25-27 Ottobre 2002
The Neurosciences and Music
Mutual interactions and implications on developmental functions
Intro
In cooperation with
International School of Neurological Sciences, Venice
Venice International University, San Servolo
Our knowledge on the cerebral representation of functions regarding musical production and perception, as well as their development along the course of brain maturation, has been enormously enriched thanks to the remarkable growth of scientific contributions published in recent years.
In particular, numerous studies have further clarified the analogies and differences between the elaboration processes underlying musical functions as opposed to verbal ones.
Additionally, the study of relationship between music and movement has envolved from a more empirical phase to enter a proper scientific dimension, which allows to define precise correlations between the development of motor behaviour and that of perception and production of temporal music sequences.
As life science has gained insights on anatomical, physiological and behavioural mechanisms of brain functioning, music has benefited from these achievements.
An increasing number of composers has now started constructing sound and sound objects based on models and information derived from biological psychological studies.
The meeting has the purpose of bringing together major expert in the fields of neurobiological, neuropsychological and developmental research applied to music, as well as musicians interested in elaborating on the modalities and peculiarities of musical perception and construction. The multidisciplinary format of the meeting is reflected in the different backgrounds of its coordinators, with the involvement of an international panel of invited speakers.
The first two days of the meeting will be led by two neurologists: Giuliano Avanzini (Milan), with his wide- ranging neurophysiology specialization in both clinical work and research, will direct the topic Music releted cerebral functions, and Diego Minciacchi (Florence), who combines a primary interest in neuroanatomy and neuropsysiology with the activity of composing, will investigate How brani scientists use music – How musicians use brain research.
The third day, Music and brain development, is entrusted to Carmine Faienza (Parma), a child neurologist who has edited another volume on “Music, Speech and the Developing Brain” based in the 1992 internatonal workshop held in Parma, and Maria Majno (Milan), a music scholar with performance training who for several years has been involved in pediatric neurology.
Committees
Organizing Committee
Giuliano Avanzini
Department of Exerimental Researches and Diagnostics National Neurologic Institute “Carlo Besta“
Carmine Faienza
Department of Pediatrics
Child Neuropsychiatric Unit
University of Parma
Maria Majno
Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani
Diego Minciacchi
Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences
Graduate Course in Sciences and Movement
Faculty of Medicine, University of Florence
Scientific Advisors
Isabelle Peretz
Department of Psychology University of Montreal
Robert J. Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University, Montreal
Scientific Secretariat
Luisa Lopez
Centre of Developmentl Disabilities “Eugenio Litta”
Program
Day 1
Cerebral organization of music-related functions
coordinated by Giuliano Avanzini
1.1
Functional investigations of musical abilities
Chair Giuliano Avanzini
9.00
Opening remarks
9.15
Introductory lecture
The musical brain
Robert J. Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University, Montreal
10.00
Towards the neural basis of processing structure in music: comparative results of different neurophysiological investigation methods (EEG, MEG, fMRI)
Angela D. Friederici,
Stefan Koelsch
Max Planck Institute of Cognitive
Neuroscience, Leipzig
10.30
Mismatch negativity (MMN) – an index for the accuracy of neural sound representations
Mari Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit
Department of Psychology
University of Helsinki
Institute for General Psychology
University of Leipzig
11.00
Coffee break
11.30
Emotional responses to music recorded in the auditory cortex
Catherine Liégeois-Chauvel
INSERM E 9926
Laboratory of Neurophysiology
