Camila Bruder

Main research areas
- Aesthetic preferences
- Music cognition/perception
- Singing performance
Vita
Education
2014–2018 | Master of Arts in Systematic Musicology at Universität Hamburg |
2009–2013 | Bachelor’s degree in Music - Singing at the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP, Brazil) |
2005–2007 | Master of Sciences - Human Physiology at the University of Sao Paulo (USP, Brazil) |
2000–2004 | Bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Sao Paulo (USP, Brazil) |
Career
Since 2018 | Ph.D student, Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics |
2009–2016 | freelance singer and voice teacher |
2002–2003 | Laboratory technician and research assistant in Cellular Biology laboratory. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology - Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP, Brazil) |
Publications
Publications
Bruder, C., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2023). Classical singers are also proficient in non-classical singing. Frontiers in Psychology,14: 1215370. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1215370.
Bruder, C., Poeppel, D. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2022, August). The role of typicality in singing voice preferences [Paper presentation]. 14th. Pan European Voice Conference (PEVoC), Tallinn, Estonia.
Bruder, C. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2022, September). Acoustic characteristics of contrasting singing styles [Poster session]. 38. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, Würzburg, Germany.
Bruder, C., Jacoby, N., Poeppel, D., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2021, September). Predicting aesthetic ratings from the acoustics of sung melodies [Paper presentation]. 26th. Conference of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, online.
Bruder, C., Jacoby, N., Poeppel, D., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2021, July). Predicting aesthetic ratings from the acoustics of sung melodies [Paper presentation]. 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and 11th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC-ESCOM2021), online.
Bruder, C., Jacoby, N., Poeppel, D., & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2021, November). What makes a singer your favorite one? [Paper presentation]. International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus21), online/Aarhus, Denmark.
Bruder, C. & Wölner, C. (2019). Subvocalization in singers: Laryngoscopy and surface EMG effects when imagining and listening to song and text. Psychology of Music. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/0305735619883681
Bruder, C. & Wöllner, C. (2018, September). Subvocalization in singers: a study using EMG, laryngoscopy and expert ratings. Poster session presented in: 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, Gießen, Germany.
Bruder, C. & Ribeiro-do-Valle, L. E. (2009). Influence of separate and mixed experimental designs on reaction times to two simple visual stimuli. Psychology & Neuroscience, 2(1), 3-9.
Awards & Grants
Awards & Grants
2017/ 2018 | Degree completion grant from Universität Hamburg |
2018 | Forumpreis für hervorragende Hausarbeit, awarded by the Forum Musikwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg, for the essay “Subvokalisation: eine laryngoskopische und elektromyographische Pilotstudie“ |
2013 | Music Department’s Award of Excellence for the Bachelor Thesis in Music: “Analysis and performance of the Lied ‘Der Hirt auf dem Felsen’, by Franz Schubert” |
2006–2007 | Research scholarship, Coordination for Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES, Brazil) |
Projects
- Singing Voice Preferences
As suggested by the many singing contests and music programs in the media, the singing voice attracts ample attention. Recent studies showed that lay and expert listeners share similar definitions of what is “correct” when listening to ...