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completed her PhD at the Paris Brain Institute. She now holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she continues to investigate the impact of sleep on creativity.

is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. You’ve probably ...

is professor of music at Indiana University, US. Her books include The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry (2013) and Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval ...

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