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PhD student Jan Stupacher from Department of Psychology, University of Graz, PhD student from the Department of Psychology at University of Graz will give talk on neural correlates and prosocial effects of entrainment to music.
18.04.2017 |
| Dato | tor 20 apr |
| Tid | 10:00 — 11:00 |
| Sted | Meeting room 4th floor, Building 10G, Nørrebrogade 44, Aarhus C |
Title:
Neural correlates and prosocial effects of entrainment to music
Abstract:
I will present results from four studies of my dissertation project on neural and social entrainment. In two EEG studies, we showed that beat-locked neural oscillations not only exist during listening to musical rhythms, but persist throughout silent periods of a few seconds. Thus, neural entrainment might be composed of the interplay between stimulus-driven bottom-up sensation and higher-order top-down perception. We further revealed the functional relevance of neural entrainment by showing that more pronounced neural oscillations at the beat frequency were associated with better temporal predictions in a behavioral task. In two other studies, we showed that compared to a metronome, music can strengthen the prosocial effects of interpersonal movement synchronization. The findings are linked to affective states and social expectations.
Bio:
Jan Stupacher is a PhD student in the Neuropsychology research group at the Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria. His research project “Auditory-motor Interactions in Music Perception: Neural Correlates and Social Effects of Rhythmic Entrainment” is funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Before moving to Graz, he studied psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and wrote his diploma thesis in cooperation with the Music Cognition and Action research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.