Professor of Cognitive Science & Director of Research, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia
Peter Keller holds degrees in Music and Psychology from the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of Research in the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University. Previously, he led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig, Germany), held a European Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and served as Editor of the interdisciplinary journal ‘Empirical Musicology Review.’ His research addresses the psychological and neurophysiological underpinnings of human interaction in musical contexts.