Music Cognition Matters - The role of transmission and shared resources in the music-language relationship
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Music is the product of a long evolutionary process that has shaped it for the human mind and its constraints – similarly to language. In this talk I will describe the motivation, present endeavours, and future directions of an inter-disciplinary programme of research that aims to explore both the cultural-evolutionary as well as the neurocognitive aspects of the "special relationship" between language and music, at different temporal and conceptual levels of analysis.
Tudor Popescu
Tudor Popescu comes from an engineering background and has subsequently obtained a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford. His main research interest is understanding the psychological and cultural foundations of music. He is particularly interested in the perception and imagery of harmonic structures, parallels between language and music, and the cultural evolution of tonal music. In his work, he combines a wide array of methods from cognitive neuroscience and other disciplines. He is currently a Principle Investigator in the Department of General Psychology at the University of Padova. Resident in Vienna, he is also affiliated with the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub.