Podcasts about music perception

Bio: For those who love to experience music, look no further than Supertask. With deep roots in hip-hop and a focus towards immersion, Supertask creates sonic landscapes that dance between the intensity and stillness of the human consciousness. With a background in IT, Supertask frequently uses code and programming in his artistic vision, and the idea of infinity consumes his musical escapism offerings. A vision that his loyal community, the Dev Team, are directly involved in. Blending both analog and digital sound design, his unique approach has proven to be a driving force in the forward progression of electronic music. Through soundscapes that feel sentient, interactive live streams, and mind-bending visuals, Supertask is changing the way that we consume art. Supertask Links News: Single Release: 4/21 Collaboration EP With "Seeded Vision" comes out this summer. Show Takeaways: Brain-computer interfaces have the potential to revolutionize music creation, but there are challenges to overcome, such as data transfer and the role of musical knowledge. AI can be a useful tool in music production, from generating lyrics to providing information about plugins and audio files. Creativity is subjective, and the definition of creativity can vary from person to person. AI can be creative in its ability to generate music, but a sense of ownership and sentimental value may be lacking. Imperfections and randomness can add depth and authenticity to music production, and tools like Eurorack can provide unique sounds and experiences. Language has limitations in expressing emotions in music, and the complexity of defining concepts like holes and chairs highlights the challenges of categorization. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:35 Understanding Supertask 04:08 AI and Music in the Subset of Noise 07:59 Human Resolution with Color and Sound 09:39 Resolution and Possibilities in Audio 11:04 The Perception of Music and Noise 12:08 Cultural Influence on Music Perception 13:20 The Universality of Music Perception 14:25 Microtonal Scales and Musical Perception 15:21 Exploring Microtonal Music 19:22 The Concept of Simulation Theory 25:10 The Possibility of Living in a Simulation 28:08 Exploring Music and Visual Art 29:27 Scripted Looping in Music Production 34:29 The Ego and Live Performances 36:15 The Challenge of Performing Live Electronic Music 37:38 The Limitations of Live Performances 37:39 The Role of Input Devices in Music Expression 38:24 Exploring the Potential of Brain-Computer Interfaces 39:05 Speculating on the Future of Music Creation 40:00 The Role of Musical Knowledge in Brain-Computer Interfaces 40:49 The Challenges of Data Transfer in Brain-Computer Interfaces 42:19 The Role of AI in Brain-Computer Interfaces 42:50 The Increasing Predictability of Human Behavior 45:01 Using AI in Music Production 47:16 The Usefulness of AI in Answering Questions and Providing Information 48:34 The Definition and Nature of Creativity 51:17 The Subjectivity of Intellectual Property and Creativity 52:09 Exploring Unreal Engine and its Potential in Music Visuals 53:18 The Potential Disruption of AI and Sora in the Film Industry 54:00 The Limitations of AI in Music Generation 57:52 The Importance of Imperfection in Music Production 58:18 Using Randomness and Mistakes in Sound Design 01:00:19 The Appeal of Eurorack and Imperfections in Music 01:02:41 The Sense of Ownership and Sentimental Value in Music 01:04:34 The Potential of AI in Music Creation 01:06:28 The Interactive and Symbiotic Nature of Music Production 01:09:04 The Difficulty of Expressing Authenticity Through AI 01:11:36 The Limitations of Language in Expressing Emotions in Music 01:12:02 The Complexity of Defining Concepts like Holes and Chairs 01:14:04 The Process vs. the Final Product in Music Creation 01:14:46 Future Plans and Projects  

In this episode, Dr. Patrick Cooper talks about what it means to bring hip-hop into the music classroom. He discusses specific lessons or units he's used with his students, practical ways you can implement hip-hop lessons with even the youngest of students, and talks about new and exciting ideas you'll definitely want to try. Dr. Patrick K. Cooper is an assistant professor of music education at Florida International University. He teaches courses in research, curriculum development, philosophy, and creativity. He holds degrees in music education from Arizona State University (B.M., M.M.) and University of South Florida (Ph.D.). Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award from the Center for Music Education Research, his research interests capture the intersection of creativity, inclusion, and performance. His publications can be found in academic journals such as Psychology of Music and International Journal of Music Education as well as practitioner texts such as The Music Technology Cookbook and The Learner-Centered Music Classroom. His book Broadcast to Podcast: Lessons from Radio for an Online Music Education is available through F-Flat Books. Dr. Cooper has presented internationally, nationally, and locally at conferences such as NeuroMusic, Society for Music Perception and Cognition, International Society for Music Education, Society for Music Teacher Education, and the National Association for Music Education Biennial Music Research and Teacher Education Conference. He has given workshops and lectures as an invited speaker at several universities including University of Southern California, Arizona State University, Illinois State University, and Westminster Choir College. As a musician, he has performed extensively as a double bassist, synthesizer player, and hip-hop artist. Prior to his appointment at Florida International University, he held adjunct positions with Eastern Illinois University and The Crane School of Music at SUNY-Potsdam, was a Presidential Doctoral Fellow at University of South Florida, and taught in public schools and community centers in St. Petersburg, FL and the metro Phoenix area. Connect with Patrick here: Email him at pcooper@fiu.edu Hip-Hop course on LEARN at F-Flat Books Broadcasting book at F-Flat Books Enroll in the Curriculum Design Roadmap Course Grab your free ⁠⁠⁠Simplifying Lesson Planning guide.⁠⁠ Get your copy of ⁠⁠⁠⁠Make A Note: What You Really Need to Know About Teaching Elementary Music⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedomesticmusician/message

