Category Archives: Spring 2017

Thanks for a great final reading group on predictive processing and music everyone! This week we had our usual gang of musicians and philosophers, plus a visitor from linguistics. For this session we read an experiment paper from Vuust et … Continue reading →

Greetings everyone! Remember, today we are meeting in a new room, *50 George Square room 2.30 at 1pm* This week we are covering rhythm and predictive coding, and reviewing some empirical evidence that suggests that PC really is what the … Continue reading →

Thanks to all who came along for our second EMPRes session of 2017! It’s always nice to see more faces the second time around, that means we must be doing something right 😉 This week we heard insight from musicians, … Continue reading →

Looking at the well-thumbed copy of the 1986 edition of The Developmental Psychology of Music on my bookshelf, and looking forward to this talk tomorrow! Prof. David Hargreaves (Roehampton University) – Atrium, Alison House. 5.15pm “I shall reflect upon some … Continue reading →

Thanks to all who participated, the first EMPRes session brought about discussion from musicians, psychologists, and philosophers regarding prediction, expectation, and anticipation in music. We read Rohrmeier & Koelsch’s (2012) review of predictive information processing in music cognition and Michael and … Continue reading →

Thanks to both Nikki and Lauren for the warm welcome and for helping set up these sessions! The first EMPRes session of 2017 provided an introduction to predictive processing in music perception and cognition. We began with Rohrmeier & Koelsch’s (2012) … Continue reading →

1-2pm, every fourth Thursday, starting 2 Feb. Theme for our Spring 2017 reading groups: Music in the predictive brain Thu 2 Feb, 1pm. Introduction to music and predictive processing. Room 1.21, 7 Bristo Square. Reading: Rohrmeier & Koelsch (2012) + … Continue reading →

Post by Shannon Proksch: “Any introduction to music theory class will tell you that music is a complex interchange of moments of tension juxtaposed with moments of release. Through practised study, or passive listening, we learn to anticipate, expect, and … Continue reading →

Welcome to Edinburgh, Shannon Proksch! Shannon is a current MSc student on the Mind, Language, and Embodied Cognition programme at Edinburgh, with a research interest in the relationship between music and language as situated communicative acts. Shannon suggested a reading … Continue reading →