Event overview
Ian will suggest that regular temporal structure serves largely the same functions in speech and in music.
In this Whitehead lecture (https://www.gold.ac.uk/cccc/whitehead/), Ian will suggest that time in music and in speech is underpinned by the same perceptual, cognitive and neural processes, and that regular temporal structure —periodicity— serves largely the same functions in speech and in music. He will start by exploring evidence for temporal regularity in speech and suggest that this regularity serves the functions of enhancing communicative predictability and mutual affiliativeness between interlocutors. Results from studies that explore conversational and musical interaction will be discussed, and new results concerning effects of musical interaction on subsequent conversational interaction will be presented. The paper will conclude by noting the need to develop integrated approaches to the study of music and speech as cognate components of the human communicative toolkit.
Brief Bio: Ian Cross is Professor and Director of the Centre for Music and Science at the University of Cambridge. His early work helped set the agenda for the study of music cognition; he has published widely in the field of music and science, from the psychoacoustics of violins to the evolutionary roots of musicality. His current research explores whether music and speech are underpinned by common interactive mechanisms. He is Editor-in-Chief of SAGE's new Open Access journal Music & Science, is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and is also a classical guitarist.
Dates & times
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| 30 Oct 2019 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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