We are presenting a symposium at this year’s Virtual Convention of the American Psychological Association. You are invited to watch our talks online and to join us for some live scientific exchange with our discussant Ellen Winner.

Location: Zoom Meeting

Unfortunately the we have to reschedule this event planned for 24 July. The event will take place in early September. 

New Music / New Listening. Music by Arnold Schoenberg and others (with special guest Nuria Schoenberg-Nono).

In performing together, musicians create a shared, coordinated performance. Such ensemble performances are established dynamically and interactively, as well as through constructing and polishing a distributed notion of what the end-product of the musical performance should sound like.

Dr. Viola Priesemann, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen

Location: Zoom Lecture

Prof. Dr. Catherine Tallon-Baudry,  Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

The online application for this event is Zoom Webinar. You can join the lecture by using this link.

Inside, Outside, Private, Public — Social Spaces in Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A Major, op. 101

Fabian Corver's Podcast featuring Prof. David Poeppel, PhD 

Prof. Dr. Federico de Martino, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University

Location: Zoom Lecture

Prof. Michael Kahana, PhD Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Location: Zoom Lecture

Dr. Hui Zhang, Abteilung Neuropsychologie, Institut für Kognitive Neurowissenschaft, Fakultät für Psychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Location: Zoom Lecture

Prof. David Poeppel, PhD: Rhythms of speech and rhythms of brains

Laetitia Grabot, PhD, Post-doctoral fellow, Bielefeld University, Cognitive Neuroscience lab

Location: Zoom Lecture

Yunzhe Liu, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research

Location: Zoom Lecture

Dr. Renzo Huber VENI-Fellow in MR-Methods, Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht Brain Imaging Center, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht

and O. Faruk Gülban, PhD Student, Audition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience Departments, Maastricht University

Location: Zoom Lecture

Prof. Joshua Jacobs, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Location: Zoom Lecture

Language and society: How social and learning pressures shape grammatical structure
 

“A Complex Dissonant Veil of Sound”: Influence and Independence in Ruth Crawford’s Chants for Women’s Chorus (1930)

Location: Room 416–419

Social event and Data Blitz session at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's (CNS) annual meeting for scientists interested in aesthetics research.

Memories of a Memory Researcher

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, February 17th, 2020, Growing Up in Academia features Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing, Professor of Developmental Psychology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt.

Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

Interdisciplinary Lectures on the Aesthetics of Dance

Prof. Diogo Almeida, PhD, Associate professor in Psychology at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Director of the Language, Mind and Brain Lab (LaMB Lab).

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Prof. Ellen Lau, PhD, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland

Co-Director of the KIT-UMD Magnetoencephalography Laboratory

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Jiyun Shin (Humboldt University Berlin)

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Bo-Yong Park, PhD,  Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory system: more than you wanted to know

Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing, Institute of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt 

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Not your „classical“ career...

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Featuring Prof. Thomas Christensen (U Chicago), Alexander Jacobidze-Gitman (Uni Witten), and others

A transdisciplinary seminar series addressing the confluence of modern machine learning, cognitive science, computational neuroscience: theory and practice

Prof. Dr. Dominik Endres, Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Marburg

Location: Think Tank

Prof. Dr. Luciano Rezzolla, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University

A one-day Symposium on eye-tracking research intended for doctoral students. Our goal is to create an environment for discussing different ways of analyzing eye movements, and implementing eye-tracking in various research fields. 

Organized by Franklenin Sierra and Monika Tschense

Zum Vorlesetag laden wir Kinder und ihre Familien herzlich zu uns ein. Wir bieten ein vielfältiges Programm mit Kinderbuchlesungen und kindgerechten Einblicken in unsere Forschung an.

"Revealing the geometry of visual memory encoding using transmission chains"

Prof. Thalia Wheatley, PhD, Dartmouth Social Systems Lab, Dartmouth College

"High Level Non-Conscious Representations"

Prof. Joseph LeDoux, PhD, Deputy Director CLaME

Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Center for Neural Science, New York University 

Dallinger (https://github.com/Dallinger/Dallinger) automates experiments relying on combinations of automated bots and human subjects recruited on platforms like Mechanical Turk. This three-day workshop is intended for researchers who  either use or plan to use Dallinger as part of their research.

