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David Ricardo Quiroga Martinez is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Social Sciences. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying auditory working memory and musical imagination using intracranial EEG and MEG techniques. He investigates how the brain represents and manipulates sounds during perception and imagination, with applications for understanding psychiatric disorders and brain-computer interfaces.
His research interests span Auditory Working Memory, Neural Mechanisms of Imagination, Neuroscience of Music, and Reward Coding. He employs invasive and non-invasive neuroimaging to study how musical sequences are processed in the brain, examining temporal hierarchies in predictive processing from pure tones to complex songs. His work bridges cognitive neuroscience, computational modeling, and clinical applications.
Key publications reveal trends in neural representation of musical thoughts (2024), asymmetric reward prediction coding (2023), and temporal hierarchies in melody processing (2023). His research consistently explores how musical structure, predictability, and expertise shape neural responses, with implications for understanding disorders involving auditory imagery abnormalities.
- Reintegration Fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation: The representation of musical thoughts in neurons of the human brain
- International Postdoc from DFF: The neural basis of musical imagination
His collaborative network spans international institutions, with significant work on congenital amusia, atonal music processing, and neural gain modulation. Current projects involve decoding imagined musical sounds and investigating reward prediction errors in cortical networks, supported by major Danish research foundations.
