Workshop on Neuromusic interventions
MUSIC LISTENING AND MUSIC MAKING IN THE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENTAL IMPAIRMENTS

Coffee break

Symposium by the Local Organizing Committee
BOSTON MUSIC SCIENCE RESEARCH
Moderator: Lisa M. Wong
Arts and Humanities Initiative
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Can white matter integrity in infancy predict musical aptitude in preschool?
Nadine Gaab
Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical
School, USA

Relationships between early literacy and non-linguistic rhythmic processes in kindergarten children
Aniruddh Patel
Tufts University, Boston, USA

Jazz improvisation as a model of creativity: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study
Psyche Loui
Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA

Musical function modification through
the use of noninvasive Brain Stimulation
Gottfried Schlaug
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, USA

Effects of a music therapy intervention for individuals with dementia and their family caregivers
Suzanne B. Hanser
Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA

Keynote lecture
ADDING MUSIC TO THE BRAIN: STUDIES OF AUDITORY CORTEX IN PRIMATES
Josef P. Rauschecker
Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience
and Cognition
Georgetown University, Washington, USA

WELCOME RECEPTION
SIMMONS COLLEGE
The Fens & Common Grounds
300 The Fenway, Boston
Music by Thanya Iyer & Friends

Networking breakfast

Official Welcome

Musical interlude #1
Kameron Clayton, tuba, neuroscientist

Symposium 1
TRACKING THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC TRAINING ON SPEECH PROCESSING, LANGUAGE LEARNING, AND EXECUTIVE
FUNCTIONS
Chairs: Jennifer Bugos and Stefan Elmer

Neural similarities in voice and music
processing
Pascal Belin
Institut de Neurosciences de La Timone
CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, France

Music training, speech processing, and
word learning: from local changes toward a network perspective
Stefan Elmer
Auditory Research Group Zurich (ARGZ)
Division Neuropsychology
Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich
Switzerland

Music and language: two sides of one coin
Lutz Jäncke
Auditory Research Group Zurich (ARGZ)
Division Neuropsychology
Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich
Switzerland

Community of voices on health
and well-being
Julene Johnson
School of Nursing, Institute for Health and Aging
University of California, San Francisco, USA

The effects of drumming on working
memory in older adults
Franziska Degé
Developmental Psychology
Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Group piano training on executive
functions and psychosocial outcomes
in older adults
Jennifer Bugos
School of Music, Center for Music Education
Research, University of South Florida, Tampa
USA

Coffee break

Musical interlude #2
Claudia Eliaza, jazz vocalist, music therapist

Symposium 2
AUDITORY SHORT-TERM MEMORY
IN HEALTHY AND PATHOLOGICAL BRAINS
Chairs: Barbara Tillmann and Anne Caclin

Short-term
memory for tones and time intervals
Timothy D. Griffiths
Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
UK

Investigating auditory short-term
memory with the SAN
Christine Lefebvre and Pierre Jolicoeur
Centre de recherche Institut Universitaire
de Gériatrie of Montreal (CRIUGM), Canada
BRAMS, Montreal, Canada
Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie
et Cognition (CERNEC), Canada
University of Montreal, Canada

Musical and verbal short-term
memory: insights from musical and neurological disorders
Anne Caclin and Barbara Tillmann
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, France

Behavioral training and information-based non-invasive stimulation as rehabilitation tools for impaired auditory working memory
Philippe Albouy
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University, Canada

Poster session I and Lunch

Musical interlude #3
Katya Herman, harp, music therapist

Symposium 3
PREDICTIVE PROCESSING IN MUSIC
AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Robert Zatorre

Musical predictions and their impairment in children with atypical development
Stefan Koelsch, University of Bergen, Norway

The healthy groove: when predictive
coding, rhythmic complexity and pleasure come together
Peter Vuust, Center for Music in the Brain (MIB)
Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University
The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg
Denmark

Statistical learning and probabilistic
prediction in musical enculturation and perception
Marcus Pearce
Queen Mary University of London, UK

Predictive coding – a mechanism
for temporal binding in multisensory
perception
Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and
Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive
Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK

Coffee break

Musical interlude #4
Heather Woods, music therapist and George Woods, singer-songwriter

Symposium 4
BORN TO BE MUSICAL: WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM STUDYING MUSICAL PRODIGIES
Chair: Isabelle Peretz
University of Montreal, BRAMS, Canada

What underlies exceptional skill in music
David Z. Hambrick
Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

The brains of musical prodigies: predictions
Ellen Winner
Boston College, USA

Genetic influences on musical expertise
Miriam A. Mosing
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Networking breakfast

Surprise Award
for special achievement in the field of Neuroscience and Music

Musical interlude #5
Ali Rapetti – singer songwriter, music therapist

Symposium 5
RHYTHM AND OPTIMAL DEVELOPMENT:
TRANSLATION OF BASIC RESEARCH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS
Chairs: Laurel Trainor and Devin McAuley

Developmental trajectories for musical
rhythm perception
Erin Hannon
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Rhythm, synchronization and early social development
Laura Cirelli
University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada

Rhythm in social communication:
evidence from typically-developing infants and toddlers and implications for children with autism
Miriam D. Lense
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
USA

Auditory rhythmic deficits
in developmental coordination disorder (DCD)
Laurel J. Trainor
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

The contribution of rhythm to grammar skills in children: lessons from typical development and language impairment
Reyna L. Gordon
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
USA

Rhythm perception as a core deficit in
developmental stuttering: toward the
development of novel rhythm-based
interventions
J. Devin McAuley
Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