Steering Aircraft vs. Steering Research Projects

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

The workshop is hosted by the CLaME Center directors  Prof. David Poeppel, PhD (also director MPIEA Department of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University) and Prof. Cate Hartley, PhD (also Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University)

Please note that this workshop is fully booked.

Location: Room 416–419

Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder  Reserach Fellow, FIAS Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Sciences

Location: Room 416-419

Hard Work Alone Is Never Enough

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

In her 2016 book, Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts, Pamela Potter identifies a wide gap between what research has revealed about cultural attitudes in Nazi Germany and what the general public persistently chooses to believe.

Dr. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel, Associate Professor / Privatdozent, Johannes Gutenberg - Universitaet Mainz, Experimental Psychology

Laboratoire ICube UMR7357 Université de Strasbourg

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

“Measuring responses to music: Methods, challenges, and alternative approaches”

The symposium is organized und hosted by Prof. David Poeppel, PhD, Prof. Lucia Melloni, PhD and Dr. Alessandro Tavano (Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)

Location: Room 416-419

“How Action Creates Thought"

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Dr. Judit Gervain, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Uni­ver­sité Paris Descartes

When life gives you Latin, make music out of it.

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

A mixed media poetry performance

Über ihr Forschungsprojekt "The Brain on Screen" berichten am Donnerstag, 19. September Dr. Keyvan Sarkhosh und Dr. Alessandro Tavano vom Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik im Rahmen des renommierten Krimifestivals in Daun / Vulkaneifel.

Neuroimaging Methods for Brain Mapping. An Overview of Using Neuroimaging for Clinical and Research Applications

"Aesthetic Preferences for Microrhythmic Variations in Music: A Comparative Study Across Cultures" 

Christopher Heffner, PhD, University of Connecticut

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of Cognitive Imaging; Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute

Location: Room 416-419

Maria Florencia Assaneo, PhD, New York University

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Zwei Forschungskonzerte im Rahmen der Studie „Experimentelle Konzertforschung“

Prof. David Temperley, PhD, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Das MPIEA zeigt im Rahmen einer Studie an zwei Tagen eine Auswahl an Animations- und Kurzspielfilmen.

Das MPIEA zeigt im Rahmen einer Studie an zwei Tagen eine Auswahl an Animations- und Kurzspielfilmen.

Dr. Arash Aryani, Freie Universität Berlin

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

What happens in the brain when something strikes us as beautiful? How much beauty is in the world, versus in the brain? Edward A. Vessel, PhD at the Department of Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, will describe his work in the emerging discipline of Neuroaesthetics that uses brain imaging to study the aesthetic experience of artworks, nature, architecture and music.

Prof. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, PhD, University of Toronto

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Laura Gwilliams, New York University

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

O. Faruk Gülban, Maastricht University

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Tutor: Franklenin Sierra, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics 

Location: ThinkTank, 4th floor

Prof. Oded Ghitza, PhD, Boston University

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Fredrik Ullén, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Being in Flow refers to the enjoyable experience of complete engagement with an activity. Fredrik Ullén, internationally renowned as both a concert pianist and a neuroscientist, will present scientific insights into what characterizes people who frequently experience Flow...

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Charan Ranganath is the Director of the Dynamic Memory Lab, UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, UC Davis

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Todorov, Professor, Associate Chair,  Department of Psychology, Princeton University

Live Sound Performance

Das MPIEA zeigt an drei Abenden eine Auswahl an Animations- und Kurzspielfilmen rund um Familie und Beziehung.

Das MPIEA zeigt an drei Abenden eine Auswahl an Animations- und Kurzspielfilmen rund um Familie und Beziehung.

Prof. Gilles Laurent, PhD, Director Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Das MPIEA zeigt an drei Abenden eine Auswahl an Animations- und Kurzspielfilmen rund um Familie und Beziehung.

