Valentin Bégel

Valentin is an Associate Professor at the Paris Cité University (Paris, France). He works at the Institut des Sciences du Sport Santé (I3SP), a research unit based the STAPS Department (Sports and human movement sciences). Valentin specializes in auditory-motor processes involved in rhythm perception and production. His teaches motor control from behavioral neurosciences, cognitive psychology, and embodied cognition perspectives.  

Valentin obtained his PhD in in Human Movement Science at the University of Montpellier (France) in 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Simone Dalla Bella. During his PhD, Valentin studied mechanisms involved in rhythm perception and production in both healthy participants and patients (Parkinson’s Disease) and contributed to the creation of technological tools for the evaluation and training of rhythmic skills. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lille (France) and the Pediatric Department of the University Hospital with Pr. Delphine Dellacherie. He conducted studies testing the link between rhythmic and cognitive skills and tested the effect of a dance training protocol in children with developmental disorders (Dyslexia, Developmental cerebellar anomalies). He was then a postdoctoral fellow with Pr. Caroline Palmer at McGill University (Montréal QC, Canada) for two years in the framework of the NSERC-CREATE project, where conducted studies focusing on the complex dynamics of human sensorimotor control using non-linear dynamics theories and tools.

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