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ICMPC Day Two – Amusia
OK, show time! The end of Day Two was marked by the Amusia session… and by the Amusia session, I mean my friend and colleague Dr Fang Liu and I giving our talks to a relatively small but lovely audience. I was especially happy to see some of the leaders in our field were there though including Gottried Schlaug and Simone Dalla Bella. It did nothing for my nerves, mind you, but it was nice to see them in any case! Fang started the session by presenting some of her fantastic studies of intonation perception and production in amusia, which have been published in Brain since we applied for this…
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ICMPC Day Two – Memory
The first memory session I attended at this year’s ICMPC only contained two talks (I skipped the third and fourth in truth as I wanted a quick break before my talk to do some last minute practise!), but the first of them featured one of the greats in the field, Carol Krunmhansl. The second featured Kat Agres who was talking about an interesting EEG study of musical memory. 1) Carol is interested in investigating the power of our musical memory, in terms of both the amount we can store and the ease with which we trigger recall of tunes we have heard in the past. For this task she has…