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====== fMRI-Compatible Cello ======
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|title=fMRI-Compatible Cello|
|participants=[[people:Avrum Hollinger]]\\
 [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]] (supervisor)\\
 Christopher Steele\\
 Virginia Penhune (Concordia University)\\
 Robert Zatorre (Montreal Neurological Institute)|
|funding=Concordia University (Penhune)\\
 Canadian Foundation for Innovation (Zatorre & Wanderley)\\
 NSERC Discovery Grant (Wanderley)\\ CIRMMT student funds (Hollinger) 2007-2008|
|type=Collaborative project (CIRMMT, BRAMS - Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound).|
|period=2006--|
|status=Ongoing.|
|image=projects:fmri:cello_played_fingers.jpg
|caption=Optical sensing of cello finger}}

===== Project Description =====

This project focuses on the development of an MR-compatible cello interface that can be used inside MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners. The optically-sensed electro-acoustic cello allows neuroscientists studying motor learning of musical tasks to perform functional scans of a subject's brain while synchronizing the scanner, auditory and visual stimuli, and auditory feedback with the cellists instrumental gestures, such as fingering, bow speed, and bow pressure.

{{projects:fmri:cello_played_new-bow.jpg?600|MR-compatible cello}}

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===== Publications =====

  * A. Hollinger and M. M. Wanderley. "{{publications:2012:hollinger_nime2012.pdf|Optoelectronic Acquisition and Control Board for Musical Applications}}."  In Proc. of the 2012 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME12), Ann Harbour, 2012.
  * A. Hollinger and M. M. Wanderley. "MRI-Compatible Optically-Sensed Cello." In Proc. of IEEE SENSORS 2013 Conference, 2013. Awarded “Best Student Paper, Overall.”

{{tag>Interface fMRI Optical_Sensing Cello}}