Dr. Rebecca MacLeod is Professor of Music Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she directs the string education program and conducts the UNCG Sinfonia. She is the author of Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom and is published in Journal of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, String Research Journal, Psychology of Music, The Strad, American String Teachers Journal, and various state music education journals. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education, the String Research Journal, and as guest reviewer for the International Journal of Research in Music Education. She is the recipient of the UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance Outstanding Teaching Award, the American String Teacher Association National Researcher Award, and the UNCG Junior Research Excellence Award. A passionate advocate for increasing access to string education to all students, Dr. MacLeod directs two community partnership programs that provide string instruction to underserved students: the Lillian Rauch Beginning Strings Program and the Peck Alumni Leadership Program. Students of these programs have performed for Dr. Maya Angelou, Dr. Gloria Ladsen-Billings, and the Sphinx Virtuosi. Her research on working with underserved populations, vibrato technique, music teacher education, and music perception has been presented at the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (Thessoloniki, Greece), Music Research and Human Behavior International Conference (Barcelona, Spain), International Society for Music Education (Glasgow, Scotland), Music Educators National Conference, National Association for Music Education National Conference, American String Teachers National Conference, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Society for Music Teacher Education, and music educators state conferences. Prior to joining the UNCG faculty, she taught elementary, middle, and high school orchestra in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania and was orchestra director and chair of music activities in Beaver, Pennsylvania. She was the assistant artistic director and conductor of the Tallahassee Symphony Youth Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra in Tallahassee, Florida. She has served on the American String Teachers Association National Board and is past president of the North Carolina ASTA chapter. She was a guest lecturer at Xi'an University and Shaoguan University (China) in summer 2016 and 2017. Dr. MacLeod received her undergraduate degree from Duquesne University and her MME and PhD from Florida State University. She is a frequent guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and abroad. https://teachingstrings.online https://vpa.uncg.edu/home/directory/bio-rebeccamacleod/ ------- Your support is appreciated! If you are enjoying The Orchestra Teacher Podcast, please consider becoming a supporter for as little as 99 cents per month. I am working hard to bring on some amazing educators who will share ideas, tell their story, and offer some support for all of you. I have invested a lot of time in putting it all together and money purchase equipment that will help provide the best possible listening experience. Here is the link: https://anchor.fm/orchestrateacher/support Thank you for your continued support! If you have suggestions for podcast guests, please let me know by providing a name and contact information. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/orchestrateacher/support

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.03.16.532764v1?rss=1 Authors: Carraturo, G., Pando-Naude, V., Costa, M., Vuust, P., Bonetti, L., Brattico, E. Abstract: Since ancient Greece, major and minor modes in Western tonal music have been identified as the primary responsible musical feature for eliciting emotional states. The underlying correlates of the major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception have been extensively investigated through decades of psychological and neuroscientific research. This comprehensive systematic review aims to synthesise the literature on musical mode perception and its behavioural and physiological correlates. The qualitative synthesis resulted in 70 studies, showing great diversity in how the major-minor dichotomy has been empirically approached. Most studies were conducted on adults, considered participants' expertise, employed real-life musical stimuli, performed behavioural evaluations, and were published from 2010 onwards. Based on our findings, a framework to describe a Major-Minor Mode(l) of music perception and its behavioural and physiological correlates is proposed, incorporating individual factors such as age, expertise, cultural background, and emotional disorders. Limitations, implications, and suggestions for future research are discussed, including putative clinical applications of major-minor perception and best practices regarding stimulation paradigms for musical mode investigation. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Estudo da Universidade de Nova Iorque, publicado no Journal of Music Perception, conclui que em 5 segundos, ou menos, decidimos se gostamos ou não de uma canção.

Zia Hassan is a life coach who helps people in career transitions. He is also a musician who has been writing and recording his own music for the last 30 years. This in turn has helped him make sense of the world through the different genres and artists. In this episode we dive deep into exploring new music and sound (especially ambient), how that has changed his perception of music and what we all can learn by tuning into music in a different way. It's an enlightening and powerful chat that provides so much food for thought and ideas for us all to be more open minded when it comes to music we haven't (really) listened to before. During our chat we touch on: · Spotify playlists and how he uses them · How he grew up around arts and music · What genre of music is his favourite and why · How Brian Eno inspired him to create his own sound/music · Why Zia thinks letting our brain experience different sound is beneficial and needed · His experience at a live concert by one of his favourite artists · Tips around listening to music we have never heard before · What his precepting of ambient music's purpose is and beginner listening tips Connect with Zia Hassan Website: www.ziahassan.coach/ IG: http://instagram.com/ziahassan Blog: ziahassan.blog LIKED THE EPISODE? Then I am sure others would like to hear it, too. Why not share this episode with them or leave a review on Apple Podcasts so I can reach more people. Join me in the official Living on the B Side Community Facebook group HERE.

In this Episode of Voice of Music Therapy we sit down with Professor Kara Caine, MT-BC, MME, to discuss her research regarding fathers and infant-directed singing. Learn all about how fathers have their own unique interactions with infants and how this may influence music therapy practice for all clinicians. Colleen T. O'Neill, Laurel J. Trainor, Sandra E. Trehub; Infants' Responsiveness to Fathers' Singing. Music Perception 1 June 2001; 18 (4): 409–425. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2001.18.4.409 Developmental Stages Link “Paternal Postnatal Attachment Scale by John T Condon of Flinders University, 2015. Reused under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 AU License. File available from: https://doi.org/10.25957/5dc0f8641433a" Dad and Baby Rap Video Baldwin Wallace University Link The College of Wooster Link Don't forget to rate our podcast on apple music and listen to our playlists listed in bio - Subscribe to here new episodes the second they're released and Thank you for listening If you would like to recommend a guest or engage more with us you can email us at voicesofmusictherapy@gmail.com or follow us on instagram and facebook @voicesofmusictherapy Episode Playlist: My Father's Eyes – Eric Clapton Daddy Lessons - Beyoncé Song for dad – Keith Urban My Old Man – Zac Brown Band Father And Daughter – Paul Simon Have you heard of the musictherapypodcastcollective - get CMTE credits https://mtpodcastcollective.com/ Edited by Brian Locascio, MT-BC --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vomt/support

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William Newton chats with Dr. Amanda (Mandi) Schlegel, Assistant Professor of Instrumental Music Education at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Schlegel's research interests surround music perception and cognition as a function of instrumental music teacher/conductor effectiveness, music teacher education, and effective and emotional responses to music. Her research has been presented at regional, national, and international conferences, most notably the National Biennial In-Service Conference of NAfME: The National Association for Music Education, the Annual Music Education Week in Washington D. C. (MENC), International Symposium for Research in Music Behavior, Society for Music Teacher Education (SMTE), International Society for Music Education, Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), and the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/set-to-fire/support

