About Music and the Brain

Begun in 2006, the SiCa Center for Arts, Science and Technology’s Symposium on Music and the Brain has become an internationally renown and respected interdisciplinary meeting of the world’s finest scholars, researchers and practitioners exploring the neuroscience of music.

Past symposia have focused on: brainwave entrainment - how the brain responds to rhythmic stimuli (2006), music, rhythm and the brain - the psychophysical and physiological effects of musical rhythm (2007), emotion from a wide range of perspectives - including the role of pitch, rhythm, timbre, prosody and performance on emotional response to music (2008), and spontaneity and improvisation (2009).

In 2010, Music and the Brain will take the form of a speaker series featuring Dr. Aniruddh D. Patel, Dr. Mark Tramo MD, and Dr. Petr Janata.View the schedule online. Join the e-list (below) to stay updated.

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CAST Advisory Committee

Jonathan Berger, Professor, Music
Christopher Chafe, Professor, Music
John C. Chowning, Professor, Music (Emeritus)
Paul DeMarinis, Associate Professor, Art
Pat Hanrahan, Professor, Computer Science
William Hurlbut, Consulting Professor, Neurology
Clete Kushida, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Vinod Menon, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Consulting Professor, Music
David Spiegel, Professor, Psychiatry
Patrick Suppes, Professor, Philosophy (Emeritus)
Blakey Vermeule, Associate Professor, English
David Wilkins, Lecturer, Symbolic Systems
Gail Wright, Associate Professor, Art

The symposium is sponsored in part by the Department of Music.