• Music & Emotion

    Musical emotions – unique and complex

    I often think very fondly of my time as a PhD student within the Psychology Department of the University of York. I had the best supervisors, the most supportive and caring roommates, and the most stimulating of research environments. In fact, I was jolly spoilt now I think about it! And all this came flooding back to me last week when we had a visiting speaker arrive from my Alma Mater. Dr Marcel Zentner obtained his PhD from the University of Zurich in 1996. He then moved to Harvard University to carry out postdoctoral research for two years before joining the Emotion research group at the University of Geneva. There…

  • Music & Language,  Music Medicine & Therapy

    Music and Language Conference: Musical Ear Training for Cochlear Implant Users

    Last week I was lucky enough to travel to Aarhus in Denmark to attend the ‘Music and Language in the Brain’ conference, which was held at the Royal Academy of Music. For the next few blogs I intend to present summaries of some of the conference presentations including work by Professors Robert Zatorre and Stefan Koelsch; so I hope there is plenty for you to look forward to, dear reader. But my first blog on the conference is reserved for a very special person, my kind host and friend Dr Bjørn Peterson. Bjørn is an associate professor at the Royal Academy and, I am lead to believe by his colleagues,…

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