| 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 | |||

