The Mariani Foundation for Paediatric Neurology and Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc., are delighted to announce The Neurosciences and Music | IX congress to be held in Tokyo, Japan, from 27 to 30 May, 2027. The ninth edition of this established congress series will again gather the main experts of neurosciences and music from all over the world for the premier event in the field, which will be hosted in Asia for the first time in its history.

The focus theme of the congress will be Music in action: Individual and social engagement. Under this theme, this conference invites us to explore how active perception and production of music shape the brain, tune the body, and weave connections across our social world.

Particularly in an era increasingly influenced by computer-mediated spaces, we aim to examine dynamics of social communication involving the musical brain: coordination with roles and hierarchy, negotiating social, physical and technical constraints, and navigating collaboration, competition, or conflict, as musical situations unfold.

Tokyo 2027 offers a timely vantage point to examine various social practices built on dialogues between individual and collective musical goals. By viewing music as a creative and expressive enterprise, we seek to illuminate why understanding these human capacities in the brain matter now more than ever for facilitating personally meaningful musical engagements in educational, health-related, or communal scenarios.

The scientific programme will include Symposia, Poster Sessions, a Keynote Lecture, and Pre-conference Workshops. The social programme will comprise a welcome event with reception, a conference dinner and two musical soirées featuring tradition and innovation.

The meeting will be of interest to neuroscientists, psychologists, clinicians, medical professionals, therapists, educators, musicians, musicologists, engineers, and students in these fields.

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