New face at MIB: Chloé Coissac
MIB is happy to host PhD student from Sapienza University of Rome.
Chloé Coissac is a double PhD student in behavioral neuroscience at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and the Graduate School of Health at Aarhus University, Denmark. She previously completed a master's in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Pavia, Italy, following a bachelor in Musicology and a General University Diploma in Physics from Grenoble Alpes University, France.
She is currently visiting MIB for a six-month research stay, working on her PhD thesis under the supervision of Associate Professor Massimo Lumaca and Professor Andrea Ravignani. During her stay, she is studying the role of the basal ganglia in the emergence of rhythmic structure (i.e., rhythmic regularization biases), using Parkinson's disease as a model of basal ganglia dysfunction.
Her PhD project focuses on the socio-neural origins of rhythmic structure. Her work investigates which aspects of rhythmic priors are driven by intrinsic neural architecture and to what extent individual socio-cognitive traits and group contexts may amplify, constrain, or modify these intrinsic rhythmic biases.
Outside the lab, her passions span from music to outdoor activities and she is always seeking new and unexpected experiences.