Cognitive Neuorscientist
Jamshed Bharucha is Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University. Dr. Bharucha's research has focused on the cognitive and neural basis of the perception of music, using perceptual experiments, neural net modeling, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). He has served on the National Science Foundation's Advisory Panel in Perception and Cognition, and was Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Music Perception.
His work has been featured on National Public Radio, US News & World Report, Discover magazine, and the New York Times. A 1978 graduate of Vassar College, he received a master’s degree in philosophy from Yale in 1979 and a Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 1983. He formerly served as Dean of Faculty and Deputy Provost at Dartmouth College, where he was the John Wentworth Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences. At Dartmouth, he received the Huntington Teaching Award and the Undergraduate Teaching Initiative Special Award. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 1993-94 and a visiting scholar at Cornell and Carnegie Mellon Universities.