The Neurosciences and Music - II - Fondazione Mariani

05-08 Maggio 2005

The Neurosciences and Music – II

From perception to performance

Intro

In partnership with
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzing

This conference is conceived as the ideal continuation to the two previous meetings on the relation between Music and Neurosciences which have elicited the participation of the Fondazione Mariani in different capacities.

Reflecting the respective interests of neuroscientists in music and of musicians in neurosciences, the involvement started with “The Biological Foundations of Music” (May 2000), promoted by the New York Academy of Sciences, of which the publication of proceedings was supported and where contacts were established, leading to the “Neurosciences and Music” gathering in Venice (San Servolo, Ocober 2002).

This firts follow-up was appropriately subtitled “Mutual interactions and implications on developmental functions”, according to the primary interest of the Mariani Foundation in pediatric neurology. The proceedings have very promptly appeared in the Annals of New York Academy and have received very positive notices.

Given the success of these conferences, the perspective is now to follow such a favourable trend and further spin the thread of the relation between music, neurosciences and development. The Mariani Foundation plans to hold meetings approximately every 2 or 3 years, with variable frameworks depending the the specific outlook, since progress in the field suggest a different focus while more results are achieved and other issues and questions emerge.

Leipzig has been chesen as the next very appropriate site. It hosts one of Europe’s oldest university (founded in 1409) as well as the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and remains a musical city “par excellence”: here Johann Sebastian Bach lived and worked as Thomaskantor for most of his life, and the conference will coincide with the Bach-Fest of May 2005.

The program has been elaborated by the Organizing Committee, with the most valuable assistance for two Scientific Advisors of the highest authority. The main focus has been titled “From Perception to Performance”.

Four leading specialists of the present scene will lead introductory Workshops with the purpose to render available a “hands-on” understanding of the current status in each of four main areas of interest.

Seven session have been scheduled and the lectures reflect a thorough process of compounding the present  interests of first-line researchers, so that very current results can be presented.

In order to properly encourage research efforts, the most established figures have been requested to partecipate as chairs and/or discussant, and have indicated  upcoming younger scienists of their laboratories for the presentation.

An ample poster session is planned, and considerable time shall be left for discussion of session topic and general perspectives.

As to the developmental topics, the issue of “music therapy“, purposely left aside in the Venice Meeting,  will bed resumed in a dedicated Round Table with the purpose of starting the validation of evidence-based results of methods where music practice is effectively used in rehabilitation techniques.

Promotion Partners
Committees
Organizing Committee

Eckart Altenmuller

Univeristy of Music and Drama
Instutute of Music Physiology and Musicians’Medicine

Giuliano Avanzini

Department of Neurophysiology National Neurologic Institute “Carlo Besta”

Angela D. Friederici

Departmente of Neuropsychology Max Plack Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Stefan Koelsch

Departmente of Neuropsychology Max Plack Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Maria Majno

Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani

Christo Pantev

Instutute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis
Munster University Hospital
University of Munster

Scientific Advisors

Isabelle Peretz

Department of Psychology University of Montreal 

Robert J. Zatorre

Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University, Montreal

Scientific Secretariat

Luisa Lopez

Child Neurology Unit University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

Program
Day 1
Workshops

13.00 - 14.30

Workshop 1
Evaluation of musical disorders
Isabelle Peretz
Department of Psychology
University of Montreal

14.30 - 16.00

Workshop 2
Music and neuroimaging
Robert J. Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute
and McGill University
Montreal

15.45 - 16.15

Coffee break

16.00 - 17.30

Workshop 3
Music and development
Laurel Trainor
Department of Psychology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario

17.30 - 19.00

Workshop 4
Music and neurophysiology
Christo Pantev
Institute for Biomagnetism
and Biosignalanalysis
Münster University Hospital
University of Münster

Day 2

9.00

Opening remarks

9.15

Neurosciences and music: historical review and current issues
Diana Deutsch
Department of Psychology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla

SESSION 1
Ethology / Evolution: do animals have music or something else?

