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ICMPC Day Five – Neuroscience
Day Five, the final day of ICMPC, saw a big neuroscience session which I had been looking forward to all week. Not least because my friend Elisa was talking about her fascinating study neural oscillatory activity during both language and music syntax tasks (Carrus E, Koelsch S, Bhattacharya J (2010) Theta band oscillations during simultaneous processing of music and language – submitted). I have to admit that I was engrossed in Elisa’s talk, trying to be maximally supportive as you do for a friend; so I completely forgot to write anything down. As a result my exact memory for the details is now very poor! So sorry Elisa. But it…
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ICMPC Day Four – Rhythm
On Day 4 I attended a session which contained two talks about drumming. I was really interested to hear both as discussions of rhythmic skills are rarer than they should be at music psychology conferences. The first was given by Simone Dalla Bella (who I have mentioned before as having worked with amusia in the past) and the second was by Rick Ashley. I may not be able to follow these talks in as much detail as some of the others, as rhythm is really not my speciality, but these guys are both wonderful speakers and although I don’t understand everything I do enjoy the content. You never know where…