Our spring school aims to foster the research that center around language, music, and cognition. The group of our participants is a good mixture of the researchers and students from diverse background (section 2), reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of this research area. Since this spring school is a part of educational research project “Language and Music in Cognition” at the University of Cologne, we encouraged the participation of undergraduate students and Master’s students who are mostly new to this research field. As a result, we got a good mixture of Bachelor / Master students and PhD / other advanced researchers (section 1).

1. Participants

Undergraduate	15.4%
Master	33.3%
PhD	33.3%
Postdoctoral	10.3%
Faculty / Researcher	7.7%

2. Backgrounds

This classification was made on the basis of educational backgrounds mentioned in participants’ CV. If multiple backgrounds were mentioned, we chose one which we regarded as the best fitting to that person’s current research area.

Cognitive science	10.3%
Computer science	5.1%
Linguistics	35.9%
Musicology	17.9%
Neuroscience	15.4%
Psychology	15.4%

3. Countries (Locations of University / Institute)

These are the locations of the universities or the research institutes participants belong to.

Canada	5.1%
Finland	5.1%
France	5.1%
Germany	35.7%
Greece	5.1%
Iran	2.6%
Ireland	2.6%
Japan	2.6%
Malta	2.6%
Netherlands	7.7%
Norway	2.6%
Poland	2.6%
Portugal	2.6%
Russia	2.6%
UK	7.7%
USA	7.7%