| Thursday, July 10, 2008 | ||
| Session I | Distler Hall | |
| 5:40 – 6:25pm | Poetry as Musical Structure: A Case Study Fred Lerdahl | |
| Friday, July 11, 2008 | ||
| Session II | ||
| 9:00 – 9:45am | The Hurley Model of Humor: An Introduction Daniel Dennett | |
| 9:45 – 10:15am | Expectancy as a Cognitive Link between Music and Language Aniruddh Patel | |
| 9:15 – 10:45am | Phonological Equivalence of Pitch Level in Speech D.R. Ladd | |
| Session III | ||
| 11:15 – 11:45am | Accents in Speech and Music: Autosegmental-Metrical Phonology and the Baroque French Overture Alfred Cramer | |
| 11:45 – 12:15pm | Weighing Conflicting Constraints: A Maxent Approach to Textsetting Bruce Hayes | |
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 | ||
| Session IV | ||
| 9:00 – 9:30am | From Singing to Speaking: Facilitating Recovery from Aphasia Gottfried Schlaug | |
| 9:30 – 10:00am | Bistability in the Perceptual Organization of Speech Robert Remez | |
| 10:00 – 10:30am | Abstract and Concrete Meter John Halle | |
| Session V | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30am | Agreement and Island Phenomena in the Syntax of Music and Language David Pesetsky | |
| 11:30 – 12:00pm | Pitch Discrimination Differs in Speech and Music: Evidence from a Case of Congenital Amusia Barbara Tillmann | |
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 | ||
| Session VI | ||
| 9:00 – 9:30am | Simultaneous Dual-fMRI Scanning of Human Duetters Lawrence Parsons | |
| 9:30 – 10:00am | A Cortical Network for Hierarchical Processing of Musical Phrase Structure Mark Tramo | |
| 10:00 – 10:30am | Melodic Pattern Learning: Statistical Learning and Absolute Pitch Elizabeth West Marvin | |
| Session VII | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30am | Communication and Synchronization of Brain States via Music and Language Jamshed J. Bharucha | |
| 11:30 – 12:15pm | Parallels and Non-Parallels between Language and Music Ray Jackendoff | |
Distler Hall Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center 20 Talbot Avenue Medford, MA 02155 | ||

