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 or presenting, please get in touch with Marcus Pearce (marcus.pearce [at] qmul.ac.uk).
| 2024 | ||||
| 11am, Fri 9 February | Polina Proutskova | BBC Research | VocalNotes Project [title TBC] | CS424 |
| 2023 | ||||
| 11am, Fri 24 November | Andrea Halpern | Bucknell University | Memory for music: For better or worse | CS424 |
| 11am, Fri 3 November | Ilana Harris | UCL | Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex? | CS424 |
| 11am, Fri 14 July | Tomas Matthews | Aarhus University | Predictive Processes Shape the Relation between Syncopation and the Urge to Move to Music | G2 |
| 4pm, Thu 11 May | Anja Volk | Utrecht University | Music Information Computing: Understanding and employing patterns in music | G2 |
| 3pm, Tue 2 May | Christoph Finkensiep | EPFL | Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Note-Level Structure in Tonal Music | G2 |
| 11am, Fri 24th Mar | Mathias Klarlund | Aarhus University | Worlds apart? Testing the cultural distance hypothesis in music perception of Chinese and Western listeners. | CS308 |
| 2022 | ||||
| 11:30am, Fri 25th Nov | Eline Smit | University of Konstanz | Two approaches to the perception of affect of unfamiliar music | CS308 |
| 11:30am, Fri 11th Nov | Leah Fosticki | Ariel University | Individual differences in auditory perception | CS308 |
| 11:30am, Fri 9th Sep | Aditya Chander | Yale University | Rapid expectation adaptation for rare cadences | CS308 |
| 3pm, Tues 7th Jun | Elisa Passoni | University of York | Perception of voice pitch is malleable in the L1 of sequential Japanese-English bilinguals | Zoom |
| 11:30am, Fri 20th May | Diana Omigie | Goldsmiths University of London | Extending research on music engagement, memory and imagery: an overview of current research directions | CS308 |
| 3pm, Tues 3rd May | David Sears | Texas Tech University | Music Processing and the Language Metaphor: Evidence from Aphasia | Zoom |
| 11:30am, Fri 1st Apr | Breck McGough | University of Baylor | An Objective Dissonance? New Psychoacoustic Research in Light of Music History | CS308 |
| 11:30am, Fri 18th Mar | Kat Agres | Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore | Statistical Learning and Expectation Mechanisms as Applied to Music Technology for Healthcare | CS308 |
| 2021 | ||||
| 11:30am, Fri 10th Dec | Niels Chr. Hansen | Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies & Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark | Using IDyOM to investigate the expectancy dynamics of melodic cognition, composition, and improvisation | CS308 |
| 11:30am, Fri 3rd Dec | Scott Kunkel | Linguistics Department, QMUL | Bidialectal French speakers' language attitudes and perception of gradient acoustic differences | CS308 |
| 11:30am, Fri 26th Nov | Peter Harrison | Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge | Spectral effects on consonance | CS308 |
| 11:30am, Fri 19th Nov | John McBride | Insitute for Basic Science, South Korea | How discrete is musical pitch? | CS308 |
| 11:30am, Fri 5th Nov | Hope Oloye | University College, London | The impact of prolonged sensory predictability on cognition | CS308 |
| 3pm, Tues 5th Oct | Charalampos (Charis) Saitis | C4DM, Queen Mary University of London | Mapping the semantics of timbre across pitch registers | Zoom |
| 3pm, Tues 6th July | Christopher Lee | University of Hertfordshire | The influence of groove on sexual attraction: evidence for an effect of misattributed arousal in males but not females | Zoom |
| 3pm, Tues 6th Apr | Bodo Winter | University of Birmingham | Sensory language and ineffability: a cognitive linguistic perspective on sound descriptions and timbre | Zoom |
| 3pm, Tues 2nd Mar | Lindsey Reymore | Music Perception and Cognition Lab, McGill University | Color and tone color: Audio-visual cross-modal correspondences with musical instrument timbre | Zoom |
| 11:30am, Fri 15 Jan |
Polina Proutskova & Olga Velichkina | C4DM, Queen Mary University of London & French Society for Ethnomusicology | Open questions on tonality perception and construction in non-Western vocal music | Skype |
| 2020 | ||||
| 3pm, Tues 1st Dec | Gabriele Cecchetti | Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab, EPFL | Exploring the perceptual manifestations of syntactic processing in music | Skype |
| 11.30am, Fri 30 Oct | Bastiaan van der Weij | Music Cognition Group, University of Amsterdam | Statistical affordances for meter: a cross-cultural investigation of probabilistic generative rhythm models | Skype |
| 3pm, Tues 6th Oct | Hauke Egermann | York Music Psychology Group, University of York | Predicting Listener Experience in Functional Music Settings: Research at the Intersection between Music Psychology and Computer Science | Zoom |
| 3pm, Tues 2nd June | Roberta Bianco | EAR Institute, University College, London | Long-term implicit memory for sequential auditory patterns in humans | Skype |
| 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 |