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Lightning Talks

Friday, July 11, 2008
Session I


Section A


Varis Lecture Hall


3:00 – 3:15pm
The Role of Pitch Attraction in the Formation of Generative Musical Grammar
Matthew Woolhouse

3:15 – 3:30pm
Structural Integration in Language and Music: A Shared System
Ev Fedorenko

3:30 – 3:45pm
Meta-Models of Music Cognition
Marcus Pearce and Geraint Wiggins

3:45 – 4:00pm
The Recall of Musical and Verbal Sequences in Musicians and Non-Musicians: Analysis Using the Working Memory Model Framework
Victoria Williamson

4:00 – 4:15pm
Spontaneous Entrainment to Auditory Rhythms in Vocal-Mimicking Bird Species
Adena Schachner

4:15 – 4:30pm
Analysis, Categorization, Tonality and Atonality
John Paul Ito

4:30 – 4:45pm
Applying Tools from Natural Language Processing to Analysis of Harmony: A Bottom Up Approach
Matthias Mauch

Section B
Distler Hall

3:00 – 3:15pm
Exploring Musical Learning and Memory: Evidence from Change Deafness
Carol Krumhansl

3:15 – 3:30pm
Enculturation Effects in Music Cognition: The Role of Age and Musical Complexity
Steven Morrison

3:30 – 3:45pm
Speech as Timbre-Based Melody — What in Parents’ Voices Do Infants Imitate Acoustically?
Nobuaki Minematsu

3:45 – 4:00pm
Musical Competence and the Role of Exposure
Henkjan Honing

4:00 – 4:15pm
The Boundaries of Speech and Song: Interaction of Intonational and Musical Structure in Infant-Directed Singing
Simone Falk

4:15 – 4:30pm
To Hear but Not To Listen: Psychophysical and Neural Correlates of Tone Deafness
Psyche Loui

4:30 – 4:45pm
Implicit Cognitive Rules in Music and Speech Perception
Jack Heller
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Session II


Section A
Varis Lecture Hall

3:00 – 3:15pm
The Evolution of Japanese Textsetting in Western Idioms
Noriko Manabe

3:15 – 3:30pm
Towards a Generative Theory of Hip-Hop
Jonah Katz

3:30 – 3:45pm
Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Auditory Processing Skills in Conservatoire-Level Musicians, with and without Developmental Dyslexia, and Non-Musicians
Paula Bishop-Liebler

3:45 – 4:00pm
Hidden Structures in the Music of John Coltrane
Kenneth Cook and Russell Alfonso

4:00 – 4:15pm
Judgments of Fit between Phonemic and Melodic Information in Singing
Lena Quinto & Frank Russo

4:15 – 4:30pm
A Framework for Investigating the Acquisition of Singing: CHIMES—The Children’s International Music Exchange System
Annabel Cohen

4:30 – 4:45pm
Musical Textsetting in Kaytetye Songs of Central Australia
Myfany Turpin
 Section B  Distler Hall
 3:00 – 3:15pm Talking Instruments, Tone Languages, and the Music-Language Link
Udo Will
 3:15 – 3:30pm Are Music and Language Natural Types?
Niall Griffith
 3:30 – 3:45pm The Minor Third Communicates Sadness in Prosody and Music
Meagan Curtis
 3:45 – 4:00pm A Lexical Functional Grammar Account of Tonal Harmony
Martin Rohrmeier
 4:00 – 4:15pm Parallelism Principles Apply to Linguistic Processing:
Distal Prosodic Effects on Word Segmentation and Lexical Access
Laura Dilley
 4:15 – 4:30pm True and Duplicitous Triple Rhythms: Observations from Musical Settings of English Texts
Kristin Hanson
 4:30 – 4:45pm Does Regular Timing Improve Speech Perception?
Hugo Quené
 4:45 – 5:00pm Harmonic Integration as Discourse Processing in Music:
An Empirical Investigation
Richard Ashley
 
 
Distler Hall and Varis Lecture Hall
Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center
20 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155