ABOUT DR. CHARLES LIMB:USSF Health: https://www.ucsfhealth.org/providers/dr-charles-limbhttps://ohns.ucsf.edu/charles-limb https://profiles.ucsf.edu/charles.limbWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_LimbTED Profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_LimbTED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improvKennedy Center:https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/l/la-ln/charles-limb/https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/center/discussionspoken-word/2017/jazz-creativity-and-the-brainsound-health-music-and-the-mind/https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/digital-stage/discussionspoken-word/2019/music-and-the-voice-brain-mechanisms-of-vocal-mastery-and-creativity--sound-health/https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/center/discussionspoken-word/2019/sound-health-inside-esperanza-spaldings-brain--the-kennedy-center/https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/center/classical-music/2018/music-and-the-mind-with-piano-prodigy-matthew-whitaker/The Art of The Spark: Musical Creativity Explored with Dr. Charles Limb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmGOVr8aJ0Articles: https://www.artsandmindlab.org/charles-limb-md-mapping-the-creative-minds-of-musicians/On Creativity: mihaly csikszentmihalyihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi DR.CHARLES LIMB Bio:Dr. Charles Limb is the Francis A. Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Chief of the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at UC San Francisco. He is the Director of the Douglas Grant Cochlear Implant Center at UCSF and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery. Dr. Limb received his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, medical training at Yale University School of Medicine, and surgical residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in functional neuroimaging at the National Institutes of Health. He was a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Peabody Conservatory of Music and the School of Education between 1996 and 2015. Dr. Limb joined the UCSF Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in 2015.Dr. Limb is the 2021-22 President of the American Auditory Society and the Co-Director of the Sound Health Network sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, NIH and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is the PI of an NEA Research Lab and Co-PI of an NIH R61/R33 grant. He is the past Editor-in-Chief of Trends in Amplification (now Trends in Hearing), and an Editorial Board member of Otology and Neurotology. Dr. Limb was selected as the 2022 NIH Clinical Center Distinguished Clinical Research Scholar and Educator in Residence. He was also named in 2022 as one of the Kennedy Center's Next 50, a group of fifty national cultural leaders who are “moving us toward a more inspired, inclusive, and compassionate world”.His current areas of research focus on the study of the neural basis of musical creativity and the study of music perception in deaf individuals with cochlear implants. His work has received international attention and has been featured by National Public Radio, TED, 60 Minutes, National Geographic, the New York Times, PBS, CNN, Scientific American, the British Broadcasting Company, the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sundance Film Festival, Canadian Broadcasting Company, the Kennedy Center, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Discovery Channel, CBS Sunday Morning, and the American Museum of Natural History.SHOW INTRODUCTION:A number of years ago I attended a series of lectures at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC that focus on music and the brain and as I sat and watched and listened to these presentations, I was absolutely amazed with the interrelationship between brain activity, spontaneous creativity, music, language meaning and all these things that we share as human beings.For years I've been fascinated with the creative process. It seems natural I suppose given that I'm an architect, an artist, an author and occasionally I might even consider myself a novice musician because I can bang out five chords of a James Taylor song on my guitar. I do however have the extraordinarily good fortune of living with three musicianS. MY sons who are jazz musician,  a pianist and a drummer, and a wife who is also a pianist and composer/songwriter and have been surrounded by music and love it for years.In fact, when I paint, and I happen to be focusing on a series of portraits of famous jazz musicians and other musical artists, I only listen to their music as I'm creating. Somehow I think I'm channeling John Coltrane or Miles Davis or Keith Richards or Janis Joplin or Prince.But it helps, it really does. It gets me into a flow state and the world outside me just disappears.  For a long time now I have held that creativity is part of who we are. We are equally Homo Faber man the maker as we are Homo Sapiens man the wise.I deeply believe that the creative process is something that is intrinsic to building community and connections with other people for years. We have danced around fires and stamped out meaning with our feet and sang songs and beat on drums and created extraordinary symphonies or rock concerts and in doing so we come together and better understand ourselves our community culture and, in some strange cosmological sense, our relation to the larger whole of humanity.It seems to me that vocal utterances (not speech as we now know it) or producing melodic or rhythmic sounds, beating on drums etc., predated organized or syntactic speech. Since adapting to changing circumstances in the environment around you required some degree of creativity, it seems that there would be a natural connection between the development of creative thinking processes as a matter of survival and what we now know as music as a way to exchange these ideas. Music and music with language, lyrics, are extremely powerful mechanisms to evoke and share emotion and communicate with each other. Building strong social groups and the use of communication tools like language and certainly music has been part of our evolutionary process. Our brains have evolved into these immensely complex systems of functional areas that provide us with the magic of music and art and creative invention. We humans have survived at the top of the food chain not because we have bigger brains than other creatures on the planet, but as I understand it, because our brains are wired differently. And how all of this relates to creativity is particularly interesting. When you see jazz improvisation happening, what has always amazed me is the speed with which the brain is making decisions and the amount of information it is processing:…what note to hit next? – how does it related to the last? – where is the improv going? - is there a structure of any kind? – how the brain makes those decisions and then send signals to motor areas and then electrical impulses to muscle groups that produce fine motor movements in hands and /or other body parts to create sounds… this is all happening with electricity and chemicals moving between cells…this is a bit overwhelming to figure out! It's like the brain is out ahead of the body in its thinking…When I sat in the audience of those early Kennedy Center music and the brain sessions, there was one that was particularly interesting to me. Dr. Charles Limb had intriguing conversations with musicians including Jason Moran - the Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center - and he described some of the work he was doing with trying to understand the neural correlates of creativity.How was he doing that? Well, he was taking some of the best jazz musicians on the planet and putting them into fMRI machines and observing their brain activity while they were in moments of spontaneous creation - jazz improvisation. And what he's begun to discover is something pretty remarkable.Certain areas of the brain are deactivated in these moments of spontaneous improvised creation while others are lit up.From Dr. Limb studies, it seems that conscious self-monitoring, a function of the Prefrontal Cortex, is deactivated opening a gateway for spontaneous creation unencumbered by self-monitoring or concerns about inappropriate or maladaptive performances and areas that are connected to autobiographical narratives are more active.“In jazz music, improvisation is considered to be a highly individual expression of an artist's own musical viewpoint. The association of the MPFC activity with the production of auto biographical narrative is germane in this context, and as such, one could argue that the improvisation is a way of expressing one's own musical voice or story.”Dr. Limb's own story is nothing less than remarkable. From his early years as a young musician, to his study of medicine, he has become one of the preeminent scientists looking into music, the brain and the neural correlates of creativity.His list of professional accomplishments and appointments to various medical institutions is extensive and include:Being the Francis A. Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Chief of the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at UC San Francisco. The Director of the Douglas Grant Cochlear Implant Center at UCSF and he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery. Dr. Limb received his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, medical training at Yale University School of Medicine, and surgical residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Peabody Conservatory of Music and the School of Education between 1996 and 2015. Dr. Limb is the 2021-22 President of the American Auditory Society and the Co-Director of the Sound Health Network sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, NIH and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He was also named in 2022 as one of the Kennedy Center's Next 50, a group of fifty national cultural leaders who are “moving us toward a more inspired, inclusive, and compassionate world”.His current areas of research focus on the study of the neural basis of musical creativity and the study of music perception in deaf individuals with cochlear implants. His work has received international attention and has been featured by TED, 60 Minutes, National Geographic, the. New York Times, PBS, CNN, Scientific American, the Smithsonian Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sundance Film Festival, the Kennedy Center, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Discovery Channel, CBS Sunday Morning, and more.It is my distinct honor to be able to talk with Dr. Limb about music, creativity and the brain.  ABOUT DAVID KEPRON:LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/david-kepron-9a1582bWebsites: https://www.davidkepron.com    (personal website)vmsd.com/taxonomy/term/8645  (Blog)Email: david.kepron@NXTLVLexperiencedesign.comTwitter: DavidKepronPersonal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidkepron/NXTLVL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nxtlvl_experience_design/Bio:David Kepron is a multifaceted creative professional with a deep curiosity to understand ‘why', ‘what's now' and ‘what's next'. He brings together his background as an architect, artist, educator, author, podcast host and builder to the making of meaningful and empathically-focused, community-centric customer connections at brand experience places around the globe. David is a former VP - Global Design Strategies at Marriott International. While at Marriott, his focus was on the creation of compelling customer experiences within Marriott's “Premium Distinctive” segment which included: Westin, Renaissance, Le Meridien, Autograph Collection, Tribute Portfolio, Design Hotels and Gaylord hotels. In 2020 Kepron founded NXTLVL Experience Design, a strategy and design consultancy, where he combines his multidisciplinary approach to the creation of relevant brand engagements with his passion for social and cultural anthropology, neuroscience and emerging digital technologies. As a frequently requested international speaker at corporate events and international conferences focusing on CX, digital transformation, retail, hospitality, emerging technology, David shares his expertise on subjects ranging from consumer behaviors and trends, brain science and buying behavior, store design and visual merchandising, hotel design and strategy as well as creativity and innovation. In his talks, David shares visionary ideas on how brand strategy, brain science and emerging technologies are changing guest expectations about relationships they want to have with brands and how companies can remain relevant in a digitally enabled marketplace. David currently shares his experience and insight on various industry boards including: VMSD magazine's Editorial Advisory Board, the Interactive Customer Experience Association, Sign Research Foundation's Program Committee as well as the Center For Retail Transformation at George Mason University.He has held teaching positions at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.), the Department of Architecture & Interior Design of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (L.I.M.) in New York, the International Academy of Merchandising and Design in Montreal and he served as the Director of the Visual Merchandising Department at LaSalle International Fashion School (L.I.F.S.) in Singapore.  In 2014 Kepron published his first book titled: “Retail (r)Evolution: Why Creating Right-Brain Stores Will Shape the Future of Shopping in a Digitally Driven World” and he is currently working on his second book to be published soon. David also writes a popular blog called “Brain Food” which is published monthly on vmsd.com. 

