Program Timetable
Thursday, February 5, 2009
9.00
Registration
10.00 Opening words: Dr. Mari Tervaniemi
Session 1: Music emotions and appreciation: an overview
10.10 Key note: Prof. Marcel Zentner: Emotions evoked by music:
Characteristics,
determinants, and foundations
11.10 Dr. Tuomas Eerola: Ingredients of emotional music: An overview of the features that
contribute to emotions in music
11.30 Prof. Thomas Jacobsen: Aesthetic appreciation of music: Evidence from behavioral
and electrophysiological studies
11.50 Discussion
12.00 Lunch (on your own)
Session 2: Development of music and auditory skills
13.30 Key note: Prof. Virginia Penhune: Developmental contributions to human motor skill
learning
14.30 Dr. Minna Huotilainen: Children's individual paths to musicianship: investigations
of brain activity and behaviour
14.50 Dr. Cristina Saccuman: Music and language in the first days of life: fMRI studies
of auditory processing in newborns
15.10 Discussion
15.20 Coffee break and Poster session
Session 3: Music performance and expressivity
16.20 Dr. Fabrizio Vecchio: Audio-visual integration in motor systems in
expert musicians
as revealed by cortical alpha rhythms
16.40 Prof. Roberto Bresin: How fast is the tempo in a happy music performance?
17.00 Prof. Anders Friberg: Enabling emotional expression and interaction with new
expressive interfaces
17.20 Discussion
17.30 Welcome Reception hosted by Vice Rector Hannele Niemi
19.30 Dinner
Friday, February 6, 2009
Session 4: Music in clinical perspectives
10.00 Prof. Jaakko Erkkilä: How clients with depression deal with emotions through music
therapy improvisations?
10.20 Dr. Jessica Phillips-Silver: Perception and production of the beat: Who has it, who
doesn't and why
10.40 Dr. Elvira Brattico: The Amusic brain: In tune, out of key, and unaware
11.00 Key note: Prof. Severine Samson: How temporal lobe lesion affects musical emotion?
12.00 Discussion
12.15 End of the workshop
Small changes of the program might still occur.