From Physics to Zebrafish (with a Nobel Prize along the way)

What is it to be a scientist or scholar? How do I become one? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/I2BM, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France

Prof. Dr. Melissa Le-Hoa Võ, Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

A Love Story. With Brains.

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Kunst und Neurowissenschaften mit David Poeppel

Julio Hechavarria, PhD, Neurobiology of Auditory Computations Group (group leader), Institute for Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe Uni

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Prof. Dr. Janina Wellmann, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Emmanuel Ponsot, PhD, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

Location: ThinkTank, 4th floor

Making music in groups is a widespread human activity and a powerful medium for nonverbal communication, social bonding, and cultural transmission.
 

Live Sound Performance

Prof. Oded Ghitza, PhD, Boston University

Yaqing Su, Boston University

Location: ThinkTank, 4th floor

Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, Brain Imaging Center, Goethe University  

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Dr. Minjung Kim, Technical University Berlin

The annual Fechner Lectures host leading international researchers from the field of Empirical Aesthetics. On February 27, we welcome Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Nobel Laureate and emeritus director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, for a lecture on "Animal Beauty: Function and Evolution of Biological Aesthetics".

Elika Bergelson, PhD
Crandall Family Assistant Professor, Duke University, Psychology & Neuroscience Dept., Center for Cognitive Neuroscience 

Location: ThinkTank, 4th Floor   

Most cognitive and neuroscientific work on the arts looks at each branch individually, for example music or literature.

Steven Brown, director of the NeuroArts Lab at McMaster University

Kyoungseob Byeon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Christian Doeller, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (Department of Psychology) and at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, in Trondheim / Norway

Free jazz concert

How a summer job turned into a career in visual research

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Prof. Jeremy M Wolfe, PhD,                                  

Professor of Ophthalmology & Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Visual Attention Lab; Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital    

Location: ThinkTank, 4th Floor       

Improvisation is a defining feature of jazz music and a key component of jazz musicians’ musical identity. 

Prof. Dr. Stefan Debener,

University of Oldenburg, Department of Psychology, Oldenburg, Germany and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Oldenburg, Germany

Location: ThinkTank, 4th floor

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher, Research Department of Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Prof. Johanna Devaney, PhD, Brooklyn College, New York City

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

A two-day workshop for exploring, visualizing and analyzing human neurophysiological data (EEG, MEG, ECoG) using the open-source Python library MNE  (http://www.martinos.org/mne/stable/index.html)

Prof. Ofer Tchernichovski (CUNY) will be visiting the Computational Auditory Perception Research Group from Jan. 16-23. 

Prof. Ofer Tchernikovski, PhD, Laboratory of Vocal Learning at Hunter College

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Mr. Eamonn Bell (Columbia) will be visiting the Computational Auditory Perception Research Group from Jan. 16-23. 

One-day workshop on aesthetics featuring Prof. Alex Wragge-Morley (NYU) and Prof. Cécile Bishop (NYU)

Das Stereo Projekt – ein experimenteller Vortrag 
 

Prof. Catherine Hartley, PhD, New York University

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Love at second sight for a career in brain sciences

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Öffentlicher Programmpunkt der Tagung "Resonanzen. Zwischen Begriff und Idee, Metapher und Phänomen", alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen.

Tagung am Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Unter dem Titel „Resonanzen. Zwischen Begriff und Idee, Metapher und Phänomen“ diskutieren wir aus musikwissenschaftlicher und soziologischer Sicht zu einem Thema, das im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs aktuell Hochkonjunktur hat - dessen Tragfähigkeit jedoch dringend überprüft werden sollte. Die Tagung richtet sich dabei an Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Kultur- und Musikwissenschaft, der Soziologie sowie weitere interessierte Kreise.

Organisiert wird die Tagung von Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Direktorin der Abteilung Musik), Prof. Dr. Karsten Mackensen (Universität Gießen, Institut für Musikwissenschaft) und Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Universität Leipzig, Institut für Musikwissenschaft).

