The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)


2015-01-27 17:00: An IDyOM Tutorial: Modelling Auditory Expectations (Dr Marcus Pearce - Queen Mary, University of London.)

2015-02-10 17:00: Cognitive research and South Asian music (Professor Richard Widdess - SOAS South Asia Institute)

2015-03-03 17:00: An introduction to Pulse-relational Rhythm Theory (Dr Steve Forman from Glasgow conservatiore)

2015-03-10 17:00: Gliding through history (Jiaxi Liu, Centre for Music and Science)

2015-03-17 17:00: Manipulating Structure through Digital Notation (Alan Blackwell and Sam Aaron, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory)

2015-06-09 17:00: Curtain call: Investigating the psychophysiology of public performance (Professor Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music, London)

2015-09-11 15:00: Serial Order in Behavior:  Unifying Acoustic Meaning and Rhythm in Audition, Speech, and Music (Stephen Grossberg)

2015-11-24 17:00: The Romantic Rollercoaster: exploring expectations evoked on hearing a piece of music for the first time using evidence from a prodigious musical savant (Professor Adam Ockelford, School of Education, University of Roehampton)

2015-12-01 17:00: Time to decide: the process of evaluating a musical performance (George Waddell, Royal College of Music)

2015-12-15 17:00: Unattended music, cognition, and the experimental paradigm: the 'background-ness' of background music (Charlotte Lapham)

2016-01-19 18:00: Improvisation as a way of knowing (Dr Andrew Goldman, Columbia University)

2016-01-26 17:00: Bilinguals' experience of emotional meaning in music and language (Miriam Tenderini, Queen Mary University of London)

2016-02-02 17:00: Psychological effects of interpersonal entrainment  (Gabriela Pavarini, University of Cambridge )

2016-02-09 17:00: How Infants Learn Language Using Speech Rhythm and Neuronal Oscillations (Dr Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge )

2016-02-16 17:00: Recognition of intent in infant-directed singing? Another look at music and universality (Dr Fabia Franco, Middlesex University London)

2016-03-01 17:00: Investigating rhythmic expectation using sound lateralization and auditory averaging tasks (David Greatrex, University of Cambridge )

2016-03-08 17:00: Understanding generative learning in the individual brain (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, University of Cambridge )

2016-04-19 17:00: How we become musically sophisticated: A gap in the literature and a new research perspective (Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen, Goldsmiths University of London)

2016-04-26 17:00: Music therapy, depression and frontal brain activity (Professor Jorg Fachner, Anglia Ruskin University )

2016-05-03 17:00: What can the biological study of music show us? (Dr. Daisy Fancourt, Royal College of Music )

2016-05-10 17:00: The Quest to Tune the Guitar Bridge, 1831-1956 (Charles Pardoe, University of Cambridge )

2016-05-24 17:00: Some Reflections on the Evolution and Differentiation of Human Utterance (Professor Adam Kendon, University of Cambridge )

2016-05-31 17:00: Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History (Professor Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute)

2016-06-07 17:00: Every Body Matters: Using Action Research to Work Towards Injury Prevention and Health Promotion in Young Musicians  (Sarah Upjohn, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge )

2016-06-14 17:00: Understanding conflicting results in the speech perception literature: methodologies, problems and findings regarding cognitive contributions (Dr Sarah Knight, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham)