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2018-09-14
Sep
14
2018

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Music and Language

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Kellogg Center, Red Cedar Room Directions to event location

Music and language are both universal across human cultures.  Many similarities between music and language have long intrigued scholars in the humanities and the sciences.  Advances in the cognitive sciences in the past two decades have led to an accumulating body of evidence that supports a shared neural and cognitive basis for many elements of music and language. This interdisciplinary forum brings together scholars in the humanities and sciences whose work addresses a range of music and language related questions with the goal of fostering increased interdisciplinary collaboration.

J. Devin McAuley

J. Devin McAuley is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Program at Michigan State University. His research focuses on the neural and cognitive bases of time and rhythm perception, the role of rhythm in typical and atypical language development, and relations between music and language. He has received funding for his work from a range of different sources, including NSF, NIH, and the GRAMMY Foundation. He is an Associate Editor for Music Perception and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. 

David W. Stowe

David W. Stowe teaches English and Religious Studies at Michigan State University, where he served from 2014-16 as chair of the English Department. His most recent book is Song of Exile: The Enduring Mystery of Psalm 137 (Oxford, 2016). While on leave from Michigan State University, Stowe taught at Doshisha University's Graduate School of American Studies in Kyoto, Japan. During the 2012-13 academic year, Stowe held a research fellowship at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music.

Leigh VanHandel

Leigh VanHandel is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Michigan State University. Her primary research areas are music theory pedagogy, music cognition, the relationship between music and language, computer-assisted research, and how those things all relate to one another. She is the author of Oxford University Press’s Music Theory Skill Builder, an online music fundamentals drill and practice program, and has been published in journals such as Music Perception, The Journal of New Music Research, Empirical Musicology Review, and The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. She is currently the editor for Routledge’s volume The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, scheduled for publication in 2019. 

Amanda Hampton

Amanda Hampton Wray, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an Assistant Professor in Communicative Sciences & Disorders at Michigan State University.  Her research focuses on the development of brain systems for language and other cognitive processes that support language, including attention and inhibition.  Using mixed methods research, including behavioral and neurophysiological measures, she studies the development of these cognitive skills in children with typical development and communication disorders, as well as the effects of environment on a child’s cognitive development.

Co-Sponsored by the MSU Center for Interdisciplinarity. The MSU Center for Interdisciplinarity (C4I), located in the College of Arts & Letters, is an academic center of excellence for interdisciplinary activity. C4I works to maximize college and university strengths in interdisciplinary research and teaching and serve as a hub for interdisciplinary activity on campus.

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