Embodied Cognition: Music and Neuroscience

Thursday 11 February, 2016
6:15 - 8:15pm, $0

Columbia University, Heyman Center
2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)

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In this workshop Luc Nijs, IPEM, Ghent University, and by Mariusz Kozak, Music Department, Columbia University, will examine the relationship between music and embodiment. Starting from a specific view on the musician-instrument relationship, Nijs will elaborate on the importance of the embodied music cognition paradigm for instrumental music teaching and learning, focusing on the different levels of embodiment. Drawing on recent work in motion-capture and on close readings of several passages from contemporary Western art music, Kozak will discuss how music as an aesthetic object can be understood through the bodies of performers and listeners.

Their explorations will be followed by responses and a panel discussion with scholars from different disciplines, including dr. Carmel Raz, postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, and Andrew Goldman, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University.

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