[BIC-announce] FW: [Fwd: Reminder: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium at the MNI April 16th]

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

(With apologies for multiple postings)
Dear all,

The International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research
(BRAMS) is pleased to announce a full-day symposium on Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, held at the Montreal Neurological Institute (Jeanne Timmins Auditorium)  one day before the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting. Please find the final program below.

More information can be found here:
http://www.brams.org/events/brams-annual-scientific-day-1/scientific-day-2010


8:45am - Opening
9:00am - Session 1: "Neural Coding in the Auditory Cortex"

09.00 - Claude Alain, Rotman Research Institute - "Neuromagnetic recordings reveal additive effects of spectral and spatial cues in human auditory cortex"

09.25 - Evan Balaban, McGill University - "The auditory discontinuity
illusion: Individual differences in scene analysis related to the strength of short-latency neural responses"

09.50 - Tobias Overath, New York University, USA - "Cortical mechanisms for the segregation and representation of acoustic textures"

10.00 - Marc Schoenwiesner, Université de Montréal - "How to get out more often (and take your experiment with you)"

10:25am - Coffee breaks & posters
10:45am - Session 2: "Emotional Communication by Sound"

10.45 - Jorge Armony, McGill University - "Perception and memory of emotional expressions across modalities"

11.10 - Hauke Egermann, McGill University - "Emotion Induction Through
Music: Effects of Listening Contexts and Musical Structures"

11.20 - Sarah Wilson, University of Melbourne, Australia - "Music as
Communication: 'Finding your voice'"

11.45 - Teppo Särkämö, Helsinki University, Finland - "Auditory plasticity induced by music and speech listening after stroke: an MEG follow-up study"

11.55 - Pascal Belin, University of Glasgow, Scotland

12:20 - Lunch break*
2:00pm - Session 3: "Sensorimotor Integration"

02.00 - Caroline Palmer, McGill University - "Sensorimotor integration among performing musicians"

02.25 - Bruno Giordano, McGill University - "Cortical processing of environmental sounds"

02.35 - Virginia Penhune, Concordia University - "Rhythm processing and auditory-motor integration"

03.00 - Patrice Voss, McGill University - "Auditory processing in blind indiviuals"

03.10 - David Poeppel, New York University, USA - "Feedforward and feedback at the nexus of sensorimotor integration"

3:35pm - Coffee break & posters

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Robert J. Zatorre, Ph.D.
Montreal Neurological Institute
3801 University St.
Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2B4
phone: 1-514-398-8903
fax: 1-514-398-1338
e-mail: robert.zatorre at mcgill.ca
web site: www.zlab.mcgill.ca