If there is a topic on which the humanities might make a distinctive claim, it is that of consciousness. Philosophers, psychologists, and musicologists have argued that music has the capacity to make its own claims in relation to consciousness. In this mind-boggling episode, I am joined by Professor Jorg Fachner, the co-director of the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research. Tune in to our deep dive into the neural correlates of consciousness as seen in studies of music perception. - Kindly find some useful links, below: 1-  Professor Fachner's journal article “The Space between the Notes”. 2- The Ted Talk of Dr Jill Taylor “A Stroke of Insight” Do not forget to let me know what you think of the episode with a review or a comment wherever you find my podcast. Thank you for your interest in science.

What do those goosebumps (frisson) mean when you hear a great song? Can music benefit our well-being? Can music be spiritual? These questions and more are answered in this week's episode of Psych & Spirit. FRISSON MUSIC (MY OWN EXPERIENCE): Weyes Blood - Movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFtRq6t3jOo Danny Elfman – Ice Dance / The Grand Finale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VlFMtlZAs4 Philip Glass - The Hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYuTEcArOr8 Enya - Cursum Perficio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_DuEU6Mvg Marnie - Submariner (3:45-7:29): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ePr9pFR8k Moby - My Weakness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioDcGjwu988 Banco de Gaia - Not In My Name (4:52-10:22): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABtKieS99sw Wendy & Lisa (ft. Seal) - The Closing of the Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-MAqVsOLFI References Blood, A. J., & Zatorre, R. J. (2001). Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 98(20), 11818-11823. Colver, M. (2016, May 25). Why does great music give you the chills? Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2016/05/getting-chills-when-listening-to-music-might-mean-youre-a-more-emotional-person.html Colver, M. C., & El-Alayli, A. (2016). Getting aesthetic chills from music: The connection between openness to experience and frisson. Psychology of Music, 44(3), 413-427. Costa, P., & McCrae, R. (1992). Revised NEO personality inventory (NEO-PI-R) and NEO five-factor inventory (NEO-FFI) professional manual. Psychological Assessment Resources. Daykin, N., Mansfield, L., Meads, C., Julier, G., Tomlinson, A., Payne, A., ... & Victor, C. (2018). What works for wellbeing? A systematic review of wellbeing outcomes for music and singing in adults. Perspectives in public health, 138(1), 39-46. Garrido, S., & Schubert, E. (2015). Music and people with tendencies to depression. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 32(4), 313-321. Guhn, M., Hamm, A., & Zentner, M. (2007). Physiological and musico-acoustic correlates of the chill response. Music Perception, 24(5), 473-484. Harrison, L., & Loui, P. (2014). Thrills, chills, frissons, and skin orgasms: toward an integrative model of transcendent psychophysiological experiences in music. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 790. Koelsch, S., & Jäncke, L. (2015). Music and the heart. European heart journal, 36(44), 3043-3049. Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Wisco, B. E., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2008). Rethinking rumination. Perspectives on psychological science, 3(5), 400-424. Sachs, M., Ellis, R., Schlaug, G., and Loui P. (2016). Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(6), 884–891. Weinberg, M. K., & Joseph, D. (2017). If you're happy and you know it: Music engagement and subjective well-being.