The term talent can be problematic when used in the context of musical development because of its biased association with the nature / nurture debate. However, we suggest a new definition of musical talent that is not partisan to either side of that debate but lends itself to empirical investigations of individual differences in terms of speed and ease of musical learning.

This paper wants to delineate the important concept of interculturality as clearly as possible. It therefore suggests an alternative way of conceptualizing hermeneutics, avoiding hermeneutics of total identity and of radical difference.

Konzert

Experimentelle Konzertforschung mit Hindemith-Streichquintett des Frankfurter Museumsorchesters

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Uta Noppeney, PhD, Chair in Computational Neuroscience, University of Birmingham, School of Psychology

Enzo Tagliazucchi, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institute of Neurology

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Prof. Philippe Martin, French Dept, University of Toronto, LLF, UFRL, Université Paris Diderot

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Prof. Oded Ghitza, PhD, Boston University

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

How a carpenter discovered his passion for neuroscience

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Prof. Justin London, Carleton College Northfield, MN

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Dr. Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, School of Psychological Sciences

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Prof. Michael Pitts, Reed College, Department of Psychology

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Featuring talks by David E. Cohen, Lea Fink, Nathan Martin, and Roberta Vidic, with special guest Ludwig Holtmeier.

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Giulio Tononi, PhD, is Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine

Over the past few years, cross-cultural research has become an increasingly important tool for understanding the cultural and biological factors that influence music. At the same time, cross-cultural work carries many pitfalls, as the recent history of the comparative human sciences attests, and is therefore vulnerable to (frequently justified) criticism. This workshop aims to address the gulf that can exist between scientists and ethnomusicologists in conceptualizing and interpreting cross-cultural research.

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Erich Schröger, Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics, Leipzig University and Professor for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University

Location: Room 417-419, 4th floor

Performance

Dr. Hyojin Park, University of Birmingham, School of Psychology, is an expert on neural oscillatory mechanisms associated with human speech and memory.

Location: Conference room 416-419, 4th floor.

Prof. Tatiana Stroganova, Moscow State University

Prof. Virginie van Wassenhove, PhD

Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Wissensdurst – Ein Bar-Abend am Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Rameau’s final treatise, the Code de musique pratique (1760), represents, in Erwin Jacobi’s phrase, a summa of the composer’s music-theoretical accomplishments. Yet the Code has attracted far less attention from historians of theory than Rameau’s earlier writings...

This seminar will provide an occasion to reflect on the relationship between Rameau’s practical and speculative theorizing (and about that between Geschichte der Musiktheorie and historische Satzlehre more generally), on the evolution of Rameau’s harmonic theory between 1722 and 1760 ...

In this workshop, Dr. Dejan Draschkow (Goethe University Frankfurt) will cover the theory and implementation of LLMs in R statistical programming environment.

Location: Art Lab Foyer

A two-day workshop on current trends and future directions in the history of music theory. Participants include: David E. Cohen (MPIEA), Roger Grant (Wesleyan University), Andrew Hicks (Cornell University), Nathan Martin (University of Michigan), Caleb Mutch (Indiana University), Carmel Raz (MPIEA), Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (MPIEA) and Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University).

Symposium, organized by Lucia Melloni & Alessandro Tavano

Location: Room 417

Everyone is welcome to attend. Registration is required for logistics. Please register by Monday, July 9 if you plan to attend: Registration and Symposium Program

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Uri Hasson, Psychology department and the Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University

Laura Gwilliams, Department of Psychology, New York University

Juliane Britz, PhD, Department of Medicine, Neurology, University of Freiburg

He was going to be a physician but a patient with brain damage changed his path...

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Arianna Zuanazzi, Computational Cognitive Neuroimaging group, Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Dr. Christian Keitel, Centre of Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), University of Glasgow

Dr. Anne Keitel,  Centre of Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), University of Glasgow

Dr. Conor Houghton, University of Bristol

Prof. Nina Kazanina, University of Bristol, Experimental Psychology

I will review my research exploring ecologically-based patterns called Natural Regularities, and the related visual and auditory biases that help observers to rapidly and efficiently parse scenes into meaningful objects.

