Dear all,
Just a reminder that tomorrow, *Friday March 11th, 3:30 - 5 PM, Dr. Molly
Henry *(Post-doc, Brain and Mind Institute, The University of Western
Ontario), will be speaking in the McGill Cognitive Seminar on "The neural
dynamics of sensing a beat." See below the dashed line for a full abstract.
*Talk location: *
The talk will be held in the Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur
Penfield Avenue, Room S3/4.
*Directly after the talk (@5:15 PM), there will be a social at the Thomson
House *(http://thomsonhouse.ca/home): Please join if you would like to
speak with Dr. Henry at greater length.
Hope that you are able to attend! If not, please see our schedule for
future talks @
https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series.
Best,
Anna
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*The neural dynamics of sensing a beat*
Molly J. Henry, Department of Psychology, Brain and Mind Institute, The
University of Western Ontario
The ability to pick up on regularities in environmental stimuli is apparent
in infancy and supports language learning, movement coordination, and
parsing auditory scenes into “objects”. In the Music and Neuroscience Lab
at The University of Western Ontario, we are investigating the seemingly
unique sensitivity humans show to temporal regularities in rhythm: they
spontaneously feel a “beat” in rhythmic sequences. I’ll first describe my
previous work demonstrating that neural oscillations (i.e., brain rhythms)
synchronize with auditory rhythms, and in turn affect psychophysical
performance by changing the relative timing between excitable phases of the
entrained neural oscillation and near-threshold stimulus events. Then, I’ll
spend time describing in-progress EEG work in which we examine how
synchronization of neural oscillations with auditory rhythms might give
rise to beat perception. The results demonstrate that subharmonic
entrainment is stronger during listening to rhythms with a strong beat
(compared to rhythms without a beat), and will link electrophysiological
correlates of beat perception with the psychophysical consequences of
sensing a beat.
Dear all,
You are invited to attend McGill's Cognitive Area Seminar this *Friday
March 11th, 3:30 - 5 PM *(*location *= 1205 Docteur Penfield Ave., Room
S3/4).
*Our speaker is Dr. Molly Henry* (Post-doc, Brain and Mind Institute, The
University of Western Ontario), who will talk about "*The neural dynamics
of sensing a beat*". See below dashed line for a full abstract.
*Directly after the talk (@5:15 PM), there will be a social at the Thomson
House* (http://thomsonhouse.ca/home): Please join if you would like to
speak with Dr. Henry at greater length.
Hope that you are able to attend! If not, please see our schedule for
future talks @
https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series.
Best,
Anna
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*The neural dynamics of sensing a beat*
Molly J. Henry, Department of Psychology, Brain and Mind Institute, The
University of Western Ontario
The ability to pick up on regularities in environmental stimuli is apparent
in infancy and supports language learning, movement coordination, and
parsing auditory scenes into “objects”. In the Music and Neuroscience Lab
at The University of Western Ontario, we are investigating the seemingly
unique sensitivity humans show to temporal regularities in rhythm: they
spontaneously feel a “beat” in rhythmic sequences. I’ll first describe my
previous work demonstrating that neural oscillations (i.e., brain rhythms)
synchronize with auditory rhythms, and in turn affect psychophysical
performance by changing the relative timing between excitable phases of the
entrained neural oscillation and near-threshold stimulus events. Then, I’ll
spend time describing in-progress EEG work in which we examine how
synchronization of neural oscillations with auditory rhythms might give
rise to beat perception. The results demonstrate that subharmonic
entrainment is stronger during listening to rhythms with a strong beat
(compared to rhythms without a beat), and will link electrophysiological
correlates of beat perception with the psychophysical consequences of
sensing a beat.