Welcome to Heilman & Haver - Episode 16.  We hope you enjoy the show! Please join the conversation - email us with thoughts and ideas and connect with the show on Facebook and Twitter.   ANNOUNCEMENTS:   The Historic Roxy Theater is Now Open! Auditions for Virtual Theater 2020's Tartuffe. Submissions now being accepted for the 2021 West Sound Film Festival.   IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Annabel Cohen Annabel Cohen is Professor of Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island and Adjunct Professor in the School of Graduate Studies at Dalhowsie University. She received her B.A. degree from McGill University, her M. A. and Ph. D. from Queen’s University in Psychology, and an Associateship of the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. She established the UPEI Music Cognition and Auditory Perception Research and Training Laboratory for studies on musical grammar acquisition and for studies on film music perception, funded by two Canadian national granting agencies. Annabel was Editor of Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain and is an associate editor of Canadian Acoustics and a consultant on the editorial board for Music Perception, Musicae Scientiae, Music and the Moving Image, and Psychology of Music, and has been highly involved in many aspects of academia related to music in film and other media. She co-edited The Psychology of Music in Multimedia and is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Psychonomics Society. Currently, Annabel has a new book entitled Congruence and Association in Film Music is under contract with Oxford University Press.   COMING UP NEXT WEEK: Friday, February 26th we’ll be joined by Danny Bilson, father of actress Rachael Bilson, and director, producer, and co-writer of Disney’s The Rocketeer, CBS’s The Flash, and Spike Lee’s Oscar contender for Best Picture this year, Da Five Bloods.

Dr. Ian Howell is a member of the voice faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he also directs the graduate voice pedagogy program and coaches students in Baroque voice repertory. Dr. Howell's work explores the special psychoacoustics of the singing voice, with an eye toward practical applications for singers and voice teachers. Human senses interpret reality according to a dependable set of rules. These same senses also perceive greater detail once we internalize more precise labels and conceptual models. Dr. Howell’s work produces new aural/visual models that better characterise the perceptual qualities of sung vowels and voice registration. He unpacks and identifies the perceptually coherent components of a vowel, showing how absolute, objective labels apply to the relative scale of tonal brightness. Dr. Howell has presented original research at the Pan American Vocology Association's Symposium (2015, 2016), The National Association of Teachers of Singing's National Convention (2016), Harvard's ArtTechPsyche III (2017), and The Society for Music Perception and Cognition (upcoming summer of 2017). He is a guest faculty member at the Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee (2017), and Kenneth Bozeman's Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy Seminar (2017). As a classical countertenor, Ian Howell has sung on most major international concert stages as both a soloist and a member of the Grammy Award winning ensemble Chanticleer. He appears on recordings on the Warner Brothers, Rhino, Gothic, Yale, American Bach Soloists, and Naxos record labels and has published multiple live concert performances on YouTube. Ian Howell hold the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from NEC, the Master of Music degree from Yale University, and the Bachelor of Music degree from Capital University. Favourite Voice: Emily Saliers from the Indigo Girls Song to listen to: History Of Us Spotify playlist of VocalScope Guest Favourite Voices: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=iWuMOaAIRe-KSMzb_VdsRg Ian's website: ianhowellcountertenor.com Ian’s Soundjack Guide: https://www.ianhowellcountertenor.com/soundjack-comprehensive-user-guide?fbclid=IwAR3Cb29hi_UWwj-NZFKKUs_BI0HOEDrjxB_ZcHeKrOWVIqp-ALQUKhqojsk Examples of lagless online music making: https://www.ianhowellcountertenor.com/what-we-did-and-how-we-did-it-soundjack-examples?fbclid=IwAR1gnqB-jj-pIW9W9jFcC4nep8Zsmqp_owwFk8yT9kWzKfHr0Dy80poLodY VocalScope Episode Sponsor Discount Code Listeners can receive a fabulous 25% discount on tracks from the bespoke service at www.theaccompanist.co.uk by using VOCALSCOPE at check out.

PODCAST A Novel Is Culture A Symbolic Universal Language? © 2020 Volume 1 ISBN 978-976-96531-5-3From time in memorial there is has been a perception that anthropologists and linguists through their lens held conversations regarding the “effect of culture on language vice versa compounded by the fact that how language affects society and the way we global citizens think. Concomitantly, since the aforesaid seems plausible then the five fundamental characteristics of language include cultural relevance, symbolism, flexibility, variation, and social importance is critical to this discourse. However, logically speaking, in the scheme of things language therefore is perceived as a vital part of human connection. William Anderson GittensAuthor, Cinematographer,Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Editor in Chief Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing ®2015 License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services®2015WORKS CITED "Language definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary". www.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 10 December 2019. "syntax". Oxford Dictionaries UK Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2016-01-22. A Novel Is Culture A Symbolic Universal Language? © 2020 Volume 1 ISBN 978-976-96531-5-3 Anderson, Stephen R. (n.d.). "Morphology". Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Macmillan Reference, Ltd., Yale University. Retrieved 30 July 2016. Arnauld, Antoine (1683). La logique (5th ed.). Paris: G. Desprez. p. 137. "Nous avons emprunté...ce que nous avons dit...d'un petit Livre...sous le titre de Grammaire générale." Brown, Dunstan (December 2012) [2010]. "Morphological Typology" (PDF). In Jae Jung Song (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology. pp. 487–503. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199281251.013.0023. Retrieved 30 July 2016. Cassin, Barbara. Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, Princeton University Press, 2014.Chomsky, Noam (2002) [1957]. Syntactic Structures. p. 11. Clotaire R. The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do. New York, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7679-2056-8Darrow, A.; Haack, P.; Kuribayashi, F. (1987). "American Nonmusic Majors Descriptors and Preferences for Eastern and Western Musics by Japanese and". Journal of Research in Music Education. 35 (4): 237–248. doi:10.2307/3345076. JSTOR 3345076.Demorest, S. M.; Morrison, S. J.; Beken, M. N.; Jungbluth, D. (2008). "Lost in translation: An enculturation effect in music memory performance". Music Perception. 25 (3): 213–223. doi:10.1525/mp.2008.25.3.213. Fortson IV, Benjamin W. (2004). Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. Blackwell. p. 186. ISBN 978-1405188968. "[The Aṣṭādhyāyī] is a highly precise and thorough description of the structure of Sanskrit somewhat resembling modern generative grammar...[it] remained the most advanced linguistic analysis of any kind until the twentieth century."Giorgio, Graffi (2001). 200 Years of Syntax: A Critical Survey (googlebook preview). John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 9789027284570.Gittens,William Anderson ,Author, Cinematographer,Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Editor-in-Chief Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing ®2015 License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services®2015Gittens,William Anderson,Author, Cinematographer, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Editor in Chief Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing ®2015 License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services®2015 http://changingminds.org/techniques/questioning/open_cloSupport the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

