be applied to improving diagnostic procedures, education programs, community and family services, and health care for individuals with neurocognitive disorders. Dr. Quintin is also a clinical child and adolescent neuropsychologist.

Daniel J. Levitin is James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences at McGill University, where is holds additional appointments in the Department of Neurology &

Neurosurgery, Faculty of Education, School of Computer Science, and in the Schulich School of Music. His research seeks to understand the neurocognitive neural basis for musical memory, musical structure and emotion. He is the author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.