Ferreri Laura

Keywords : music, memory, reward

• 2018 – present : Associate Professor (Maître de Conférence), Laboratoire EMC, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon (France)
   
• 2015-2018 : Post-Doctoral Researcher and Professor Asociado (2017-2018), Cognition & Brain Plasticity Unit, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
   
• 2014-2015 : Assistant Professor and Researcher (ATER), Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (France)
   
• 2014 : PhD Cognitive Psychology, Marie Curie ITN Network EBRAMUS, Laboratoire LEAD CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (France)
   
• 2011 : M.Sc. Cognitive Neurosciences, San Raffaele University, Milan (Italy)
   
• 2009 : Bachelor’s Psychological Sciences, San Raffaele University, Milan (Italy)

Published / In Press (* for shared first authorship)

Ferreri, L.*, Mas-Herrero, E.*, Zatorre, R., Ripollés, P., Gomez-Andrés, A., Alicart, E., Olivé, G., Marco-Pallarés, J., Antonijoan, R.M., Valle, M., Riba, J., & Rodriguez-Fornells (accepted). Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music. PNAS.

Ferreri, L., Moussard, A., Bigand, E., Tillmann, B. (in press). Music & the aging brain. The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain: The Neural Basis of Music Perception, Performance, Learning, and Music in Therapy and Medicine. M. Thaut & D. Hodges Eds., Oxford University Press.

Ripollés, P.*, Ferreri, L.*, Mas-Herrero, E., Alicart, H., Gómez-Andrés, A., Marco-Pallares, J., Antonijoan, R.M., Noesselt, T., Valle, M., Riba, J. & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2018). Intrinsically regulated learning is modulated by synaptic dopamine signaling. eLife, 7, e38113.

Ferreri, L., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2017). Music-related reward responses predict episodic memory performance. Experimental Brain Research, 235(12), 3721-3731.

Ferreri, L., & Verga, L. (2016). Music benefits on verbal learning and memory: When and how does it work? Music Perception: an Interdisciplinary Journal, 34(2), 167-182.

Ferreri, L., Bigand, E., & Bugaiska, A. (2015). The positive effect of music on source memory. Musicae Scientiae, 19(4), 402-411.

Ferreri, L., Bigand, E., Bard, P., & Bugaiska, A. (2015). The influence of music on prefrontal cortex during episodic encoding and retrieval of verbal information: a multichannel fNIRS study. Behavioural Neurology, 501, 70762.

Ferreri, L., Bigand, E., Perrey, S., Muthalib, M., Bard, P. & Bugaiska, A., (2014). Less effort, better results: how does music act on prefrontal cortex in older adults during verbal memory encoding? An fNIRS study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:301.

Ferreri, L., Aucouturier, JJ., Muthalib, M., Bigand, E. & Bugaiska, A., (2013). Music improves verbal memory encoding while decreasing prefrontal cortex activity: an fNIRS study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:779.

2019-2021 : Lauréate IMPULSION (IDEX Lyon).

2018-2019 : Grammy’s Research Awards. With Dr. Ernest Más-Herrero and Dr. Robert Zatorre (McGill University, Montreal).

2015-2016 : Morelli-Rotary Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Subjects : Cognitive Psychology ∙ Cognitive Sciences ∙ Neuroscience ∙ Music & Neuroscience

Degrees : Bachelor ∙ Master