Today it's great to have Jenny Zeng on the podcast. Jenny is a PhD student at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Jenny's PhD thesis focuses on the infants' cue weighting in speech and music rhythm perception. Stress-timed languages contain lexical stress that is made up of relative stronger cues such as pitch, intensity and duration, which listeners use to segment/group information, and the perception of which is dependent on the rhythmical nature of the language or languages they are learning. English is a stress-timed language, for which lexical stress is used to convey meaning, whereas Mandarin is syllable-timed language which does not differentiate meaning through lexical stress. Similarly, in music, the perception of rhythm is through accentuation (stronger over weaker beats) that is also characterised by cues such as pitch, intensity and duration. Given the similarity across the two domains, Jenny's project examines if early (preverbal infancy) experience with richer language rhythmicity has a positive transfer effect in the music domain, and to what extent the processing of speech rhythm and music rhythm are similar/different. To facilitate accurate and timely measurement of responses to multiple cue-weighting, Jenny is using EEG to measure infants’ responses at the neural level. To hear more about this research and Jenny's research on cognitive advantage of bilingualism, listen to this episode.Time stamps:[00:46] Jenny's introduction[01:26] How experience and knowledge gained while working as a translator inspired Jenny to start her research career[02:41] Obstacles that Jenny faced in her research journey[05:00] Work/life balance[07:40] Jenny's research on cognitive aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism[09:11] Jenny's research on speech and music rhythm perception[19:11] Plans for future research[19:57] Issues that women in Academia are facing today according to Jenny[20:29] Jenny's advice for everyone thinking about a career in Academia or for those just starting a career in AcademiaLinks:The MARCS Institute: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcsThe MARCS BabyLab: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/babylabWestern Sydney University: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/Australian Linguistic Society: https://als.asn.au/National Taiwan University: https://www.ntu.edu.tw/english/Get in touch:e-mail: podcast.irenalovcevic@gmail.comtwitter: @IrenaLovcevicinstagram: @irenalovcevicwebsite: https://munduslibrium.com/

The fact marijuana heightens the musical experience is no secret. We know both listeners and players have enhanced their musical experiences through the use of this plant for over 100 years. This episode links cannabis to music through the stories told by acclaimed musicologist John Einarson. We follow a path of early jazz players influencing Canadian singer-song-writer Ian Tyson, who in turn influenced Bob Dylan, who in turn influenced The Beatles, to produce their iconic cannabis inspired album Rubber Soul. Einarson, author of 14 biographies of various musicians, tells stories with weed-inspired songs weaving through his deep narrative, as we learn how musicians created some of our most iconic songs under the influence of cannabis. Some very important pot smoking entertainers are discussed, such as Barbara Streisand sharing reefer with Peter Sellers and Neil Young testifying for his brother during a marijuana trial. Although cannabis is a very popular mind-altering substance used by musicians, Einarson believes it may actually pale compared to other psychedelic substances used in the industry. But that is another story for another episode. For now, this is a highly-entertaining episode produced, unlike any other from the ReeferMEDness team Music by: Steppenwolf - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y (Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like) Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/ Links: John Einarson Remembers Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/135190070149156/ Winnipeg Free Press Bio - https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/biographies/389224892.html Books - https://www.amazon.ca/Books-John-Einarson/s?rh=n%3A916520%2Cp_27%3AJohn+Einarson Topographic EEG Changes Accompanying Cannabis-Induced Alteration of Music Perception— Cannabis as a Hearing Aid? - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J175v02n02_02 The Space between the NotesResearch on Cannabis and Music Perception - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.467.6346&rep=rep1&type=pdf Very Important Potheads - https://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/ Lawrence Welk - One Toke Over the Line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRa_gC6y4CY

In western classical music, theorists have long argued (and mostly agreed) that individual notes of the major and minor scale have sensations associated, feelings often described in terms of tension, motion, sadness, and stability. Dr Baker recommends Prof. Clair Arthur's paper “A perceptual study of scale-degree qualia in context” from Music Perception (2018) which describes testing these associations through the subjective reports of musicians and non-musicians when presented scale degrees in different harmonic contexts. Together we discuss the challenges of the probe tone paradigm, interactions of musicianship training and perception of tonality, and ambiguity in note qualia perception. Time Stamps [0:00:10] Introductions [0:02:40] Summary of Paper [0:09:50] Origins and Experiment 1 - free association [0:16:57] Experiment 2 - probe tone ratings [0:23:25] Results and surprises [0:28:59] Inconsistency in qualia reports [0:34:20] Stimulus examples and experiment limitations [0:41:21] Implications of findings [0:50:43] Using Musically trained participants [0:53:51] Closing summary Show notes Recommended article: Arthur, C. (2018). A perceptual study of scale-degree qualia in context. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 35(3), 295-314 Interviewee: Prof. Claire Arthur of Georgia Tech University  Co-host: Dr. David Baker, Lead Instructor of Data Science at the Flatiron School  David Huron's Sweet Anticipation, 2006 from MIT Press Credits The So Strangely Podcast is produced by Finn Upham, 2020. The closing music includes a sample of Diana Deutsch's Speech-Song Illusion sound demo 1.

