Workshop on Music cognition, emotion and audio technology in Tokyo

In collaboration with our friend Tomoya Nakai from Kazuo Okanoya’s laboratory in Tokyo, we are delighted to put up a one-day workshop on Music and Speech cognition, with a special focus on emotions, in Tokyo, on Monday Nov. 7th 2016.

Date and Time: Monday 7th Nov. 13:00-18:00
Venue: Advanced Research Laboratory 410, Komaba, The University of Tokyo

Program

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Introduction

13:00 Tomoya Nakai, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences & Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)

Session 1: Music & Non-verbal communication

13:10 Laughing rats, crying rats – Yumi Saito, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

13:40 Chills and tears as two types of psychophysiological responses to music – Kazuma Mori, Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet) [website]

14:10 Psychological stress disorganizes dexterous movements in musical performance – Shinichi Furuya, Sophia University, Faculty of Science and Technology [website]

14:40 Is musical consonance a signal of social affiliation? – Jean-Julien Aucouturier, CREAM Lab, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)

15:10 Break

Session 2: Speech

15:40 Effects of speaker identity on emotion-related auditory change detection – Laura Rachman, CREAM Lab, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)

16:10 Cross-language interaction in emotion recognition – Tomoya Nakai, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

16:40 Emotional mimicry induced by manipulated speech – Pablo Arias, CREAM Lab, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)

17:10 Uncovering mental representations of social traits in the voice – Emmanuel Ponsot, CREAM Lab, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)

Conclusion

17:40 Kazuo Okanoya, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

 


Local Organizers: Tomoya Nakai, Kazuo Okanoya
Contact: nakai.tomoya@neuro.mimoza.jp
Supported by Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Science and Okanoya Laboratory, The University of Tokyo, and the ERC CREAM project (StG 335536, CNRS/IRCAM/UPMC)