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Professor Leon Y. Deouell, Jack H. Skirball chair in brain research, Department of Psychology, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for brain research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Musikalisch begleitete Kurzvorträge unserer Wissenschaftler/-innen geben Einblick in unsere Forschung zur Wahrnehmnung von Musik.

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Professor Nicholas Turk-Browne, Department of Psychology, Yale University

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Professor William J. Idsardi, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland

Director at the MPIEA, Professor at NYU, Graduate of MIT, passionate actor… Wait, what?!

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

On April 12^th, the ArtLab of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics will host pianist and composer Stefan Litwin for a research concert. Stefan Litwin, born in Mexico City in 1960, will explain and perform piano works by Beethoven, Schönberg and Stockhausen, amongst others. During the concert, the audience’s behavior will be recorded as part of the concert and audience research of the Department of Music at MPIEA.

Iris Mencke, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Eine Gesprächsreihe in der Alten Oper Frankfurt gemeinsam mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik.

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Matteo Valleriani und Florian Kräutli, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Dr. Elke B. Lange, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Eine Gesprächsreihe in der Alten Oper Frankfurt gemeinsam mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik.

Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Eine Gesprächsreihe in der Alten Oper Frankfurt gemeinsam mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik.

Dr. Jutta Toelle, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Eine Gesprächsreihe in der Alten Oper Frankfurt gemeinsam mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik.

The first part of the lecture concerns the theoretical framework for analysis of musical microrhythm and addresses some important aesthetic aspects of groove-based music. The second part is a presentation of the first results of empirical research into the perceptual center of musical sounds from the TIME project at the University of Oslo. Ultimately, the lecture will address some challenges linked to research into micro features of rhythm.

The annual Fechner Lectures host leading international researchers from the field of Empirical Aesthetics.

This workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics provides hands-on training for analyzing multivariate timeseries data using Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) techniques in R.

This workshop provides hands-on training for analyzing multivariate timeseries data using Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) techniques in R.

Content-wise, the focus lies on the analysis of timeseries/sequences of joint action and group behavior (such as motion capture, physiological measures, sequences of coded behavior, transcripts etc…) in order to quantify group-dynamics such as synchrony and coupling between individuals, as well as leader-follower relationships. However, the analysis can be applied to any multivariate timeseries data.

To that end, we will introduce RQA techniques – particularly Cross-Recurrence Quantification Analysis (CRQA) and Multidimensional Recurrence Analysis (MdRQA) – which have been employed in a variety of group- and joint-actions studies. We will provide some theoretical input for participants, but focus on hand-on training with R using simulated and real-world data.

Participants are welcome to bring their own data, which they can analyze during the training sessions or together with the instructors at the end of the workshop.

Instructors are Sebastian Wallot, PhD, Language and Literature, Max Planck Insitute for Empirical Aesthetics, and Giuseppe Leonardi, PhD, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Paderborn University, Germany

mit Rafael Bruck (Gesang) und Lea Fink (Klavier)

Es kommen zur Aufführung Gedichte von Eduard Mörike, Friedrich Schiller, Joseph von Eichendorff u. a. und Lieder von Hugo Wolf, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann u. a.

Unter dem Begriff der Distinktion verhandelt die Soziologie vielfältige Formen individueller wie kollektiver Besonderung.

