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Dear all,
On Wednesday, 19th September at 12:00 noon, Andrea Halpern will present
the seminar 'You Must Remember This: Episodic and Semantic Memory for
Music'.
Please note that the talk will take place in Eng 2.09 in the Electronic
Engineering building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS.
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Wednesday's seminar (19th September, 12:00 noon):
Title:
You Must Remember This: Episodic and Semantic Memory for Music
Speaker:
Andrea Halpern
Abstract:
Memory for music presents a paradox: On the one hand, people remember lots
of familiar music over their whole lives, reflective of a highly organized
memory store. On the other hand, people's ability to learn new melodies
is, frankly, terrible, and is only sometimes better among musicians. In
this talk, I will present some studies that explore the organization of
memory for familiar music (semantic memory). I will also present studies
that attempt to get people to remember new tunes (episodic memory) and
some factors that matter, or not, in their memory performance.
Bio:
Since receiving her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University, Prof.
Halpern has been a faculty member in the Psychology Department at Bucknell
University, an undergraduate liberal arts university in Pennsylvania. She
has spent sabbatical leaves in Montreal, Boston, Los Angeles, and Dallas,
in addition to her current sabbatical in London as a Leverhulme Visiting
Professor. She studies memory for nonverbal information, cognitive
neuroscience of music perception, and healthy and pathological cognitive
aging, particularly with respect to music and other arts. One special
interest is the behavioral and neural underpinnings of auditory imagery
for music. In addition to teaching cognition courses, she enjoys the
teaching of writing, and mentoring undergraduate researchers, for which
she received a national award in 2004. She has received grants from
several US federal and private agencies, including the Grammy Foundation,
and currently serves as President of the Society for Music Perception and
Cognition. In her spare time she enjoys singing choral and chamber music,
and traveling to see wildlife in endangered habitats (she has been to all
8 continents, if one counts Madagascar!)
Future C4DM seminars:
Chris Nash - University of Cambridge
Wed 26th September 2012
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Peter Foster
Postgraduate Research Student
Room 104, Electronic Engineering Bldg
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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