Coffee break

Symposium 6
VERY EARLY MUSICAL INTERVENTIONS TO SUPPORT INFANT DEVELOPMENT –
EVIDENCE FROM BRAIN AND LANGUAGE SKILLS
Chair: Mari Tervaniemi

Introduction — Why would very early
musical interventions work?
Mari Tervaniemi
Cicero Learning, University of Helsinki
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of
Helsinki, Finland

First sounds rhythm breath lullaby — An international NICU music therapy training model
Joanne Loewy
The Louis Armstrong Center for Music &
Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York USA

Music listening intervention to infants born to dyslexic parents
Paula Virtala
Cognitive Brain Research Unit
University of Helsinki, Finland

Multisensory musical intervention in
prematurely born infants during kangaroo care
Eino Partanen
Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience
Aarhus University, Denmark

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Poster session II and Lunch

Musical interlude #6
Stan Strickland, saxophone

Symposium 7
ON THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF MUSICALITY
Chair: Henkjan Honing

Introduction to musicality as a research topic
Henkjan Honing
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Monkeys tapping to an isochronous
metronome: behavioral properties and
population neural dynamics
Hugo Merchant
Instituto de Neurobiología, Mexico

The evolution of rhythm between biology and culture.
Andrea Ravignani
AI-Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
The Netherlands
Sealcentre Pieterburen, The Netherlands
Centre for Language Evolution
University of Edinburgh, UK

Genomics approaches to study music
perception and practice
Irma Järvelä
Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics
University of Helsinki, Finland

Musical interlude #7
Suzanne Hanser, Native American Flute, music therapist

Symposium 8
TOWARDS EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE OF MUSIC INTERVENTIONS IN STROKE
REHABILITATION: FEASIBILITY, EFFICACY, AND NEURAL MECHANISMS
Chairs: Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells
and Teppo Särkämö

Vocal vs. instrumental music listening in the neurorehabilitation of acute stroke
Teppo Särkämö
Cognitive Brain Research Unit (CBRU)
Department of Psychology and Logopedics
University of Helsinki, Finland

The MELLO trial: mindful music listening, cognition and mood after ischemic stroke
Satu Baylan
Institute of Mental Health and Wellbeing
University of Glasgow, UK

Characterizing neural plasticity in
sensorimotor functions after music-making for upper-extremity rehabilitation in chronic stroke
Takako Fujioka
Department of Music and Stanford
Neurosciences Institute
Stanford University, USA

Music-Supported Therapy in the
neurorehabilitation of motor deficits
after acute stroke
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells
Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit (CBPU)
ICREA & Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology & IDIBELL (Campus
de Bellvitge)
University of Barcelona, Spain

Coffee break

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Networking breakfast

Musical interlude #8
Longwood Symphony Orchestra ensemble

Symposium 9
PERSPECTIVES ON THE EXTRA-MUSICAL BENEFITS OF MUSIC TRAINING ACROSS THE LIFESPAN: CONVERGENT EVIDENCE AND LINGERING QUESTIONS
Chairs: Frank Russo and Assal Habibi

Neural correlates of cognitive
and emotional development in children engaged in music training
Assal Habibi, Beatriz Illari, Antonio Damasio
and Hanna Damasio
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
USA

SIMPHONY: Studying the impact music practice has on neurodevelopment in youth
John A. Iversen
University of California, San Diego, USA

Musical training and adolescent brain
development
Vesa Putkinen
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Music training and bilingualism:
connections and disconnections
Travis White-Schwoch and Nina Kraus
Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

Promoting healthy aging: the role of music training and bilingualism
Claude Alain
Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Benefits of music training in older adults with age-related hearing loss
Frank A. Russo and Ella Dubinsky
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Coffee break

Musical interlude #9
Sarah Darling, viola and Michael Unterman, cello
(A Far Cry)

Symposium 10
INTERPERSONAL, INTER-BRAIN
COORDINATION AMONG MUSICIANS
Chair: Caroline Palmer

Oscillatory correlates of interpersonal
action coordination during music
performance
Ulman Lindenberger1,2 and Viktor Müller1
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck
Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Germany
Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational
Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany

Correlational and causal relations
between inter-brain and interpersonal
synchronization in musical joint action
Giacomo Novembre Daniela Sammler
Günther Knoblich and Peter E. Keller University College London, UK
The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour
and Development, Sydney, Australia

Neural correlates of interpersonal
synchrony during duet piano performance
Anna Zamm1, Caroline Palmer1, Anna-Katharina
R. Bauer, Martin G. Bleichner, Alexander P.
Demos and Stefan Debener
Department of Psychology, McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Empathy of the musical brain in musicians playing in ensemble
Claudio Babiloni1, Claudio Del Percio, Ivo Bruni and Daniela Perani
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy

Poster session III and Lunch

Musical interlude #10
Alison Jin, Guzheng

Symposium 11
BUILDING THE AUDIO-MOTOR BRAIN:FROM MOVEMENTS TO MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION
Chair: Floris van Vugt

Learning novel sensorimotor maps
Floris T. van Vugt
Department of Psychology, McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Metaplasticity of sensory-motor integration in musicians
Shinichi Furuya
SONY Computer Science Laboratory (CSL)
Tokyo, Japan
Musical Skill and Injury Center (MuSIC)
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

Enhancement of the emotional response to music during spontaneous dance
Nicolò F. Bernardi
BRAMS, Montreal, Canada
Department of Psychology, McGill University
Montreal, Canada

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General discussion and conclusions