Die Musiker der IEMA spielen

Toshi Ichiyanagi: Trio Interlink (1990)
David Fennessy: gut, hair, skin, air (2007)
Iannis Xenakis: Plektó (1993)

Am Dienstag, 12. September 2017, um 19.30 Uhr
im ArtLab des Max-Planck-Instituts für empirische Ästhetik
Grüneburgweg 14, 60322 Frankfurt

Describing aesthetics experiences with scientific models is a complex task, but there seems to be an emerging consensus that three main areas contribute to psychological experiences of aesthetic stimuli: 1) elements of the aesthetic object itself, 2) characteristics of the person, and 3) situational as well as contextual information. Taking music as an example domain we will demonstrate rigorous approaches that allow the construction of empirical models within each of the three areas. 1) We suggest that the comprehensive computational analysis of stimulus features of aesthetic objects can be employed to describe relationships with psychological responses (Jakubowski, Müllensiefen & Stewart, 2016; van Balen et al., 2015). In addition we will discuss new strategies going beyond mere feature analysis to gain a deeper understanding of how elements of the aesthetic object are causally linked to perceptual and cognitive responses. 2) For assessing characteristics of the individual we advocate the use of modern psychometric techniques such as item response theory, automatic item generation and adaptive testing (e.g. Harrison, Collins & Müllensiefen, 2017). Through examples we’ll show how ambiguous empirical results are often caused by fundamental measurement problems and by ignoring individual differences. 3) In addition, we’ll present experimental approaches (Anglada-Tort & Müllensiefen, 2017) inspired by paradigms from behavioral economics (Kahneman, 2011) that aim to assess the degree to which biases and heuristics introduced through the situational context affect human judgements of aesthetic stimuli.
The unifying conceptual bracket of these approaches is a thorough understanding of causality (Pearl, 2011) and its implementation in experimental and observational research. Finally, we’ll make sure the talk will be more fun than this abstract is able to convey!

Musik wird heute im Alltag vorwiegend mit Hilfe von Audiomedien gehört. Diese sich wandelnden Technologien verändern seit über 100 Jahren, wie Musik klingt, wie sie in soziale Kontexte eingebettet werden kann und wie sich ihre Hörer dabei körperlich erfahren. Dennoch wird die Rolle der Audiomedien bei der Entstehung musikalischer Emotionen von der musikpsychologischen Forschung heute noch größtenteils ausgeklammert. Der Vortrag stellt dieser Forschungslücke eigene und fremde empirische Arbeiten transdisziplinärer Audiomedienforschung gegenüber, die versuchen, der spezifischen Rolle der Technologien für den emotionalen Musikgenuss auf die Spur zu kommen.

Wie wird ästhetischer Geschmack und Mediennutzung erforscht? Exklusive Führung für Lehrkräfte durch das Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

"Musik interpretiert Literatur" – eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen des hr2-kultur Festivals "Ein Tag für die Literatur"

IDEA-Lecture mit Ralf von Appen

Dr. Ralf von Appen ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Geschichte, Theorie, Analyse und Ästhetik der populären Musik sowie Musikästhetik und Musikpsychologie.

Ausgewählte Publikationen:
Der Wert der Musik. Zur Ästhetik des Populären. (= texte zur populären Musik Bd. 4). Bielefeld: Transcript

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. David Poeppel
 

Die Musiker der Internationalen Ensemble Modern Akademie (IEMA) spielen Ichiyanagi, Fennessy, Xenakis.

Ein Vortrag von Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Frankfurt | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt, und Goethe-Universität

Zum Musikgeschmack von Klassikhörern des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts.

Programm

Die expressive Qualität von historischer Musik zu bestimmen, ist ein überaus schwieriges Unterfangen, weil sich kaum Zeugnisse ausfindig machen lassen, die die emotionale Erfahrung von Musik schildern. In dem Vortrag möchte ich ein geplantes Forschungsunternehmen vorstellen, das nach Wegen sucht, diese Schwierigkeit zu überwinden. Das Projekt soll historisch-interpretierende Verfahren mit Methoden der Digital Humanities verknüpfen, indem das Konzept des Musters Anwendung findet. Die Identifizierung von Mustern in der Orchestermusik soll es ermöglichen, die Aussagekraft der nur sporadisch vorliegenden Zeugnisse zu erhöhen.

Winfried Menninghaus zu Gast bei Gerd Scobel im Wissensmagazin auf 3sat.

