Music at the heart of neuroscience
Thursday, May 18th at 17:00
Faraday Hall, Parque de las Ciencias
Series of talks in English
Admission until full capacity is reached
In collaboration with: Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) and Miguel Ríos Foundation.
Music has been part of the human sound and social environment for millennia. It is a reality that fascinates both experts and amateurs. The immensity of melodies, rhythms and harmonies that make up our favorite musical pieces can evoke as many questions as emotions. In this series of scientific talks, we will have four of the leading international researchers in the field of neuroscience and the psychology of music to answer many of these questions.
We will be joined by Laura Ferreri (University of Pavia, Italy) and Ernest Mas Herrero (University of Barcelona) to talk about pleasure in music, the musical brain and the effect of music on other mental capacities, such as memory. Laurel Trainor (McMaster University, Canada) has spent years researching the development of music in our brain, how all those skills that make us musical beings emerge in the early years of life. From this topic, we will be able to enjoy the answers given by all her studies on the close link between music and the social aspects of life, between lullabies and the maternal-filial relationship, between songs and altruism. Finally, Paolo Bartolomeo (Sorbonne University, France) has spent decades researching from clinical neurology the cognitive alterations that arise as a consequence of brain damage, such as aphasia (language disorders) and spatial hemineglect (attention disorders). On this occasion, he will offer a perspective on the therapeutic properties of music in neuropsychological pathologies.
The event will be in English and the music of the Granada band Pau and Alex (Paulina Martín and Alejandro Pérez) will serve as the common thread of this series of talks, with acoustic songs that will bring the data closer to the experience, the concept to reality. We hope you will enjoy this event.