05-08 May 2005
The Neurosciences and Music – II
From perception to performance
Intro
In partnership with
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzing
This conference is conceived as the ideal continuation to the two previous meetings on the relation between Music and Neurosciences which have elicited the participation of the Fondazione Mariani in different capacities.
Reflecting the respective interests of neuroscientists in music and of musicians in neurosciences, the involvement started with “The Biological Foundations of Music” (May 2000), promoted by the New York Academy of Sciences, of which the publication of proceedings was supported and where contacts were established, leading to the “Neurosciences and Music” gathering in Venice (San Servolo, Ocober 2002).
This firts follow-up was appropriately subtitled “Mutual interactions and implications on developmental functions”, according to the primary interest of the Mariani Foundation in pediatric neurology. The proceedings have very promptly appeared in the Annals of New York Academy and have received very positive notices.
Given the success of these conferences, the perspective is now to follow such a favourable trend and further spin the thread of the relation between music, neurosciences and development. The Mariani Foundation plans to hold meetings approximately every 2 or 3 years, with variable frameworks depending the the specific outlook, since progress in the field suggest a different focus while more results are achieved and other issues and questions emerge.
Leipzig has been chesen as the next very appropriate site. It hosts one of Europe’s oldest university (founded in 1409) as well as the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and remains a musical city “par excellence”: here Johann Sebastian Bach lived and worked as Thomaskantor for most of his life, and the conference will coincide with the Bach-Fest of May 2005.
The program has been elaborated by the Organizing Committee, with the most valuable assistance for two Scientific Advisors of the highest authority. The main focus has been titled “From Perception to Performance”.
Four leading specialists of the present scene will lead introductory Workshops with the purpose to render available a “hands-on” understanding of the current status in each of four main areas of interest.
Seven session have been scheduled and the lectures reflect a thorough process of compounding the present interests of first-line researchers, so that very current results can be presented.
In order to properly encourage research efforts, the most established figures have been requested to partecipate as chairs and/or discussant, and have indicated upcoming younger scienists of their laboratories for the presentation.
An ample poster session is planned, and considerable time shall be left for discussion of session topic and general perspectives.
As to the developmental topics, the issue of “music therapy“, purposely left aside in the Venice Meeting, will bed resumed in a dedicated Round Table with the purpose of starting the validation of evidence-based results of methods where music practice is effectively used in rehabilitation techniques.
Promotion Partners
Committees
Organizing Committee
Eckart Altenmuller
Univeristy of Music and Drama
Instutute of Music Physiology and Musicians’Medicine
Giuliano Avanzini
Department of Neurophysiology National Neurologic Institute “Carlo Besta”
Angela D. Friederici
Departmente of Neuropsychology Max Plack Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Stefan Koelsch
Departmente of Neuropsychology Max Plack Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Maria Majno
Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani
Christo Pantev
Instutute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis
Munster University Hospital
University of Munster
Scientific Advisors
Isabelle Peretz
Department of Psychology University of Montreal
Robert J. Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University, Montreal
Scientific Secretariat
Luisa Lopez
Child Neurology Unit University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Program
Day 1
Workshops
13.00 - 14.30
Workshop 1
Evaluation of musical disorders
Isabelle Peretz
Department of Psychology
University of Montreal
14.30 - 16.00
Workshop 2
Music and neuroimaging
Robert J. Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute
and McGill University
Montreal
15.45 - 16.15
Coffee break
16.00 - 17.30
Workshop 3
Music and development
Laurel Trainor
Department of Psychology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
17.30 - 19.00
Workshop 4
Music and neurophysiology
Christo Pantev
Institute for Biomagnetism
and Biosignalanalysis
Münster University Hospital
University of Münster
Day 2
9.00
Opening remarks
9.15
Neurosciences and music: historical review and current issues
Diana Deutsch
Department of Psychology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla
SESSION 1
Ethology / Evolution: do animals have music or something else?
