Seminars

The Music Cognition Lab holds weekly seminars on the Mile End campus at Queen Mary University of London. Sessions with invited speakers are listed below.

We welcome visitors to our seminars. If you are interested in attending, please get in touch with Edward Hall (edward.hall [at] qmul.ac.uk) or Marcus Pearce (marcus.pearce [at] qmul.ac.uk).

2020
11.30am, Fri 6 Mar	Ana Clemente	Human Evolution and Cognition Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands	Musical and Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity	CS308
11.30am, Fri 28 Feb	Elia Benhamou	UCL/Dementia Research Centre/Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging	Predictive Cognition of Music in Dementia	CS308
12.30pm, Mon 27 Jan	Alan Marsden	Lancaster University	A Computational Approach to Hierarchical Musical Structure	ITL Meeting Room
12.00pm, Mon 27 Jan	Tuomas Eerola	Durham University	Movement Periodicity in Music Performance	ITL Meeting Room
2019
11.30am, Fri 4 Oct	Christian Walder	CSIRO Data61	Neural Dynamic Programming for Musical Self Similarity	CS308
11.30am, Fri 2 Aug	Roger Dean	Western Sidney University	Network Analysis of Changing Conceptual Relationships between Timbres	CS308
11.30am, Fri 26 Jul	Psyche Loui	Northeastern University	Neural and Cognitive Substrates of Learning, Liking, and Learning	ITL Meeting Room
11.30am, Fri 12 Jul	Andrea Halpern	Bucknell University	Specificity of Auditory Imagery for Music	ITL Meeting Room
11.30am, Fri 14 Jun	Gareth Hearne	Western Sidney University	Fit and stability ratings in common, exotic, and microtonal scales	CS308
11.30am, Fri 12 Apr	David Baker	Louisiana State University	The Frequency Facilitation Hypothesis	CS308
11.30am, Fri 1 Feb	David Quiroga Martínez	Aarhus University	MMN, uncertainty and predictive processing in more realistic and complex musical contexts	CS308
2018
12pm, Fri 14 December	Sarah Sauvé	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Aging Effects on Cortical Rhythmic Entrainment	BR4.01
11.30am, Fri 2 November	David Baker	Louisiana State University	Modeling Melodic Dictation	CS308
11.30am, Fri 24 August	Roger Dean	Western Sidney University	Timbral Ordering	CS308
11.30am, Fri 6 July	Andrew Goldman	Columbia University, USA	The Neuroscience of Improvisation: Epistemological Problems, Empirical Approaches	CS308
11.30am, Fri 29 June	Roberta Bianco	University College, London	Patterns detection in rapid sound sequences: Working memory limits and Learning	CS308
11.30am, Fri 23 Mar	Stine Derdau Sørensen	Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark	A musical mass experiment	ITL Meeting Room
2017
11am, Fri 17 Nov	Sarah Knight	Queen Mary University of London	Multi-modal communicative behaviours in music therapy as markers of mental health	CS308
10am, Mon 13 Nov	Emilios Cambouropoulos	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Creative harmonisation via conceptual blending: The CHAMELEON melodic harmonisation assistant	ITL Meeting Room
11am, Fri 10 Nov	Manuel Anglada-Tort & Katie-Rose Sanfilippo	Berlin Technical University; Goldsmiths, University of London	Visualising music psychology	CS308
11am, Fri 13 Oct	Andrew McLeod	University of Edinburgh	The language of music: A computational model of music understanding	CS308
11am, Fri 29 Sep	Roger Dean	Western Sydney University	Recent research into musical expression	ITL Seminar Room
11am, Fri 5 May	Manuel Anglada-Tort	Berlin Technical University	The Behavioural Economics of Music	ITL Seminar Room
2016
1pm, Mon 28 November	Sam Duffy	Queen Mary University of London	Steve Reich’s Clapping Music App – using a mobile game based application to learn about music engagement and rhythm complexity	ITL Seminar Room
3pm, Tue 22 November	Guido Orgs	Goldsmiths University of London	The Neuroaesthetics of Choreography	ITL Seminar Room
3pm, Mon 16 May	Arild Stenberg	University of Cambridge	Can Layout and Engraving Rules Affect the Readability of Musical Scores?	BR 4.01
3pm, Mon 14 March	Gabriela Pavarini	University of Cambridge	Emotional Effects of Interpersonal Synchrony	BR 4.01
3pm, Tue 23 February	Arielle Bonneville-Roussy	University of Roehampton	There is accounting for taste: Intrinsic properties of the music as determinants of music taste in adulthood	ITL Seminar Room
4pm, Thu 14 January	David Poeppel	Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt	Speech is Special and Language is Structured	Laws 2.10
2015
12pm, Tue 8 December 2015	Fernando Bravo	University of Cambridge	The effects of musical dissonance upon the emotional interpretation of visual information	ITL Seminar Room
3pm, Tue 24 November 2015	Lauren Stewart & Pedro Kirk	Goldsmiths University of London	Sounds Within Reach: Cognitive and Motor Rehabilitation through Music Making	ITL Seminar Room
3pm, Mon 16 March 2015	Hauke Egermann	Technical University of Berlin	Music and Emotion: Empirical Insights to Theory and Modeling	ITL Seminar Room
4pm, Thu 29 Jan 2015	Emery Schubert	University of New South Wales	Mental matching of musical structures: The veridical chaining hypothesis	ITL Seminar Room
2014
2pm, Tue 14 Jan 2014	Finn Upham	New York University	Breathing with: listener respiratory phase alignment with music	CS414
2013
3pm, Thu 12 Dec 2013	Chia-Jung Tsay	UCL	The Impact of Visual Cues on the Judgment of Performance	CS414
4pm, Wed 11 Dec 2013	Justin London	Carleton College	Microtiming in African drumming.	CS414
2pm, Tue 29 Oct 2013	Christian Mikutta and Andreas Altorfer	University of Berne	Music and Emotion in Neuroscience	CS414
2pm, Wed 6 Feb 2013	Peter Vuust	Aarhus University	It Don’t Mean a Thing… What musical training does to the brain	Eng209
3pm, Wed 30 Jan 2013	Soren Bech	Bang & Olufsen	Perceptual Audio Evaluation	BR3.02
2012
2pm, Wed 7 Nov 2012	Jonna Vuoskoski	University of Oxford	Emotions induced by music: Psychological mechanisms and some contributing factors	Eng209
12pm, Wed 19 Sept 2012	Andrea Halpern	Bucknell University	You Must Remember This: Episodic and Semantic Memory for Music	Eng209
3pm, Wed 8 Feb 2012	Michael Proulx & Dave Brown	Queen Mary, University of London	Seeing with your ears? Image to sound sensory substitution	Eng209