Open Guitar - About

My name is Fernando Bravo. I am a researcher in Computational Neuroscience and Music Technology living and working in Dresden (Germany), affiliated to the University Hospital Tübingen (Germany) and to the University of Cambridge (UK) [Download CV].

In parallel to my research work, I opened links with different lifetime friends and university colleagues working on music technology, robotics, electronic arts and computer science, with the aim of developing novel social/educational programs.

I initiated the OpenGuitar project in collaboration with master guitar luthier Jost von Huene (https://www.jost-von- huene-gitarren.de/) and the Konglomerat e.V. (https://konglomerat.org/); both, also, based in Dresden.

Selected Publications:

Bravo, F., Glogowski, J., Stamatakis, E. A., & Herfert, K. (2024). Dissonant music engages early visual processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(30), e2320378121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2320378121

Haas, S.*, Bravo, F.*, Ionescu, T. M., Gonzalez-Menendez, I., Quintanilla-Martinez, L., Dunkel, G., Kuebler, L., Hahn, A., Lanzenberger, R., Weigelin, B., Reischl, G., Pichler, B. J., & Herfert, K. (2024). Functional PET/MRI reveals active inhibition of neuronal activity during optogenetic activation of the nigrostriatal pathway. Science Advances, 10(43), eadn2776. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn2776 [* co-first authors]

Bravo, F., Cross, I., Hopkins, C., Gonzalez, N., Docampo, J., Bruno, C. & Stamatakis, E.A. (2019), Anterior Cingulate and Medial Prefrontal Cortex Response to Systematically Controlled Tonal Dissonance during Passive Music Listening. Human Brain Mapping, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.24786

Bravo, F., Cross, I., Hawkins, S., Gonzalez, N., Docampo, J., Bruno, C., & Andreas Stamatakis, E. (2017). Neural Mechanisms underlying Valence Inferences to Sound: the Role of the right Angular Gyrus. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.05.029

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