Lecture program & Abstracts

February 4th

Principled Explanations in Comparative Biomusicology
Rie Asano

Brain rhythms and the encoding of structure
David Poeppel

February 5th

A molecular genetic perspective on speech and language
Simon E. Fisher

Stimulating speech: Auditory-motor interactions in production and perception
Kate E. Watkins

February 6th

The sound of emotions - Perceiving and producing emotions in speech intonations
Sascha Frühholz

Origins of the vocal brain in humans
Steven Brown

February 7th

How executive functions shape human cognition
Etienne Koechlin

Construction in General, and Music and Language in Particular
Michael A Arbib

February 8th

Vocal learning in bats: From genes to behaviour
Sonja C. Vernes

Language, music, and the brain: Wrestling with granularity mismatch issues
Cedric Boeckx