The two-day symposium will feature invited talks by influential researchers in cognitive neurosciences of music and language.
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
11.00 Lunch (at your own cost) in student cafeteria Olivia, Minerva building (Siltavuorenpenger 5 A, 00014 University of Helsinki)
11:45 Registration starts, Athena building, Auditorium 302 (Siltavuorenpenger 3 A, 00014 University of Helsinki)
12.15 Opening of the symposium
12.30 Professor Erich Schröger, University of Leipzig, Institute of Psychology, Department of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Leipzig, Germany The impact of motor action on auditory processing, chaired by Mari Tervaniemi (University of Helsinki)
13.15 Professor István Winkler, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Statistical learning and beyond, chaired by Mari Tervaniemi (University of Helsinki)
14.00 Poster session and coffee break sponsored by Clinilab Athena seminar room 354; printed posters)
15.15 Professor Kairi Kreegipuu, University of Tartu, Institute of Psychology, and Estonian Centre of Excellence for Well-being Sciences, Tartu, Estonia The Music of Languages and the Language of Music, chaired by Paula Virtala (University of Helsinki)
16.00-16.45 Speakers’ tables (Athena seminar rooms 166 and 167)
17.15 Dinner together, at DongBeiHu Restaurant (at your own cost), Rauhankatu 15, 00170 Helsinki
Friday Feb 28, 2025
Athena building, Auditorium 302
9.00 Professor Valéria Csépe, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (RCNS), Brain Imaging Centre, Budapest, Hungary. Shared dynamics of linguistic and musical rhythms, chaired by Sari Ylinen (Tampere University)
9.45 Professor Daniela Sammler, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Neural bases of prosody: Linking language, speech, and music, chaired by Sari Ylinen (Tampere University)
10.30 Flash poster session (Athena seminar room 354; laptop posters)
11.30 Academy Research Fellow Vesa Putkinen, Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Finland Music-induced emotions in the body and the brain, chaired by Paula Virtala (University of Helsinki)
12.15 Lunch (at your own cost) in student cafeteria Olivia, Minerva building
13.30 Research Director Mari Tervaniemi, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Centre of Excellence on Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Helsinki, Finland Interplay of music and speech learning in the human brain, chaired by Vesa Putkinen (University of Turku)
14.15 Coffees and speakers’ tables (Athena seminar rooms 302, 303, 317 and 354)
15.00 Wrap-up session and closing remarks
Symposium chair:
Mari Tervaniemi, University of Helsinki
The members of the organization and scientific committee:
Minna Huotilainen, University of Helsinki
Tanja Linnavalli, University of Helsinki
Vesa Putkinen, University of Turku
Paula Virtala, University of Helsinki
Sari Ylinen, Tampere University