Connecting Neuroimaging with Music Information Retrieval
Date:
Fri, 10/16/2015 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar There are a multitude of brain-measurement tools that have yet to be (seriously) applied to music-information retrieval. Most of the services we depend on for our music consumption make do with simple thumbs-up and thumbs-down signals, or maybe a star rating. What might you do if you have a better understanding of musical consumers? What signals might be useful, either as a consumer or provider of music?
Neuroimaging Methods for Music Information Retrieval: Current Findings and Future Prospects
Speakers: Blair Kaneshiro and Jacek P. Dmochowski
ABSTRACT: Over the past decade and a half, music information retrieval (MIR) has grown into a robust, cross-disciplinary field spanning a variety of research domains. Collaborations between MIR and neuroscience researchers, however, are still rare, and to date only a few studies using approaches from one domain have successfully reached an audience in the other. In this talk we take an initial step toward bridging these two fields by reviewing studies from the music neuroscience literature, with an emphasis on imaging modalities and analysis techniques that might be of practical interest to the MIR community. We hope to show that certain approaches currently used in a neuroscientific setting align with those used in MIR research, and we discuss implications for potential areas of future research. We additionally consider the impact of disparate research objectives between the two fields, and how such a discrepancy may have hindered cross-discipline output thus far. It is hoped that a heightened awareness of this literature will foster discussion and collaboration between MIR and neuroscience researchers, leading to advances in both fields that would not have been achieved independently.
SPEAKER BIO: Blair Kaneshiro is a PhD candidate at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and acoustics (CCRMA) and R&D Associate at Shazam. Blair earned her BA in Music, MA in Music, Science, & Technology, and MS in Electrical Engineering, all from Stanford. Her research incorporates music theory and cognition, EEG research and methodology, and industrial user data to study topics in musical engagement.
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