16th Annual NeuroMusic Conference “Music In Cross-Cultural Perspective”

The McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind announces the:
16th Annual NeuroMusic Conference
https://www.neuromusic.ca/

VIRTUAL from the LIVELab at McMaster University

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 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

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