570 | Sound in the Round: How the Brain Maps Multiple Lines of Music

In this episode, hosts Anthony Cruz and Ryan Baxter are joined by neuroscience PhD student Nima Zargarnezhad. An amateur musician from an early age, Nima relates how, as an undergraduate in electrical engineering, he developed a fascination with how the human brain works. For his Master's research, Nima was able to combine the strands of his musicianship, his computational skills, and his neurological interests, and bring all three to bear on a project at Western's Centre for Brain and Mind. Using a sound equipment array known as the audiodome, he created virtual sound spaces to study how the human brain interprets positional information from the sounds in its environment.

You can learn more about Nima and his research at the following links:

https://nimazargarnezhad.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nima-zargarnezhad/  

  Recorded on Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 Produced by Garth Casbourn Theme song provided by FreeBeats.io (Produced by White Hot)