[neuromusiclab] Daniela Sammler guest talk zoom (Feb 14 Wed: 1:30pm-) on joint music dual-EEG

[Takako Fujioka]

Hi all,

please join us for the guest lecture by Daniela Sammler on Wednesday.
I asked her 45-60min talk also to stick around for Q and A.

Marise, can you share the zoom link?
(and please record the talk....I can only join at 2:20pm)

The talk title and abstract below.
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How the brain plays music: From musical ideas to joint performance

Daniela Sammler

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Everywhere in the world people enjoy listening to and making music 
together. Over the past 30 years, research on the neurocognition of 
music has gained a lot of insights into how the brain perceives music. 
Yet, our knowledge about the neural mechanisms of music production 
remains sparse. How does a musical idea turn into action? And how do 
musicians coordinate sounds and actions when they perform in groups? The 
present line of research isolated distinct genre-dependent levels of 
action planning in solo pianists and identified dynamically balanced 
mechanisms of interaction in duetting pianists using 3T fMRI and (dual) 
EEG. The data converge on three main findings: (A) distinct neural 
networks for abstract harmonic and concrete motor planning converge in 
left lateral prefrontal cortex that acts as a hub for solo music 
production, (B) internal models of other-produced musical actions in 
cortico-cerebellar audio-motor networks coordinate self and other during 
joint music performance, and (C) interbrain synchrony during joint music 
making is not merely an epiphenomenon of shared sensorimotor information 
but is modulated by the alignment of cognitive processes. Altogether, it 
will become clear that solo and joint music performance relies on 
general principles of human cognition, tuned to achieve the musical 
perfection required on stage.

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Takako Fujioka
Associate Professor,
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Department of Music, Stanford University
phone & voice mail: 650-723-4971 x 308