Chair
Carol Krumhansl
Department of Psychology
Cornell University
Ithaca
Discussant
Ian Cross
Faculty of Music
University of Cambridge (UK)
10.00
Probing the evolutionary origins of music perception
Josh McDermott
Department of Brain
and Cognitive Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge (USA)
10.20
Discussion
10.30
Between perception and performance: vocal learning as key constraint on the path to music and language
Björn Merker
Department of Psychology
Uppsala University
10.50
Discussion
11.00
The biology and evolution of music: a comparative perspective
W. Tecumseh Fitch
University of St. Andrews
11.20
Discussion
11.30
Coffee break
SESSION 2
Music and language
Chair
Mireille Besson
Institute for Physiological
and Cognitive Neurosciences
CNRS, Marseille
Discussant
Angela D. Friederici
Department of Neuropsychology
Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig
12.00
Empirical comparisons of music and language: prosody and syntax
Aniruddh D. Patel
The Neurosciences Institute
San Diego
12.20
Discussion
12.30
Music and linguistic processing in singing
Daniele Schön
Language and Music Group
Institute of Physiological and Cognitive
Neurosciences
CNRS, Marseille
12.50
Discussion
13.00
Lunch
SESSION 3
Mental representations
Chair
Giuliano Avanzini
Department of Neurophysiology
National Neurologic Institute
“Carlo Besta”
Milan
Discussant
Erich Schröger
Institute of Psychology
University of Leipzig
14.30
Implicit investigations of tonal knowledge in non-musician listeners
Barbara Tillmann
CNRS-UMR 5020
Neurosciences and Sensory Systems
Claude Bernard University
Lyon
14.50
Discussion
15.00
Cortical networks that track musical structure
Petr Janata
Center for Mind and Brain
University of California, Davis
15.20
Discussion
15.30
Anticipatory musical imagery and its neural basis
Josef P. Rauschecker
Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition
Georgetown University
Medical Center
Washington DC
15.50
Discussion
16.00
Coffee break
16.30
The neural substrates of semantic and episodic memory of music
Hervé Platel
INSERM E0218
UFR of Psychology
University of Caen
16.50
Discussion
17.00
Representation of pitch in auditory cortex: lesion effects and neural coding
Mark J. Tramo
Department of Neurology
Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory
Physiology
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
and Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Boston, Massachusetts
17.20
Discussion
17.30
Aspects of multisensory perception: the integration of visual and auditory information processing in musical experiences
Donald A. Hodges
Jonathan A. Burdette
Music Research Institute
University of North Carolina
Greensboro
17.50
Discussion
18.30 - 20.30
The Max Planck Institute is pleased to invite Speakers and Participants to a Welcome reception in the “Alte Börse”
(Old Stock Exchange).
Participants may attend depending on
previous confirmation and up to
Day 3
SESSION 4
Developmental aspects and impact of music on education
Chair
Luisa Lopez
Child Neurology Unit
University of Rome
“Tor Vergata”
Center for Developmental Disabilities
“Eugenio Litta”
Rome
Discussant
Sandra Trehub
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
9.00
Music listening, music lessons and cognitive abilities
Glenn Schellenberg
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
Mississauga, Ontario
9.20
Discussion
9.30
The neural basis of rhythm and melody processing in young children, pre and post music training
Katie Overy
Institute for Music in Human and Social
Development (IMHSD), Music,
School of Arts, Culture and Environment
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
9.50
Discussion
10.00
Brain and cognitive effects of learning a musical instrument
Gottfried Schlaug
Music and Neuroimaging Lab
Department of Neurology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
and Harvard Medical School
Boston
10.20
Discussion
10.30
Coffee break
11.00
Influences of musical training on neurophysiological correlates of music and speech perception in children
Sebastian Jentschke
Junior Research Group
“Neurocognition of music”
Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig
11.20
Discussion
11.30
Temporal entrainment of cognitive functions in music: neural dynamics and brain plasticity
Michael H. Thaut
Center for Biomedical Research
in Music School of the Arts and
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative
Neuroscience Program
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
11.50
Quantifying tone deafness in the general population
John A. Sloboda
Department of Psychology
Keele University
Staffordshire
12.10
Discussion
12.30
Lunch
14.00
POSTER SESSION
Coordinator
Nadine Gaab
Department of Psychology
Stanford University
16.00
ROUND TABLE
Music Therapy: the long way to evidence-based methods.
