The CRBLM is pleased to announce the organization of a workshop on “Rhythm Perception and Production”, to be held at BRAMS, University of Montreal, on Wednesday, November 28, 2012, starting at 9 am.

This event is free and open to the academic community. Keynote speaker Jessica Grahn (Western University) will give a talk entitled “Neural investigations of rhythm perception”. Registration is mandatory.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

9:00 – Coffee

9:30 – Virginia Penhune (Concordia University) – “Cortical and sub-cortical contributions to rhythm production”

10:15 – Jessica Phillips-Silver (BRAMS) – “Beat deafness: the first case, and comparisons with healthy beat finding in a normal sample”

11:30 – Manon Grube (Newcastle University) – “Auditory time and rhythm processing and their relationship to language skill: the role of ‘the’ beat”

12:30 – Lunch

2:00 – Data Blitz (12 min presentation/10 min questions)

– Rachel Brown “Imagery abilities affect timing of memorized performance”

– Daniel Cameron “Stages of Beat Perception and the Influence of Incongruity: An fMRI Study”

– Annie Gilbert “The on-line “perceptual chunking” of speech: ERP evidence”

– Pauline Tranchant “Sensory-motor synchronization with the musical beat”

– Ana Tryfon “Auditory-motor synchronization in children with autism spectrum disorder”

4:00 – Coffee Break

4:30 – Keynote Lecture – Jessica Grahn (Western University) – “Neural investigations of rhythm perception”

REGISTRATION

Note that registration is now closed, as we already reached the maximum number of 50 participants. Thank you for your understanding.