MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012
| 9:00 – 9:10 | CSF welcome address and video about the history of Monte Verità |
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| SESSION: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF MUSIC | ||
| 9:10 – 9:30 | Tutorial: Music in the Brain, an introduction (Stefan Koelsch) |
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| 9:30 – 10:15 | Daniele Schoen: Temporal Structure in Music and Speech | |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45-11:30 | Stefan Koelsch: Measuring the Perception of Music, (title to be announced) |
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| 11:30 -12:15 | Petr Janata: Mapping Music to Memories in the Human Brain | |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
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| SESSION: SONGBIRD 1 |
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| 14:00-14:20 | Tutorial: Songbirds, bird song, and music (Richard Hahnloser) | |
| 14:20-15:05 | Coen Elemans, All singing and dancing. Sound production and its control in birds | |
| 15:05-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30- 16:15 | Constance Scharff, Do Birds Tango? | |
| 16:15 -16:45 | Hollis Taylor, Birdsong concert (A concert featuring the songs of the Australian pied butcherbird for violin and field recordings) |
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| 20:00 | Spontaneous Music sessions in rooms Balint, Pioda, Von der Heydt, Mandala, Auditorium | |
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012
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SESSION: AUDITORY NEUROPHYSIOLOGY-1 |
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| 9:10 – 9:30 | Tutorial: Auditory Neurophysiology (Jan Schnupp) | |
| 9:30 – 10:15 | Israel Nelken, Music and Primary auditory cortex | |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45-11:30 | Frank Ohl, Cortical Neurodynamics of auditory category learning | |
| 11:30 -12:15 | Fritz Sommer Learning in embodied action-perception loops | |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
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| SESSION: MUSICAL STRUCTURE | ||
| 14:00-14:20 | Tutorial: Musical structure and Computational Modeling (Martin Rohrmeier) | |
| 14:20-15:05 | Martin Rohrmeier, Musical syntax: Computational and Empirical Perspectives | |
| 15:05-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30- 16:15 | Dezhe Jin, Bird song syntax: statistical model and neural mechanism | |
| 16:15 -17:00 | Shlomo Dubnov, Musical Surprise Modeling with Audio Oracle | |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | POSTER SESSION (Balint Room) |
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| 20:00 | Spontaneous Music sessions in rooms Balint, Pioda, Von der Heydt, Mandala, Auditorium | |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012
| SESSION: AUDITORY NEUROPHYSIOLOGY-2 |
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| 9:10 – 9:30 | Tutorial: Pitch and Tone (Israel Nelken) | |
| 9:30 – 10:15 | Daniel Bendor, the representation of pitch in primate auditory | |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45-11:30 | Jennifer Bizley, Neural correlates of pitch and timbre perception in ferret auditory cortex | |
| 11:30 -12:15 | Nory Jacobi, Kernel Information Bottleneck as a Metaphor for Music and Art Perception | |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
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| EVENING SESSION: TONES, HARMONY, AND MUSIC (Balint Room or Auditorium) |
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| 20:00 -20:45 | Leila Schayegh: Taupe grey and Eyes Wide Shut: A journey into a violinist’s mind | |
| 20:45 – 21:00 | Eitan Globerson: my brain as a pianist | |
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012
| SESSION: LEARNING | ||
| 9:10 – 9:40 | Tutorial: Tonal Harmony (Mark Jude Tramo) | |
| 9:40 – 10:20 | Mark Jude Tramo: Neural Coding of Tonal Harmony | |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45-11:30 | Surya Ganguli: (title to be announced) | |
| 11:30 -12:15 | Richard Hahnloser: Auditory feedback and song learning | |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
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| SESSION: EMOTION | ||
| 14:00-14:20 | Tutorial: Huron’s theory of emotion in music (Ofer Tchernichovski) | |
| 14:20-15:05 | Ofer Tchernichovski, Music Theory for Birds: Searching for Structural Organization in the Interactive Vocalizations of Songbirds |
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| 15:05-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30- 16:15 | Eitan Globerson, Psychoacoustic abilities as predictors of vocal emotion recognition in autism | |
| 16:15 -17:00 | Joel Douek, speaking the emotional language of music | |
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| EVENING: Public talk and event in ITALIAN LANGUAGE (and colleagues from the Music Conservatory of Tessin) (Balint Room) |
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| 20:30 – 21:15 | “Suono e cervello” public lecture in Italian by Jan Schnupp |
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| 21:15 – 22:00 | The Journey of a Musical idea” public lecture in Italian and musical performance by Jennifer MacRitchie and Giulia Nuti |
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| 22:00 | Questions, remarks, possible discussion lead by the moderator | |
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| 20:00 | Spontaneous Music sessions in rooms Pioda, Von der Heydt, Mandala, Auditorium | |
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012
| SESSION: LEARNING-2 | |
| 9:30 – 10:15 | Wulfram Gerstner, The problems of learning temporal structure with spiking neurons |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Jason Kerr, Outside auditory cortex: optical imaging of neural activity |
| 11:30 -12:15 | Mark Jude Tramo, The BIG picture: Functional Brain Organization in Relation to Emotion and Meaning in Music |
| 12:15-13:00 | Lunch Break |
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