16th Annual NeuroMusic Conference 2020
Nov 14, 2020
10:00AM to 8:00PM

The McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind announces the:
16th Annual NeuroMusic Conference
is going VIRTUAL from the LIVELab at McMaster University
Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Registration Deadline: Friday, November 13th at 12:00pm ET
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Nori Jacoby | Beatriz Ilari |
“Universality and cross-cultural variation in mental representations of music revealed by large-scaled comparisons of rhythm priors” | “Cross-cultural music research with children: Lessons from the field” |
Max Planck Group Leader, Computational Auditory Perception, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany | Associate Professor of Music Teaching and Learning, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
Samuel Mehr | David Huron |
“A natural history of song” | “Adventures and misadventures in cross-cultural music cognition” |
Director of the Harvard Music Lab, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | Academy Professor Emeritus, School of Music and Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN
Please email an abstract (maximum 250 words) to Dr. Steven Brown (stebro@mcmaster.ca) on any topic related to perception, cognition or performance of music and dance.
Early submission is encouraged, and acceptance will be sent out as submissions are received.
The deadline for abstract submissions is Nov 5, 2020
There will be a poster registration fee of $20 payable upon acceptance and registration
VIRTUAL LUNCHES WITH THE SPEAKER AND MORE
Streamed CONCERT from the LIVELab
Featuring Canadian Jazz Artist
Laila Biali
With discussion of the cross-cultural roots of Jazz
Registration is free, but you need to register
VConcert is included in the registration for the NeuroMusic Conference
Poster Registration Fee is $20