Chair
Carol Krumhansl
Department of Psychology
Cornell University
Ithaca

Discussant
Ian Cross
Faculty of Music
University of Cambridge (UK)

10.00

Probing the evolutionary origins of music perception
Josh McDermott
Department of Brain
and Cognitive Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge (USA)

10.20

Discussion

10.30

Between perception and performance: vocal learning as key constraint on the path to music and language
Björn Merker
Department of Psychology
Uppsala University

10.50

Discussion

11.00

The biology and evolution of music: a comparative perspective
W. Tecumseh Fitch
University of St. Andrews

11.20

Discussion

11.30

Coffee break

SESSION 2
Music and language

Chair
Mireille Besson
Institute for Physiological
and Cognitive Neurosciences
CNRS, Marseille

Discussant
Angela D. Friederici
Department of Neuropsychology
Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig

12.00

Empirical comparisons of music and language: prosody and syntax
Aniruddh D. Patel
The Neurosciences Institute
San Diego

12.20

Discussion

12.30

Music and linguistic processing in singing
Daniele Schön
Language and Music Group
Institute of Physiological and Cognitive
Neurosciences
CNRS, Marseille

12.50

Discussion

13.00

Lunch

SESSION 3
Mental representations

Chair
Giuliano Avanzini
Department of Neurophysiology
National Neurologic Institute
“Carlo Besta”
Milan

Discussant
Erich Schröger
Institute of Psychology
University of Leipzig

14.30

Implicit investigations of tonal knowledge in non-musician listeners
Barbara Tillmann
CNRS-UMR 5020
Neurosciences and Sensory Systems
Claude Bernard University
Lyon

14.50

Discussion

15.00

Cortical networks that track musical structure
Petr Janata
Center for Mind and Brain
University of California, Davis

15.20

Discussion

15.30

Anticipatory musical imagery and its neural basis
Josef P. Rauschecker
Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition
Georgetown University
Medical Center
Washington DC

15.50

Discussion

16.00

Coffee break

16.30

The neural substrates of semantic and episodic memory of music
Hervé Platel
INSERM E0218
UFR of Psychology

University of Caen

16.50

Discussion

17.00

Representation of pitch in auditory cortex: lesion effects and neural coding
Mark J. Tramo
Department of Neurology
Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory
Physiology
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
and Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Boston, Massachusetts

17.20

Discussion

17.30

Aspects of multisensory perception: the integration of visual and auditory information processing in musical experiences
Donald A. Hodges
Jonathan A. Burdette
Music Research Institute
University of North Carolina
Greensboro

17.50

Discussion

18.30 - 20.30

The Max Planck Institute is pleased to invite Speakers and Participants to a Welcome reception in the “Alte Börse”
(Old Stock Exchange).
Participants may attend depending on
previous confirmation and up to

Day 3
SESSION 4
Developmental aspects and impact of music on education

Chair
Luisa Lopez
Child Neurology Unit
University of Rome
“Tor Vergata”
Center for Developmental Disabilities
“Eugenio Litta”
Rome

Discussant
Sandra Trehub
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto

9.00

Music listening, music lessons and cognitive abilities
Glenn Schellenberg
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
Mississauga, Ontario

9.20

Discussion

9.30

The neural basis of rhythm and melody processing in young children, pre and post music training
Katie Overy
Institute for Music in Human and Social
Development (IMHSD), Music,
School of Arts, Culture and Environment
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

9.50

Discussion

10.00

Brain and cognitive effects of learning a musical instrument
Gottfried Schlaug
Music and Neuroimaging Lab
Department of Neurology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
and Harvard Medical School
Boston

10.20

Discussion

10.30

Coffee break

11.00

Influences of musical training on neurophysiological correlates of music and speech perception in children
Sebastian Jentschke
Junior Research Group
“Neurocognition of music”
Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig

11.20

Discussion

11.30

Temporal entrainment of cognitive functions in music: neural dynamics and brain plasticity
Michael H. Thaut
Center for Biomedical Research
in Music School of the Arts and
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative
Neuroscience Program
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado

11.50

Quantifying tone deafness in the general population
John A. Sloboda
Department of Psychology
Keele University
Staffordshire

