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SUMMARY:Bilinguals' experience of emotional meaning in music and language 
 - Miriam Tenderini\, Queen Mary University of London
DTSTART:20160126T170000Z
DTEND:20160126T183000Z
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CONTACT:Gabriela Pavarini
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation I will first give an outline of the gener
 al idea of my PhD project that focusses on the relationship between emotio
 n\, music and language. This will be followed by a discussion of the studi
 es conducted in the first year of my PhD aiming to find ‘lab-suitable’
  musical stimuli mediating emotional meaning rapidly.\nMy research centres
  around the question if there is direct access to the emotional meaning of
  words of a language acquired later in life (L2) similar to the first lang
 uage (L1) and non-linguistic emotional content of music. This issue is add
 ressed by means of a detailed behavioural (RTs) as well as electrophysiolo
 gical (N400) analysis using an affective priming paradigm with prime-targe
 t pairs consisting respectively of a L1- or L2-word and a music stimulus. 
 According to literature suggesting the L1 has a stronger emotional force t
 han the L2 the two languages are expected to differ in their priming force
  on music.\nIn the second part I will present the results of five behaviou
 ral studies aiming to find ‘proper’ stimulus material and a sensitive 
 design replicating the priming effect with a new language (English\, here 
 used as L2). Different musical stimuli like chords\, as single elements of
  music\, and musical excerpts of different duration have been used. The ch
 allenge in these experiments was to find musical stimuli with a short dura
 tion (required e.g. to measure time-logged neural responses) on one hand a
 nd mediating emotional content unfolding over time on the other hand. 
LOCATION:Lecture Room 1\, Faculty of Music\, 11 West Road\, CB3 9DP
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