Exploring the Mind Through Music

The conference will bring together distinguished scientists, composers and musicians to discuss music's role in human cognition and behavior.

All events are free and open to the public.

Speakers include:

• Dr. Jonathan Berger, Co-director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts at Stanford University
• Dr. Anthony Brandt, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at the Shepherd School of Music
• Dr. David Eagleman, Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine
• Dr. David Huron, Professor of Musicology at Ohio State University
• Dr. Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Music Composition at Columbia University
• Dr. Isabelle Peretz, Co-director of the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound at the University of Montreal
• Sarah Rothenberg, reknowned pianist and Artistic Director of Da Camera of Houston
• Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, Director of the Neuroimaging Laboratory of Beth Israel Deaconess and Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Ron Tintner, Department of Neurology of Methodist Hospital
• Dr. Mark Tramo, Director of the Institute for Music & Brain Science at Harvard

 

The event is co-sponsored by Dean Robert Yekovich and the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University's Humanities Research Center, the Center for Performing Arts Medicine at Methodist Hospital, and Rice University's Office of the President through a grant from the University's Faculty Initiatives Fund.