16th Annual NeuroMusic Conference & VConcert

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

Saturday, November 14th, 2020
10:00 am –8:00 pm EST

Registration Deadline:  Friday, November 13th at 12:00 pm EST

 
FEATURED SPEAKERS 

“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

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 has been extended to 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