Scientific Workshops

On Saturday, November 20th, 2010, the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind hosted a Scientific Workshop featuring top researchers Isabelle Peretz, E. Glenn Schellenberg, William F. Thompson, and Aniruddh D. Patel.  This interdisciplinary event was supported by the Faculties of Science and Humanities at McMaster University.

 Music Cognition, Language and Thought

Saturday, November 20, 2010

9am – 5:30pm

Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall 111

McMaster University

Amusia in Speakers of a Tonal Language, Isabelle Peretz, Université de Montréal, Canada ( abstract )

Music Training, Language and Cognition: Conclusions and Controversies, E. Glenn Schellenberg, University of Toronto, Canada ( abstract )

Vocal Emotional Communication, William F. Thompson, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia ( abstract )

Syntactic Processing in Language and Music, Aniruddh Patel, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California, USA ( abstract )  

The McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind hosts annual full-day Scientific Workshops at McMaster. Each year, four or five prominent Music Cognition researchers from around the world are invited to present their latest research as it relates to a chosen theme. Each year our workshop attendees include psychologists, neuroscientists, musicians, educators, graduate and undergrad students, and interested community members.