Wolfgang Auhagen, Professor für Systematische Musikwissenschaft an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

Der Vortrag ist Teil einer Gesprächsreihe, die die Alte Oper Frankfurt in der Saison 2015/2016 gemeinsam mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik ins Leben gerufen...

Schwitters‘ Ursonate (1923), vorgetragen von Michael Schmid. +++ Zweite Vorstellung um 16:30 Uhr! +++

Aufführungen von The Sonic Great Wall (Huang Ruo) und In the midst of the Sonorous Islands (Christian Mason) im Rahmen des europaweiten Projekts CONNECT – Das Publikum als Künstler; Gegenstand des Forschungsprojekts The audience as artist - investigating participation and interaction in the CONNECT concerts 2016 von Dr. Jutta Toelle und Iris Mencke. 

Termine:

London, 22.10.2016 (St.John’s Smith Square, London Sinfonietta)

Frankfurt, 30.10.2016 (FrankfurtLab, Ensemble Modern)

s’Hertogenbosch, 05.11.2016 (Muzerije, ASKO|SCHÖNBERG)

What Is Musical Tempo?

Musik und veränderte Bewusstseinszustände

Thijs Vroegh (Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik)

Dr. Dagmar Danko lebt und arbeitet als Soziologin in Freiburg und Berlin. Sie ist Sprecherin des Arbeitskreises Soziologie der Künste innerhalb der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie.

Prof. Dr. phil. Jürgen Stolzenberg, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Einer seiner Schwerpunkte in Lehre und Forschung ist die Philosophie der Musik.

John Sloboda is Emeritus Professor at Keele and was a staff member of the School of Psychology at Keele from 1974-2008.

"Sehen und Hören gelten als zwei ganz verschiedene Sinnesleistungen. Und doch beeinflussen sich beide Systeme der Informationsaufnahme gegenseitig. Dazu vorgestellt werden zwei Studien: Mittels Blickbewegungsmessungen lässt sich zeigen, wie Musik auf unsere Blickbewegungssteuerung wirkt. Wie die Mimik und Gestik von Musikern unser Musikerleben und Urteil beeinflusst, zeigt ein Experiment."

Aus dem Programmheft der Alten Oper, Saison 2015/2016

Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel ist currently Head of the Reserach Group "Human Ethology Group" at the  Max Planck Institute for Ornitology.

Werner Grünzweig ist Musikwissenschaftler und Leiter des Musikarchivs der Akademie der Künste.

Time and location of lecture: 11 am, 4th floor, MPIEA

Michael Wibral is professor at the Brain Imaging Center of the Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Time and location of lecture: 10:30 am, 4th floor, rooms 417–419, MPIEA

Nori Jacoby is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the McDermott Computational Audition Lab in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, Boston.

David Hargreaves is professor of Education at the University of Roehampton and Froebel Research Fellow.

"Das Live-Erleben ist die ursprünglichste Form der Musikrezeption und nach wie vor höchst attraktiv. Woran liegt das? Erleben Musiker und das Publikum ein Konzert auf ähnliche Weise? Wann springt der Funken über? Und welche Ansätze zu neuen Konzertformaten gibt es? Experten aus Praxis und Wissenschaft geben Antwort."

Aus dem Programmheft der Alten Oper

Nijmegen Lectures: (Un)conventional Wisdom: 3 Neurobiological Provocations 

"Was ist Schönheit? Warum zieht uns das Schöne in seinen Bann? Wie beeinflussen unsere Sehgewohnheiten unser ästhetisches Urteil? Was unterscheidet Schönheit von Kitsch? Was macht Sprache schön? Winfried Menninghaus ist Komparatist und Gründungsmitglied des Max-Planck-Institus für empirische Ästhetik in Frankfurt am Main."

Aus dem Spielplan des Schauspiel Frankfurt, Spielzeit 2015/16

Eric F. Clarke is Professor of Music at the Oxford University.