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Cynthia Wagoner taught middle school and high school band for 27 years in Indiana before going back to school and becoming a music education professor at East Carolina University. Topics: Cynthia’s background growing up in Terra Haute, Indiana in a musical family and the story of how she became and oboe player involved in both orchestra and band. The importance of mentors and some of the important teachers in Cindy’s life and the lessons that she learned from them. Her experience as a young female band director in the early 1980’s and some of the topics she has to discuss with her female music education students to help prepare them for entering the profession. Cindy’s duties as an Associate Professor of Music Education at East Carolina University and some of the lessons she would like to pass on from observing student teachers. An extended discussion of teaching beginners and teaching sound to sight in both homogeneous and heterogeneous classes. Seven words or less. Links: Cynthia Wagoner Shostakovich: Festive Overture Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy Biography: Dr. Cindy Wagoner is an Associate Professor of Music Education at East Carolina University, specializing in instrumental music instruction and pre-service music teacher education. Her regional and international research presentations focus on music teacher identity, mentoring new teachers, and pedagogy. Her publications appear in Teaching Music Through Performance in Jazz, Teaching Music, Psychology of Music, Research Issues in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, and several book chapters. Her heart still lies in the teaching of music through instrumental performance, and she is dedicated to serving the music education community in her current position at ECU. Wagoner holds a B.S. and M.S. from Indiana State University and spent 27 years in Indiana teaching high school and middle school instrumental music, known for having a large and successful program across marching, concert, small ensemble, and jazz events. Graduating from the University of Carolina Greensboro with a Ph.D. in Music Education, she was honored for her teaching with the Graduate Teaching Assistant Award in 2009. As an assistant professor at East Carolina since 2011, she was selected as a finalist for a 2015-16 ECU Alumni Award for excellence in teaching, 2017-18 Nominee for Five Year Award, and was awarded the ECU Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2019. She was also semi-finalist for the 2017 Music & Arts Educator of the Year. Wagoner continues to be active as a guest conductor and adjudicator across the south and Midwest and holds membership in Society for Music Teacher Education, Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), International Society for Music Education (ISME), NAfME, and NCMEA. ---- I am thrilled to announce a new partnership between the Everything Band podcast and Kaleidoscope Adventures, a full service tour company specializing in student group travel. With a former educator as its CEO, Kaleidoscope Adventures is dedicated to changing student lives through travel to over 40 destinations. They offer high quality service and an attention to detail that comes from more than 25 years of student travel experience. Trust Kaleidoscope’s outstanding staff to focus on your group’s one-of-a-kind adventure, so that you can focus on everything else! 

Do we hear a song differently after an artist has gone through a public scandal? Do our own expectations change the way we perceive music? For the tenth episode of the T&E podcast, your hosts Mike and Parisa take on Part 2 of the Context & Continuity topic, focusing on the "I'm big in Japan" phenomenon, public scandal, early death, context of time and age, and comeback albums.

How does an artist's persona affect our relationship to the music? When a band goes through multiple lineup changes, how does this affect our overall fanship? For the ninth episode of the T&E podcast, your hosts Mike and Parisa discuss examples of how continuity and context affect our music perception - with part one focusing on lineup changes, creative musical departures, identity and appearance evolution, and the idea of "selling out".

Host Finn Upham recommends “How Music Moves Us: Entraining to Musicians' Movements” by Alexander Demos and Roger Chaffin, published in Music Perception, 2017. They interview Dr Demos about this study and adjacent issues. Note: This interview goes fairly deep into the challenges of time series data analysis. Feel free to use the time stamps listed in the show notes to skip ahead if this is not your cup of tea. Time Stamps [0:00:10] Intro to article and Alex [0:03:20] Design of Air Conducting experiment [0:11:15] Capturing movements of performers and listeners [0:15:40] Assessing alignment between motion time series [0:25:26] Non-linearity in these time series [0:31:18] False negatives and intermittent alignment [0:38:32] Theories of Music and Ancillary motion [0:45:04] Closing Summary and Implications   Show notes Recommended article: Demos, A. P., & Chaffin, R. (2018). How Music Moves Us: Entraining to Musicians' Movements. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 35(4), 405-424.  (pdf) Interviewee: Dr. Alexander Demos, Clinical assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (website) Some publications cited in the discussion: Schreiber, T., & Schmitz, A. (1996). Improved surrogate data for nonlinearity tests. Physical Review Letters, 77(4), 635–638. Cook, N. (2013). Beyond the score: Music as performance. Oxford University Press. Theiler, J., Eubank, S., Longtin, A., Galdrikian, B. & Farmer, J. D. (1992). Testing for nonlinearity in time series: The method of surrogate data. Physica D, 58, 77–94. Dean, R. T., Bailes, F., & Dunsmuir, W. T. (2014). Time series analysis of real-time music perception: Approaches to the assessment of individual and expertise differences in perception of expressed affect. Journal of Mathematics and Music, 8(3), 183-205. Wanderley, M. M., Vines, B. W., Middleton, N., Mckay, C., & Hatch, W. (2005). The musical significance of clarinetists' ancillary gestures: An exploration of the field. Journal of New Music Research, 34(1), 97–113. DOI: 10.1080/092982105 00124208 Credits The So Strangely Podcast is produced by Finn Upham, 2019. The closing music includes a sample of Diana Deutsch's Speech-Song Illusion sound demo 1.