and Neuropsychology
Faculty of Medecine
University of Marseille
12.00
Functional imaging of complex sound perception and its relevance to clinical musical disorders
Timothy Griffiths
Newcastle University Medical School and Department of Imaging
Neuroscience
Institute of Neurology, London
12.30
Lunch break and Poster discussion
1.2
Neurological disorders
Chair Robert J. Zatorre
14.00
An overview of musical impairments in diseases of the brain
Luigi A. Vignolo
Department of Neurology II
University of Brescia
14.30
Autonomy and fractionation of music perception and recognition
Isabelle Peretz
Department of Psychology
University of Montreal
15.00
Disturbances of musicalperformance b seizures, and some reflections on the emotional brain
Heinz Gregor Wieser
Department of Epileptology and EEG
Neurology Clinic
Faculty of Medicine
University Hospital Zürich
15.30
Musicogenic seizures
Giuliano Avanzini
Department of Experimental Research and Diagnostics
National Neurologic Institute
“Carlo Besta”, Milan
16.00
Coffee break
1.3
Round Table: Dissecting the perceptual components of music
16.15
Opening of Round Table
Chair
Carol L. Krumhansl
Invited participants
Giuliano Avanzini
Music as biocultural phenomenon
Ian Cross
Faculty of Music
Cambridge University
The impact of cultural familiarity and expertise on neurological responses to musi
Steven M. Demorest;
Steven J. Morrison
School of Music
University of Washington, Seattle
Expressive intentions in music performance Giovanni De Poli
Department of Electronics
and Informatics
University of Padova
Musicians vs non-musicians:a neurophysiological approach
Luisa Lopez
Center for Developmental Disabilities
“E. Litta”, Grottaferrata, Rome
Listening to music: differences between musicians and non-musicians
Thomas Muente
Department of Neuropsychology
Otto-von-Guericke
University of Magdeburg
Rhythm in language and music: parallels and differences
Aniruddh Patel
The Neurosciences Institute
San Diego
Neuropsychological studies of musical perception
Séverine Samson
University of Lille 3, URECA
Villeneuve d’Ascq
Epilepsy Unit
Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris
17.45
Closing of Round Table
Day 2
Brain sciences versus music
coordinated by Diego Minciacchi
2.1
How brain sciences exploit music
Chair Diego Minciacchi
9.00
Anatomical and physiological pathways to sound perception
Edward G. Jones
Center for Neuroscience
University of California, Davis
9.30
Decomposing the sound scene in the auditory cortex
Michael M. Merzenich
Keck Center for Integrative
Neurosciences
Departments of Otolaryngology
and Physiology
University of California, San Francisco
10.00
Cortical structure and mental skills: the legacy of the brain of musicians
Marina Bentivoglio
Department of Morphological
and Biomedical Sciences
University of Verona
10.30
Short- and long-term effects of musical training on neural connectivity: effects of six weeks rhythmic education on auditory brain activation patterns
Eckart O. Altenmüller
Institute for Music Physiology
and Musician’s Medicine
University of Music and Drama
Hannover
11.00
Coffee break
2.2
How musicians use brain research
Chair Eckart O. Altenmüller
11.30
Problem-solving strategies in the composition of a contemporary musical work
Stephen McAdams
Musical Perception
and Cognition Team
IRCAM-CNRS, Paris
12.00
The perceptual and structural implications of “virtual” music on the Web
William Duckworth
Department of Music
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
12.30
Lunch break and Poster discussion
14.00
Propositional music from extended musical interface with the human nervous system
David Rosenboom
California Institute of the Arts
Santa Clarita
14.30
The perception of microsound and its musical implications
Curtis Roads
Media Arts and Technology Program
University of California, Santa Barbara
15.00
The translation from neurobiological data to musical parameters
Diego Minciacchi
Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences
Graduate Course in Sciences of Movement
Faculty of Medicine
University of Florence
15.30
Coffee break
2.3
Round Table: A common highlevel ground for scientists and musicians
16.00
Opening of Round Table
Chair
Curtis Roads
Invited participants
Musically untrained listeners: are they musical experts?
