International Community for Auditory Display

Welcome

In its 3rd year, the SICA Center for Arts, Science and Technology’s Symposium on Music and the Brain has become an internationally renown and respected interdisciplinary meeting of the world’s finest scholars, researchers and practitioners exploring the neuroscience of music. This year’s Symposium will focus on emotion from a wide range of perspectives including the role of pitch, rhythm, timbre, prosody and performance on emotional response to music. Symposium presentations will draw from the most current research on music and the brain, and incorporate live musical performance.

Format

The Symposium will take place on May 16 and 17 on Stanford Campus. The two days will consist of presentations by leaders in the field of the neuroscience of music. Each day will conclude with live performances to expand on this year’s theme of emotion. Click here to view the full schedule.

Registration

Registration for the symposium is required, but there is no fee for attendance. Please fill out our Online Registration Form. You will be sent a confirmation email once you have filled out the form.

CAST Advisory Committee

Jonathan Berger, Associate Professor, Music
Christopher Chafe, Professor, Music
John C. Chowning, Professor, Music (Emeritus)
William Hurlbut, Consulting Professor, Neurology
Clete Kushida, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Vinod Menon, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Consulting Professor, Music
David Spiegel, Professor, Psychiatry
Patrick Suppes, Professor, Philosophy (Emeritus)

Funded in part by the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Fund. The symposium is sponsored by the Department of Music.

Please find information and (free) registration at

http://musicandthebrain.stanford.edu

Jonathan Berger
The Billie Bennett Achilles Professor in Music
The William R. and Gretchen B. Kimball University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Department of Music
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~brg