Meinard Müller studied mathematics (Diplom) and computer science (Ph.D.) at the University of Bonn, Germany. In 2002/2003, he conducted postdoctoral research in combinatorics at the Mathematical Department of Keio University, Japan. In 2007, he finished his Habilitation at Bonn University in the field of multimedia retrieval writing a book titled "Information Retrieval for Music and Motion" (Springer). From 2007 to 2012, he was a member of the Saarland University and the Max-Planck Institut für Informatik leading the research group "Multimedia Information Retrieval and Music Processing" within the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction. Since September 2012, Meinard Müller holds a professorship for Semantic Audio Processing at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, which is a joint institution of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS. His recent research interests include music processing, audio signal processing, music information retrieval, and motion processing. Besides numerous research articles, Meinard Müller has written a comprehensive textbook titled "Fundamentals of Music Processing" (Springer, www.music-processing.de), which appeared in 2015.

Time and place of event: 11 am, 4th floor, MPIEA Frank Russo, director of the SMART Lab in Ryerson University, is visiting the Department of Neuroscience on the 9-10^th of December 2015. On this occasion, he will participate in the IDEA lectures serials with the above talk.

Frank Russo, director of the SMART Lab in Ryerson University, is visiting the Department of Neuroscience on the 9-10^th of December 2015. On this occasion, he will participate in the IDEA lectures serials with the above talk.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Manfred Bierwisch über semiotische Bedingungen und Konsequenzen in Sprache, Musik und Bild.

Time and place of event: 2 pm, 4th floor, MPIEA Richard Prum is Professor at Yale University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and will give a lecture about warblers and their plumage. At the moment, he is at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Richard Prum is Professor at Yale University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and will give a lecture about warblers and their plumage. At the moment, he is at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Time and place of event: 9:45 am, 4th floor, MPIEA

Dr. Holger Hennig is visiting us from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen from the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics & Network Dynamics Group.

Dr. Holger Henning (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen from the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics & Network Dynamics Group) is a physicist with expertise in image analysis, biostatistics, human musical rhythms and innovation management.

Time and location of lecture: 10 am, 4th floor, MPIEA

Dr. Ulrich Pilatus is holding a Master degree in Physics and works as a Senior Researcher at the Brain Imaging Center in Frankfurt.

Dr. Ulrich Pilatus is holding a Master degree in Physics and works as a Senior Researcher at the Brain Imaging Center in Frankfurt. 

Warum kaufen wir uns eine Eintrittskarte, um elegant gekleidet in einen Konzertsaal zu gehen und Musik zu hören? Wir könnten ja auch jederzeit in unserem Wohnzimmer eine CD mit der Aufnahme unserer Lieblingsstücke und -orchester hören, ohne Huster, Rascheln oder störenden Zwischenbeifall. Was macht den Unterschied in unserem subjektiven Empfinden aus? Liegt der Unterschied vielleicht darin, dass wir hier das Werden der Musik gemeinsam live verfolgen können? Dass wir sehen können, wie die Musikerinnen und Musiker sie mit vollem Körpereinsatz und expressiver Mimik hervorbringen? Dass der Funke zwischen Bühne und Publikum von Reihe zu Reihe überspringt? Doch was genau passiert eigentlich dabei? Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des Max-Planck-Instituts für empirische Ästhetik in Frankfurt (M) sowie die Kuratorin für Musikinstrumente im Deutschen Museum gehen diesen und anderen Fragen nach.

Vortragende: Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Grimm, Dr. Jutta Toelle, Silke Berdux

Gastgeber: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Museum

Kontakt: forum@gv.mpg.de

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger über die Begegnung zwischen dem Wissenschaftsphilosophen Gaston Bachelard und dem Kupferstecher Albert Flocon.

Die Variationsform zählt zu den erfolgreichsten musikalischen Formerfindungen überhaupt. Liegt das vielleicht auch daran, dass sie dem Hörer eine ganz spezielle Lust verschaffen kann? Wir suchen nach Indizien in der musikalischen Erlebensforschung und der Neurowissenschaft.

Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann

Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Direktorin der Abteilung Musik

"Das Konzert in der Forschung" (youtube Video)