Music Psychology

The last section of the full Day 1 (Day 2 in the schedule) again featured a choice of five different parallel sessions. I decided to attend the curiously named ‘Replication and ‘truth’ in music psychology’, partly because of the interesting title and partly because our research group (and one of our masters students Kelly) had been involved in this symposium. The session was held in Hall 1. At this point I will permit myself a little whinge about this location – the acoustics are appalling! It is  a huge barn of a structure, made much worse by the labyrinthine air conditioning system which sounds like a freight train rumbling past…

I missed the start of the afternoon session as I was chatting away to long lost colleagues and friends. They are not actually ever lost of course, but they do spend most of the time a very long way from London so I enjoy catching up with how they are getting on in life and in work. The sad consequence of this is that I kept missing things on the first day! In the afternoon paper session (two in each session) I managed to catch Erin Hannon’s talk about pattern learning in music and language. Erin started off with a discussion of the evidence both for dissociation and overlap between…