ESCOM day 5 | Thanks for coming, see you later!

There were no keynotes on the last morning. Sunday started with the ESCOM General Assembly instead. Professor Reinhard Kopiez from Hannover University was elected as the new president of ESCOM. The incumbent president, prof Jukka Louhivuori from Jyväskylä, was elected new secretary general and editor of Musicae Scientiae, the journal of ESCOM. Jukka will thus [...]

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ESCOM day 4 | Developmental issues

The double-bill of keynotes in the morning of the 4th day consisted of Minna Huotilainen’s and Gary MacPherson’s talks.
Minna Huotilainen: Young Children as Individual Musicians: A Neuroscientific Approach
Minna Huotilainen of the Helsinki-side of our Finnish Centre of Excellence presented methods and data of their studies on music perception in babies and toddlers. This research aims [...]

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ESCOM day 3 – lifetime award for prof Irène Deliege

My updates in twitter and the blog posts are focused on keynotes. The reason isn’t that there aren’t so many other, interesting talks, but mainly because there is too much to report. The keynotes also cover the main fields of research represented in this conference, and therefore writing about them hopefully conveys a more complete [...]

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ESCOM – day 2 | Music and evolution

It seems that as the evenings are about socialising, the time for these daily posts is morning. This  hopefully means that what I write is better because it has been filtered through one night of sleep, but it could of course only mean that these are already out-of-date.
The second day started with two keynote addresses. [...]

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ESCOM 2009 – day 1

The conference started! The 300+ participants from 35 countries have arrived, the keynotes, spoken papers and poster sessions are now on the way.
The first keynote was given by professor David Huron. He talked about how important it would be for the cognitive scientists and ethnomusicologists to work together. There are many reasons why these two [...]

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ESCOM 2009

The seventh triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, or ESCOM2009 started today in Jyväskylä. We’ve got approximately 300 international guests, and 5 days of talks and networking ahead of us.
The conference delegates are now gathered at the Martti Ahtisaari -hall of the University of Jyväskylä. The first keynote of [...]

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