Adjunct Professor in the Otolaryngology Department at McGill University,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University.
Member of the Center for Research on Brain, Language, and Music (CRBLM), the International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research (BRAMS), and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT),
Dr. Deroche is interested in the perception and production of voice pitch, using behavioral and neurophysiological techniques (EEG, fNIRS, pupillometry, tDCS, fMRI). He is originally from France, coming from an engineering background with a strong interest in auditory perception, be it with music or speech. He obtained his PhD in Cardiff University under the supervision of John Culling studying the use of pitch in cocktail-party situations. He spent five years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins, working with Monita Chatterjee and Charles Limb to document deficits in pitch sensitivity by cochlear implanted children and their ability to recognize prosody and vocal emotions in speech. In 2015, he moved to Montreal where he worked on a number of projects spanning auditory masking, emotion processing, sensorimotor integration, cognitive load and short-term memory in listeners with impoverished hearing as well as other populations of interest (musicianship, stuttering, Parkinson’s disease). As of 2019, he is appointed as Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Concordia University. His lab examines hearing and cognition, with a particular interest on cochlear implant users. He is actively collaborating with members of the Otolaryngology Department in order to tie in research to the clinical expertise of the MUHC and build a cochlear implant research network.