Mireille Besson

Full Professor of Neuropsychology and Director of Research at the CNRS at the University of Aix-Marseille.
Mireille Besson

She obtained her PhD from the University of Aix-Marseille in 1984 and her habilitation to direct research in 1999. Since 1988 she has been a researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique -Université Aix-Marseille, France-) and since 2009 she has been a research director. Her research interests focus on music, language and the brain, mainly studying how musical training influences language processing.