12.10

Discussion

12.30

Lunch

14.00

POSTER SESSION

Coordinator
Nadine Gaab
Department of Psychology
Stanford University

16.00

ROUND TABLE

Music Therapy: the long way to evidence-based methods.
Pending issues and perspectives

Coordinator
Luisa Lopez
Child Neurology Unit
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

Discussant
Robert J. Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute
and McGill University
Montreal

Participants
Eckart Altenmüller
University of Music and Drama
Institute of Music Physiology
and Musicians’ Medicine
Hannover

Thomas Hillecke
German Center for Music Therapy
Research
Heidelberg

Anne K. Nickel
German Center for Music Therapy
Research
Heidelberg

Patricia L. Sabbatella
Cádiz University
Puerto Real, Cádiz

Michael Thaut
School of the Arts
Colorado State University
Fort Collins

Gabriela Wagner
Member of the World Federation
of Music Therapy Council
Capital Federal, Argentina

18.30 - 20.30

The Mariani Foundation is pleased to invite Speakers and Participants to a visit of the Bach Museum in the “Altes Rathaus” (Old City Hall), with an introduction in English by the Museum’s Director Dr. Rodekamp. Participants may attend depending on previous confirmation and up to the allowed capacity of the venue.

Day 4
SESSION 5
Neurological disorders and music

Chair
Timothy Griffiths
Department of Imaging Neuroscience
Institute of Neurology
Newcastle University Medical School
Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Discussant
Eckart Altenmüller
University of Music and Drama
Institute of Music Physiology
and Musicians’ Medicine
Hannover

9.00

Central auditory processing in tune deaf subjects
Dennis Drayna
National Institute on Deafness
and Other Communication Disorders
(NIDCD)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Rockville, Maryland

9.20

Neuropsychological assessment of musical difficulties
Lola L. Cuddy
Department of Psychology
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario

9.40

Discussion

9.50

Musical behavior in a neurogenetic developmental disorder: evidence from Williams syndrome
Daniel J. Levitin
Laboratory for Auditory
Perception and Cognition
McGill University
Montreal

10.10

Perceptual asymmetries and cortical changes after sensory motor retuning in musicians suffering from focal hand dystonia
Victor Candia
Institute of Neuroradiology
University Hospital of Zurich

10.30

Discussion

10.40

Coffee break

SESSION 6
Music performance

Chair
Diego Minciacchi
Department of Neurological
and Psychiatric Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
University of Florence

Discussant
Stephen McAdams
CIRMMT
Faculty of Music
McGill University
Montreal

11.00

Sensory-motor integration and disintegration in music performance
Eckart Altenmüller, Marc Bangert
and Hans-Christian Jabusch
University of Music and Drama
Institute of Music Physiology
and Musicians’ Medicine
Hannover

11.20

Memory and movement preparation in music performance
Caroline Palmer
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Montreal

11.40

Discussion

11.50

Neural control of rhythmic sequences
Fredrik Ullén
Neuropediatric Research Unit
Department of Woman and Child Health
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm

12.10

Tuning the musical brain
Lauren Stewart
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
& Wellcome Department
of Imaging Neuroscience
University College
London

12.30

Structural, functional and perceptual differences in the auditory cortex of musicians and non-musicians predict musical instrument preference
Peter Schneider
Department of Neurology
University Hospital Heidelberg
INF 400
Heidelberg

12.50

Discussion

13.00

Lunch

SESSION 7
Emotion in music

Chair
Isabelle Peretz
Department of Psychology
University of Montreal

Discussant
John A. Sloboda
Department of Psychology
Keele University
Staffordshire

14.30

Investigating emotion with music: an fMRI study
Stefan Koelsch
Department of Neuropsychology
Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig

14.50

Neuropsychological studies on music memory and musical preference
Séverine Samson
University of Lille 3
and La Salpêtrière Hospital
Paris

15.10

The time course of emotional response to music
Emmanuel Bigand
LEAD CNRS, Pole AAFE
University of Bourgogne
Dijon

15.30

Discussion

15.45

Brain and emotion: the music of what happens
Antonio Damasio
Department of Neurology
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Iowa City

16.30

Final Discussion

17.00

ECM Test
(“Educazione Continua in Medicina”,
for Italian participants only)