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Interview – Stefan Koelsch
When I was in Denmark recently I had the fortune to run into Stefan Koelsch. On your behalf, dear reader, I approached Stefan in the coffee break and asked him if he would be kind enough to do an interview for my blog. He said yes immediately, despite his hugely busy schedule. So here you are! Professor Stefan Koelsch is a leading academics in the field of music and neuroscience. Here you can read his latest article, a really useful review of neural music perception research. He has a fantastic website where you can access many of his experimental stimuli and papers for free. He has worked in the fields of…
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Day 3 – The power of musical imagery
Day 3 of the Edinburgh conference began with brilliant sunshine and a light breeze. I awoke early to put up my poster, and those of other members of my research group in the Playfair library, an amazing long reading room. I spent a few minutes perfecting the art of sticking pins into the presentation boards using only one hand before going anywhere near the precious posters! (My wrist was still in a brace at this point following a sprain). Eventually however, all the posters were up and looking lovely. I was eagerly anticipating my poster presentation, talking to whoever desired to learn more about our work on visuo-spatial processing in…


