Neuroscience
Here are the upcoming Cognitive Science Colloquia for spring 2007:
The talks will be held at 4pm on Friday afternoons at UConn / Storrs.
btw, there was an interesting article in Sunday's NYTimes about musical cognition.
Music of the Hemispheres
by CLIVE THOMPSON
Sunday, Jan. 31, 2006
eta: abridged article available free at the Toronto Star
"Images from an experiment to locate the neural regions of the brain involved in listening to music. Daniel Levitin and another scientist scanned the brains of 13 people as they listened to scrambled and unscrambled versions of a tune."
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Neuroscience
UConn Cog Sci Colloquia -- spring 2007
Here are the upcoming Cognitive Science Colloquia for spring 2007:
- February 9th: Richard Ashley, Northwestern University, on musical cognition.
- March 30th: Randy Beer, Indiana University, on coordinated behavior.
- April 13th: Mark Changizi, Caltech / RPI, on theoretical neurobiology.
The talks will be held at 4pm on Friday afternoons at UConn / Storrs.
btw, there was an interesting article in Sunday's NYTimes about musical cognition.
Music of the Hemispheres
by CLIVE THOMPSON
Sunday, Jan. 31, 2006
eta: abridged article available free at the Toronto Star
"Images from an experiment to locate the neural regions of the brain involved in listening to music. Daniel Levitin and another scientist scanned the brains of 13 people as they listened to scrambled and unscrambled versions of a tune."
- How Do You Use Music?
Hang on, let me just turn down Paolo Nutini. You see, while reading this new study by the aptly-named Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adrian Furnham, I was listening to Nutini's recent live concert in Denver. Using music in this fashion, as a background...
- Compose New Music? In Your Dreams
The source of professional musicians’ creativity could lie in their dreams, report Piero Salzarulo and colleagues at the University of Florence. They asked 35 professional musicians and 30 non-musical students to complete a record of their dreams and...
- Musical Hallucinations
From tomorrow's New York Times: Neuron Network Goes Awry, and Brain Becomes an IPod By CARL ZIMMER The New York Times Published: July 12, 2005 [snip] Only a handful of brain scans have been made of people with musical hallucinations. Dr. Tim Griffiths,...
- Spring Break In The Lower Ninth Ward
The editor of the UConn Daily Campus, Diego Cupolo (a journalism & communication science major) wrote a story recently called Spring Break in the Lower Ninth Ward. According to the UConn Advance, his article was picked up by the Associated Press. Congratulations...
- Spring 2016 Research Assistant Positions With The Language And Music Cognition Lab!
Spring 2016 Research Assistant Positions Language and Music Cognition Lab Description: Are you interested in learning more about how we process music and how music lessons and musical ability affect other perceptual and cognitive abilities? Or more about...