Emmanuel Bigand
LEAD CNRS
Dijon Faculty of Sciences
University of Burgundy
The quest for musical parameters can prompt the search for neurobiological data. A tensorbased strategy for spatial analysis reveals the tuft-like microorganization
of cell populations positive for calcium binding proteins in the parabrachial region of mice
Diego Minciacchi
Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences
Graduate Course in Sciences of Movement
Faculty of Medicine
University of Florence
The neurobiology of rhythmic motor entrainment
A neurorehabilitation perspective
Marco Molinari
Experimental Neurorehabilitation
Laboratory
IRCCS S. Lucia Foundation, Rome
Brain- & sound-resonance,the world of self-generative functions, as a basis of the spectral language of music
Horatiu Radulescu
International Lucero Academy
in Paris and Blonay, Montreux
Neurophysiology of neural timing
networks in musical rhythm and rhythmic synchronization:basic science and clinical data
Michael H. Thaut
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative
Neuroscience Program
School of the Arts
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
17.30
Closing of Round Table
20.30
Concert
Conservatorio di Musica
“Benedetto Marcello”
Campo Santo Stefano, Venice
Works by Horatiu Radulescu,
David Rosenboom, Curtis Roads and
Diego Minciacchi
Performed by James Clapperton,
Catherine Marie Tunnell, David
Rosenboom, Curtis Roads
in cooperation with
School of Musical Electronics headed
by Alvise Vidolin
Day 3
Music and development
coordinated by Carmine Faienza and Maria Majno
Chair Carmine Faienza
3.1
Development of musical abilities
9.00
Ten years later: introductory remarks on musical beginnings
Carmine Faienza, Giuseppe Cossu
Department of Pediatrics
Child Neuropsychiatric Unit
University of Parma
9.15
Musical learning and language
development by infants
Jenny R. Saffran
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin, Madison
9.45
Infant musical abilities and their implications
Sandra E. Trehub
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
10.15
Coffee break
10.30
Experimental strategies for understanding the role of experience in music cognition
Carol L. Krumhansl
Department of Psychology
Cornell University, Ithaca
11.00
Music learning: the creation of links between multiple input and output representations
Carolyn Drake
Laboratory of Experimental
Psychology CNRS UMR 8581
René Descartes University
Institute of Psychology
University of Boulogne
11.30
The concert of the neurons and learning – induced cortical plasticity
Christo Pantev
Canada Research Chair
“Human Cortical Plasticity”
Rotman Research Institute for Neuroscience
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Toronto, Ontario
12.00
Musical categorization processes
in infancy
Marc Mélen
National Fund for Scientific Research
(FNRS)
University of Liege
Unit of Research in Psychology
of Music (URPM)
Center for Research and Music
Education
12.30
Lunch break and Poster discussion
3.2
Acquired vs innate competencies: disorders and special abilities
Chair Isabelle Peretz
Department of Psychology
University of Montreal
14.00
Biological and psychological correlates of exceptional performance in development
Rolf Oerter
Department of Psychology
University of Munich
14.30
Prosodic and melodic processing in adults and children: behavioral and electrophysiological approaches
Mireille Besson
Institute for Physiological
and Cognitive Neurosciences
CNRS, Marseille
15.00
Coffee break
3.3
Round Table: Import of musical training on cognition, behaviour and skills
15.30
Opening of Round Table
Chair
John Sloboda
Invited participants
Harmonic perception in early childhood: explicit and implicit learning
Eugenia Costa-Giomi
School of Music
University of Texas, Austin
Interaction of cognitive and musical abilities. An EOG study on mental speed and music aptitude
Wilfried Gruhn
Music Education Department
University of Music, Freiburg
Dyslexia and music: from timing
deficits to music intervention Katie Overy
Department of Psychology and Department of Music
University of Sheffield
Effects of musical training on auditory cortex and relations between musical skills and learning to read
Laurel J. Trainor
Department of Psychology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Towards the identification of criteria for the validation of results in music therapy
Antonia Madella Noja,
Lorenza Vigorelli
AIAS Italian Association for Assistance
to Spastics, Milan
The brain basis of musical skills Lawrence M. Parsons
Cognitive Neuroscience Program
Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences Directorate
National Science Foundation
Arlington
17.30
Closing of Round Table
