Education

• 2006: PhD, CognitiveNeuroscience (with the highest grade and the personal congratulations of the PhD committee), University of Aix-Marseille I (Title: “Influence of musical training on language processing” Supervisor: Mireille Besson, Research Director at the C.N.R.S, Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée (INCM), Marseille, France. )
• 2004: Certificate class, Medical formation on fMRI basis, University of Aix-Marseille II, Faculty of Medicine France
• 2004: Certificate class , Engineering, intellectual property, and business, École des mines d'Alès France
• 2003: Masters, Cognitive Sciences - Computer sciences (with honors), University of Aix-Marseille I (Title: “Neuro-dynamics and modelling of strategic choice” Supervisors: Gregor Schoener, Professor at the University of Bochum (Neuroinformatic Laboratory), Germany and Patrick Lemaire, Professor at the University of Provence, Marseille, France (Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive).)

Academic Appointments

• 2003–2004: Scientific & Experimental Methods , University of Provence (U1), Marseille, France
• 2008–2009: Adolescence, Adulthood, and Aging, Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario
• 2008–2009: Child Development, Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario
• 2009–2010: Adolescence, Adulthood, and Aging, Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario

Professional Affiliations

• 2011–Present: Lead Scientist, Centre for Brain Fitness, Rotman Research Institute
• 2011–Present: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
• 2007–2011: High tech consultant
• 2007–2011: CTO, Musiqkids Corp.

Reviewership

Consulting

• 2010–Present: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
• 2010–Present: Psychology of Music
• 2011–Present: Acta Psychologica
• 2011–Present: Cognitive Development
• 2011–Present: NeuroImage
• 2012–Present: Brain and Cognition
• 2012–Present: PLoS ONE
• 2012–Present: Perceptual and Motor Skills
• 2012–Present: Cortex
• 2012–Present: Music Perception

Distinctions and Awards

• 2011: Nominated for the Educational Technology Award for software technology, TELUS, SmarterKids training software
• 2006: Best poster award, 46th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 25 - 29, 2006., Moreno, S., & Besson, M. (2006) Musical training improves verbal memory, reading abilities and pitch perception: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence in 8 year-old non-musicians children.
• 2006: ESCOM young researchers award, 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy, August 22-26, 2006
• 2006: Young researcher award , Society for Psychophysiological Research, Moreno, S. & Besson, M. (2006). Musical training and language-related brain electrical activity in children. Psychophysiology, 43(3), 287-291

Research Projects

External

• 2003: Advanced musical technology

  Sponsors: PhD Fellowship Award French Ministry of Research Grant, $84 500

  Fellowship
• 2005: Signal processing tools in brain imaging

  Sponsors: Fellowship Award Institute Point Carré in Mathematics, $5 000

  Fellowship
• 2008: Pre-commercialization of the VMI Virtual Music Instrument and SmarterKids training.

  Sponsors: Medical Technologies Research and Commercialization Collaborative - Intellectual Property Mobilization Program, $24 000

  Research Grant
• 2008: Combining musical training through VMI and MusIQkids learning software (Rank 1)

  Sponsors: Technology Transfer Toronto - Ontario Research Commercialization Grant, $50 000

  Research Grant
• 2009: Intellectual property strategy for Smarter Kids training

  Sponsors: Business Mentroship and Entrepreneurship Program, Business Advisory Services Program, $10 000

  Research Grant
• 2009: SmarterKids training

  Sponsors: College Ontario Network for Industry Innovation PoP Grant, $10 000

  Research Grant
• 2003: MusIQkids - Beta prototype development of the Smarter Kids training software
  Institutions: Ontario Centres for Excellence, MusIQkids Corporation (industry partner), George Brown College Research Division

  Sponsors: Ontario Centres of Excellence: Market Readiness Program, $173 800

  Research Grant
• 2009: Educational software game for brain development

  Sponsors: Precarn Industrial T-GAP Grant, $115 000

  Research Grant
• 2010: MusIQkids - Commerical development of the SmarterKids training game with integrated analytical tool (Rank 1)
  Institutions: Ontario Centres of Excellence, MusIQkids Corporation (industry partner)

  Sponsors: Ontario Centres of Excellence: Market Readiness Program, $114 000

  Research Grant
• 2011–2012: Effects of normal aging on brain networks over the time course of working memory processing: a simultaneous EEG/fMRI study

  Sponsors: CIHR, $49 900

  Research Grant
• 2012–2013: Cognitive correlates of EEG signals recorded by the InteraXon brain-computer interface

  Sponsors: NSERC, $24 300

• 2012: Effects of musical training on the behavioural and neurophysiological speech processing in older adults
  Collaborators: Gavin Bidelman

  Sponsors: The GRAMMY Foundation, $17 250

  Research Grant
• 2012–2013: Cognitively Positive Games for Kids /Educational software game for brain development./ MusIQkids - Commercial development of the SmarterKids training game with integrated analytical tool
  Institutions: FedDev Ontario, Cookie Jar Inc. (industry partner)

  Sponsors: The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, $9 000 000

  Research Grant

Curriculum Vitae

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Contact

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