2008 Symposium Schedule
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Friday, May 16
Friday’s events will take place at Campbell Recital Hall
SESSION ONE
2:00 PM Bahram Osqueezadeh: Emoting culturally: States of emotion in culture-specific musical performances
3:00 PM Psyche Loui: Emotion and the Dark Side of Music Perception
4:00 PM Edward Large: Rhythmic Expectancy and Emotional Response: An fMRI Study
5:00 PM Daniel Levitin* Anna Tirovolas: On The Psychophysics of Expressivity in Piano Performance
* Due to illness Daniel Levitin will not be present. Dr. Levitin's paper will be presented by co-author Anna Tirovolas (Mcgill University).
Cocktail Reception
Dinner Break
8:00 PM Friday Concert: Stephen Prutsman, piano, with the St. Lawrence String Quartet
Saturday, May 17
Saturday’s Events will take place at CCRMA
SESSION TWO
10:15 AM Blakey Vermeule: Can an artist meddle with evil and remain emotionally unscathed?
11:00 AM Wallace Chafe: Emotions and the Prosody of Language
12:00 PM Vinod Menon: Emotion from temporal structure in music: A neuroscience perspective
Lunch Break - CCRMA Listening Room will be open for Mindspa demonstrations during the Lunch Break.
SESSION THREE
2:00 PM Petr Janata: Neural Substrates of Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories
3:00 PM Jenny Olivia Johnson: “Drippy Mauve” Organs, “Thick Opaque” Guitars, and Other Sonorities of Shame: Synaesthesia and Acoustic Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse
4:00 PM David Huron: Music-evoked Frisson: How Music Produces Gooseflesh and Why Listeners Enjoy It
Reception - Live music provided by The Jazz Party
Dinner Break
8:00 PM Saturday Concert: The St. Lawrence String Quartet
