Education

• 2006: PhD, Neuroscience (with the highest grade and the personal congratulations of the PhD committee), (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, Faculty of Medicine France
• 2004: Certificate class , business, Ecole des Mines France
• 2003: Masters, Cognitive 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

• 2002: Modelling of cognitive functions, Neuroinformatic Laboratory, University of Bochum,, Germany (I was supported by a grant from the French Ministry of Education.)
• 2001–2002: Explore differences in strategy choices during arithmetic problem solving., Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, Marseille, France (Supervisor: Pr. Patrick Lemaire. Using behavioral measures, I conducted an experiment with gifted children )
• 2002: Explore the influence of the semantic relation between words on language processing., Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, Marseille, France (Training period (with salary) Under the direction of Dr. Ziegler, C.N.R.S. I conducted Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) experiments with adults )
• 2001: Examine cognitive processing in language and arithmetic problems, Cognitive Applied Research Center, University of Carleton, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Training period Under the direction of Pr. Lefevre. I conducted behavioral experiments I was supported by a grant from the French Ministry of Education.)
• 2005: Maths and Brain, Institute Point Carré, Paris, France (150 hours )
• 2005: Winter school on auditory processing, Helsinki Winter School in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (120 hours)
• 2004: Business and Technology, Ecole des Mines, Ales, France (100 hours)
• 2003: Matlab Formation (software), CNRS center, Bordeaux, France (50 hours)
• 2003–2004: Scientific & Experimental Methods, University of Provence (U1), Marseille, France (60 hours)
• 2003–2006: Influence of musical training on pitch processing in 8 year-old Portuguese children (In collaboration with Mireille Besson, Carlos Marques and Sao Luis Castro )
• 2005–2006: Supervisor (Brain mechanisms involved in word learning Supervision of the research work of a Master student in Neurosciences in collaboration with Mireille Besson )
• 2003–2004: Supervisor (Supervision of the research work of a Master student in Neuropsychology on: “Behavioural and Event-Related Potentials evidence for pitch discrimination deficits in dyslexic children: improvement after intensive phonic training” in collaboration with Mireille Besson )
• 2003–2004: Supervisor (Supervision of the Research project: “The musical carpet: Influence of musical training on language and arithmetic processing”. For this project, I had to organize the work of 6 persons (four teachers of music and painting, one engineer and one technician) and two classes of 8 years old children (57 children).)

Professional Affiliations

• 2008–Present: Adjunct Scientist, Bloorview Kids Rehab - Bloorview Research Institute
• 2007–Present: CTO, Musiqkids Corp.
• 2007–2011: High tech consultant

Reviewership

Consulting

• 2010–Present: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
• 2010–Present: Psychology of Music
• 2010–Present: Psychophysiology

Other

• 2011: Acta psychologica
• 2011: Cognitive development
• 2011: Neuroimage
• 2011: Music Perception

Distinctions and Awards

• 2010:
• 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

• 2010: Educational software game for brain development.

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

• 2010: MusIQkids – Beta Prototype Development of the Smarter Kids Training software

  Sponsors: Ontario Center of Excellence, $173 800

• 2010: Combining Musical Training through VMI and MusIQkids learning software

  Sponsors: Government of Ontario, $50 000

• 2010: Intellectual Property Mobilization Program

  Sponsors: Government of Ontario, $24 000

• 2010: intellectual property strategy for Smarter Kids training

  Sponsors: Business Mentorship and Entrepreneurship Program, $10 000

• 2010: PoP grant - Smarterkids training

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

• 2010: Advanced Musical Technology

  Sponsors: PhD Fellowship Award French ministry of Research grant, 54 000 euros

• 2010: Signal processing tool in brain imaging

  Sponsors: Fellowship Award Institute Point Carré in mathematics, $5000

  Fellowship

Curriculum Vitae

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Contact

Rotman Research Institute
Baycrest
3560 Bathurst Street, 914 VS
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M6A 2E1 Phone: 416-785-2500 x3595 Email: smorenorotman-baycrest.on.ca