Date:

Wednesday afternoon, 19 June 2019.


Lecturers:

Prof. Dr. Henkjan Honing - University of Amsterdam, NL

Prof. Dr. Simon E. Fisher – MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL

Dr. Reyna L. Gordon – Vanderbilt University, Nashville, US

Dr. Bruno Gingras – University of Innsbruck, AU


Capacity:

Ca. 30 young researchers.


Costs:

Participation in the Master Class is free.


Who:     

Young researchers, PhD-students, and master students in the fields of music cognition, psychology, genetics and related fields.


Registration [N.B. Registration is now closed]

N.B. An invitation to the Master Class is not an invitation to the Colloquium (the latter is an expert meeting; See KNAW website).


Abstract submission [N.B. Abstract submission is now closed]     


Program:


12:30 [REGISTRATION AND COFFEE]

12:50 Welcome (Honing/Fisher)

13:00 Henkjan Honing - Introduction to musicality

13:45 Bruno Gingras - Quantifying the musical phenotype: an overview

14:30 Student talk 1: Kirsty Hawkins: Dispositional, cognitive and attentional

            characteristics, of gifted musical students

14:45 [BREAK]

15:00 Simon Fisher - Genetic and genomic strategies for studying musicality

15:45 Student talk 2: Damian Liu: Musicality and genetics: phenotyping,

            implicated genes, and comparison to genes involved in language

16:00 Reyna Gordon - Connecting musicality with other traits

16:45 Student talk 3: Celeste Figaroa: Exploring genetic relationships between

            musicality and language, social abilities and behaviour

17:00 [CLOSING AND DRINKS]



Deciphering the biology of human musicality through state-of-the-art genomics

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KNAW Master Class on Musicality and Genomics

19 June 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands