16th Annual NeuroMusic Conference: MUSIC IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Nov 13, 2020
10:00AM to 8:00PM

Event Categories MIMM Events and NeuroMusic Conference

The McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind announces the:

16th Annual NeuroMusic Conference
Is going VIRTUAL from the LIVELab at McMaster University

“Universality and cross-cultural variation in mental representations of music revealed by large-scaled comparisons of rhythm priors”

Nori Jacoby
Max Planck Group Leader, Computational Auditory Perception
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

“Cross-cultural music research with children: Lessons from the field”

Beatriz Ilari
Associate Professor of Music Teaching and Learning
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

“A natural history of song”

Samuel Mehr
Director of the Harvard Music Lab
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

“Adventures and misadventures in cross-cultural music cognition”

David Huron
Academy Professor Emeritus
School of Music and Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

on topics related to perception, cognition and performance of music and dance.

Streamed CONCERT from the LIVELab

Featuring Canadian Jazz Artist

Laila Biali
With discussion of the cross-cultural roots of Jazz