Registration
Registration is mandatory as seating is limited (35 seats): Workshop on perception of tonal structure in music - registration
Description
This workshop will include presentations on a wide range of recent researches into the perception of tonality in music.
Guests / Speakers
- Nick Foster, Montreal Children's Hospital/Neuroscience, Faculty of Science, McGill University
- Petr Janata, University of California, USA
- Michael Klein, CIRMMT, MNI, Faculty of Science, McGill University
- Brian Mathias, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, McGill University
- Martin Rohrmeier, MIT i2 intelligence initiative, USA
- Cecilia Taher, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
- Dominique Vuvan, BRAMS, Université de Montréal
Schedule
10:00-10:15 - Introduction and coffee
10:15-10:45 - Michael Klein: Qualitatively differentiable sounds & quantitatively differentiable brains: encoding of decoding of musical intervals
10:45-11:15 - Cecilia Taher: An empirical investigation of the effects of harmony on pitch perception
11:15-11:30 - Coffee break
11:30-12:00 - Dominique Vuvan: The robustness of tonal representations: Insights from amusia research
12:00-13:00 - Lunch
13:00-13:30 - Martin Rohrmeier: Musical syntax and tonality: Theoretical and empirical approaches
13:30-14:00 - Nick Foster: Musical mental transformations: can the circle of fifths predict brain activity?
14:00-14:15 - Coffee break
14:15-14:45 - Brian Mathias: Tonal changes influence electrophysiological responses to perceived and performed melodies
14:45-15:45 - Round table and discussion with Petr Janata, respondent