Day 1, Wednesday June 11
- Keynote #1:
Professor Nicola Dibben: "Ecomusicking: How musical encounters shape environmental thinking" -
Talk Session #1: Music, Social Connection, and Emotional Wellbeing
- Bruna Martins: "The Choir Experiences of People Affected by Homelessness"
- Catherine Tan: "Tunes and Technology: A Lifespan Comparison on Uses and Attitudes Towards Music Technologies for Mood Regulation"
- Dana Greaves: "Examining the Psychosocial Effects of Singing in VR: A Mixed-Methods RCT Pilot Study"
- Talk Session #2: Psychological and Embodied Aspects of Music Performance
Content Warning: This video contains discussion of sexual assault during the Q&A session following the presentation (between 25:00-34:25). Viewer discretion is advised.- Pedro Palhares: "Discerning the Real-time Effects of Mind Wandering on Musical Creativity: A psycho-phenomenological study of jazz improvisation"
- Cheryl Ockrant: "Feeling Safe Vs. Being Safe: Music Performance Anxiety and Polyvagal Theory"
- Liliana Aparício: "The Importance of Body Awareness in Accordion Learning and Performance"
- Poster Session #1: https://sysmus25.virtualpostersession.org/
- Talk Session #3: Neural Mechanisms of Musical Timing, Rhythm, and Memory
- Ligia Silva: "Exploring Time Perception in Music Listening: How Musical and Personal Factors Influence Duration and Speed ??of Time Passage"
- Ana Marta Aguiar: "Mind the Bar: Tracing the Role of Musical Structure in EEG activity and Memory Development"
- Sandra Solli: "Rhythm-based Temporal Expectations: Unique Contributions of Predictability and Periodicity"
- Workshop #1: Concert Listening: Qualitative, Phenomenological Inquiry
- Workshop #2: Human-Swarm Interactive Music Systems: Implementation and data analysis using Python
Day 2, Thursday June 12
- Keynote #2:
Professor Anja Volk: "Computational modeling of music information: connecting musicological inquiries on musical structures with developing interactive technologies to foster music engagement" -
Talk Session #4: Music Applications for Health and Stress Management
- Silvia Genovese: "The Impact of Individual Factors and Preferences on Music for Sleep"
- Yuting Wu: "Soundscapes for Stress Regulation: A Multi-Modal Investigation of Psychophsysiological Responses to Environmental Audio Stimuli in Hong Kong Workplaces"
- Tristan Eissing: "How Music Can Jeopardise the abstinence of Individuals with Substance Use Disorder"
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Talk Session #5: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Music Cognition and Perception
- Jonathan Tang: “Favorite Tunes, Cultural Clues: Self-Construal and Musical Rewards"
- Nashra Ahmad: "Effect of Length of the Rhythmic Cycle on its Perception and Learning: A Cross-Cultural Exploration through North-Indian Rhythmic Patterns"
- Keerthana Vishwanath: "Comparing Absolute Pitch Recognition Between Western and Carnatic Musicians"
- Poster Session #2: https://sysmus25.virtualpostersession.org/
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Talk Session #6: Music Interventions for Aging and Neurological Conditions
- Marietta Ungerer: "Emotional-Motivational Functions of Musical Imagery in Parkinson's"
- Heini Siltainsuu: "Becoming Me with Music - A Qualitative Investigation of Older Adults' Autobiographical Narratives on Music, Identity and Wellbeing"
- Poulami Kar: "Understanding Neurological Music Therapy: An Intervention for Parkinson's through Diffusion Tensor Imaging"
- Workshop #3: Coherence and Cause - Exploratory analysis strategies for physiological measurements from live concert participants
Day 3, Friday June 13
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Talk Session #7: Children and Adolescent Musical Experiences
- Caroline Owen: "Children's Free Descriptions of Subjective Responses to Selected Musical Extracts Reveal New Taxonomy of Music-evoked Experience"
- Katariina Henttonen: "Finnish Adolescents' Experiences of Scary Music: A Qualitative Study"
- Alicia Lucendo Noriega: "The Role of Non-formal Musical and Sports Engagement in Children's Development"
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Talk Session #8: Music's Influence on Cognitive and Emotional Processing
- Hazel van der Walle: "Thoughtscapes in Music: An Examination of Thought Types Occurring During Music Listening Across 17 Genres"
- Mitia Ganade D'Acol: "Kinetic Affect and the Construction of Musical Emotions"
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Talk Session #9: Methodological Approaches and Theoretical Frameworks in Music Psychology
- Laura Serra Marin: "Psychophysiological and Biomechanical Methods in Music Skill Acquisition: A Systematic Review"
- Connor Kirts: "DEEM Instrument: Content Validity Assessments Using Subject Experts"
- Oliver Tab Bellmann: "The Origins of Musicality and Music Through an Extended Evolutionary Lens"
- Talk Session #10: Computational Modeling and Analysis Methods in Music Research
- Rhun Gwilym: "A New Way of Thinking: A Proposed Methodology for EDM (Electronic Dance Music) Analysis"
- Joshua Frank: "Modeling Individual Differences in Chord Pleasantness Judgments"
- Samuel Morgan: "Active Preference Learning for Musical Stimuli"
- Closing Remarks