Dr Brian Mathias
Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- brian.mathias@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Biography
- 2022- Assistant Professor, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- 2019-21 Research Associate and Lecturer, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
- 2016-19 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
- 2016 PhD Psychology, McGill University, Canada
- 2011 MSc Psychology, McGill University, Canada
- 2007-09 German Chancellor Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
- 2007 BA Psychology and Music, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Research
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Research Overview
- Multimodal learning and memory
- Neurocognition of language and music
- Multilingualism and second language learning
- Neuromodulation and adaptive plasticity
- Educational neuroscience and enrichment
Funding and Grants
- 2023-24 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Research Incentive Grant
- 2022-24 Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Grant
- 2022-23 Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Grant
- 2022-26 German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant
- 2020 Dresden University of Technology Research Funding Award
- 2017-21 German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant
- 2016-17 Erasmus Mundus Postdoctoral Fellowship in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
- 2016 Quebec Fonds de Recherche en Nature et Technologies (FQRNT) Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2015 Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM) Research Grant
- 2015 Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media, and Technology (CIRMMT) Grant
- 2011-14 National Science Foundation (NSF) Predoctoral Fellowship
- 2009-11 Richard H. Tomlinson Master's Fellowship
- 2007 Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellowship
- 2007 German Fulbright Scholarship
- 2006 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Fellowship in Mental Health Research
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
- PS5557 Quantitative and Qualitative Methods and Research Design (MRes)
- PS5529 Methods and Analysis in Psychology (MSc)
- PS4062 Lab to Life
- PS4040 Current Topics in Psychological Studies
- PS3522 Quantitative Research Methods (Methodology B)
- PS3518 Developmental Psychology
