Hi, I'm Guilhem Marion

Researcher & Artist

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at NYU and UMD supported by the Fyssen foundation and an NSF grant on musical enculturation and a former PhD student at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris supported by the Beauty Chair PSL-L'Oréal.

I research how music is encoded by the brain and how those processes are related to emotional and cultural factors using data drawn from behavioral, cortical (EEG, MEG, ECoG) and intra-cortical recordings. My work focuses on the neural underpinnings of melodic expectations (the more or less probable character of each note in a melody), how they can be shaped by culture and education, and how these mechanisms evolve over passive exposure to music. Recently, I started to link those mechanisms to musical preferences and I am trying to identify other mechanisms, ranging from genetics to high-level sociology affecting musical preferences. In addition to my scientific work, I am a musician and a multimedia artist.