Shihab Shamma on Neuroplasticity and the Musical Experience
Date:
Fri, 04/12/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar Shihab has been studying auditory perception for many decades, and has thought broadly and deeply about many areas of perception. In the past Shihab has helped popularize the spatial-temporal receptive field (STRF) as a measure of cortical activity, and has spearheaded the efforts to do neural decoding, reconstructing audio from neural spikes. Most recently he has been thinking about how music affects our cortex.
Who: Shihab Shamma (University of Maryland and École Normale Supériere)
What: Neuroplasticity and the Musical Experience
When: Friday April 12, 2019 at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room at Stanford CCRMA
Why: Because music affects all parts of the brain
I’m sure this will be a popular talk, so get to CCRMA early if you want a place at the table. We always have good discussions, and I’m sure this will be one for the records.
Bring your musical brain to CCRMA and we’ll talk about how music changes our cortex.
Neuroplasticity and the Musical Experience
Joint work by Shihab Shamma, Giovanni Di Liberto & Claire Pelofi
How does the musical experience happen in the brain? What are the neural underpinnings that make music an emotive force that can simultaneously shape the mood and engage the intellect. In this talk, I shall first review some recent findings on the encoding of music and its attributes both in human and animal brains. Then I will describe experiments that explore the implicit (statistical or incidental) learning of music, the process by which we acquire the music of our culture and immediate environment, and which in turn shapes our reactions to the music we hear. Finally, I shall discuss how one might track and quantify the active ongoing engagement with music during listening. It is our hope that understanding how music affects the human mind opens pathways to harnessing its emotive power in promoting health and healing.
Shihab Shamma is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research, and a faculty in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences program and in the Bioengineering Graduate programs. In addition he is a Professor in Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, at the École Normale Supériere in Paris. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. His research deals with auditory perception, cortical physiology, role of attention and behavior in learning and plasticity, computational neuroscience, and neuromorphic engineering. One focus has been on studying the computational principles underlying the processing and recognition of complex sounds (speech and music) in the auditory system, and the relationship between auditory and visual processing. Another aspect of the research deals with how behavior induces rapid adaptive changes in neural selectivity and responses, and the mechanisms that facilitate these changes and control them. Finally, signal processing algorithms inspired by data from these neurophysiological and psychoacoustic experiments have been developed and applied in a variety of systems such as speech and voice recognition, diagnostics in industrial manufacturing, and underwater and battlefield acoustics. Other research interests include aVLSI implementations of auditory processing algorithms, and development of robotic systems for the detection and tracking of multiple simultaneous sound sources.
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