BRAMS Annual Scientific Day - 2009

BRAMS Annual Scientific Day 2009 is organised with the collaboration of Concordia University, Casavant Research Chair, the Montreal Neurological Institute and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). 

PROGRAM

9:30 - Douglas Eck (Université de Montréal) - "What can machines learn about music? An overview of machine learning techniques for sound and motion"

10:15 - Talar Hopyan (University of Toronto) - "Using Music as a Clinical Tool with Pediatric Populations"

11:00 - Poster session and coffee

12:30 - Lunch & Annual Researcher’s Assembly

2:00 - Data Blitz

• Anne Bailey (Concordia University)
• Julie Mercier (McGill University) - "Individual differences in executive function constrain spoken word recognition"
• Christine Lefebvre (Université de Montréal) - "Towards Neurophysiological Correlates of Acoustic Short-term Memory"
• Steven Livingstone (McGill University) - "Emotional Arousal corresponds with Musical Phrase Structure"
• Valorie Salimpoor (McGill University) - "Evidence for Striatal Dopamine Release During Music Listening"

4:00 - Coffee break

4:30 - Keynote speaker:  Séverine Samson (Université Lille III,   France) - “A neuropsychological model to study musical emotion”

6:00 - 5 à 7 musical

A detailed program providing abstracts and listing all poster presentation is available here.

REGISTRATION

Registration fee (including 2 coffee breaks & buffet style lunch):

• Regular: $20
• Students & postdoctoral fellows: $10

ON-LINE REGISTRATION - until May 22, 2009 @ noon

Please register online by clicking on "sign to this event" (bottom page) and mail your cheque, made out to "Université de Montréal", to:

BRAMS - Scientific Day
Pavillon 1420 Mont Royal, suite 0-120
Université de Montréal
CP 6128, Succursale Centre Ville
Montréal (QC) H3C 3J7

Please note that your registration will be confirmed once your cheque has been received. 

ON-SITE REGISTRATION

Please note that registration / payment will be possible on site. Please ensure to bring the exact change for your registration fee (or prepare a cheque made out to "Université de Montréal"). Unfortunately, payment by debit / credit cards is NOT accepted. Thank you for your collaboration.

WHERE?

BRAMS Scientific Day will take place at Concordia University, Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke West, Hingston Hall, room 130. The poster session will be held in the Science Pavillion Atrium, a few minutes walk away. For further information on how to get there, please click here. 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

To view the original call for submissions, please click here.