Anja-Xiaoxing Cui


Postdoctoral Fellow

Music

School of Music

Research Themes:  The Communicating Mind and Body

Anja is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Music.

Her project investigates the effect of opera training on neuropsychological performance and brain anatomy as part of the Peter Wall Opera Project. A particular focus of this project lies in the language training opera students receive as part of their curriculum. She is co-supervised by Dr. Janet Werker, Dr. Lara Boyd, Dr. Rachel Weber, and Prof. Nancy Hermiston.

Anja completed schooling in Germany at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and in Canada at Queen's University. Past projects investigated learning of new musical systems, the effects of extracurricular music activities on children's development, and music-evoked memories in older adults.

Broadly, she is interested in learning of and learning through music.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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