MTS Lecture Series: Music, Movement and Cognition

The spring semester's MTS lecture series focuses on music, movement and cognition. UC Merced Professor Ramesh Balasubramaniam offers the introduction to the seminar series, and a special presentation by Benoit Bardy with the University of Montpellier is scheduled.

The talks are at 3 p.m. in Chancellor's Conference Room (KL 232) unless otherwise noted. This semester's lineup features:

• Jan. 27: Ramesh Balasubramaniam, UC Merced: introduction to the seminar series (with a special presentation by Benoit Bardy, Univ of Montpellier: "Moving to Music")
• Feb. 3: Erin Hannon, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: "Auditory Cognition & Development"
• Feb. 10: Michael Hove, Harvard Medical School: "Visual and Auditory Synchronization"
• Feb. 17: President’s Day (no seminar)
• Feb. 24: Michael Richardson, University of Cincinnati: "Coordination Between People"
• March 3: Bree Studenka, Utah State University: "Timing and Sensorimotor Coordination"
• March 10: Ric Ashley, Northwestern University: "Expressive Performance, Musical Communication and Long-term Memory for Music"
• March 17: John Iversen, UC San Diego: "On the Relation Between Language and Music"
• March 24: Spring break
• March 31: Carol Krumhansl, Cornell University: "How Music is Perceived and Remembered"
• April 7: Joel Snyder, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: "Auditory Stream Segregation"
• April 14: David Kirsh, UC San Diego: "Insights on Insight and Creativity"
• April 21: Scott Makeig, Swartz Center, UC San Diego: "Brain Dynamics in Creativity and Musical Expression"
• April 28: Petr Janata, UC Davis: "Being in the Groove: Brain Mechanisms Underlying Dynamic Cooperativity"