Music and Neurosciences IV
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Day 2 – Impact of music experience on language processing
After the first symposium of Day 2 I retired to the very grand coffee/tea room for a warm beverage and a catch up with a few friends. It is really lovely to be able to see colleagues at these conferences, and to find out how everyone is doing with their work. It sounds like even though funding times are tough for academia music psychology is still managing well, with many people completing exciting moves to new labs, publishing work or getting grants. Overall, the mood was buoyant and positive. Boosted by a mild dose of caffeine we all headed back into the main Hall for symposium 2 which had been…
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Day 2 – Rhythm and Meter learning
Day 2 in Edinburgh began sunny and fresh. Dr Mullensiefen and I found a little cafe for breakfast that served a very reasonable and tasty bowl of Scottish oat porridge. Just the thing to keep your energy levels up for a long morning of fascinating talks! This cafe, just off the Royal Mile, (called ChocolateSoup ) would become the regular breakfast haunt for the majority of the MMB research group during the conference. Who needs an expensive and tired re-heated hotel breakfast!? The second day of the conference began with a keynote from Professor Alan Baddeley . I have to admit, dear reader, that I practically bounced to the conference…