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The project is funded by the NEST (New and Emerging Science and Technology) program of the European Commission.

Program Overview

The keynote speakers will be professors Virginia Penhune, Séverine Samson, and Marcel Zentner. Their lectures will cover motor skill learning (prof. Penhune) as well as neurological (prof. Samson) and theoretical (prof. Zentner) considerations of music emotions.

Keynote abstracts can be found here.

Oral presentations will be given by several experts representing the fields of music perception, learning, and emotions as well as their neural determinants. The speakers are as follows:

Dr. Elvira Brattico (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Dr. Roberto Bresin (KTH School of Computer Science and Communication, Sweden)
Prof. Tuomas Eerola (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Prof. Jaakko Erkkilä (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Dr. Anders Friberg (KTH School of Computer Science and Communication , Sweden)
Dr. Minna Huotilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Dr. Thomas Jacobsen (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Prof. Daniela Perani (San Raffaele Institute, Italy)
Dr. Jessica Phillips-Silver (University of Montreal, Canada)

The titles and abstracts of the talks can be found here.

During the workshop a poster session will be held. Poster abstracts can be found here.