Dr. Mickael Deroche

Biography

Mickael Deroche originally from France, has a strong engineering background and a keen interest in auditory perception, music, and speech. He obtained his PhD from Cardiff University, where he studied cocktail party situations. Following this, he spent five years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, documenting deficits in pitch sensitivity in cochlear implanted children and their ability to recognize prosody and vocal emotions in speech. In 2015, he moved to Montreal, where he has worked on projects spanning auditory masking, emotion processing, sensorimotor integration, and cognitive load, particularly focusing on short-term memory in listeners with impoverished hearing such as musicians, stutterers, and individuals with Parkinson’s disease. In 2019, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Concordia University, where his lab examines the intersection of hearing and cognition. He is actively collaborating with members of the Otolaryngology Department to integrate his research with clinical expertise, aiming to build a cochlear implant research network.

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