Karen Chan

Karen Chan is a doctoral student in the Music Theory and Cognition program in the Bienen School of Music and a recipient of a Northwestern Advanced Cognitive Science Fellowship.  Her research focuses on factors that influence attention when listening to multiple musical lines.   Specifically, Karen is investigating how musical structure and elements of an individual’s musical training affect where attention is directed when listening to Baroque imitative counterpoint.  Karen’s interdisciplinary research takes place in the Music Cognition Lab at NU as well as at the Auditory Neuroscience lab, combining perceptual studies with neurobiological studies. Karen is co-advised by Richard Ashley and Nina Kraus.