Music Theorist Mariusz Kozak recommends “When the Sound Becomes the Goal. 4E Cognition and Teleomusicality in Early Infancy” by Andrea Schiavio, Dylan van der Schyff, Silke Kruse-Weber and Renee Timmers, published in Frontiers in Psychology. Marius and Finn interview Andrea about this framing of early musical development and implications of an embodied, embedded, extended and enactive approach to cognitive science. Time Stamps [0:00:10] Intro with Mariusz [0:11:16] Interview: Origins and the 4 Es [0:21:40] Interview: Attention, Intention, and Mirror Neurons [0:32:59] Interview: Sound Goals and Musical Actions [0:40:28] Interview: Reception of Theory [0:53:03] Closing with Mariusz Show notes Recommended article: Schiavio, A., van der Schyff, D., Kruse-Weber, S., & Timmers, R. (2017). When the Sound Becomes the Goal. 4E Cognition and Teleomusicality in Early Infancy. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1585. Interviewee: Dr. Andrea Schiavio, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Graz Co-host: Prof. Mariusz Kozak, Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University Works cited in the discussion: Chemero, A. (2011). Radical embodied cognitive science. MIT press. Craighero, L., Leo, I., Umilta, C., and Simion, F. (2011). Newborns' preference for goal-directed actions. Cognition, 20, 26–32. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011 02.011 D'Ausilio, A. (2007). The role of the mirror system in mapping complex sounds into actions. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 5847–5848. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0979-07.2007 D'Ausilio, A. (2009). Mirror-like mechanisms and music. The Scientific World Journal, 9, 1415–1422. doi:10.1100/tsw.2009.160 Gerson, S. A., Bekkering, H., and Hunnius, S. (2015a). Short-term motor training, but not observational training, alters neurocognitive mechanisms of action processing in infancy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 1207–1214. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00774 Haslinger, B., Erhard, P., Altenmüller, E., Schroeder, U., Boecker, H., & Ceballos-Baumann, A. O. (2005). Transmodal sensorimotor networks during action observation in professional pianists. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 282–293. doi:10.1162/0898929053124893 Haueisen, J., & Knösche, T. R. (2001). Involuntary motor activity in pianists evoked by music perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 786–792. doi:10.1162/08989290152541449 Hickok-Gallese debate at NYU (2103) Do Mirror Neurons Explain Anything? Kohler, E., Keysers, C., Umiltà, M. A., Fogassi, L., Gallese, V., and Rizzolatti, G. (2002). Hearing sounds, understanding actions: action representation in mirror neurons. Science, 297, 846–848. doi: 10.1126/science.1070311 Menary, R. (2010). Introduction to the special issue on 4E cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 9, 459–463. Mukamel R., Ekstrom A.D., Kaplan J., Iacoboni M., Fried I., Single-Neuron Responses in Humans during Execution and Observation of Actions. Current Biology, vol. 20, nº 8. Novembre, G., Ticini, L. F., Schütz-Bosbach, S., & Keller, P. E. (2014). Motor simulation and the coordination of joint actions in real time. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 1062–1068. doi: 10.1093/scan/nst086 Overy, K., and Molnar-Szakacs, I. (2009). Being together in time: musical experience and the mirror neuron system. Music Perception, 26, 489–504. doi: 10.1525/mp.2009.26.5.489 Perone, S., Madole, K. L., Ross-Sheehy, S., Carey, M., and Oakes, L. M. (2009). The relation between infants' activity with objects and attention to object appearance. Developmental Psycholology, 44, 1242–1248. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.5.1242 Proffitt, D. R., Stefanucci, J., Banton, T., & Epstein, W. (2003). The role of effort in perceiving distance. Psychological Science, 14(2), 106-112. Schiavio, A. & Timmers, R. (2016). Motor and audiovisual learning consolidate auditory memory of tonally ambiguous melodies. Music Perception, 34(1), 21-32 Schiavio,

Why are some people tone deaf? This episode explores a musical disorder called congenital amusia, in which people have trouble processing the pitch and melodic structures of music. Learn the neurologic disconnect in amusic brains, what amusia can tell us about humans' musical foundations, whether people with amusia can still enjoy music, and how to find out if you may have amusia yourself. For more information on the research articles and music in this episode, go to www.InstrumentalPodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter (@instrumentalpod) for news and updates!

How do babies perceive music? Infants aren't blank musical slates, they're actually pretty sophisticated music listeners. This episode highlights how we're all built to process music from birth, and how this innate musicality helps medically fragile infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Takeaways include tips for parents to share more music with their children. For more information on the research articles and music in this episode, go to www.InstrumentalPodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter (@instrumentalpod) for news and updates!

Does playing music to a not-yet-born child in the womb have a positive effect on the brain’s development? Yes, says Mari Tervaniemi, a brain research scientist who was one of the pioneers in the cognitive science of music perception when the field started in the 1980’s. She is still working in that area. On the […]

Anna und ihr Kollege Felix sind in San Francisco auf der International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition!

In this episode, I'm chatting with music therapist Ginny Driscoll. Ginny talks about her work as a music therapy researcher, pursuing her PhD while raising two girls, and how she includes her daughters in her self-care practices. Ginny is a mom, music therapist, researcher, and doctoral student. She has two beautiful girls-- Neala (7) and Madelyn (3)--and an amazing husband, Matthew, who is a professor of low brass. She has been a part of the Music Perception team in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for 11 years, where she investigates the ability of children and adults with cochlear implants to perceive music. She is currently in her second semester of her doctoral studies. For show notes from this episode, visit www.guitarsandgranolabars.com.

Aniruddh Patel joined Tufts University in the fall of 2012 as an associate professor of psychology. Previously he was a senior fellow at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego. As a cognitive neuroscientist, he conducts research that focuses on the relationship between music and language, using this interface to explore the mental foundations of both of these distinctively human abilities. He has used a range of methods in his research, including human brain imaging, theoretical analyses, acoustic research, and comparative work with other species. Patel has served as president of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (www.musicperception.org), is the 2009 recipient of the Music Has Power Award from the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in New York City, and is the author of a scholarly book, Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford University Press), which won a Deems-Taylor award from ASCAP in 2008. Patel received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in organismic and evolutionary biology and a B.A. in biology from the University of Virginia. He serves on editorial boards for Cognition, Music Perception, and Empirical Musicology Review.

Institute of Musical Research, Christine Beckett (Concordia University, Montreal)

Institute of Musical Research, Christine Beckett (Concordia University, Montreal)

(May 16, 2008) SiCa presents the Center for Arts, Science, and Technology's 3rd Annual Symposium on Music and the Brain. Loui discusses the results from fMRI research on tone deaf individuals.