Music Psychology

In the second part of the morning on Day 1 I visited 4 poster presentations (the new 5 minutes oral pre-presentations), the first of which was from one of our Music, Mind and Brain masters students. It is great to see them coming into their own on the world stage! Alex Billig did his masters project with Daniel Müllensiefen, comparing models of melodic contour in music and speech.  He compared and contrasted four different models of contour that increase in complexity by nature of the degree to which they did not compress the melodic contour information. Participants listened to both short melodies and speech-like (filtered) sentences and pointed to one…

The first morning session for ICMPC 12 featured a new idea for presentation for me; everyone here who has a poster gets a 5 minute oral presentation to summarise and advertise their poster. This is a really nice idea for a couple of reasons: 1) you get a snapshot of lots of different work which can be hard to do with a traditional poster session as it is easy to get caught up and involved with one poster at the expense of others; 2) it is great experience of presenting. But as we shall see, it does rather leave you with information overload! Because there are so many presentations I…