Pending issues and perspectives
Coordinator
Luisa Lopez
Child Neurology Unit
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Discussant
Robert J. Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute
and McGill University
Montreal
Participants
Eckart Altenmüller
University of Music and Drama
Institute of Music Physiology
and Musicians’ Medicine
Hannover
Thomas Hillecke
German Center for Music Therapy
Research
Heidelberg
Anne K. Nickel
German Center for Music Therapy
Research
Heidelberg
Patricia L. Sabbatella
Cádiz University
Puerto Real, Cádiz
Michael Thaut
School of the Arts
Colorado State University
Fort Collins
Gabriela Wagner
Member of the World Federation
of Music Therapy Council
Capital Federal, Argentina
18.30 - 20.30
The Mariani Foundation is pleased to invite Speakers and Participants to a visit of the Bach Museum in the “Altes Rathaus” (Old City Hall), with an introduction in English by the Museum’s Director Dr. Rodekamp. Participants may attend depending on previous confirmation and up to the allowed capacity of the venue.
Day 4
SESSION 5
Neurological disorders and music
Chair
Timothy Griffiths
Department of Imaging Neuroscience
Institute of Neurology
Newcastle University Medical School
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Discussant
Eckart Altenmüller
University of Music and Drama
Institute of Music Physiology
and Musicians’ Medicine
Hannover
9.00
Central auditory processing in tune deaf subjects
Dennis Drayna
National Institute on Deafness
and Other Communication Disorders
(NIDCD)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Rockville, Maryland
9.20
Neuropsychological assessment of musical difficulties
Lola L. Cuddy
Department of Psychology
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario
9.40
Discussion
9.50
Musical behavior in a neurogenetic developmental disorder: evidence from Williams syndrome
Daniel J. Levitin
Laboratory for Auditory
Perception and Cognition
McGill University
Montreal
10.10
Perceptual asymmetries and cortical changes after sensory motor retuning in musicians suffering from focal hand dystonia
Victor Candia
Institute of Neuroradiology
University Hospital of Zurich
10.30
Discussion
10.40
Coffee break
SESSION 6
Music performance
Chair
Diego Minciacchi
Department of Neurological
and Psychiatric Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
University of Florence
Discussant
Stephen McAdams
CIRMMT
Faculty of Music
McGill University
Montreal
11.00
Sensory-motor integration and disintegration in music performance
Eckart Altenmüller, Marc Bangert
and Hans-Christian Jabusch
University of Music and Drama
Institute of Music Physiology
and Musicians’ Medicine
Hannover
11.20
Memory and movement preparation in music performance
Caroline Palmer
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Montreal
11.40
Discussion
11.50
Neural control of rhythmic sequences
Fredrik Ullén
Neuropediatric Research Unit
Department of Woman and Child Health
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm
12.10
Tuning the musical brain
Lauren Stewart
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
& Wellcome Department
of Imaging Neuroscience
University College
London
12.30
Structural, functional and perceptual differences in the auditory cortex of musicians and non-musicians predict musical instrument preference
Peter Schneider
Department of Neurology
University Hospital Heidelberg
INF 400
Heidelberg
12.50
Discussion
13.00
Lunch
SESSION 7
Emotion in music
Chair
Isabelle Peretz
Department of Psychology
University of Montreal
Discussant
John A. Sloboda
Department of Psychology
Keele University
Staffordshire
14.30
Investigating emotion with music: an fMRI study
Stefan Koelsch
Department of Neuropsychology
Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig
14.50
Neuropsychological studies on music memory and musical preference
Séverine Samson
University of Lille 3
and La Salpêtrière Hospital
Paris
15.10
The time course of emotional response to music
Emmanuel Bigand
LEAD CNRS, Pole AAFE
University of Bourgogne
Dijon
15.30
Discussion
15.45
Brain and emotion: the music of what happens
Antonio Damasio
Department of Neurology
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Iowa City
16.30
Final Discussion
17.00
ECM Test
(“Educazione Continua in Medicina”,
for Italian participants only)